Gerry Anderson
Nascimento : 1929-04-14, West Hampstead, London, England, UK
Morte : 2012-12-26
História
From Wikipedia,
Gerry Anderson, MBE (born Gerald Alexander Abrahams; 14 April 1929 – 26 December 2012) was an English television and film producer, director, writer and occasional voice artist. He was known for his futuristic television programmes, especially his 1960s productions filmed with "Supermarionation" (marionette puppets containing electric moving parts).
Anderson's first television production was the 1957 Roberta Leigh children's series The Adventures of Twizzle. Supercar (1961–62) and Fireball XL5 (1962) followed later, both series breaking into the US television market in the early 1960s. In the mid-1960s Anderson produced his most successful series, Thunderbirds. Other television productions of the 1960s include Stingray and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.
Anderson also wrote and produced several feature films whose box office performance was unexceptional. Following a shift towards live action productions in the 1970s, he had a long and successful association with media impresario Lew Grade and Grade's company ITC, continuing until the second series of Space: 1999.
After a career lull when a number of new series concepts failed to get off the ground, his career began a new phase in the early 1980s when audience nostalgia for his earlier Supermarionation series (prompted by Saturday morning re-runs in Britain and Australia) led to new Anderson productions being commissioned. Later projects include a 2005 CGI remake of Captain Scarlet entitled Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet.
Self (archive footage)
Gerry Anderson’s successful career spanned 60 years. Released a decade after his death, this documentary draws on exclusive access to over 30 hours of previously unpublished interviews, in order to share the untold stories that defined his life and body of work.
Creator
The Investigator, a benevolent alien from a distant galaxy, selects an Earth boy and girl, John and Julie, to assist him in his mission to make their world a better place. The pair are miniaturized to assist The Investigator more easily, and assigned to prevent the theft by Stavros Karanti of a 14th-century masterpiece from a church on the island of Malta. John and Julie are presented with a car and a boat, scaled to accommodate their miniaturized size and set out to thwart Karanti's plans...
Producer
The Investigator, a benevolent alien from a distant galaxy, selects an Earth boy and girl, John and Julie, to assist him in his mission to make their world a better place. The pair are miniaturized to assist The Investigator more easily, and assigned to prevent the theft by Stavros Karanti of a 14th-century masterpiece from a church on the island of Malta. John and Julie are presented with a car and a boat, scaled to accommodate their miniaturized size and set out to thwart Karanti's plans...
Director
The Investigator, a benevolent alien from a distant galaxy, selects an Earth boy and girl, John and Julie, to assist him in his mission to make their world a better place. The pair are miniaturized to assist The Investigator more easily, and assigned to prevent the theft by Stavros Karanti of a 14th-century masterpiece from a church on the island of Malta. John and Julie are presented with a car and a boat, scaled to accommodate their miniaturized size and set out to thwart Karanti's plans...
Robert the Robot (voice, uncredited)
A compilation of the best of Supermarionation in High Definition. Sit back and enjoy some rare treats on a journey through Supermarionationland. Parker, Lady Penelope and Brains are your hosts, introducing some of the very best episodes from the Supermarionation archive as well as news items, commercial breaks with tie-in adverts and much more. Stand By For Action! - Four Feather Falls: Gunfight on Main Street - Supercar: False Alarm - Fireball XL5: Space City Special - Stingray: Pilot - Thunderbirds: Terror in New York City - Captain Scarlet: The Mysterons - Joe 90: Hi-Jacked - The Secret Service: More Haste, Less Speed
Self
The definitive documentary about the iconic television series developed by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and their production companies (AP Films and Century 21 Pictures). Supermarionation was a revolutionary technique used in all their programmes throughout the 1960s including Stingray, Captain Scarlet and, most famously, Thunderbirds.
Teleplay
O astronauta Jeff Tracy dirige organização de combate ao crime em Tracy Island. Enquanto Jeff está em uma missão no espaço, seu inimigo, The Hood, invade seu quartel general e ameaça toda a operação.
Co-Writer
A New York cop is put in charge of a space police precinct and charged with the duty of protecting alien worlds from the evils of organized crime.
Producer
A New York cop is put in charge of a space police precinct and charged with the duty of protecting alien worlds from the evils of organized crime.
Producer
The first four episodes of Gerry Anderson's 1980s Supermarionation series. In 'Expect the Unexpected (Part 1)' Queen Zelda attacks and destroys a NASA Mars expedition. 'Expect the Unexpected (Part 2)' sees Zelda offer to make peace with the Terrahawks. 'Thunder Roar' finds the Terrahawks battling the mighty Sram, Lord of Felony. 'Close Call' has an investigative reporter threatens to expose the Terrahawks on worldwide television.
