Connection
Miles Anderson is a Actor and Director of Photography born on 23 october 1947
Miles Anderson (born 23 October 1947) is a Zimbabwean stage and television actor, who has appeared in television serials both in the United Kingdom, and North America. He recently appeared as Martin Millar, in the BBC soap opera Doctors.
Born in 1947 in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, Anderson was educated at Prince Edward school. His father commanded the Rhodesian Army and his mother Daphne, wrote a memoir of her difficult childhood in Rhodesia. He has appeared in the US television series, Criminal Minds, as well as the ongoing show Ultimate Force as Colonel Aiden Dempsey. He had previously played Lt. Col. Dan Fortune in ITV's Soldier Soldier (series 1 and 2 only, 1991–92). He was awarded the 1982 London Critics' Circle Drama Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actor of 1981 for his performances in The Twin Rivals and The Witch of Edmonton. His numerous performances for television include Fall of Eagles, Z-Cars, The Sweeney. Campion, House of Cards, Oliver's Travels and Holby City. Anderson has also appeared in two episodes of Midsomer Murders entitled "Death In Disguise" and "Last Year's Model", and was the voice of Poseidon in the 1997 TV adaptation of The Odyssey. Most recently he was seen as Major Marchbanks in the BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman's The Ruby in the Smoke and he appeared in 2007 in the sixth series of the crime-drama Waking the Dead. In 2008, he made a brief appearance as Edward Tunstall in the BBC's EastEnders. He narrated the Sky1 version of the New Zealand documentary The Lion Man and appeared in an episode of A Touch of Frost. In 2010, Anderson appeared as the titular character in The Madness of George III mounted by director Adrian Noble at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre. He won the San Diego's Critics' Circle award for Best Actor. In 2011, he played Prospero in The Tempest and Salieri in Amadeus, both directed by Noble. In 2013 he again won the San Diego Critic's Circle Award for his Shylock in Adrian Noble's production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. In 2015 he appeared as Renard in the BBC TV series The Musketeers episode 2.5 "The Return".
His film credits include roles in The Thirty Nine Steps (1978), The Shillingbury Blowers (1980), Sky Bandits (1986), Cry Freedom (1987), A Far Off Place (1993), The King Is Alive (2000), The Silent Fall (2007), Ninja (2009), and Vishwaroopam (2013).
He is an associate member of RADA and the father of actor Joe Anderson and Max Anderson the 2006 and 2011 World Streetboard Champion.
Source : Wikidata
Miles Anderson
Birth 23 october 1947 (77 years)
Born in 1947 in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, Anderson was educated at Prince Edward school. His father commanded the Rhodesian Army and his mother Daphne, wrote a memoir of her difficult childhood in Rhodesia. He has appeared in the US television series, Criminal Minds, as well as the ongoing show Ultimate Force as Colonel Aiden Dempsey. He had previously played Lt. Col. Dan Fortune in ITV's Soldier Soldier (series 1 and 2 only, 1991–92). He was awarded the 1982 London Critics' Circle Drama Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actor of 1981 for his performances in The Twin Rivals and The Witch of Edmonton. His numerous performances for television include Fall of Eagles, Z-Cars, The Sweeney. Campion, House of Cards, Oliver's Travels and Holby City. Anderson has also appeared in two episodes of Midsomer Murders entitled "Death In Disguise" and "Last Year's Model", and was the voice of Poseidon in the 1997 TV adaptation of The Odyssey. Most recently he was seen as Major Marchbanks in the BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman's The Ruby in the Smoke and he appeared in 2007 in the sixth series of the crime-drama Waking the Dead. In 2008, he made a brief appearance as Edward Tunstall in the BBC's EastEnders. He narrated the Sky1 version of the New Zealand documentary The Lion Man and appeared in an episode of A Touch of Frost. In 2010, Anderson appeared as the titular character in The Madness of George III mounted by director Adrian Noble at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre. He won the San Diego's Critics' Circle award for Best Actor. In 2011, he played Prospero in The Tempest and Salieri in Amadeus, both directed by Noble. In 2013 he again won the San Diego Critic's Circle Award for his Shylock in Adrian Noble's production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. In 2015 he appeared as Renard in the BBC TV series The Musketeers episode 2.5 "The Return".
His film credits include roles in The Thirty Nine Steps (1978), The Shillingbury Blowers (1980), Sky Bandits (1986), Cry Freedom (1987), A Far Off Place (1993), The King Is Alive (2000), The Silent Fall (2007), Ninja (2009), and Vishwaroopam (2013).
He is an associate member of RADA and the father of actor Joe Anderson and Max Anderson the 2006 and 2011 World Streetboard Champion.
Usually with
Filmography of Miles Anderson (17 films)
Actor
Add to a movie list
Their Finest (2017)
Directed by Lone Scherfig
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy, Jack Huston, Paul Ritter, Jake Lacy
Roles Newsreel announcer
Rating67%
Set during the World War II in early 1940s, about some filmmakers try to make a patriotic film to boost morale of British army during The Blitz.
