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| children = Linda and Joy Anderson (first marriage) Gerry Anderson Jr. (Andy) (second marriage) Jamie Anderson (third marriage) | parents = Joseph Abrahams (later Anderson) Deborah Abrahams (later Anderson; née Leonoff) | website = }} Gerry Anderson, MBE (born Gerald Alexander Abrahams; 14 April 1929 – 26 December 2012) was an English television and film producer, director, writer and occasional voice artist. He was known for his futuristic television programmes, especially his 1960s productions filmed in "Supermarionation" (a process involving the use of modified marionette puppets). Anderson's first television production was the 1957 Roberta Leigh children's series ''The Adventures of Twizzle.'' ''Supercar'' (1961–62) and ''Fireball XL5'' (1962) followed later, both series breaking into the US television market in the early 1960s. In the mid-1960s Anderson produced his most successful series, ''Thunderbirds''. Other television productions of the 1960s include ''Stingray'' and ''Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons''. Anderson also wrote and produced several feature films whose box office performance was unexceptional. Following a shift towards live action productions in the 1970s, he had a long and successful association with media impresario Lew Grade and Grade's company ITC, continuing until the second series of ''Space: 1999''. After a career lull when a number of new series concepts failed to get off the ground, his career began a new phase in the early 1980s when audience nostalgia for his earlier Supermarionation series (prompted by Saturday morning re-runs in Britain and Australia) led to new Anderson productions being commissioned. Later projects include a 2005 CGI remake of ''Captain Scarlet'' entitled ''Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet''. ==Early life== Gerald Alexander Abrahams was born in the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric Hospital in Bloomsbury, London, and spent the early years of his life in Kilburn, and Neasden,〔Hearn, Marcus; Archer, Simon (2002). ''What Made Thunderbirds Go'', BBC Books. p130 ISBN 0-563-53481-8.〕 London. He was educated at Kingsgate Infants School in Kilburn and Braintcroft Junior and Senior schools in Neasden, prior to winning a scholarship to Willesden County Grammar School.〔(Obituary: "Gerry Anderson" ), ''The Guardian,'' 26 December 2012. Retrieved 26 December 2012〕 His parents were Deborah (née Leonoff) and Joseph Abrahams. Anderson's Jewish paternal grandfather had the surname Bieloglovski. He fled from an area near the Poland–Russia border and settled in London; his name was changed to "Abrahams" by an immigration official upon his arrival in 1895. Anderson's mother Deborah changed the family name to "Anderson" in 1939. At the start of the Second World War, Gerry Anderson's older brother, Lionel, volunteered for service in the Royal Air Force; he was stationed in the United States for advanced training. Lionel often wrote letters to his family, and in one letter described a US Army Air Forces air base called Thunderbird Field, the name of which stayed in his younger brother's memory. In 1952, Anderson married Betty Wrightman; they had two daughters, Joy and Linda.〔("Gerry Anderson: The Puppet Master" ), Teletronic website〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gerry Anderson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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