Herbert Anderson
Also Known As: Cpl. Herbert Anderson, Herb Anderson, Guy Anderson
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oakland, California, USA
Birthday: March 30, 1917
Deathday: June 11, 1994
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Gender: Male
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Finders Keepers
Overview: A curious toddler creates trouble when he finds bank robbers' loot
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Battleground
Overview: Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their own, Roderigues, perish under enemy fire. The men try to rebuff another series of Nazi attacks, but what they really need is a change in the weather. Without clear skies, they'll never get the air support they need.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-09
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Night Passage
Overview: Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-24
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I Bury the Living
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-01
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The Benny Goodman Story
Overview: Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny begins by joining the Ben Pollack traveling band.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-02
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The Set-Up
Overview: Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-29
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The Lawless
Overview: A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-01
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Dive Bomber
Overview: A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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Rascal
Overview: 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
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-11
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That Way with Women
Overview: A bored millionaire matches his daughter with his partner in a gas station.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-14
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This Is the Army
Overview: In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-14
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Kelly and Me
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-10
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Spring Reunion
Overview: A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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The Girl in White
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-23
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Give My Regards to Broadway
Overview: A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-08
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Joe Butterfly
Overview: 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?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-29
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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Overview: When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-01
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The Yellow Cab Man
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-25
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My Man Godfrey
Overview: The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and noticing his obviously good manners, gets him the job. He proves a great success, but keeps his past to himself. When an old flame turns up Irene's sister Cordelia starts making waves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-11
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The Male Animal
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-12
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Meet the Fleet
Overview: The story of three recruits undergoing Navy bootcamp training.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-21
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Navy Blues
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-13
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The Strawberry Blonde
Overview: Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-21
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Service with the Colors
Overview: Service with the Colors is a 1940 American short drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason. 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. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 13th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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Island in the Sky
Overview: A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while awaiting rescue.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-05
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The Fighting 69th
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-27
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Overview: True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-23
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Calling Philo Vance
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-03
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You Were Meant for Me
Overview: A bandleader falls in love and marries a small town girl.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-28
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The Caine Mutiny
Overview: When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-24
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Four Girls in Town
Overview: 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?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-16
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Excuse My Dust
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-27
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The Sea Hawk
Overview: Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-10
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No Time for Comedy
Overview: An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-14
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'Til We Meet Again
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-20
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The Body Disappears
Overview: 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".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-22
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Four Mothers
Overview: Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-04
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Love and Learn
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-02
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Wings of Steel
Overview: A football hero joins the Army Air Corps.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-04
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Nightmare at Ground Zero
Overview: After the first atom bomb test, scientists realize the bomb was more powerful than they expected - which may have terrible results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-15
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Hold On!
Overview: Herman's Hermits' first film, in which the British band has the chance to have an American spacecraft named for them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-22
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Tear Gas Squad
Overview: A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-04
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Honeymoon for Three
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-18
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Young America Flies
Overview: World War II propaganda film from Warner Brothers.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-13
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Virginia Hill
Overview: The story of Virginia Hill, a former prostitute who was the girlfriend of '40s killer and gangster Bugsy Siegel.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-19
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The Magnificent Yankee
Overview: Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-20
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Highway West
Overview: A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-07
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The Bride Came C.O.D.
Overview: A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-12
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