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Maxwell Anderson (I) (1888–1959)

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James Maxwell Anderson was born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, on December 15, 1888 to William Lincoln Anderson and Charlotte Perrimela (Stephenson) Anderson. The second child born to the couple, Anderson spent his formative years on his maternal grandmother's farm in Atlantic before the family moved to Andover... See full bio »

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in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, USA

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(age 70) in Stamford, Connecticut, USA
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1998 Meet Joe Black (earlier screenplay / inspiration)
 
1985 The Bad Seed (TV movie) (play)
 
1975 Valley Forge (TV movie) (play)
 
1974 Lost in the Stars (play)
 
1970 Teatro de siempre (TV series)
– Más allá del invierno (1970)
 
1969 Anne of the Thousand Days (play)
 
1968 Elizabeth the Queen (TV movie) (play "Elizabeth the Queen")
 
1966 Barefoot in Athens (TV movie) (play)
 
1966 The Star Wagon (TV movie) (play)
 
1963 The Bad Seed (play "The Bad Seed")
 
1962 Golden Showcase (TV series)
– Saturday's Children (1962) (play "Saturday's Children")
 
1959 Winterset (TV movie) (play)
 
1959 Vintersolhverv (TV movie) (play)
 
1959 Johanna aus Lothringen (TV movie) (play "Joan of Lorraine")
 
1959 Never Steal Anything Small (play "The Devil's Hornpipe")
 
1958 Vertigo (contributing writer - uncredited)
 
1957 Playhouse 90 (TV series)
– The Star Wagon (1957) (play)
 
1956 The Wrong Man (screenplay / story)
 
1956 The Alcoa Hour (TV series)
– Key Largo (1956) (play)
 
1956 The Bad Seed (play)
 
1956 Ford Star Jubilee (TV series)
– High Tor (1956) (writer)
 
1955 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV series)
– The Masque of Kings (1955) (play)
 
1954 Shower of Stars (TV series)
– A Christmas Carol (1954) (adaptation / teleplay "A Christmas Carol")
 
1952 Omnibus (TV series)
– The Trial of Ben Jonson (1952)
 
1952 What Price Glory (play)
 
1951-1952 Celanese Theatre (TV series)
– Saturday's Children (1952) (play / episodes 1.03 and 1.13)
– Winterset (1951) (play)
 
1950-1951 Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (TV series)
– The Buccaneer (1951) (play)
– Night Over Taos (1951) (play)
– Valley Forge (1951) (play / episodes 1.07, 1.20, 1.21 and 1.37)
– Mary of Scotland (1951) (play / episodes 1.07, 1.20, 1.21 and 1.37)
– Knickerbocker Holiday (1950) (book)
 
1950 Lux Video Theatre (TV series)
– Saturday's Children (1950) (play)
 
1950 The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse (TV series)
– High Tor (1950) (play)
 
1950 Kraft Theatre (TV series)
– Valley Forge (1950) (play "Valley Forge")
 
1948 Joan of Arc (play "Joan of Lorraine" / screenplay)
 
1948 Key Largo (play)
 
1948 A la sombra del puente (play)
 
1945 Winterset (TV movie) (play)
 
1944 The Eve of St. Mark (play)
 
1944 Knickerbocker Holiday (play)
 
1940 Saturday's Children (play)
 
1939 Essex and Elizabeth (stage play)
 
1936 Winterset (play)
 
1936 Mary of Scotland (play)
 
1935 So Red the Rose
 
1935 Maybe It's Love (play "Saturday's Children")
 
1935 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (contributing writer - uncredited)
 
1934 We Live Again (screen adaptation)
 
1934 Death Takes a Holiday (screenplay)
 
1932 Washington Merry-Go-Round (story)
 
1932 Rain (adaptation)
 
1931 The Guardsman (excerpt from play "Elizabeth the Queen" - uncredited)
 
1931 Women of All Nations (characters)
 
1930 One Romantic Night (adaptation)
 
1930 All Quiet on the Western Front (adaptation & dialogue)
 
1929 The Cock-Eyed World (story)
 
1929 Saturday's Children (play)
 
1926 What Price Glory (play)
 
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2012 Smash (TV series)
– Previews (2012) (lyrics: "September Song" - uncredited)
 
