Howard A. Anderson Jr.
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Howard A. Anderson Jr. was a visual effects artist best known for his work on the original Star Trek series and the 1967 film Tobruk, for which he earned an Oscar nomination.
Directed by Arthur Hiller, Tobruk followed the story of a Canadian POW (played by Rock Hudson) who is rescued by a British military unit. Anderson Jr. shared his visual effects nomination with Albert Whitlock for the war film, which also starred George Peppard and Nigel Green.
Additionally, Anderson Jr. worked on the movies Phantom from Space, Nightmare, starring Edward G. Robinson, Invasion of the Saucer Men, The Time Machine (based on the novel by H.G. Wells), Jack the Giant Killer, Taras Bulba and The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz.
Anderson Jr. and his brother, Darrell A. Anderson, ran their father’s special effects company during the 1960s. The Howard Anderson Co. was founded in 1927 and was based on the Desilu lot. The firm had worked on the title sequence for I Love Lucy, collaborating with Desi Arnaz to get the shape of the heart just right. Desilu also produced NBC’s Star Trek, and the firm worked on the first and second 1964 pilot episodes for the series: “The Cage” and “Where No Man Has Gone Before.” They produced visual effects for the series including the exterior shots of the U.S.S. Enterprise.
Howard A. Anderson Jr. was a visual effects artist best known for his work on the original Star Trek series and the 1967 film Tobruk, for which he earned an Oscar nomination.
Directed by Arthur Hiller, Tobruk followed the story of a Canadian POW (played by Rock Hudson) who is rescued by a British military unit. Anderson Jr. shared his visual effects nomination with Albert Whitlock for the war film, which also starred George Peppard and Nigel Green.
Additionally, Anderson Jr. worked on the movies Phantom from Space, Nightmare, starring Edward G. Robinson, Invasion of the Saucer Men, The Time Machine (based on the novel by H.G. Wells), Jack the Giant Killer, Taras Bulba and The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz.
Anderson Jr. and his brother, Darrell A. Anderson, ran their father’s special effects company during the 1960s. The Howard Anderson Co. was founded in 1927 and was based on the Desilu lot. The firm had worked on the title sequence for I Love Lucy, collaborating with Desi Arnaz to get the shape of the heart just right. Desilu also produced NBC’s Star Trek, and the firm worked on the first and second 1964 pilot episodes for the series: “The Cage” and “Where No Man Has Gone Before.” They produced visual effects for the series including the exterior shots of the U.S.S. Enterprise.
The company was also responsible for creating the opening titles for other classic series, including The Addams Family, The Andy Griffith Show, Get Smart, The Mod Squad, The Twilight Zone, Mission: Impossible, The Brady Bunch and Cheers.
In addition to his 80 credited episodes of Star Trek, Anderson Jr.’s work in television included an episode of the series My World and Welcome to It and the television movie Earth II. The former earned him an Emmy Award nomination in 1970 for outstanding achievement in any area of creative technical crafts.
He received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2007 and was given the President’s Award from the American Society of Cinematographers in 2004.
Anderson Jr. died September 27, 2015, in Ventura, California. He was 95.
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