Herbert Anderson

Herbert Anderson

Nacimiento : 1917-03-30, Oakland, California, USA

Muerte : 1994-06-11

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Herbert Anderson (March 30, 1917 – June 11, 1994) was an American character actor probably best remembered for his role as Henry Mitchell, the father in the CBS television sitcom Dennis the Menace. After a few minor roles in films for Warner Bros., Anderson got his big break in the 1941 picture Navy Blues, followed by The Body Disappears and The Male Animal. His other films include the 1949 World War II film Battleground, Give My Regards to Broadway, Excuse My Dust, Island in the Sky, The Benny Goodman Story, Kelly and Me, Joe Butterfly, My Man Godfrey (1957), I Bury the Living, Sunrise at Campobello, Hold On!, and Rascal. Anderson also acted extensively in Broadway shows, including the role of Dr. Bird in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. He was also in the film version of The Caine Mutiny; he was the only actor to appear in both the Broadway play and film. In addition to his role in Dennis the Menace, Anderson is also known for many lead and guest-starring roles on television. Anderson retired from acting in 1982. He died of complications from a stroke in 1994.

Perfil

Herbert Anderson

Películas

Virginia Hill
Sen. Estes Kefauver
The story of Virginia Hill, a former prostitute who was the girlfriend of '40s killer and gangster Bugsy Siegel.
Mi amigo Rascal
Mr. Pringle
Un bebé mapache queda huérfano y se cruza en la vida de un chico solitario. Se convierte en la única compañía del chico durante las frecuentes ausencias de su padre. Debido a Rascal, padre e hijo se dan cuenta de su responsabilidad el uno con el otro.
Hold On!
Ed Lindquist
Herman's Hermits' first film, in which the British band has the chance to have an American spacecraft named for them.
I Bury the Living
Jess Jessup
Un nuevo presidente del cementerio cree que, simplemente insertando un alfiler negro que marca la trama en un mapa del cementerio del tamaño de una pared, puede causar la muerte del propietario de esa parcela.
Nightmare at Ground Zero
After the first atom bomb test, scientists realize the bomb was more powerful than they expected - which may have terrible results.
Un mayordomo aristócrata
Hubert
Irene Bullock (June Allyson) necesita un nuevo mayordomo, y su hija Irene encuentra a un camarero en el puerto llamado Godfrey Godfrey (David Niven). Empieza a trabajar al servicio de la excéntrica familia Bullock, resultando un hombre tan eficiente como elegante, pero muy reservado para hablar de sí mismo.
La última bala
Will Renner
Los trabajadores del ferrocarril no han cobrado su sueldo desde hace meses, y todo por culpa de los robos de Whitey y su banda, a la que pertenece el peligroso pistolero Utica Kid. La compañía ferroviaria contrata los servicios de Grant para evitar que continúen los robos.
Joe Butterfly
Maj. Ferguson
The staff of "Yank" magazine are among the first American troops into Tokyo after the Japanese surrender. Their mission: produce an issue of the magazine...in three days. To accomplish the seeming impossible, they reluctantly enlist the aid of black marketeer and arch-conniver Joe Butterfly, who sets them up in a palatial private mansion, complete with lovely daughter -- strictly against regulations. How much trouble can our heroes talk their way out of?
Kelly and Me
Ben Collins
Failing vaudeville performer, Len, is taken under the wing of the German Shepherd wonder dog, Kelly, and a new act is born. Len hopes all his dreams are coming true when he finds himself in Hollywood ... but Kelly is the one in demand on the big screen.
Spring Reunion
Edward
A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.
Four Girls in Town
Ted Larabee
Cuatro aspirantes a estrellas, procedentes de diversas partes del mundo, son llamadas a Hollywood para una audición. Cada una es acosada por un director, un compositor, un playboy y un actor, respectivamente.
La historia de Benny Goodman
John Hammond Jr.
Película biográfica del llamado rey del swing Benny Goodman, desde los diez años de edad (1919), hasta su cénit en el concierto de su banda en el Carnegie Hall en 1938.
El motín del Caine
Ens. Rabbit
El estricto capitán Queeg (Bogart), un hombre aquejado de agotamiento nervioso y fobias neuróticas, asume el mando del Caine, un dragaminas norteamericano cuya tripulación carece de disciplina. En contra de la opinión de los demás oficiales, introduce cambios y toma medidas tan arbitrarias que la tripulación empieza a considerarlo un neurótico peligroso. Durante una tempestad, Queeg pierde el control de la nave; entonces, el segundo oficial lo obliga a dejar el mando y lo releva. Este incidente dará lugar a un consejo de guerra.
Infierno blanco
Breezy
Un avión de mercancías se estrella en las tierras heladas de la península del Labrador. Mientras la tripulación espera ser rescatada, el piloto tendrá que ingeniárselas para mantener a sus hombres con vida en tan duras condiciones. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Girl in White
Dr. Barclay
Biografía de Emily Dunning, la primera mujer que ejerció la medicina en un hospital de Nueva York.
Finders Keepers
Hotel Clerk
Un ex convicto discute con su mujer y su suegra cuando su hijo de pocos años llega a casa con un montón de dinero.
Excuse My Dust
Ben Parrott
Joe, inventor in an American Small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car, driven with a gasoline motor. Everybody is making fun about his "crazy invention", only his girl friend believes in him. When he's halfway successful, another woman tries to win his heart, and his girl-friend thinks he has quit with her. But on a race for those new horse-less vehicles, he gets in trouble and only his former girl friend is able to help him.
The Magnificent Yankee
Baxter
Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.
El forajido
Jonas Creel (as Guy Anderson)
Únicamente el periodista Larry Wilder cree en la inocencia de Pablo Rodriguez, un bracero chicano que trabaja en California. El joven se ve obligado a huir tras un violento altercado.
