Herbert Anderson

Herbert Anderson

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

Смерть : 1994-06-11

История

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.

Профиль

Herbert Anderson

Фильмы

История Вирджинии Хилл
Sen. Estes Kefauver
Забавный фильм для домохозяек, про профессиональных бандюганов... ну, не совсем так впрямую - а про тяжёлую судьбину подружек профессиональных бандюганов..
Rascal
Mr. Pringle
A comedy filled with tenderness as a baby raccoon snuggles his way into the life of a lonely boy. He becomes the boy's only companion during his father's frequent absences. Because of Rascal, both father and son realize their responsibility to each other
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
A newly appointed cemetery chairman believes that, merely by inserting a black plot-marking pin into a wall-sized map of the cemetery, he can cause the deaths of that plot's owner.
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.
Мой дворецкий Годфри
Hubert
Эксцентричное семейство Буллок каждый год устраивает соревнование, одной из целей которого является найти какое-нибудь животное. Поиски приводят сестёр Айрин и Корделию на мусорную свалку, где они встречают загадочного человека по имени Годфри (чья фамилия тоже Годфри), который выглядит, как бродяга, но обладает изысканными манерами. Айрин приглашает незнакомца в свой дом и выигрывает с его помощью соревнование. Затем она предлагает Годфри занять должность их дворецкого. Годфри с лёгкостью принимает причудливые порядки, царящие в доме, и безупречно справляется со своими обязанностями, продолжая уходить от вопросов о своем прошлом. Между тем ему есть, что скрывать.
Опасный перегон
Will Renner
После того, как Грант Маклэйн, работающий охранником на железной дороге, не смог задержать грабителя, его уволили. Он стал зарабатывать на жизнь игрой на аккордеоне. Неожиданно он получает предложение от Бэна Кимбела, шэфа ЖД, вернуться на старое место работы, так как банда Уайта три раза подряд ограбила поезда, везущие зарплату рабочим. Бэн Кимбэл поручает ему доставку $10000...
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
Four young starlets, from various parts of the world, are called to Hollywood to test for the lead in a major film. Each is romantically pursued by the director, composer, playboy, and actor. Which one of an international quartette of beauties will replace Universal's glamour star in an upcoming Biblical epic?
История Бенни Гудмана
John Hammond Jr.
Фильм-биография «Короля свинга» — Бенни Гудмена и его группы, от истоков становления до концерта оркестра Гудмена в Карнеги-холле, в Нью-Йорке, в 1938 году.
Восстание Кейна
Ens. Rabbit
Фрэнсис, Джонсон и МакМюррэй служат на одном эсминце в начале 2-ой Мировой Войны. Новый капитан сразу же железной рукой устанавливает свою власть и обнаруживает явный невроз. Когда он схватывается с Джонсоном, последнего отдают по трибунал, и Хосе Феррер должен его защищать.
Island in the Sky
Breezy
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.
The Girl in White
Dr. Barclay
The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they come to respect her and romance blossoms between her and the head doctor.
Finders Keepers
Hotel Clerk
A curious toddler creates trouble when he finds bank robbers' loot
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.
The Lawless
Jonas Creel (as Guy Anderson)
A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers..
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.
Поле битвы
Hansan
Сто первая десантная дивизия США — по прозвищу «Кричащие Орлы» заброшена в один из сельских районов Франции, ее цель противостоять натиску нацистов. Однако из-за плохой поддержки с воздуха и отсутствия боеприпасов одна из частей десантников возглавляемая офицером Холли, попадает в окружение. Парням необходимо прорвать блокаду и отразить основной удар немецких войск на своем направление, но перед этим солдатам и офицерам перестоит преодолеть немало трудностей и невзгод на холодном декабрьском снегу Нормандии, прежде чем они получат долгожданные боеприпасы и вступят в решающий бой, став героями и братьями по оружию…
Подстава
Husband (uncredited)
Стокер Томпсон — боксер, чья продолжительная, когда-то многообещающая карьера подходит к концу. Его менеджер Тайни осознает, что Томпсон будет проигрывать и дальше, поэтому берет деньги за его поражение в грядущем поединке, однако не сообщает боксеру о подставе. Когда Томпсон узнает обо всем, он решает любыми способами достичь победы…
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.
Зверь мужского пола
Michael Barnes
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.
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.
Пикирующий бомбардировщик
Chubby Markham
Действие происходит в страшный период начала Второй Мировой войны, во время создания зачастую смертоносного пикирующего бомбардировщика. Свободе и даже существованию США грозят Германия и Япония. Лейтенант Дуг Ли, хирург морского флота США, пытается спасти пилотов от потери сознания во время бомбардировки. Оружие, способное защитить свободный мир, стоит пилотам-испытателям жизни. Полюбив Линду Фишер, лейтенант Ли и коммандер Джо Блейк вынуждены забыть о соперничестве, а одному из них придется отправиться в смертельно опасный полет для тестирования нового пневмокостюма - изобретения Ли, способного повлиять на исход войны.
Highway West
Worker (uncredited)
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Невеста наложенным платежом
Reporter
Чтобы выбраться из долгов, пилот легкого пассажирского самолета Стив Коллинз соглашается разрушить скороспелый брак сумасбродной наследницы нефтяного магната и доставить ее отцу. Но самолет в пути неожиданно ломается, и «похититель» совершает вынужденную посадку в пустыне.
Wings of Steel
A football hero joins the Army Air Corps.
Клубничная блондинка
Girl-Chaser in a Park (uncredited)
Когда-то Бифф Граймс работал в строительной фирме, но из-за недобросовестности своего делового партнера Хьюго Барнстеда, Граймс угодил в тюрьму, где провел пять лет. За эти годы Хьюго увел подружку Биффа, и Граймс, когда вышел на свободу, нашел себе и другую девушку, и другую работу: Бифф стал дантистом. И вот, однажды, в его кабинете раздался телефонный звонок: высокопоставленный чиновник нуждался в срочном вмешательстве зубного врача. Звали чиновника Хьюго Барнстед. Бифф Граймс понял, что судьба посылает ему замечательный случай расквитаться за все обиды…
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)
Director William Keighley's 1940 film adaptation of S. N. Behrman's stage hit, about an aspiring playwright who finds himself an overnight Broadway success, stars James Stewart, Rosalind Russell, Genevieve Tobin, Louise Beavers, Charles Ruggles and Allyn Joslyn.
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.
Морской ястреб
Eph Winters
Флинн — на пике карьеры — играет очаровательного жуликоватого пирата, образ, вероятно, основанный на каперах подобных сэру Фрэнсису Дрэйку, пирату Её Величества. Его капитан Торп — герой высшей пробы (как обычно!), сражающийся с испанцами на благо Англии. Испанцы изображены как жуткие злодеи с красными мордами, кроме донны Марии-Бренда Маршалл — сияющей неземной красотой.
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.
Магическая пуля доктора Эльриха
Medical Assistant
Биографический фильм, посвященный открытию Паулем Эрлихом сальварсана, благодаря чему стало возможным лечить сифилис.
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.
Борющийся 69-й
Private Casey (uncredited)
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.