Gerry Anderson
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Born 1929-04-14
Died 2012-12-26
West Hampstead, London, England, UK
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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.
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Filmography
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V.I.P.
Space: 1999
UFO
Thunderbirds
The Protectors
Thunderbirds Are Go!
Space Precinct
Stingray
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Supercar
Thunderbirds
Joe 90
Terrahawks
Fireball XL5
The Secret Service
FireStorm
Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet
Four Feather Falls
Presented in Supercolorisation
Lavender Castle
The Adventures of Twizzle
Frank Sidebottom's Fantastic Shed Show
Thunderbirds: The Anniversary Episodes
Those Were the Days
Torchy the Battery Boy
Doppelgänger
Thunderbirds 55/GOGO
Stand by for Action
Destination Moonbase-Alpha
Space: 1999
Devil Girl from Mars
Invasion: UFO
UFO: Destroy Luna Base!
Thunderbirds Are GO
Dick Spanner, P.I.
Thunderbirds: Danger at Ocean Deep
Thunderbirds: The Duchess Assignment
The Day After Tomorrow: Into Infinity
Space Precinct: The Fire Within
UFO: Annihilate SHADO... Kill Straker...
UFO: Red alert... Attack on Earth!
UFO: Take Them Alive
Thunderbirds: Path of Destruction
Space 1999 - 50 Years Out of Orbit
Alien Attack
Thunderbirds: Brink of Disaster
Thunderbird 6
Thunderbirds: Security Hazard
Thunderbirds: Attack of the Alligators!
Space Precinct: Deathwatch
The Incredible Voyage of Stingray
Thunderbirds: Atlantic Inferno
Thunderbirds: Edge of Impact
Appointment in London
Thunderbirds: Day of Disaster
Thunderbirds: End of The Road
G-Force Intergalactic
Thunderbirds: Cry Wolf
South of Algiers
Thunderbirds: The Man from MI.5
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