Michael Anderson
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Michael Joseph Anderson, Sr. (30 January 1920 – 25 April 2018) was an English film director, best known for directing Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and Logan's Run (1976).
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The New Adventures of Pinocchio (1999)
Puppeteer Geppetto becomes a puppet himself after drinking an elixir that Pinocchio bought from a traveling carnival.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Gabriel Thomson | Martin Landau | Udo Kier | Warwick Davis | Gemma Gregory
Summer of the Monkeys (1998)
One summer Jay finds four chimps on the prairie who have fallen off a circus cart.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Leslie Hope | Wilford Brimley | Corey Sevier | Michael Ontkean
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
In the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinking ships all over the ocean. His daughter follows him. They are intercepted by a mysterious captain Nemo and his incredible submarine.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Ben Cross | Michael Jayston | Julie Cox | Richard Crenna | Jeff Harding
Captains Courageous (1996)
Harvey Cheyne, Jr., second richest person in the world, orphaned and spoiled rotten, encounters a cigar and the sea on his way to England for boarding school. Seasick, over the rail for real, rescued by Dan Troop of a Gloucester fishing sailboat. Three months at sea, under a firm but fair Captain Troop (fair wages of $10.50 a month, if you don't work you don't eat). A hard life and a dangerous one, and a ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Duncan Fraser | Robert Urich | Kaj-Erik Eriksen | Sandra Nelson | Kenny Vadas
Rugged Gold (1994)
A woman struggles to survive in the Alaskan frontier after separating from her family because of an earthquake.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Graham Greene | Art Hindle | Jill Eikenberry | Ari Magder | Davina Whitehouse
The Sea Wolf (1993)
Jack London's brutal Wolf Larson brings a shipwrecked aristocrat and a con woman aboard his doomed ship, the Ghost.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Catherine Mary Stewart | Len Cariou | Charles Bronson | Clive Revill | Marc Singer
Millennium (1989)
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Kris Kristofferson | Robert Joy | Lloyd Bochner | Cheryl Ladd | Daniel J. Travanti
The Jeweller's Shop (1989)
Burt Lancaster stars as the titular merchant in this classic adaptation of Pope John Paul II's best-selling play "The Jeweller's Shop," an inspiring drama about three married couples and their ups and downs in holy matrimony. With a faithful jeweler acting as their spiritual adviser, three sets of husbands and wives struggle to live their lives with love, steering clear of avarice and infidelity. ...
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Daniel Olbrychski | Ben Cross | Olivia Hussey | Burt Lancaster | Andrea Occhipinti
Sword of Gideon (1986)
Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.
Runtime: 173 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Steven Bauer | Michael York | Leslie Hope | Rod Steiger | Colleen Dewhurst
Separate Vacations (1986)
A young architect finds himself in a situation that he never had to deal with before--now that he is successful (and married), sexy young women are throwing themselves at him!
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: David Naughton | Jennifer Dale | Mark Keyloun | Lally Cadeau | Jackie Mahon
Second Time Lucky (1984)
In the beginning the Devil made a bet with God. The Devil backed Eve, God backed Adam. What would have happened to love and sex if Adam hadn't taken the bite?
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Roger Wilson | Robert Helpmann | Robert Morley | Jon Gadsby | Diane Franklin
Murder by Phone (1982)
A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Robin Gammell | John Houseman | Gary Reineke | Richard Chamberlain | Sara Botsford
Dominique (1979)
The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death in this horror-thriller. He is after her money and must try several times before he finally succeeds. Because she is mentally exhausted from being frightened all the time, she commits suicide, but soon the husband begins experiencing her ghostly presence.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Cliff Robertson | Simon Ward | Jean Simmons | Jenny Agutter | Ron Moody
Orca: The Killer Whale (1977)
After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at Captain Nolan's hands, a vengeful killer whale goes on a rampage in the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, Nolan, Rachel and Umilak sail after the great beast, who will meet them on its own turf.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Richard Harris | Charlotte Rampling | Bo Derek | Keenan Wynn | Will Sampson
Logan's Run (1976)
An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: All citizens get a chance of being 'renewed' in a Civic Ceremony at their 30th birthday, unless they run and escape before their time comes.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Michael York | Roscoe Lee Browne | Richard Jordan | Jenny Agutter | Farrah Fawcett
Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow lieutenant from the charges in an unusual court-martial, while investigating the deepening mystery behind the attack.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Stacy Keach | Michael York | Christopher Plummer | Richard Attenborough | Trevor Howard
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975)
In the Fabulous Thirties, Doc Savage and his five Amazing Adventurers are sucked into the mystery of Doc's father disappearing in the wilds of South America. The maniacal Captain Seas tries to thwart them at every turn as they travel to the country of Hidalgo to investigate Doc's father's death and uncover a vast horde of Incan gold.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Paul Gleason | William Lucking | Michael Miller | Ron Ely | Eldon Quick
Pope Joan (1972)
Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is questionable that Pope Joan really did exist, and portrays her relationships with other notables of the time.
