Michael J. Anderson
Also Known As: Little Mike Anderson, Michael John Anderson, Michael Anderson, Mike Anderson
Biography: Michael Anderson was born in Huron, South Dakota, at 10:30 P.M., on Halloween night. Subject to a genetic anomaly known as Osteogenesis Imperfecta, he grew up in a wheelchair. After graduating high school, he traveled America, singing for tips and living in his car. For six years, he attended the University of Colorado where he majored in numerous subjects ranging from philosophy to microbiology. After college, he began working for Martin Marietta, trouble-shooting the N.A.S.A. computers in the ground-support system of the space shuttle. During this time, he made the documentary "Little Mike," which won a silver medal in the International Film and Television Awards. Soon thereafter, he moved to New York City, where his film and television career began. For many years, Anderson was most well-known among fans of director David Lynch for his work as a backwards-talking dream figure on the cult favorite T.V. series Twin Peaks (1990). Anderson also worked with Lynch for the experimental performance piece Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted (1990) and the T.V.-pilot-turned-feature film Mulholland Drive (2001). Anderson gained further recognition and success in recent years for his work on the H.B.O. series Carnivàle (2003).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 31, 1953
Age: 71 years old
Gender: Male
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Mulholland Drive
Overview: Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-06
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Little Mike: A Videoportrait of Michael Anderson
Overview: A half-hour film about three-feet, six-inch Michael Anderson, born with osteogenesis imperfecta, or “glass bones” disease, and the positive attitudes that Little Mike maintains about his affliction and life in general.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-14
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Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted
Overview: After her boyfriend ends their relationship, the dreamself of a heartbroken woman floats through the air over an industrial wasteland singing ballads of love.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-01
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Twin Peaks
Overview: An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the series pilot was produced for the European VHS market and has an alternate, closed ending.)
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-08
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Minimum Wage
Overview: Indie romantic comedy was the winner of Best Actress and Best Cinematography at the No Dance Film Festival (2000).
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Whatever Happened to Mason Reese
Overview: One of the early short films of director Brett Ratner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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An Introduction to David Lynch
Overview: "An Introduction to David Lynch" is a featurette originally released in the 2001 DVD release, Twin Peaks: The First Season. It features interviews with Catherine E. Coulson, Charles Ramirez-Borg, Lesli Linka Glatter, Miguel Ferrer, Michael J. Anderson, Kyle MacLachlan, Duwayne Dunham, Sheryl Lee, Peggy Lipton, and Richard Beymer, each discussing the filmmaking processes and methods of Twin Peaks co-creator David Lynch.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-18
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Reflections on the Phenomenon of Twin Peaks
Overview: "Reflections on the Phenomenon of Twin Peaks" is a featurette originally released on the 2001 DVD release of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. It features various cast and crew reflecting on Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-17
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Learning to Speak in the Red Room
Overview: "Learning to Speak in the Red Room" is a featurette originally released in the 2001 DVD release, Twin Peaks: The First Season. It features Michael J. Anderson presenting his method of learning to speak backward, as he and other actors did in the Red Room scenes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-18
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Postcards From The Cast
Overview: "Postcards From The Cast" is a featurette originally released in the 2001 DVD release, Twin Peaks: The First Season. It was later re-released in the Blu-ray sets, Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery and Twin Peaks: From Z to A. It features interview snippets of various subjects with cast members of Twin Peaks.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-18
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No Such Thing as Gravity
Overview: Set in the future, this tells of an Earth run by a conglomerate called the LaFont Corporation, which uses machines to rule its subjects. "Troublemakers" and malcontents are exiled to an artificial planet called Terra Nova. Problems arise when Terra Nova suddenly shifts its orbit and threatens to crash into Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Screwed
Overview: A raw, rough-hewn look at the life of Screw publisher Al Goldstein.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-09
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Club Vampire
Overview: Enter the club where your wildest desire and most frightening dreams come true. The price of admission is your soul.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-26
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The Great Land of Small
Overview: While visiting their grandparents in the Québec countryside, two children enter a fantasy kingdom and are confronted by evil forces.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-18
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Mulholland Dr.
Overview: Initially, "Mulholland Dr." was to mark David Lynch's return to television. It is a retooling of a script originally shot as a 94-minute pilot for a TV series (co-written with TV screenwriter Joyce Eliason) for the channel ABC, which had approved the script, but chose not even to air the pilot once it was done in 1999, despite Lynch's labours to cut the project to their liking. It was left in limbo until 18 month later French company Studio Canal Plus (also producer of 'The Straight Story') agreed to pay ABC $7 million for the pilot, and budget a few million more to turn the pilot into a two-hour, 27-minute movie. The cost of the film doubled to $14 million as sets had to be reconstructed and actors recalled.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Snow White
Overview: Snow White's mother dies during childbirth, leaving baby Snow and father John for dead on an icy field, who then receives a visit from one of Satan's representatives, granting him three wishes.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-28
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Mannequin Two: On the Move
Overview: Although Jason works as a department store clerk, he is also a reincarnated prince. Long ago, his beloved Jessie was snatched away from him by an evil wizard who used his powers to transform her into wooden statue. Now Jessie is in Jason's department store as a mannequin. When he encounters her, she awakens from her thousand-year sleep. They quickly revive their romance, but the evil wizard has been reincarnated as well, and he's up to no good.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-17
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Overview: In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-03
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The Phantom Eye
Overview: Two film students must find a movie in the AMC vault. They have until midnight. If they survive and find the film they can leave the vault. If not then they will die and become part of the movie forever. So where is "The Phantom Eye?"
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-30
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Fool's Fire
Overview: A crippled dwarf is forced to become jester to a tyrannical king, but when the king abuses a beautiful dwarf with whom the jester is in love the jester plots a terrible revenge.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-25
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Warriors of Virtue
Overview: A young man, Ryan, suffering from a disability, wishes to join the other kids from his schools football team. During an initiation rite, Ryan is swept away through a whirlpool to the land of Tao. There he is hunted by the evil Lord Komodo, who desires the boy as a key to enter the real world. Ryan is rescued by the protectors of Tao, five humanoid kangaroos, each embued with the five elements and virtues. Ryan learns his valuable lesson while saving the land of Tao.
Genres: Fantasy Family Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-02
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Suffering Bastards
Overview: Two brothers try to get back the nightclub that was swindled from their mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-09
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Tiptoes
Overview: A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-17
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First You Live Then You Die
Overview: This is an ultra-rare film that was never officially distributed and is hardly even mentioned anywhere on the internet, even though it features some legendary actors.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Overview: Ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, assembled by David Lynch to continue the story of the final week of Laura Palmer’s life.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-16
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In the Soup
Overview: An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-23
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Ava's Magical Adventure
Overview: Eddie is a 10-year-old girl who runs away from home with her best friend Ava, a 2-ton circus elephant. They are pursued by everyone from the police to the circus' owner
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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