Axel Anderson

Axel Anderson

Born: December 11, 1929
Died: December 16, 2012
in Berlin, Germany
German-born Puerto Rican actor.

Movies for Axel Anderson...

Riding 79
Title: Riding 79
Released: November 27, 2014
Type: Movie
A coming of age story about a 16-year-old boy who finds himself searching for escape in the island of Puerto Rico after his mother leaves him and his sister with his grandparents in a surf town. His fascination with a hula hoop model leads him to steal his grandfather’s car to meet the object of his affection in person.
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The Condemned
Title: The Condemned
Character: Michael Puttnam
Released: April 19, 2012
Type: Movie
Determined to restore her dying father's reputation, Ana travels to the remote town of Rosales. Decades ago, he settled there and opened his first free clinic for cancer research. He launched an illustrious medical career - and fell in love. Ana plans to celebrate her father's scientific and humanitarian achievements by transforming the old family mansion into a world-class museum. She will preserve his legacy, and also breathe new life into the forgotten Rosales. But the townspeople-now destitute and helpless-do not greet her warmly. Neither does the house.
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El aquelarre
Title: El aquelarre
Released: October 23, 2011
Type: Movie
A man is convinced his pregnant wife is a witch and that she is carrying an abomination in her womb.
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El detective Cojines
Title: El detective Cojines
Released: May 6, 2011
Type: Movie
The story of a college professor obsessed with private eye novels who, following an accident, becomes a private investigator patterned after the movies and novels of the 40’s. Among the cases he investigates, three will come to him that will reveal a full range of intrigue and bizarre secrets.
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Luz
Title: Luz
Character: Narciso
Released: January 2, 2010
Type: Movie
An old man takes care of his senile wife.
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The Reaping
Title: The Reaping
Character: Blind Man
Released: April 5, 2007
Type: Movie
Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove that a supernatural force is not behind the occurrences, but soon finds that science cannot explain what is happening. Instead, she must regain her faith to combat the evil that waits in a Louisiana swamp.
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Del cielo a la tierra
Title: Del cielo a la tierra
Character: Padre Lomba
Released: January 2, 2007
Type: Movie
The story of Father Miguel Ángel, who has to face the parishioners' opposition to accept Father Lomba's retirement from the parish. Miguel Ángel will have to prove his worth as a priest when he is cornered by the community's apathy because he is too young and does not have previous experience in that line of work.
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A Place Within
Title: A Place Within
Released: October 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Noah, an investigative reporter, finds himself in love with Yin, a friend for many years. Noah arranges a dinner where he will finally declare this secret love to her, but Yin is called away on business. The following day Noah wakes up determined to speak with her. As he tries to connect with Yin, he discovers that she is nowhere to be found. As Noah attempts to unfold the mystery of her disappearance, the history of even her existence is questioned.
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Jews in Space
Title: Jews in Space
Character: Mauricio
Released: September 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Sixteen years after she gave him a farewell kiss, Santiago is reunited with his cousin and childhood sweetheart Luciana, when she returns home to Buenos Aires from New York. When their curmudgeonly grandfather Mauricio has a near-death experience, Luciana decides to take family matters into her own hands and prepare the traditional Passover Seder.
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Vanished
Title: Vanished
Character: Shopkeeper
Released: July 15, 2006
Type: Movie
During a visit to a tropical island, a man mysteriously disappears and his wife must lead her own investigation in order to find him.
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Quiéreme mucho
Title: Quiéreme mucho
Character: Rómulo
Released: December 19, 2005
Type: Movie
Families gather to receive the New Year. But this meeting brings a series of confessions that will make for a very peculiar evening.
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Taínos: la última tribu
Title: Taínos: la última tribu
Character: Mr. Cordero (Sara's Grandfather)
Released: June 25, 2005
Type: Movie
Sara, a young archaeology student, organizes an expedition to La Mora Cave. Guided by Yabey, Sara and her four friends, discover a hidden Taíno tribe, believed to be extinguished 500 years ago.
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Amores
Title: Amores
Released: December 28, 2004
Type: Movie
Amores explores the world of acting from its most basic and solitary form: the monologue. If only an actor, a text, and someone who hears it are needed to make an acting exercise, then Amores offers fourteen splendid acts from renowned professionals in Puerto Rico. Amores is composed by different monologues that, in set, offer reflection on aspects of love. In this manner, the title becomes a statement: amor es... (love is...)
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Desamores
Title: Desamores
Released: November 11, 2004
Type: Movie
There has been a grave massacre within a highly successful insurance company in Puerto Rico. The owners, a married couple, have been slaughtered along with their employees. While the police are investigating, a private investigator, Isabelo, is hired. The investigation takes place in an underworld of frayed relationships and foul connections. It is a detective story that revolves around unforeseen secrets dealing in the occult and certain passions that only appear to spawn loathing.
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La caja de problemas
Title: La caja de problemas
Released: June 27, 2004
Type: Movie
Frank Anderson is a successful consulter, wealthy, with no problems. He gets bored of his perfect life and decides that he need problems in his life. Then he gets his hands on a box and in less that 24 hours his life turns upside down. All hell breaks loose for Frank, as he tries to get rid of the box for his problems to end.
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Celestino y el Vampiro
Title: Celestino y el Vampiro
Character: Siegfried Von Krank
Released: October 27, 2003
Type: Movie
In Old San Juan a 40+ year old divorcée is not aware he befriends a vampire who bites women, not in their necks but in their derrières, leaving them with flattened behinds. A vampire hunter from Europe warns Celestino about his neighbor and tries to recruit his help in salvaging a much cherished national heritage. But there is a difficulty: this vampire will not die by a stake through his heart and to avoid destruction he wears tin underwear.