Writer
The first four episodes of Gerry Anderson's 1980s Supermarionation series. In 'Expect the Unexpected (Part 1)' Queen Zelda attacks and destroys a NASA Mars expedition. 'Expect the Unexpected (Part 2)' sees Zelda offer to make peace with the Terrahawks. 'Thunder Roar' finds the Terrahawks battling the mighty Sram, Lord of Felony. 'Close Call' has an investigative reporter threatens to expose the Terrahawks on worldwide television.
Executive Producer
"Journey Through the Black Sun" (1982) made by ITC New York combined the first season episodes "Collision Course" and "Black Sun" from the TV series "Space: 1999".
Writer
Captain Scarlet and friends battle the Mysterons from Mars.
Director
The Earth is threatened by an alien race who kidnap and kill humans and even animals and and use them for their body parts. In the year 1980 S.H.A.D.O. (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization), a highly secret military organization, is set up in the hope of defending the Earth from this alien threat. This organization operates from a secret location beneath the Harlington-Straker film studio in London. S.H.A.D.O. also has a base on the moon with Interceptors as well as an early warning satellite that detects inbound UFOs (called S.I.D.), and operate a fleet of submarines. General James Henderson and commander Ed Straker have a team of highly trained and well equipped females and males to battle the regularly incoming hostile UFOs.
Executive Producer
Earth's Moon is the site of Moonbase Alpha, a scientific research colony nestled in the crater Plato. Staffed by over 300 men and women from Earth, it is the operations center for several space expeditions. It is also a watchdog for vast amounts of atomic waste from Earth stored in silos on the Moon's far side. Magnetic radiation builds up and causes the wastes to explode with such force that the Earth's centripetal pull on the Moon is overcome, and the Moon is broken free of Earth's orbit to drift at incredible speed out of the Solar System off the plane of the ecliptic. The survivors on Moonbase Alpha are unable to return to Earth and must survive in unknown space on their wandering Moon. They encounter a planet whose advanced people project an illusion of a devastating attack on Moonbase. This TV movie was edited from scenes of two episodes ("Breakaway" and "War Games") of "Space: 1999" (1975).
Writer
War erupts between Earth and Mars after a manned mission to Mars results in an attack on the city of the Mysterons. Compiled from episodes of the 1967 series Captain Scarlet.
Producer
After an atomic explosion blasts the Moon out of Earth orbit, Moonbase Alpha drifts in space, with 300 people on board. When a rescue team from Earth arrives in a faster-than-light space ship, everyone is overjoyed that they can now return to Earth. But Moonbase Commander John Koenig, having undergone an experimental brain soothing process after receiving a concussion in a crash on the Lunar surface, sees not friends from Earth but gruesome monsters which have telepathically caused all others on Alpha to see an illusion of an Earth party. The aliens are desperate for radiation and plan to manipulate the Alphans into detonating nuclear waste on the Lunar surface, reducing the Moon and everyone on it to dust. Koenig must expose this conspiracy to save his people. Compiled from the two part episode The Bringers Of Wonder from the TV series Space: 1999's second series.
Creator
After an atomic explosion blasts the Moon out of Earth orbit, Moonbase Alpha drifts in space, with 300 people on board. When a rescue team from Earth arrives in a faster-than-light space ship, everyone is overjoyed that they can now return to Earth. But Moonbase Commander John Koenig, having undergone an experimental brain soothing process after receiving a concussion in a crash on the Lunar surface, sees not friends from Earth but gruesome monsters which have telepathically caused all others on Alpha to see an illusion of an Earth party. The aliens are desperate for radiation and plan to manipulate the Alphans into detonating nuclear waste on the Lunar surface, reducing the Moon and everyone on it to dust. Koenig must expose this conspiracy to save his people. Compiled from the two part episode The Bringers Of Wonder from the TV series Space: 1999's second series.
Producer
The spaceship Altares, with a photon drive capable of accelerating it to the speed of light, leaves an Earth-orbiting space station. The Altares crew, two families of scientific specialists, journey at light speed with time-dilation to Alpha Centauri, where they launch several satellites to transmit information on the Centauri star system back to Earth and guide future manned vessels in exploring. The Day after Tomorrow (also known as Into Infinity in the United Kingdom) is a 1975 British science-fiction television special produced by Gerry Anderson between the two seasons of Space: 1999. It stars Brian Blessed, Nick Tate, Joanna Dunham, Katherine Levy and Martin Lev. It aired in the United States on NBC as part of the network's Special Treat childrens series in December 1975, and in the UK on BBC1 in December 1976.
