Don Anderson

11 films on Best Blurays2 in 4K9 in HD

Don Anderson grew up near the MGM studios, and was a Jitterbug Dancer for the studios during WW2. He became a bit player, and worked as an actor/stand-in starting with Van Johnson. He did some stunts, and was one of the bikers, Shark, in The Wild One with Marlon Brando. Don enjoyed the business and was well known and liked. His last show was standing-in and working with Pierce Brosnan on Remington Steele. He was survived by his daughter, Misa Anderson and a brother.

Biography from TMDB

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List

Days of Wine and Roses (1963)

Small role · Director: Blake Edwards

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.9

High Society (1956)

Small role · Director: Charles Walters

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray is a remaster from the original VistaVision camera negaitve, FiM encode

Audio Notes:

The original mono sounds good. The Atmos remix is a mixed bag, music performances are sourced from magnetic stereo recordings and sound great, but mono dialogue/effectshas undergone destructive noise reduction and unnecessary EQ, so the jumps in fidelity are incredibly jarring.

3.5

It Started with a Kiss (1959)

Small role · Director: George Marshall

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.2

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Small role · Director: Blake Edwards

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount Blu-ray

3.8

Father of the Bride (1950)

Small role · Director: Vincente Minnelli

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.5

What a Way to Go! (1964)

Small role · Director: J. Lee Thompson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Inherit the Wind (1960)

Small role · Director: Stanley Kramer

Best English-Friendly & Video:

MoC Blu-ray

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

MoC Blu-ray > Kino Lorber > Twilight Time. Kino Lorber has slightly worse encoding than MoC, see caps, and Twilight Time is over-exposed

4.0

The Opposite Sex (1956)

Small role · Director: David Miller

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.1

The Last Hurrah (1958)

Small role · Director: John Ford

Best English-Friendly:

Indicator John Ford at Columbia Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Indicator John Ford at Columbia Blu-ray, 2K restoration

3.7

How the West Was Won (1962)

Small role · Directors: Henry Hathaway & John Ford & George Marshall

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros Blu-ray 2-Disc version (Digibook) for the Smilebox presentation

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

See what smilebox looks like for its smilebox trailer
See Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader's review especially why a smilebox version is preferred, for example how a letterboxd version is actually distorted
Even if you do not prefer the smilebox version, the letterboxd version is still present on disc 1

3.5

North by Northwest (1959)

Small role · Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

An undeniably significant improvement from the BD yet still severely flawed. See DFIC's review.

Best Audio:

1984 MGM Hi-Fi VHS

4.2

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