2008 A Trip to Swadades (lyrics: "September Song")
 
2003 Bragging Rites: The Carolina-Clemson Rivalry (documentary) (lyrics: "September Song")
 
2003 My House in Umbria (TV movie) (lyrics: "September Song")
 
2002 Sinatra: The Classic Duets (TV documentary) (lyrics: "September Song" - uncredited)
 
1999 The Sopranos (TV series)
– Pilot (1999) (writer: "I Wonder Why" - uncredited)
 
1994 There Goes My Baby (writer: "I Wonder Why")
 
1990 Texasville (writer: "September Song")
 
1989 John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (documentary) (lyrics: "September Song" From the musical play "Knickerbocker Holiday")
 
1987 Radio Days (lyrics: "September Song" 1944)
 
1985 One Magic Christmas (lyrics: "Lost In The Stars")
 
1970 The Mike Douglas Show (TV series)
– Episode dated 11 September 1970 (1970) (writer: "September Song")
 
1970 Catch-22 (lyrics: "September Song" - uncredited)
 
1964 Judy Garland in Concert (documentary) (lyrics: "Lost In the Stars")
 
1963 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
– Episode #17.1 (1963) (lyrics: "September Song" - uncredited)
 
1960 Pepe (lyrics: "September Song")
 
1960 Midnight Lace ("What Does a Woman Do?")
 
1959 Never Steal Anything Small (lyrics: "Never Steal Anything Small", "I'm Sorry, I Want a Ferrari", "I Haven't Got a Thing to Wear", "It Takes Love to Make a Home", "Helping Our Friends")
 
1957 The Edsel Show (TV special) (lyrics: "September Song" - uncredited)
 
1956 Ford Star Jubilee (TV series)
– High Tor (1956) (lyrics: "John Barleycorn", "A Little Love, a Little While", "Living One Day at a Time", "Once Upon a Long Ago", "Sad Is the Life of the Sailor's Wife", "When You're in Love")
 
1954 The Jack Benny Program (TV series)
– Liberace Show (1954) (writer: "September Song")
 
1951 Tales of Tomorrow (TV series)
– Blunder (1951) (lyrics: "September Song" - uncredited)
 
1950 September Affair (lyrics: "September Song")
 
1949 The Swift Show (TV series)
– Episode dated 31 March 1949 (1949) (lyrics: "September Song" - uncredited)
 
1947 I'll Close My Eyes (short) (lyrics: "September Song")
 
1944 Knickerbocker Holiday (lyrics: "September Song", "There's Nowhere to Go But Up", "It Never Was You", "The One Indispensable Man")
 
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1950 Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (TV series) (lyrics by - 1 episode)
– Knickerbocker Holiday (1950) (lyrics by)
 
1944 Knickerbocker Holiday (lyrics by)
 
Show ShowSelf (1 title)
1949 On Stage! (documentary short)
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Personal Details

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(1928). Stage Play: Gods of the Lightning. Drama. Written by Maxwell Anderson and Harold Hickerson. Directed by Hamilton MacFadden. Little Theatre: 24 Oct 1928- Nov 1928 (closing date unknown/29 performances). Cast: Morris Ankrum (as "Spiker"), Jules Artfield (as "Heine"), Charles Bickford (as "Macready")... See more »

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Personal Quote:

If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right. See more »

Trivia:

Quentin Anderson (born 1914 in Minnewauken, North Dakota; died 2003), the oldest son of Maxwell Anderson and his wife Margaret, was a professor at Columbia Univiversity from 1939-1981. A noted literary critic and cultural historian, he was an expert on 19th-century American literature. Among his books are "The American Henry James" (1957), "The Imperial Self" (1971), and "Making Americans" (1992). See more »

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