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Entre los dioses del desprecio
Title: Entre los dioses del desprecio
Released: January 2, 2001
Type: Movie
An expert on disarming alarms leaves prison to do a job.
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Paging Emma
Title: Paging Emma
Character: Charlie
Released: November 8, 1999
Type: Movie
An operator at a mobile pager company has her life turned upside down by a seemingly senseless abduction.
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Paradise Lost
Title: Paradise Lost
Released: July 20, 1999
Type: Movie
A scientist in the rain forest squares off against a land developer while trying to solve some unexplained deaths.
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Leyendas de Puerto Rico
Title: Leyendas de Puerto Rico
Character: Padre Dominguez / Padre de Dina
Released: January 2, 1999
Type: Movie
A film narrative on Puerto Rican playwright and journalist don Cayetano Coll y Toste. Three of his most famous stories are reenacted: "El Santo Cristo de la Salud", "El Espíritu del Carretero", and "La Garita del Diablo".
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Undercurrent
Title: Undercurrent
Character: Carlos Rivera Sr
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A nightclub manager with financial problems accepts an offer to seduce another man's wife for money, and soon finds himself entwined in a web of double-crossing con artists.
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The Face at the Window
Title: The Face at the Window
Character: Uncle Pablo
Released: January 8, 1998
Type: Movie
Sylvia is writing her first novel. This will uncover dark secrets from her family's past; a past that now returns to haunt her. Disturbing, strange, frightening ghost story set in an exotic Spanish colonial city by the sea. A tale of mystery and terror that will keep you guessing from start to end.
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Death in Granada
Title: Death in Granada
Released: November 9, 1996
Type: Movie
A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.
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Que será
Title: Que será
Released: November 2, 1995
Type: Movie
A man shares his apartment with his elderly mother. He puts a Doris Day record, "Que sera, sera", and his life walks by in a flash.
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Assassins
Title: Assassins
Character: Bank President
Released: October 6, 1995
Type: Movie
Assassin Robert Rath arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness a rival hired gun complete the job for him -- with grisly results. Horrified by the murder of innocent bystanders, Rath decides to take one last job and then return to civilian life. But finding his way out of the world of contract killing grows ever more dangerous as Rath falls for his female target and becomes a marked man himself.
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Shortcut to Paradise
Title: Shortcut to Paradise
Character: Clark
Released: August 14, 1994
Type: Movie
Quinn shows up at an apartment building in Paradise, a small backwoods community in Puerto Rico, purporting to be the new caretaker the owner has been expecting. He gets right to work, making a good impression on everybody, except Gus, the reclusive teenage gas station attendant. Soon, sinister things come to pass
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La guagua aérea
Title: La guagua aérea
Character: Padre Gautier
Released: March 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A comedy narrating the adventures of ten Puerto Ricans looking for a better life. The film centers on an airplane trip to New York during 1960's. It relates in a comical, yet poignant manner, the array of reasons each of the passengers has for leaving Puerto Rico and the challenges they face as suggested by the interactions of the Anglo crew and the passengers.
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¿Cine en Puerto Rico?
Title: ¿Cine en Puerto Rico?
Character: Self
Released: March 2, 1979
Type: Movie
Documentary that analyzes the situation of the film industry in Puerto Rico from its beginnings in 1912 to 1979. Filmmakers Jack Delano, Juan Viguié, Oscar Orzábal, Axel Anderson, Paquito Cordero, Efraín López Neris, Roberto Guastella, Roberto Gándara, Geronimo Mitchell and Tito Bonilla participate.
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Mi aventura en Puerto Rico
Title: Mi aventura en Puerto Rico
Released: December 8, 1977
Type: Movie
Mom and Pop Aguilar and their two boys tour the island.
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Bananas
Title: Bananas
Character: Man Tortured
Released: April 28, 1971
Type: Movie
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
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Luisa tenía razón
Title: Luisa tenía razón
Character: Dr. Carrison
Released: July 26, 1968
Type: Movie
Explores concerns about uterine cancer and the value of the Pap Test in detecting this serious type of cancer.
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Organización criminal
Title: Organización criminal
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A summit meeting of rival gangs, one predominantly Italian and the other a mix of Polish, Irish, and Italian mobsters, fails to resolve their differences, and gang war breaks out.
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Aquella joven de blanco
Title: Aquella joven de blanco
Released: March 15, 1964
Type: Movie
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Thunder Island
Title: Thunder Island
Released: August 24, 1963
Type: Movie
A hit man hijacks a boat — and the married couple aboard — in order to carry out a contract on a dictator in the Caribbean.
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Más allá del Capitolio
Title: Más allá del Capitolio
Character: Periodista
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A small town celebrates the triumph of their revolution. Under the euphoria of the moment, the town's founder is declared a traitor and the destruction of his statue is decided by the people. A journalist buys the statue before it is destroyed. Later, the townspeople discover that the statue isn't from who they thought it was and they decide to retrieve it. The journalist, however, doesn't want to give it back, giving rise to the dilemma.
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The Other Road
Title: The Other Road
Character: Gabriel
Released: January 2, 1959
Type: Movie
The story of a widow who owns a coffee hacienda, focusing on the dynamics between her son and the man who romances her.
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Maruja
Title: Maruja
Character: Jean Pierre
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
In a small rural town, everybody lays eyes on Maruja, the most beautiful woman there. After the son of the mayor comes back from France, he also notices Maruja, setting forth events of love, jealousy, guilt, and anger.
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An American Romance
Title: An American Romance
Character: Immigrant (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1944
Type: Movie
A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.