James Anderson
Date of birth: 1921-07-13
Place of birth: Wetumpka, Alabama, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Kyle James, James Kyle, Jim Anderson, James K Anderson
Biography
James Ottie Anderson, Jr. (July 13, 1921 – September 14, 1969), sometimes billed as Kyle James, was an American television and film actor of the 1950s and 1960s. He is probably best known for his role as Robert E. Lee "Bob" Ewell in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). He made over 120 appearances, mostly in television and several films between 1941 and 1969. He made three guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of murder victim Frank Anderson in the 1958 episode, "The Case of the Pint-Sized Client," and murder victim Stanley Piper in the 1960 episode, "The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker." He appeared in a number of westerns throughout his career, often playing a gun-for-hire or outlaw. He died of a heart attack on September 14, 1969. Two films he appeared in The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1969) and Little Big Man (1970) were released posthumously. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Anderson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Riot in Cell Block 11
1954-02-18
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and
The Magnificent Stranger
1966-08-26
Rowdy Yates is accused of murder, and has to alert the Army to a bandit assault.
The Duel at Silver Creek
1952-09-05
When a gang of ruthless claim jumpers brutally murders his miner father, a gunman known as the Silve
Donovan's Brain
1953-09-30
A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank
Arrowhead
1953-08-03
Director Charles Marquis Warren's 1953 western stars Charlton Heston and Jack Palance. Chief of Scou
Hunt the Man Down
1950-12-26
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
The Thing That Couldn't Die
1958-06-27
A 400 year old disembodied head hypnotizes a female psychic, who recovered it using a dowsing rod, t
Five
1951-04-25
The film's storyline involves five survivors, one woman and four men, of an atomic bomb disaster. Th
Ruby Gentry
1952-12-25
A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.
Hellgate
1952-09-04
A man is framed and sent to the toughest prison in the territory.
The Big Land
1957-03-01
Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads
As Young As We Are
1958-09-01
Scandal erupts in a small town when a high school teacher is romantically linked with one of her mal
Pressure Point
1962-10-10
An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested wh
Legends of the West
1992-09-08
Host Jack Palance explores how Hollywood has depicted Western legends like George Armstrong Custer,
The Marauders
1955-09-26
A poor homesteader fights back when he's targeted for extinction by a powerful rancher and his gang
Running Target
1956-11-01
In the Colorado Rockies, Sheriff Scott, heads a posse that is after four escaped convicts, and thoug
Dragnet
1954-09-04
Two homicide detectives try to find just the facts behind a mobster's brutal murder.
An Annapolis Story
1955-04-10
Two brothers, both cadets at Annapolis, fall in love with the same girl.
Inside Detroit
1956-01-01
Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.
Friendly Persuasion
1956-10-30
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to vio
Speak No Evil
1950-08-13
A video on the consequences of gossip.
Take the Money and Run
1969-08-18
Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not
The Great Jesse James Raid
1953-07-17
The famed outlaw is talked into saddling up for one more bank robbery.
Little Big Man
1970-12-23
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fightin
The Last Musketeer
1952-03-01
A greedy rancher is charging excessive prices for access to the area's only water supply, extorting
Along the Great Divide
1951-06-02
US marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to ge
Sergeant York
1941-09-27
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962-12-20
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti
The Rawhide Years
1956-07-01
Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with h
Seven Angry Men
1955-03-27
Rise, fall and execution of John Brown, fanatic abolitionist.
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970-03-18
Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It
Tension at Table Rock
1956-10-03
When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place.
The Great Sinner
1949-06-29
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
1958-10-01
Aliens from Outer Space are slowly switching places with real humans -- one of the first being a you
The Blue Veil
1951-10-26
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
1952-06-25
When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel
Pushover
1954-07-14
A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.
Private Hell 36
1954-09-03
In New York City, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bill
China Venture
1953-09-07
American soldiers undertake a mission to capture a Japanese admiral who has survived an air crash in
Drums Across the River
1954-06-01
When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into
The Rack
1956-11-02
Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In
The Fireball
1950-11-09
Johnny Casar runs away from the orphanage to start a successful career as a roller skater and after
Whisky Galore!
1949-06-16
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