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Franco Nero | Jeremy Kemp | Maximilian Schell | Liv Ullmann | Olivia de Havilland
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Metropolitan Archbishop Lakota of L'viv, freed after twenty years in the Soviet Gulag, travels to Rome where circumstances conspire to see him elevated to the Papacy. Inspired by the life story of Ukrainian Catholic Cardinal Josyf Slipyj,
Runtime: 162 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Anthony Quinn | Leo McKern | Vittorio De Sica | Oskar Werner | David Janssen
The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate. There, he begins an affair with Inge Lindt, a beautiful young teacher. However, their lives are put in danger after Quiller is kidnapped and taken to Phoenix's headquarters, where he meets Oktober, the mysterious leader of the ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: George Segal | Max von Sydow | Alec Guinness | Senta Berger | George Sanders
Operation Crossbow (1965)
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: John Mills | Sophia Loren | Richard Johnson | Trevor Howard | George Peppard
Flight From Ashiya (1964)
Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal problems and differences to embark upon a dangerous mission to save raft-bound Japanese survivors from a murderous storm-tossed sea. As they head for their location, the film flashes back to chronicle the pasts of each pilot to make clear their mixed feelings ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Shirley Knight | Yul Brynner | Richard Widmark | George Chakiris | Suzy Parker
The Naked Edge (1961)
Michael Anderson's 1961 suspense thriller stars Deborah Kerr as a London wife who suspects her wealthy husband (Gary Cooper) might be a murderer. The cast also includes Eric Portman, Diane Cilento, Hermione Gingold and Michael Wilding. This was Gary Cooper's last film.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Diane Cilento | Deborah Kerr | Gary Cooper | Eric Portman | Hermione Gingold
All The Fine Young Cannibals (1960)
Director Michael Anderson's glossy 1960 drama, about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring jazz musician, stars Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Susan Kohner, George Hamilton, Pearl Bailey, Anne Seymour, Jack Mullaney, Onslow Stevens, Virginia Gregg, Mabel Albertson, Louise Beavers and Addison Richards.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: George Hamilton | Robert Wagner | Natalie Wood | Pearl Bailey | Susan Kohner
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Richard Harris | Charlton Heston | Virginia McKenna | Gary Cooper | Michael Redgrave
Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. ...
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Glynis Johns | James Cagney | Michael Redgrave | Dana Wynter | Don Murray
Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958)
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Herbert Lom | Alan Tilvern | Richard Todd | Anne Baxter | Faith Brook
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957)
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Richard Todd | Keye Luke | Donald Houston | Akim Tamiroff | William Hartnell
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Runtime: 175 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Cantinflas | David Niven | Charles Boyer | Finlay Currie | Robert Morley
1984 (1956)
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: David Kossoff | Edmond O'Brien | Jan Sterling | Mervyn Johns | Michael Redgrave
The Dam Busters (1955)
Adapted by R.C. Sherriff from Guy Gibson's book Enemy Coast Ahead, The Dam Busters is a docudrama following the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Nigel Stock | Robert Shaw | Derek Farr | Richard Todd | Michael Redgrave
Will Any Gentleman...? (1953)
A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life (George Cole), as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the world's greatest lover and becomes a terrorizing Casanova.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: George Cole | Jon Pertwee | William Hartnell | Heather Thatcher | Veronica Hurst
The House of the Arrow (1953)
A London solicitor and a French detective investigate the mysterious death of an elderly woman suspected of being poisoned.
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Oskar Homolka | Harold Kasket | Yvonne Furneaux | Robert Urquhart | Josephine Griffin
Night Was Our Friend (1951)
Martin's plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil. Nobody believes he survived. In the meantime his wife, Sally, has fallen in love with another man, Dr. Harper. Martin is found and returns to Sally. Unable to face his demons, Martin considers ending his life. Or does Sally do it for him?
Runtime: 61 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Michael Gough | Ronald Howard | Elizabeth Sellars
Hell Is Sold Out (1951)
A supposedly dead writer suddenly turns up to confront the young woman who is using his penname.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Richard Attenborough | Herbert Lom | Hermione Baddeley | Mai Zetterling | Nicholas Hannen
Waterfront (1950)
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Robert Newton | Kathleen Harrison | Avis Scott | Susan Shaw | Robin Netscher