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Harry Anderson
American actor, comedian, and magician (–)
For other people named Harry Anderson, see Harry Anderson (disambiguation).
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| Born | Harry Laverne Anderson ()October 14, Newport, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Died | April 16, () (aged&#;65) Asheville, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Alma&#;mater | Fullerton College |
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| Years&#;active | – |
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| Children | 2 |
Harry Laverne Anderson (October 14, – April 16, ) was an American actor, comedian and magician. He is best known for his role as Judge Harry Stone on the NBC sitcom Night Court (–). He later played Dave Barry on the CBS sitcom Dave's World (–).
In addition to eight appearances on Saturday Night Live between and , Anderson had a recurring guest role as con man Harry "The Hat" Gittes on Cheers (–). He tou
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Harry Anderson
By his second year in the majors in , sweet-swinging Harry (The Horse) Anderson of the Philadelphia Phillies was one of the premier left-handed power hitters in the game. But after his fourth year, he was back in the minor leagues, struggling to regain the batting stroke that had abandoned him as quickly as it had catapulted him to the top of the statistical charts. That stroke never did fully return and by Anderson was out of professional baseball entirely. What happened is the stuff of mystery, strewn with some enticing clues along the way. It is the story, like many in baseball, of tantalizing talent and unrealized potential.
Harry Walter Anderson was born on a farm in North East, Maryland, near the Delaware border, on September 10, His father was Walter E. Anderson, a machine operator for the B&O Railroad.1 His mother, Blanche (née Biddle2), was a homemaker. Harry was the couple’s only child. A born athlete, Harry honed his skills on the sandlots and in Am
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Harry Anderson was an American illustrator and a member of the Illustrator's Hall of Fame. A devout Seventh-day Adventist artist, he is best known for Christian-themed illustrations he painted for the Adventist church and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was also a popular illustrator of short stories in American weekly magazines during the s and early s.
Seventh-day Adventist
Non-LDS
Chicago, Illinois
Syracuse School of Art
In he went to work for Haddon Sundblom's studio. In , Anderson and his wife joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church and, by request, did a painting of Jesus. Anderson's painting, "What Happened to Your Hand?", depicting Jesus with modern-day children was decried as blasphemous by some adults, but was eventually printed in the publishing program. From that time on, he split his time between commercial illustrations and religious ones. He did the religious-themed pieces for near