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Axel Anderson is a Actor and Producer Allemand born on 11 december 1929 at Berlin (German)
Axel Anderson (December 11, 1929 – December 16, 2012) was an actor, television producer, host in his adopted homeland Puerto Rico.
Anderson was born Axel Levy to a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany. In 1936 Anderson's family escaped the Holocaust by emigrating to Paraguay. Due to political instability in Paraguay, Anderson's family soon moved to Argentina. Anderson started acting as a teenager, working at the Teatro Alemán Independiente, a small theater troupe mainly composed of German expatriates who performed in German.
During the 1950s, Anderson moved his young family to Bogotá, Colombia where he worked in theater. The family later moved to the Dominican Republic. During his time in the Dominican Republic, Anderson reportedly clashed with the politics of the Rafael Leónidas Trujillo regime, being forced to emigrate one more time. He and his family settled in Puerto Rico where they have remained ever since.
Career
Anderson made his debut in Puerto Rican television with a sitcom named Qué Pareja a local version of I Love Lucy. He also performed in theater and other short television productions. The actor quickly established himself as a leading man, landing several leading roles in local novelas or soap operas. Early in his career, he starred in a novela titled Cuando los hijos condenan in which Anderson and co-star Marta Romero shared the first on-screen kiss in the history of Puerto Rican television.
Anderson also starred in one of the first major motion pictures produced in Puerto Rico, Maruja. His film career continued with roles in Spanish and U.S. films, including Bananas (1971) and Battle of the Bulge (1965).
During the last 20 years, Anderson has remained one of the top leading actors in Puerto Rico and has continually acted in major local and international productions, including a small role as the bank director in the Sylvester Stallone thriller Assassins.
Anderson died on December 16, 2012 near 8:00 pm in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Birth name Axel Levy
Nationality German
Birth 11 december 1929 at Berlin (German)
Death 16 december 2012 (at 83 years) at San Juan (USA)
Nationality German
Birth 11 december 1929 at Berlin (German)
Death 16 december 2012 (at 83 years) at San Juan (USA)
Biography
Early lifeAnderson was born Axel Levy to a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany. In 1936 Anderson's family escaped the Holocaust by emigrating to Paraguay. Due to political instability in Paraguay, Anderson's family soon moved to Argentina. Anderson started acting as a teenager, working at the Teatro Alemán Independiente, a small theater troupe mainly composed of German expatriates who performed in German.
During the 1950s, Anderson moved his young family to Bogotá, Colombia where he worked in theater. The family later moved to the Dominican Republic. During his time in the Dominican Republic, Anderson reportedly clashed with the politics of the Rafael Leónidas Trujillo regime, being forced to emigrate one more time. He and his family settled in Puerto Rico where they have remained ever since.
Career
Anderson made his debut in Puerto Rican television with a sitcom named Qué Pareja a local version of I Love Lucy. He also performed in theater and other short television productions. The actor quickly established himself as a leading man, landing several leading roles in local novelas or soap operas. Early in his career, he starred in a novela titled Cuando los hijos condenan in which Anderson and co-star Marta Romero shared the first on-screen kiss in the history of Puerto Rican television.
Anderson also starred in one of the first major motion pictures produced in Puerto Rico, Maruja. His film career continued with roles in Spanish and U.S. films, including Bananas (1971) and Battle of the Bulge (1965).
During the last 20 years, Anderson has remained one of the top leading actors in Puerto Rico and has continually acted in major local and international productions, including a small role as the bank director in the Sylvester Stallone thriller Assassins.
Anderson died on December 16, 2012 near 8:00 pm in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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The Reaping (2007)
, 1h39Directed by Stephen Hopkins
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Demons in film, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, Idris Elba, AnnaSophia Robb, Stephen Rea, William Ragsdale
Roles Blind Man
Rating56%
Katherine Winter (Hilary Swank) and colleague, Ben (Idris Elba), investigate and disprove claims of miracles. In Louisiana, Katherine receives a call from a friend, Father Michael Costigan (Stephen Rea), who says that his photographs of her have developed burn marks that when assembled, form a sickle-like symbol, a possible warning from God, which she ignores. She meets Doug Blackwell (David Morrissey), a teacher from the nearby town of Haven, who asks Katherine to find out why Haven's river has turned red. The locals believe this is a biblical plague caused by a girl, Loren McConnell (AnnaSophia Robb), who they believe killed her older brother in the river. They travel to Haven where Katherine meets Loren and has a vision of her turning the river red. Meanwhile, Ben witnesses dead frogs seemingly fall from the sky. Doug invites them to spend the night at his house, since the town doesn't have a motel. That night as they're about to eat dinner, they encounter flies and disease, which kills off local cows. Later that evening, Katherine explains to Doug at his wife's grave why she left the church; five years ago, she was an ordained minister. After a drought while doing missionary work in the Sudan with her husband and daughter, the locals sacrificed her family, believing they were the cause.
