{"id":19466,"date":"2012-01-04T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T13:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=19466"},"modified":"2012-01-02T13:06:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T02:36:37","slug":"vale-bob-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2012\/01\/04\/vale-bob-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Bob Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19467\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19467\" style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19467\" title=\"BobAnderson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BobAnderson-485x365-custom.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"365\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Anderson - 1922-2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While he&#8217;s not a household name, everyone <em>should<\/em> know who Bob Anderson is. Anderson was the man working behind the scenes of some of cinemas great sword fights, from<em> Star Wars<\/em>, <em>The Princess Bride<\/em>, to <em>The Lord Of The Rings<\/em> and even Peter Jackson&#8217;s currently-in-production <em>The Hobbit<\/em>. Mr Anderson was the man under Vader&#8217;s mask whilst dueling with Obi Wan in the original <em>Star Wars<\/em>, Luke Skywalker in <em>Empire Strikes Back<\/em> and <em>Return of The Jedi<\/em>, as well as choreographing the sword fighting sequences in films as diverse as <em>Highlander, Barry Lyndon<\/em> (for Stanley Kubrick), <em>The Three Musketeers<\/em> (1993, with Charlie Sheen and Keifer Sutherland), both recent <em>Zorro<\/em> films, and even the fencing sequence in <em>Die Another Day<\/em>. He also worked with the legendary Errol Flynn, on the film <em>The Master Of Ballantrae<\/em>. Chick-flick fans across the globe also need to remember that it was Bob who designed the amazing fight choreography in <em>The Princess Pride<\/em>. Up until his passing he was continuing to work, returning to Middle Earth for the <em>Hobbit<\/em> production, designing more fight sequences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among his on-screen appearances, he played a small role in the <em>Doctor Who<\/em> serial <em>Enemy Of The World<\/em>, and an Imperial Officer in <em>The Empire Strikes Back<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Anderson was 90.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While he&#8217;s not a household name, everyone should know who Bob Anderson is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":19467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BobAnderson.jpeg",629,473,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BobAnderson-500x280.jpeg",500,280,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BobAnderson-629x365.jpeg",629,365,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BobAnderson.jpeg",629,473,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BobAnderson.jpeg",629,473,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BobAnderson.jpeg",629,473,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BobAnderson.jpeg",629,473,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BobAnderson.jpeg",629,473,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BobAnderson.jpeg",452,340,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BobAnderson-24x24.jpeg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BobAnderson-48x48.jpeg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BobAnderson-96x96.jpeg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BobAnderson-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BobAnderson-300x300.jpeg",300,300,true],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BobAnderson-272x182.jpeg",272,182,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}