Local 600 Member Howard Anderson, Jr. to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award from TV Academy
Howard A. Anderson, Jr., ASC will receive the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award during Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Primetime Creative Arts celebration on Saturday, September 8, 2007 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The award is presented annually in recognition of extraordinary achievements in advancing the art of film technology and filmmaking.
Anderson is being honored for the role he played in creating visual effects for such classic television series as I Love Lucy, the original Star Trek, My Favorite Martian, The Untouchables, The Invaders, Dragnet, The Waltons, The Fugitive, Barnaby Jones and The A-Team. He also created main titles and visual effects for more than 100 films produced for the cinema, including such memorable pictures as Heaven Can Wait, Blazing Saddles, The Body Snatchers, Some Like it Hot, Annie, Superman and the1960 version of Godzilla.
Anderson is a second generation filmmaker. He followed a path blazed by his father, Howard A. Anderson Sr., who was hired by Thomas Ince as a still photographer at Culver City Studios in 1918. After Cecil B. DeMille took charge of the studio in 1924, Anderson pioneered the emerging art of visual effects when he created lightning, storm and flood effects for one of the last successful silent films, The King of Kings. He founded the Anderson Special Photographic Effects Company in 1927.
Anderson, Jr. joined the company during the late 1940s. He and his brother Darrell collaborated on many television and feature film projects, including Tobruk and Jack the Giant Killer, which earned Oscar® nominations for visuals effects. They spent two years prior to the initial airing of the original Star Trek TV series in 1966 collaborating with Gene Roddenberry creating believable star fields, and the illusion of people being “beamed up” to the Starship Enterprise after visiting other spaceships and alien planets.
His son, Howard Anderson, III, a third generation visual effects artist, and active member of Local 600, succeeded him as president of the Howard Anderson Company in 1993.
“A History: Howard Anderson – It’s All in the Family for 75 Years” was published in the September 2002 issue of ICG magazine.
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