Michael J. Anderson

Michael J. Anderson

Born: October 31, 1953
in Denver, Colorado, USA
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).

Movies for Michael J. Anderson...

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Title: Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Character: Man From Another Place
Released: July 16, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
Character: Professor Horatio Kharon (voice)
Released: July 12, 2010
Type: TV
This incarnation of the popular cartoon series finds Scooby and the gang living in Crystal Cove, a small town with a long history of ghost sightings, monster tales and other mysteries ripe for the sleuths to solve once and for all. But the longstanding Crystal Cove residents, who bank on the town's reputation to attract tourists, are prepared to do what it takes to protect their turf.
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Title: Carnivàle
Character: Samson
Released: September 14, 2003
Type: TV
Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology with gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.
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Tiptoes
Title: Tiptoes
Character: Bruno
Released: September 8, 2003
Type: Movie
A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
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Reflections on the Phenomenon of Twin Peaks
Title: Reflections on the Phenomenon of Twin Peaks
Character: Self
Released: February 26, 2002
Type: Movie
"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.
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Learning to Speak in the Red Room
Title: Learning to Speak in the Red Room
Character: Self
Released: December 18, 2001
Type: Movie
"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.
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An Introduction to David Lynch
Title: An Introduction to David Lynch
Character: Self
Released: December 18, 2001
Type: Movie
"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.
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Postcards From The Cast
Title: Postcards From The Cast
Character: Self
Released: December 18, 2001
Type: Movie
"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.
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Snow White: The Fairest of Them All
Title: Snow White: The Fairest of Them All
Character: Sunday (Violet)
Released: October 28, 2001
Type: Movie
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.
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Mulholland Drive
Title: Mulholland Drive
Character: Mr. Roque
Released: June 6, 2001
Type: Movie
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.
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The Phantom Eye
Title: The Phantom Eye
Character: Carl
Released: October 30, 1999
Type: Movie
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?"
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Mulholland Dr.
Title: Mulholland Dr.
Character: Mr. Rouqe
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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Minimum Wage
Title: Minimum Wage
Character: Zeke Bleak
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Indie romantic comedy was the winner of Best Actress and Best Cinematography at the No Dance Film Festival (2000).
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Club Vampire
Title: Club Vampire
Character: Kiddo
Released: October 26, 1998
Type: Movie
Enter the club where your wildest desire and most frightening dreams come true. The price of admission is your soul.
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Title: Charmed
Character: O'Brien
Released: October 7, 1998
Type: TV
Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern day San Francisco.
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Title: Charmed
Character: Leprechaun
Released: October 7, 1998
Type: TV
Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern day San Francisco.
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Title: Port Charles
Released: June 2, 1997
Type: TV
Port Charles is an American television. It is a spin-off of the serial General Hospital In the first few years, Port Charles got a reputation for focusing most of its energies on the medical school program, setting more of its main action at Port Charles' General Hospital than was seen on the parent show, General Hospital. As it evolved, it turned its focus to stories with gothic intrigue that included themes such as forbidden love, vampires, and life after death. It also abandoned the basic open-ended writing style used on all other daytime dramas in December 2000, instead creating thirteen-week story arcs. This type of storytelling is a staple of Latin telenovelas. It also allowed the cast, crew, and writing staff to only work six months out of the year.
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Warriors of Virtue
Title: Warriors of Virtue
Character: Mudlap
Released: May 2, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Screwed
Title: Screwed
Character: himself
Released: January 9, 1997
Type: Movie
A raw, rough-hewn look at the life of Screw publisher Al Goldstein.
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First You Live Then You Die
Title: First You Live Then You Die
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The X-Files
Character: Mr. Nutt
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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Title: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Character: Rumpelstiltskin
Released: January 3, 1993
Type: TV
At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, Commander Sisko and crew welcome alien visitors, root out evildoers and solve all types of unexpected problems that come their way.
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In the Soup
Title: In the Soup
Character: Little Man
Released: October 23, 1992
Type: Movie
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Title: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Character: Man From Another Place
Released: June 3, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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Fool's Fire
Title: Fool's Fire
Character: Hopfrog
Released: March 25, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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Mannequin Two: On the Move
Title: Mannequin Two: On the Move
Character: Jewel Box Bearer
Released: May 17, 1991
Type: Movie
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.
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Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted
Title: Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted
Character: Woodsman (Twin A)
Released: December 1, 1990
Type: Movie
After her boyfriend ends their relationship, the dreamself of a heartbroken woman floats through the air over an industrial wasteland singing ballads of love.
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Title: Twin Peaks
Character: The Arm
Released: April 8, 1990
Type: TV
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
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Title: Twin Peaks
Character: Man From Another Place
Released: April 8, 1990
Type: TV
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
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Whatever Happened to Mason Reese
Title: Whatever Happened to Mason Reese
Character: Sushi Chef
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
One of the early short films of director Brett Ratner.
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Suffering Bastards
Title: Suffering Bastards
Character: Little Elvis
Released: December 9, 1989
Type: Movie
Two brothers try to get back the nightclub that was swindled from their mother.
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Twin Peaks
Title: Twin Peaks
Character: The Man From Another Place
Released: September 3, 1989
Type: Movie
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.)
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No Such Thing as Gravity
Title: No Such Thing as Gravity
Character: The Botanist
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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.
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Little Mike: A Videoportrait of Michael Anderson
Title: Little Mike: A Videoportrait of Michael Anderson
Character: Himself
Released: August 14, 1987
Type: Movie
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.
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The Great Land of Small
Title: The Great Land of Small
Character: Fritz / The King
Released: June 18, 1986
Type: Movie
Two children enter a fantasy kingdom and are confronted by evil forces.