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Michael J. Anderson
Michael J. Anderson
	Anderson in 2006
Born	October 31, 1953 (age 71); Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1968–2013
Known for	Twin Peaks; Carnivàle
Height	3 ft 7 in (109 cm)

Michael J. Anderson (born October 31, 1953) is a retired American actor known for his roles as The Man from Another Place in David Lynch's television series Twin Peaks,^[1] the prequel film for the series, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me,^[1] and as Samson on the HBO series Carnivàle.

Early life and career

Anderson has the genetic disorder osteogenesis imperfecta, a disease that leads to frequent breaks in long bones and improper healing, leaving him with a shortened stature of 3 feet 7 inches (1.09 m) tall.^{[citation needed]}

Prior to his acting career, Anderson worked as a computer technician for Martin Marietta. He was part of the ground support system for NASA's Space Shuttle.^[2]^[3] He appeared as himself in a 1984 documentary called Little Mike: A Videoportrait of Michael Anderson.^[2]

Acting career

Anderson appeared in four episodes of Twin Peaks. The Man from Another Place is attired in a red suit and speaks in an unusual manner. Anderson used phonetically reversed speaking as a secret language with his junior high school friends^[4] and then played a character in Twin Peaks where he used the same method of speaking, which was recorded and played backwards. Anderson then synced his lips to the reversed recording for film. He first appears in Special Agent Dale Cooper's cryptic dream about the murder of Laura Palmer, set in a red room.^[5] Anderson also appears as the Man from Another Place in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, the prequel to Twin Peaks.

Anderson portrayed a man of average height in Lynch's Mulholland Drive, using a prosthetic body.^[6] From 2003 to 2005, Anderson was a cast member of the TV series Carnivàle.

In 2015 Anderson was asked to reprise his role as The Man from Another Place for Twin Peaks' third season but declined.^[7] His character instead appears as a treelike computer-generated effect and is voiced by an uncredited actor. When asked who provided the voice for the CGI character, executive producer Sabrina Sutherland replied, "Unfortunately, I think this question should remain a mystery and not be answered." Anderson has since retired from the acting industry.^[7]

Filmography

Television

Year	Show	Role	Notes
1990	Monsters	Household God	Episode "Household Gods"
1990–1991	Twin Peaks	The Man from Another Place	4 episodes
1992	Picket Fences	Peeter Dreeb	Episode "Mr. Dreeb comes to Town"
1993	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Rumpelstiltskin	Episode "If Wishes Were Horses"
1994	Cyberkidz	Doctor Fubbles, Iggy	Credited as "Bart Williams"
1995	The X-Files	Mr. Nutt	Episode "Humbug"
1998	Maggie		Episode "Ka-Boom"
1998	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show	Omar	Episode "Honey, I've Joined the Bigtop"
1999	The Phantom Eye	Doll Man/Carl
1999	Port Charles	Peter Zorin
2000	This is How the World Ends	Customer	Cameo in unaired Gregg Araki MTV pilot
2001	Black Scorpion		Episode "Crime Time"
2001	Snow White: The Fairest of Them All	Sunday (Violet)
2003–2005	Carnivàle	Samson	24 episodes
2006	Charmed	O'Brian the Leprechaun	2 episodes
2010	Cold Case	Nathaniel "Biggie" Jones	Episode "Metamorphosis"
2011	Adventure Time	Gummy (voice)	Episode "The Silent King"
2012	Transactions	Appeared with Jerry Seinfeld in a commercial for Acura ("Last Living Munchkin")	Aired during the 2012 Super Bowl.
2013	Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated	Dancing Man (voice) and as Professor Horatio Kharon (voice)	Episodes "Stand and Deliver", "Nightmare In Red"

Film

Year	Film	Role
1983	Buddies	Thai Buyer
1984	Little Mike: A Videoportrait of Michael Anderson	Himself
1987	The Great Land of Small	Fritz/The King
1989	Suffering Bastards	Little Elvis
1989	No Such Thing as Gravity	Botanist
1990	Whatever Happened to Mason Reese	Sushi Chef
1990	Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted	Lightman
1991	Mannequin Two: On the Move	Jewel Box Bearer
1992	Fool's Fire	Hop-Frog
1992	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me	The Man from Another Place
1993	Night Trap	Police Officer
1994	Murder too Sweet	Harry the Huckster
1995	Caged Hearts	John
1996	Street Gun	Lamar
1997	Warriors of Virtue	Mudlap
1998	Club Vampire	Kiddo
1999	Minimum Wage	Zeke Bleak
2001	Mulholland Drive	Mr. Roque
2001	Snow White: The Fairest of Them All	Sunday
2003	Sticky Fingers	Irate Man
2003	Tiptoes	Bruno
2004	Big Time	Henri Blunderbore

Video games

Year	Game	Role
1994	Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine	Bartender
2000	Road Rash: Jailbreak	Punt

Music appearances

(1985) "Hell in Paradise," music promo video by Yoko Ono
(1989) "Turtle Song", music promo video by alternative band Hugo Largo
(2000) Lodge Anathema (with The Nether-Carols)

References

^ ^a ^b Andrea LeVasseur (2014). "Michael J. Anderson". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2014-10-24. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
^ ^a ^b O'Connor, John J. (September 19, 1984). "TV Review; 'Highway To Heaven' With Landon". The New York Times.
^ "The Halloween Interview with Michael J. Anderson!". brad d studios. October 30, 2011. Archived from the original on September 8, 2014. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
^ Triplo.com Archived April 2, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
^ Riches, Simon (25 March 2011). "Intuition and Investigation into Another Place". The Philosophy of David Lynch. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-3396-6.
^ Rodley, Chris, ed. (2005). Lynch on Lynch (Rev. ed.). London: Macmillan. p. 276. ISBN 978-0-571-22018-2.
^ ^a ^b Sutherland, Sabrina (September 20, 2017). "I'm Sabrina Sutherland, Executive Producer of Twin Peaks. AMA". Reddit. Retrieved September 11, 2017.