Anderson, Mitchell 1961–

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ANDERSON, Mitchell 1961


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Born August 21, 1961, in Jamestown, NY; father, in business; mother, a retail store owner; companion of Jim Phipps (a director and screenwriter), 198496; companion of Richie Arpino. Education: Williams College, B.A., theatre; studied voice at Julliard School.


Addresses: Agent APA, 9200 Sunset Blvd., Suite 900, Los Angeles, CA 90069; HardenCurtis Associates, 850 7th Ave., Suite 405, New York, NY 10019. Manager David Cohn Management, 14431 Ventura Blvd., Suite 139, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.


Career: Actor and director. Member of Wilton Project Theatre Company, Los Angeles; has performed, directed, and written for Virginia Avenue Project. Host and columnist for Web site Gay.com's Activist Way; activist for gay rights, including work for Victory Fund, Human Rights Campaign, and AIDS service organizations.


Awards, Honors: DramaLogue Award, 1988, for Streamers.


CREDITS

Stage Appearances:

(Stage debut) On Shilo Hill, Ford's Theatre, Washington, DC, 1984.

Streamers, c. 1987.

Colin, Flaubert's Latest, Playwrights Horizon, New York City, 1993.

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, c. 1996.

Visiting Mr. Green, offBroadway production, 1998.

Also appeared in The Countless, South Coast Repertory Theatre, as George Bailey, It's a Wonderful Life, Riverside Civic Light Opera, in Love! Valour! Compassion!, Geffen Playhouse, and South Pacific, Long Beach Civic Light Opera; appeared in Therese Raquin and A Dybbukk, both Wilton Project Theatre Company.


Stage Director:

Directed Animal Dreams and Numb to the Flicker, both Wilton Project Theatre Company; also directed Laughing Wild, Tamarind Theatre, Los Angeles.

Television Appearances; Series:

Dr. Jack McGuire, Doogie Howser, M.D., ABC, 19891991.

Ross Werkman, a recurring role, Party of Five, Fox, 19941997, 19992000.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Sean, Intimate Encounters (also known as Encounters in the Night ), 1986.

Rod, Student Exchange, ABC, 1987.

Henderson Kerr, Goodbye, Miss 4th of July, Disney Channel, 1988.

Richard Carpenter, The Karen Carpenter Story, CBS, 1989.

Bo Malloy, The Comeback, CBS, 1989.

Huckleberry Finn, Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Disney Channel, 1990.

Joshua, Is There Life Out There?, CBS, 1994.

Arnold, "2000," If These Walls Could Talk 2, HBO, 2000.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Chris "Spud" Miller, "Wipe Out," Riptide, NBC, 1985.

"Eye in the Sky," Crazy Like a Fox, CBS, 1985.

Danny Briggs, "A Night to Remember," Highway to Heaven, NBC, 1987.

"Why Are You Here?," The Hitchhiker, HBO, 1987.

Scott Crowe, "My Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades," 21 Jump Street, Fox, 1987.

"Love for Sale," Jake and the Fatman, CBS, 1987.

Bobby, "Country Mouse, City Mouse," In the Heat of the Night, NBC, 1989.

Peter Halleran, Jack's Place, ABC, 1992.

Rex Weldon, "Picture Imperfect," Melrose Place, Fox, 1993.

Ry, "The Godfather," Matlock, ABC, 1994.

Mr. Bennett, "Caged!," Popular, The WB, 2000.

Mr. Bennett, "ChChChanges," Popular, The WB, 2000.


Also appeared in Hill Street Blues and Cagney & Lacey; has appeared on Access Hollywood, Assignment Hollywood with Leeza Gibbons, Entertainment Tonight, and Good Morning America.

Television Appearances; Specials:

This Time It's PersonalJaws: The Revenge (documentary), syndicated, 1987.

Television Appearances; Pilots:

Chris Ingram, Gang of Four, ABC, 1989.

Ross Werkman, Party of Five, Fox, 1994.

Film Appearances:

Banning, SpaceCamp, Twentieth CenturyFox, 1986.

Sean, Jaws: The Revenge, Universal, 1987.

Michael, One Fine Night, 1988.

Alex Thorme, Deadly Dreams, Image Entertainment, 1988.

Doug Sawyer, AllAmerican Murder, Prism Pictures, 1992.

Sir Giles, The Midwife's Tale, 1995.

Vincey Sauris, Relax ... It's Just Sex, Apix Entertainment, 1998.

Taking the Plunge, 1001 Nights, 1999.

Ken, The Last Place on Earth, 2002.


OTHER SOURCES


Periodicals:

The Advocate, September 17, 1996; February 29, 2000.

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