Their Finest (2017)
, 1h50Directed by Lone Scherfig
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Romance
Actors Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy, Jack Huston, Rachael Stirling, Richard E. Grant
Roles Newsreel announcer
Rating67%
En plein Blitz de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, Catrin Cole (Gemma Arterton), un personnage inspiré de l’histoire vraie de Diana Morgan, est recrutée comme scénariste par le service de propagande britannique. Elle assiste le prolifique scénariste Tom Buckley (Sam Claflin) au sein d'une équipe de cinéma chargée de réaliser un long métrage à succès pour remonter le moral de la population, notamment des femmes, et afin de favoriser l’entrée en guerre des États-Unis. Alors que Londres subit d'incessants bombardements, elle doit, malgré les drames et les difficultés dans sa vie personnelle, s’affirmer dans ce monde d’hommes, pour faire aboutir ce projet imposé et y mettre du talent.
La La Land (2016)
, 2h8Directed by Martin Scorsese, Damien Chazelle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, J. K. Simmons, Finn Wittrock, John Legend, Sonoya Mizuno
Roles Alistair
Rating79%
Set in modern-day Los Angeles, La La Land portrays a romantic relationship between Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), a jazz pianist, and Mia (Emma Stone), an actress.
Vishwaroopam (2013)
, 2h29Directed by Kamal Haasan
Genres Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Films about terrorism
Actors Rahul Bose, Kamal Haasan, Pooja Kumar, Andrea Jeremiah, Shekhar Kapur, Jaideep Ahlawat
Roles Dr. Dawkins
Rating78%
The film opens in a rundown pigeon shop in New York City where an old man feeds them. He then sends one pigeon away. It flies high and lands in a skyscraper off the office window of a psychologist who is conducting a session with her client Nirupama (Pooja Kumar), a nuclear oncologist, who begins to confide that hers was a marriage of convenience that provided a safe haven for pursuing her PhD in the U.S.A. for past three years and that her husband Vishwanath alias Viz (Kamal Haasan) is a middle-aged Kathak teacher. She is also put off by Viz's effeminate bearing and is attracted to her boss, Deepankar (Samrat Chakrabarti). Doubting whether her husband has secrets of his own, she hires a private investigator to tail him to probe grounds for divorce. She learns from the private investigator that Viz is a Muslim. In a sudden turn of events, the investigator is killed in a sea-side warehouse by Farukh, a prominent member of the terrorist outfit led by Omar (Rahul Bose). A diary on him gives away Nirupama and the terror group led by Farukh nabs the couple. Deepankar is later killed by Farukh's men.
Ninja (2010)
, 1h27Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Adventure, Crime, Martial arts
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films
Actors Scott Adkins, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Mika Hijii, Miles Anderson, Garrick Hagon, Togo Igawa
Roles Temple
Rating55%
Casey Bowman is an American orphan who was adopted into a martial arts dojo in Japan. Because of his perseverance and desire to master bushido, he earns the respect of the dojo's sensei and his daughter Namiko. However, the dojo's top student Masazuka becomes bitter over Namiko's friendship with Casey until one morning, during a sparring match, he loses his temper and nearly kills Casey by throwing a katana at him. In defense, Casey scars Masazuka below his right eye. As a result of his actions, Masazuka is banished from the dojo by the sensei.
The Shepherd: Border Patrol (2008)
, 1h35Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Jean-Claude Van Damme, Scott Adkins, Stephen Lord, Natalie J. Robb, Bianca Bree, Andrée Bernard
Roles Arthur Pennigton
Rating55%
A former New Orleans cop Jack Robideaux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) arrives with his pet rabbit in Columbus, New Mexico to take a job with the border patrol, and working with Captain Ramona Garcia (Natalie J. Robb).
The Silent Fall (2007)
Actors Miles Anderson, Justin Smith
Roles Joseph Kingsley
Rating59%
The story is set in motion after the brutal murder of a South African doctor who is on the brink of discovering a break through generic AIDS drug. If found to be successful, the cost-effective drug could cripple pharmaceutical giant, the Kingdom Corporation. The story explodes into a web of intrigue and danger as Kingdom's role in the doctor's death is brought into question. This, and a continent in the grips of a heartless pandemic, provide the dramatic backdrop against which heroine Dr. Thandie Khumalo's personal journey unfolds. She struggles to come to terms with her beloved colleague's murder and the loss of her friends and family to the pandemic which she has dedicated her life to fighting. Vying for her heart and mind as she searches for the truth are Lucas De Villiers, the charming yet ruthless CEO of Kingdom, and handsome fellow doctor Josh Kingsley.