Producer
Em 2069, um planeta é descoberto na mesma órbita da Terra, mas localizado no lado oposto do Sol, tornando-o invisível. O Conselho Europeu de Exploração Espacial (EUROSEC) decide enviar o astronauta norte-americano Glenn Ross (Roy Thinnes) e o cientista britânico John Kane (Ian Hendry), via nave espacial, para explorar o outro planeta. Depois de uma aterrissagem desastrosa, Ross acorda ao saber que Kane está perto da morte e, aparentemente, eles retornaram à Terra, como evidenciado pela presença do diretor do Conselho e sua equipe. Liberado sob custódia de sua esposa, ele logo descobre que as coisas não são como parecem. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
Story
Em 2069, um planeta é descoberto na mesma órbita da Terra, mas localizado no lado oposto do Sol, tornando-o invisível. O Conselho Europeu de Exploração Espacial (EUROSEC) decide enviar o astronauta norte-americano Glenn Ross (Roy Thinnes) e o cientista britânico John Kane (Ian Hendry), via nave espacial, para explorar o outro planeta. Depois de uma aterrissagem desastrosa, Ross acorda ao saber que Kane está perto da morte e, aparentemente, eles retornaram à Terra, como evidenciado pela presença do diretor do Conselho e sua equipe. Liberado sob custódia de sua esposa, ele logo descobre que as coisas não são como parecem. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
Screenplay
Em 2069, um planeta é descoberto na mesma órbita da Terra, mas localizado no lado oposto do Sol, tornando-o invisível. O Conselho Europeu de Exploração Espacial (EUROSEC) decide enviar o astronauta norte-americano Glenn Ross (Roy Thinnes) e o cientista britânico John Kane (Ian Hendry), via nave espacial, para explorar o outro planeta. Depois de uma aterrissagem desastrosa, Ross acorda ao saber que Kane está perto da morte e, aparentemente, eles retornaram à Terra, como evidenciado pela presença do diretor do Conselho e sua equipe. Liberado sob custódia de sua esposa, ele logo descobre que as coisas não são como parecem. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
Writer
A equipe Tracy soma esforços para que Lady Penélope possa derrotar uma gangue internacional de terroristas que decidiram destruir o Resgate Internacional. Durante a viagem inaugural do fabuloso transporte de passageiros Navio Aéreo 1, Lady Penélope fica surpresa ao descobrir que a tripulação verdadeira foi morta e substituída por uma gangue de impiedosos sequestradores que desejam se utilizar dela para obter informações secretas sobre a equipe do Resgate Internacional. Enquanto a super aeronave dá a volta ao mundo rumo à catástrofe certa, Penélope precisa ser mais esperta que seus raptores e mandar um S.O.S. antes que seja tarde demais.
Writer
Decole em uma aventura interplanetária neste primeiro longa-metragem estrelado pela equipe do Resgate Internacional: o ex-astronauta e milionário Jeff Tracy, seus cinco leais filhos, a fabulosa agente secreta Lady Penelope e, é claro, sua incrível frota futurística de naves de resgate Thunderbird! Quando a poderosa nave espacial Zero X sofre um ato de sabotagem em sua primeira decolagem para Marte, o Resgate Internacional é chamado para garantir a segurança da segunda tentativa de lançamento. Mas quando a nave chega com sucesso a seu destino, é atacada por violentas formas de vida alienígena! Mais uma vez, a corajosa e bem-equipada equipe do Resgate Internacional é chamada para entrar em ação. Será que a equipe conseguirá auxiliar a nave danificada a reentrar na atmosfera terrestre e impedir uma queda de consequências devastadoras?.
Producer
Crossroads to Crime is about the investigations of a police constable (Anthony Oliver) who, working undercover without support from his colleagues, confronts and brings down a gang of vehicle hi-jackers.
Director
Crossroads to Crime is about the investigations of a police constable (Anthony Oliver) who, working undercover without support from his colleagues, confronts and brings down a gang of vehicle hi-jackers.
Sound Editor
Abdullah, absolute monarch of a wealthy Middle Eastern country, has everything a man could want. Everything, that is, until he falls for a beautiful model. She rejects his advances, however, along with his offers of riches and luxury, chosing instead an officer in the king's army as her lover. As all of this is going on, the ruler is oblivious to the growing discontent among his subjects, and the threat of revolt that is increasing with each passing day.
Director
From the extraordinary world of Pete Collins a pilot that looks at A 3-part pilot television series that featured people doing strange things or with unusual talents.
Sound Editor
Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to soon conquer the Earth and enslave its men for breeding purposes.
Sound Editor
Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.
ADR & Dubbing
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve Canyon.
