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Ernest Anderson (actor)

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'''Ernest Anderson''' was an American actor. He became known for his role in ''In This Our Life'' in 1942, where he portrayed a young paralegal who is falsely accused of manslaughter.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

== Personal life ==
Anderson attended Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. and later got a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University. He moved to California to work in film. He served briefly in the army at the end of the Second World War, before returning to [[Los Angeles|Los Angeles.]]

== Acting career ==
Anderson moved to [[Hollywood]] and took a job with [[Warner Bros.|Warner Brothers]]. His first acting role was in ''[[In This Our Life]]''. [[Bette Davis]] had arranged Anderson’s interview for the part of Perry Clay in that film.<ref></ref> He returned to Warner Brothers after serving in [[World War II|WWII]], and continued acting until the late 1960s.

==== Selected filmography ====

* [[In This Our Life]] (1942) - Perry Clay
* [[The Well (1951 film)|The Well]] (1952) - Mr. Crawford
* [[The Band Wagon|Band Wagon]] (1953) - Train Porter
* [[North by Northwest]] (1959) - Porter
* [[Tick, Tick, Tick (film)|Tick, Tick, Tick]] (1970) - Homer
* [[Coma (1978 film)|Coma]] (1972) - First Doctor
* Last of the Good Guys (1978) - Uncle Stan

== References ==


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