The King Is Alive (2000)
, 1h49Origin Danemark
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Théâtre, Le désert
Actors Miles Anderson, Romane Bohringer, David Bradley, David Calder, Bruce Davison, Brion James
Roles Jack
Rating62%
A group of tourists are stranded in the Namibian desert when their bus loses its way and runs out of fuel. Canned carrots and dew keep the tourists alive, but they are helplessly entrapped, completely cut off from the rest of the world. As courage and moral fibre weaken and relationships grow shaky, Henry, a theatrical manager, persuades the group to put on Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear. As the tourists work their way through Henry's hand-written scripts for an audience of only the sand dunes and one distant, indigenous watcher, real life increasingly begins to resemble the play.
Riddler's Moon (1999)
, 1h30Directed by Don McBrearty
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Actors Corbin Bernsen, Kate Mulgrew, Daniel Newman, Daniel Newman, Miles Anderson, Finbar Lynch
Roles Sam Canner
Rating58%
Fast Food (1998)
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Gerard Butler, Douglas Henshall, Emily Woof, Miles Anderson, Sean Hughes, Stephen Lord
Roles Dwayne
Rating45%
Benny returns to the town of his youth to find the girl he's loved since childhood and runs into his four old criminal friends who have plans to rob a local gangster.
The Odyssey (TV miniseries) (1997)
, 2h56Directed by Andreï Kontchalovski
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Films based on mythology, Transport films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Isabella Rossellini, Vanessa Williams, Bernadette Peters, Eric Roberts
Roles Poseidon (voice)
Rating69%
Odysseus (Armand Assante), the king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Ithaca, is called to service in the Trojan War after the birth of his son Telemachus, much to the dismay of his wife Queen Penelope (Greta Scacchi). Odysseus is worried that he may not return, and tells Penelope that she should remarry by the time Telemachus is a man if he does not return. The war lasts ten years, during which Greece's best soldier, Achilles (Richard Trewett), is killed and the Greeks avenge him by using a giant horse to sneak inside and destroy the city of Troy. Laocoön (Heathcote Williams) tries to warn the Trojans of a vision of this, but is suddenly devoured by a sea monster. On the way back, Odysseus' ego gets the best of him and he tells the gods that he did it himself, which angers Poseidon (voiced by Miles Anderson) so much that he promises to make Odysseus' journey home to Penelope nearly impossible, mentioning that it was he who sent the sea monster to devour Laocoön.
A Far Off Place (1993)
, 1h40Directed by Mikael Salomon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Reese Witherspoon, Ethan Embry, Jack Thompson, Maximilian Schell, Patricia Kalember, Robert John Burke
Roles Jardin
Rating64%
The witty Nonnie and the stuck-up city-boy Harry are the only ones among the gamekeeper's family to survive a massacre by a gang of poachers on a lonesome farm in the savanna. Now the ruthless murderers are after them as the only witnesses. Without a means of transportation, the only way to escape is to walk through 1,250 miles (2,000 km) of Kalahari desert with the help of the African bushman Xhabbo. On the months-long journey ahead they not only become good friends against their differences, but also realize that every one of them has strength and skills that are required to survive.
Lorna Doone (1990)
Directed by Andrew Grieve
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Clive Owen, Miles Anderson, Billie Whitelaw, Robert Stephens, Sean Bean, Kenneth Haigh
Roles Tom Faggus
Rating58%
West country yeoman John Ridd (Clive Owen) vows to avenge the death of his father by destroying the land-grabbing Doone family. Then he meets, and immediately falls in love with, the beautiful and innocent Lorna Doone (Polly Walker).
Cry Freedom (1987)
, 2h37Directed by Richard Attenborough
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films about racism, Political films
Actors Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline, Penelope Wilton, Kevin McNally, Kate Hardie, John Thaw
Roles Lemick
Rating73%
Following a news story depicting the demolition of a slum in East London, South Africa, journalist Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) seeks more information about the incident and ventures off to meet black activist Steve Biko (Denzel Washington). Biko has been officially banned by the South African government and is not permitted to leave his defined banning area at King William's Town. Woods is formally against Biko's banning, but remains critical of his political views. Biko invites Woods to visit a black township to see the impoverished conditions and to witness the effect of the government-imposed restrictions, which make up the apartheid system. Woods begins to agree with Biko's desire for a South Africa where blacks have the same opportunities and freedoms as those enjoyed by the white population. As Woods comes to understand Biko's point of view, a friendship slowly develops between them.
Sky Bandits (1986)
, 1h45Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Scott McGinnis, Miles Anderson, Ronald Lacey, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Valérie Steffen, Ingrid Held
Roles Bannock
Rating46%
Quand deux cow-boys sont capturés dans le vieil ouest en essayant de voler une banque, ils sont exilés aux premières lignes de la Première Guerre mondiale pour se battre aux côtés des Britanniques. Ils font un pari pour voir s'ils peuvent piloter un Gunbus, mais ils finissent par se retrouver dans une autre base sous un officier qui est déterminé à traquer un dirigeable allemand.