Herbert Anderson
Biography
Herbert Anderson was an American character actor who was born in Oakland, California and got his start in minor Warner Bros. films before the break that came with Navy Blues, opposite Martha Raye and Ann Sheridan. His movies included The Male Animal, with Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland, Battleground (1949), The Caine Mutiny (1954), My Man Godfrey (1957), I Bury the Living, and Rascal (1969). He played Dr. Bird in the Broadway production of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, and he was the only performer in both that play and the film, which starred Humphrey Bogart. He became best known as the father on the CBS sitcom Dennis the Menace, and he had many lead and guest television roles, including Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Bewitched, Batman, and The Waltons. He died in 1994.
77years old at death
- Born Oakland
- Died Palm Springs
- Star sign: AriesThe sign runs March 21 to April 19
Movie Career
- Films
- 10
- Career span
- 28 years1941 to 1969
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Anderson appeared in numerous Broadway productions, among them the part of Dr. Bird in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. He also had a role in the film of The Caine Mutiny with Humphrey Bogart, making him the sole actor in both the play and the movie.
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