Mike B. Anderson is a television director who works on The Simpsons and has directed numerous episodes of the show, and was animated in "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" as cadet Anderson. He was also a Consulting Producer on the animated show, "The Oblongs" and Story Consultant on "Tripping the Rift". He also directed the feature films Alone in the T-Shirt Zone (1986) and Kamillions (1989). For "Homer's Phobia" he won the Annie Award for Best Individual Achievement: Directing in a TV Production,[1] and the WAC Winner Best Director for Primetime Series at the 1998 World Animation Celebration.[2] He has won two Emmy Awards for directing Simpsons episodes, "Homer's Phobia" in 1997 and "HOMŠÆ" in 2000. He is also a sequence director on The Simpsons Movie.
Credits
Director (1996-present)
- Episode ā "Lisa the Iconoclast" (3F13)
- Episode ā "Treehouse of Horror VII" (as Mutant Mike B. Anderson) (4F02)
- Episode ā "You Only Move Twice" (3F23)
- Episode ā "Homer's Phobia" (4F11)
- Episode ā "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" (4F21)
- Episode ā "The Last Temptation of Krust" (5F10)
- Episode ā "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"" (AABF04)
- Episode ā "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder" (BABF02)
- Episode ā "HOMŠÆ" (BABF22)
- Episode ā "Trilogy of Error" (CABF14)
- Episode ā "Tales from the Public Domain" (DABF08)
- Episode ā "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" (DABF22)
- Episode ā "C.E. D'oh" (EABF10)
- Episode ā "The President Wore Pearls" (EABF20)
- Episode ā "Margical History Tour" (FABF06)
- Episode ā "The Way We Weren't" (FABF13)
- Episode ā "Fat Man and Little Boy" (FABF21)
- Episode ā "Pranksta Rap" (GABF03)
- Episode ā "Future-Drama" (GABF12)
- Episode ā "Marge's Son Poisoning" (GABF20)
- Episode ā "Homer's Paternity Coot" (HABF03)
- Episode ā "The Wettest Stories Ever Told" (HABF11)
- Episode ā "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em" with Ralph Sosa (HABF20)
- Episode ā "Mona Leaves-a" with Ralph Sosa (KABF12)
- Episode ā "Treehouse of Horror XX" with Matthew Schofield (as Mike Beheaded Anderson 2) (LABF14)
- Episode ā "Halloween of Horror" (TABF22)
Cleanup Artist (1990)
Season 1
- Episode ā "Homer's Night Out" (7G10)
- Episode ā "The Crepes of Wrath" (7G13)
Character Layout Artist
Season 2
- Episode ā "Simpson and Delilah" (7F02)
- Episode ā "Treehouse of Horror" (7F04)
- Episode ā "Dancin' Homer" (7F05)
- Episode ā "Dead Putting Society" (7F08)
- Episode ā "Bart Gets Hit by a Car" (7F10)
- Episode ā "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" (7F13)
- Episode ā "Principal Charming" (7F15)
- Episode ā "Lisa's Substitute" (7F19)
Season 3
- Episode ā "Stark Raving Dad" (7F24)
- Episode ā "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington" (8F01)
- Episode ā "Bart the Murderer" (8F03)
- Episode ā "Treehouse of Horror II" (8F02)
- Episode ā "Flaming Moe's" (8F08)
- Episode ā "Radio Bart" (8F11)
- Episode ā "Bart the Lover" (8F16)
- Episode ā "The Otto Show" (8F21)
- Episode ā "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?" (8F23)
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Current directors | |||
Bob Anderson | Mike B. Anderson | Matthew Faughnan | Mark Kirkland | Lance Kramer | Nancy Kruse | Michael Marcantel | Chris Clements | Steven Dean Moore | Matthew Nastuk | Raymond S. Persi | Michael Polcino | Chuck Sheetz | Ralph Sosa | Rob Oliver | |||
Former directors | |||
Neil Affleck | Wes Archer | Carlos Baeza | Brad Bird | Mark Ervin | Jen Kamerman | Jeffrey Lynch | Lauren MacMullan | Pete Michels | Rich Moore | Dominic Polcino | Jim Reardon | Swinton O. Scott III | Alan Smart | Susie Dietter | Shaun Cashman | David Silverman | Gregg Vanzo | |||
Other animation staff | |||
Anthony Bell | GĆ”bor CsupĆ³ | Bill Kopp | Christian Roman | Eric Stefani | Lance Wilder | Craig Clark | |||
Animation studios | |||
Klasky-Csupo, Inc. | Film Roman | AKOM | Anivision | Rough Draft Studios | USAnimation | Toonzone Entertainment |
Citations
- ā 25th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners. AnnieAwards.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-10.
- ā World Animation Celebration: 1998. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-04-10.