Anderson Craig(1904-1964)
- Animation Department
Anderson Craig was born April 15,1904 in Iowa City, Iowa, the son of
Dr. Arthur Still Craig and Melle Campbell Craig. He took art and design
courses in Kansas City, Missouri in the 1920 and in the late 1920's was
a portrait artist in New York City. During the Depression of the 1930's
he worked as an animation background artist, first for Fleisher Studios
and later for Terrytoons, where he eventually became head of the
backgrounds department. Through the 1940's he supplemented his income
by doing wartime posters and freelance artwork for magazine
advertisements. After 15 years he left Terrytoons to run his own small
animation studio, concentrating on making commercials. In 1959 it was
announced the he was returning to Terrytoons (then part of CBS) as an
animation director, but a year later he had moved to Massachusetts were
he was an art director for Bay State Film Productions. He died in
Springfield, Massachusetts on February 21, 1964.
