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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.
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01 January 1952
A curious toddler creates trouble when he finds bank robbers' loot
07 August 1941
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
22 June 1966
Herman's Hermits' first film, in which the British band has the chance to have an American spacecraft named for them.
08 June 1948
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
12 March 1942
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists.
25 March 1950
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.
18 January 1941
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.
01 March 1957
A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.
11 October 1957
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.
24 June 1954
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.
14 August 1943
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.
20 December 1950
Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.
09 November 1949
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.
22 November 1941
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.
21 February 1941
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.
02 May 1947
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.
04 April 1941
A football hero joins the Army Air Corps.
21 December 1940
The story of three recruits undergoing Navy bootcamp training.
31 August 1940
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.
28 January 1948
A bandleader falls in love and marries a small town girl.
15 May 1958
After the first atom bomb test, scientists realize the bomb was more powerful than they expected - which may have terrible results.
13 September 1941
On a layover in Hawaii, two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to wager bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current champ has just transferred aboard their ship.
29 March 1949
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
10 April 1957
Failing vaudeville performer, Len, is taken under the wing of the German Shepherd wonder dog, Kelly, and a new act is born.
11 June 1969
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.
05 September 1953
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.
30 August 1941
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.
14 September 1940
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
04 January 1941
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
01 June 1950
A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.
03 February 1940
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers.
10 August 1940
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
24 July 1957
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw, the Utica Kid, escape.
02 February 1956
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.
01 July 1958
The new manager of a small-town cemetery becomes convinced that he triggered the untimely deaths of several plot owners by tampering with a certain map.
19 November 1974
The story of Virginia Hill, a former prostitute who was the girlfriend of '40s killer and gangster Bugsy Siegel.
28 September 1960
The story of Franklin Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and especially his wife Eleanor) cope with his illness.
20 April 1940
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.
12 July 1941
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.
23 February 1940
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
04 May 1940
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
27 January 1940
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.
23 May 1952
The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills.
16 January 1957
Four young starlets, from various parts of the world, are called to Hollywood to test for the lead in a major film.
29 May 1957
The staff of "Yank" magazine are among the first American troops into Tokyo after the Japanese surrender.
13 July 1940
World War II propaganda film from Warner Brothers.
01 October 1955
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.
27 June 1951
Joe, inventor in an American Small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car, driven with a gasoline motor.
14 February 1947
A bored millionaire matches his daughter with his partner in a gas station.