The Yellow Cab Man
Willis Tomlin
Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that he meets the lovely Ellen of the Yellow Cab Co., he also meets the crooked lawyer named Creavy. Pirdy is an inventor and when Creavy learns about elastic-glass, his new invention, he makes plans to steal the process. With the help of another con man named Doksteader, and the boys, he will steal this million dollar invention no matter who gets hurt.
Fuego en la nieve
Hansan
En diciembre de 1944, para detener la gran ofensiva alemana sobre Bélgica y Luxemburgo, un grupo de soldados norteamericanos de infantería combaten en la "Batalla de las Ardenas".
Nadie puede vencerme
Husband (uncredited)
Un maduro boxeador en decadencia, para demostrarse a sí mismo que todavía no está acabado, decide seguir boxeando, a pesar de la desaprobación de su mujer. Incluso su propio mánager, convencido de su derrota, apuesta contra él. Obtuvo excelentes críticas por las escenas de boxeo y por la vibrante interpretación de Robert Ryan.
Give My Regards to Broadway
Frank Doty
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
You Were Meant for Me
Eddie
A bandleader falls in love and marries a small town girl.
Love and Learn
Pete
A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.
That Way with Women
Melvyn Pfeiffer
A bored millionaire matches his daughter with his partner in a gas station.
El macho
Michael Barnes
Los miembros del Consejo Rector de la Universidad Midwestern han expulsado a tres profesores por sospechar que puedan ser comunistas. El consejero Ed Keller (Eugene Pallette) también ha amenazado con la expulsión a Tommy Turner (Henry Fonda), el profesor de literatura, que tiene previsto leer en su clase un texto que puede resultar sospechoso. Pero no es eso lo que más molesta al profesor Turner, sino el hecho de que su propia esposa, Ellen (Olivia De Havilland) también opine que no debe de leer el controvertido texto. Mientras tanto, Joe Ferguson (Jack Carson), un antiguo novio de Ellen se ha presentado a hacerles una visita durante el fin de semana, lo que ha causado cierta preocupación a Tommy...
The Body Disappears
George Appleby
Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible by eccentric college professor Reginald Shotesbury. An unbelievable series of events is revealed by several witnesses testifying in a "mystery trial" to determine the reason for DeHaven's "disappearance".
Navy Blues
Homer Matthews
On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven't learned, however, is that the marksman's enlistment is up before the contest is supposed to take place.
Bombarderos en picado
Chubby Markham
Historia de un médico del ejército americano que investiga los mareos y desvanecimientos que sufren los pilotos cuando vuelan a gran altura. Basada en hechos reales, fue estrenada meses antes del ataque japonés contra Pearl Harbor.
Highway West
Worker (uncredited)
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Una novia contrareembolso
Reporter
Un magnate del petróleo contrata a un piloto, practicamente arruinado, para que secuestre a su alocada hija y le impida casarse con el poco recomendable líder de una banda de música, al que acaba de conocer.
Wings of Steel
A football hero joins the Army Air Corps.
La pelirroja
Girl-Chaser in a Park (uncredited)
Biff Grimes está desesperadamente enamorada de Virginia, pero su mejor amigo, Hugo, se casa con ella y manipula a Biff para que participe en sus negocios, un tanto nefastos. Hugo parece haber robado los sueños de Biff y Biff tiene que lidiar con la idea de que tener lo que quiere y querer lo que otro tiene pueden ser cosas muy diferentes.
Honeymoon for Three
Floyd T. Ingram
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he meets up with a former college fling with a loopy Danish girl which he barely remembers. She remembers him, very well.
Four Mothers
Reporter (uncredited)
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
Meet the Fleet
Dan Howell
The story of three recruits undergoing Navy bootcamp training.
No Time for Comedy
Actor in Show (uncredited)
Gaylord escribe una obra de teatro que triunfa en Broadway. Todo le va a las mil maravillas porque además consigue casarse con la chica a la que ama y que es quien ha protagonizado la historia. El éxito sobre los escenarios se sucede con nuevas obras pero las cosas cambian cuando decide olvidarse de las comedias e intentar escribir una buena tragedia. El nuevo reto
Service with the Colors
Hiram Briggs
This drama is "dedicated to the soldiers of the United States Army." Men with diverse backgrounds enlist in the army and are all assigned to the same post. Some adapt easily to army life, while others have trouble making the adjustment.
El halcón del mar
Eph Winters
Clásico del género de piratas en el que un pletórico Errol Flynn interpreta a un bucanero inglés del siglo XVI al que la reina Isabel I concede patente de corso para abordar la flota española y atacar y saquear sus ciudades en el Nuevo Mundo. Las autoridades españolas elaboran un plan para acabar con el temido pirata. El maestro Curtiz deja su sello con una perfecta narración y espectaculares batallas navales.
Young America Flies
Jim
World War II propaganda film from Warner Brothers.
Tear Gas Squad
Pliny Jones
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
'Til We Meet Again
(uncredited)
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
La bala mágica
Medical Assistant
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
Calling Philo Vance
First Reporter (uncredited)
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
Regimiento heroico
Private Casey (uncredited)
Un chico de Brooklyn se alista al ejército, en el regimiento "Fighting 69th", para luchar contra los alemanes en la I Guerra Mundial. Su actitud de prepotencia e insubordinación en los entrenamientos le pone en contra de todos excepto del padre Francis Duffy, también soldado -y personaje que existión en la vida real-, que intenta ayudarle en todo momento. Ya en la guerra, a la hora de luchar, el joven comprobará que ésta es más horrible de lo que pensaba... (FILMAFFINITY)