Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Michael Anderson, 98, Director Of 'Logan's Run' And 'The Dam Busters'

"His breakthrough was [the 1955 film] The Dam Busters, about the 1943 British raid against the Ruhr dams in Germany's industrial heartland. ... He was [subsequently] recruited to showman Mike Todd’s big-budget adaptation of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days (1986), starring David Niven." Best known among his later films were Conduct Unbecoming and Logan's Run, both starring Michael York.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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