Biography

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.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bill Davis