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Gerry Anderson
Producer, Writer, Director, Actor, Additional Credits
Died December 26, 2012 (83 years)
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.
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.
Movies & Shows on Plex
Known For
Filmography
| 2008 | |
| 2005 | Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet (TV Series) |
| 1999 | Lavender Castle (TV Series) |
| 1994 | Space Precinct (TV Series) |
| 1987 | Dick Spanner, P.I. (TV Series) |
| 1986 | |
| 1983 | |
| 1983 | Terrahawks (TV Series) |
| 1982 | |
| 1982 | Journey Through the Black Sun · as Executive Producer |
| 1981 | Thunderbirds in Outer Space · as Executive Producer |
| 1981 | |
| 1981 | Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars · as Executive Producer |
| 1980 | |
| 1980 | |
| 1979 | |
| 1978 | |
| 1976 | Alien Attack · as Executive Producer |
| 1975 | |
| 1975 | Space: 1999 (TV Series) |
| 1974 | Invasion: UFO · as Executive Producer |
| 1974 | UFO: Annihilate S.H.A.D.O. Kill Straker... Stop · as Executive Producer |
| 1973 | |
| 1972 | The Protectors (TV Series) |
| 1970 | UFO (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1969 | |
| 1968 | |
| 1967 | Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV Series) |
| 1966 | Thunderbirds Are GO · as Executive Producer |
| 1965 | Thunderbirds (TV Series) |
| 1964 | |
| 1962 | Fireball XL5 (TV Series) |
| 1961 | |
| 1960 | |
| 1960 | Four Feather Falls (TV Series) |
| 1959 | Torchy the Battery Boy (TV Series) · as Co-Producer |
| 1957 | The Adventures Of Twizzle (TV Series) · as Co-Producer |