Taínos (2005)
, 1h57Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Danny Fraticelli, Axel Anderson
Roles Mr. Cordero (Sara's Grandfather)
Rating46%
La caja de problemas (2004)
, 1h27Origin Porto rico
Genres Comedy
Actors Julián Gil, Axel Anderson
Rating62%
Cette comédie raconte l'histoire d'un homme à succès et fortuné qui veut sortir de la monotonie en intégrant des conflits dans sa vie. Cet homme s'est transformé en un magnat mais il a besoin de problèmes. Il va voir une voyante qui lui donne une cage à problèmes...
Paging Emma (1999)
, 1h52Genres Drama
Actors Mark Fish, Axel Anderson
Roles Charlie
Rating79%
The film follows Emma Donne, who is left with nothing after witnessing the shooting and abduction of her husband. Lacking family and friends, she immerses herself in the only thing she has left: her work. As an operator at a paging company, Emma is a modern day messenger. She begins to find solace by living vicariously through the message she relays... and what once was a dreadful chore becomes an obsession for her. Methodically, Emma retreats from the world around her and starts to substitute her basic need for human contact with these meaningless and impersonal messages. After months without a clue about her husband's disappearance, Emma starts receiving personal and intimate messages that only her husband could write. With nothing to lose but her life, Emma gets involved and follows the lead of the mystifying messages. Caught in an ever-widening web of lies and strange coincidences, Emma realizes that events are not always what they seem, as dark secrets about her previous "perfect" life begin to surface.
Death in Granada (1997)
, 2h22Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Andy García, Esai Morales, Edward James Olmos, Jeroen Krabbé, Miguel Ferrer, Tony Plana
Rating60%
Assassins (1995)
, 2h12Directed by Richard Donner
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Julianne Moore, Muse Watson, Reed Diamond, Steve Kahan
Roles Bank President
Rating63%
Robert Rath (Sylvester Stallone) is a paid assassin who wants nothing more than to get out of 'the business', haunted by the memory of murdering his own mentor Nicolai years ago. Rath is a quiet, morose professional who is on an assignment to kill someone when someone else gets to the 'mark' (the target) before he does. That person turns out to be Miguel Bain (Antonio Banderas), a fellow assassin and a competitive sociopath.
Bananas (1971)
, 1h22Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Monde imaginaire, Films about sexuality, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Louise Lasser, Woody Allen, Carlos Montalbán, Sylvester Stallone, Dan Frazer, Jacobo Morales
Roles Man Tortured
Rating68%
Fielding Mellish (Woody Allen) is the main character, but he does not appear until after the opening credits. The cold open, which featured the assassination of the president of the fictional "banana republic" of San Marcos that completed a coup d'état bringing Gen. Emilio Molina Vargas (Carlos Montalban) to power, sets up the situation that Mellish would enter later in the movie. The scene was in the form of a championship boxing telecast on Wide World of Sports, with Don Dunphy as the host and Howard Cosell as the commentator.
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
, 2h48Directed by Ken Annakin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Charles Bronson, Ty Hardin, Pier Angeli
Rating68%
Military Intelligence officer and former policeman Lt. Col. Daniel Kiley (Fonda) and his pilot, Joe, are flying a reconnaissance mission over the Ardennes forest, spotting a German staff car. Under the ground in a subterranean lair, German Col. Martin Hessler (Shaw), a fictional character loosely based on SS-Standartenführer Jochen Peiper, is briefed by his superior, Gen. Kohler (Werner Peters). Kohler points out a clock with a 50-hour countdown, which is the time allotted for the operation, beyond which Germany has no resources for full-scale attack. At the same time German soldiers disguised as American troops, led by Lt. Schumacher (Ty Hardin), are tasked with seizing vital bridges and sowing confusion behind the Allied lines.
Finger on the Trigger (1965)
, 1h30Genres Western
Actors Rory Calhoun, Aldo Sambrell, James Philbrook, Leo Anchóriz, George Rigaud, John Clarke
Rating49%
Thunder Island (1963)
, 1h5Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Gene Nelson, Fay Spain, Brian Kelly, Míriam Colón, Esther Sandoval, Axel Anderson
Rating52%
An American Romance (1944)
, 2h30Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Brian Donlevy, Ann Richards, Walter Abel, John Qualen, Stephen McNally, J. M. Kerrigan
Roles Immigrant (uncredited)
Rating66%
European immigrant Stefan Dubechek (Brian Donlevy) arrives in America in the 1890s and becomes involved in the steel industry. He eventually becomes an automobile manufacturer. And then, in World War II, a plane manufacturer.
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Bananas (1971)
, 1h22Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Monde imaginaire, Films about sexuality, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Louise Lasser, Woody Allen, Carlos Montalbán, Sylvester Stallone, Dan Frazer, Jacobo Morales
Roles Producer
Rating68%
Fielding Mellish (Woody Allen) is the main character, but he does not appear until after the opening credits. The cold open, which featured the assassination of the president of the fictional "banana republic" of San Marcos that completed a coup d'état bringing Gen. Emilio Molina Vargas (Carlos Montalban) to power, sets up the situation that Mellish would enter later in the movie. The scene was in the form of a championship boxing telecast on Wide World of Sports, with Don Dunphy as the host and Howard Cosell as the commentator.
Thunder Island (1963)
, 1h5Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Gene Nelson, Fay Spain, Brian Kelly, Míriam Colón, Esther Sandoval, Axel Anderson
Roles Production Manager
Rating52%