Carlton Andersen

Carlton Andersen (born Carlton Herbert Andersen; October 18, 1895 - December 14, 1992) was a German-born American film and animation director.

one of his acclaimed early works were The Hands of the Ripper (1923) and the live action-animation hybrid Pinocchio's Death (1926), some of these are considered one of the finest examples of the filmmaking movement known as German Expressionism, Andersen later moved to sound with Killers Among Us (1930) before emigrating to America to avoid the wrath of the Nazis, there he became interested in American Animation and got a job at Fleischer Studios and directed various cartoons there, most notably The Mighty B! series, based on the King Features comic strip of the same name, after the takeover by distributor Paramount, Andersen later went back to making Live Action films, mainly in the Film noir genre such as Every Day I Die (1945), I Want My Mommy (1948) and a remake of his own The Hands of the Ripper, titled The Ripper's Hands (1952) and continuing to make films up until his death in 1992.

of the 15 films Andersen directed in Germany, 5 of them such as The Wolf (1920) are considered lost.

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