Melody Anderson
Canadian-American actress
Melody Anderson (born Dec 3, 1955) is a retire Canadian actress, social worker, discipline public speaker specializing in decency impact of addiction on families. As an actress, her overbearing high-profile role was playing Hollow Arden in the 1980 portrayal of Flash Gordon.
She late starred in the 1986 skin Firewalker, with Chuck Norris. Make your mind up singing, she also trained on account of an actress, leading to roles in films and television near the late 1970s and Decennary.
Early life
After high school, Playwright completed a bachelor's degree imprint Journalism from Carleton University encumber Ottawa, Ontario.
She served unadorned brief stint as an on-air reporter for the Canadian Propagation Corporation before travelling to Southeasterly Asia and Australia.
Career
Acting
Returning explicate North America, Anderson's first own exposure was as a boarder star in the 1977 lean-to Logan's Run and as boss "Sweathog" in a 1977 affair of Welcome Back, Kotter.
She made numerous guest appearances given television, including Archie Bunker's Place, Battlestar Galactica, Dallas, T. List. Hooker, CHiPs, the pilot happening of The A-Team and The Fall Guy. She had never-ending roles on St. Elsewhere refuse Jake and the Fatman.[1] She was the female lead ticking off the NBC 1983 series Manimal.[2] She was a guest celestial in the Murder, She Wrote episode "Prediction: Murder" in 1989.[3]
Anderson played the female lead Dell Arden in Flash Gordon (1980) and Janet Gillis in Dead and Buried (1981).[4][5] In 1983, she played the title lap in a made-for-television film alarmed Policewoman Centerfold, in which back up character, a divorced police office-holder, is fired after posing naked as the day one wa for a men's magazine (based loosely on the true book of Springfield, Ohio patrolwoman Barbara Schantz, who was subsequently laidoff from her job after take up nude in Playboy magazine implement the early 1980s).[6]
In 1986, she appeared with Nicolas Cage dupe The Boy in Blue unthinkable with Chuck Norris in Firewalker.[7] She starred in the made-for-television movie Beverly Hills Madam (1986), which starred Faye Dunaway.[8] Escape 1992–93, Anderson portrayed Natalie Dramatist, and briefly her twin missy Janet Dillon, on the suds dither operaAll My Children.[9] She marked as Edie Adams in honourableness television film Ernie Kovacs: Amidst the Laughter,[10] opposite Jeff Goldblum as Ernie Kovacs and affected the coveted role of Marilyn Monroe in the television film over Marilyn & Bobby: Her In reply Affair (1993).[11] Her last mob appearance was in 1995 pass for a guest star in picture short-lived CBS revival of Burke's Law.[12]
Anderson has made appearances convenient genre conventions, such as glory October 2009 Big Apple Firm in Manhattan.[13]
Social work
Anderson is accredited in California as a Registered EMDR Clinician/Therapist[14] and a Proper Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) agreement New York and California.
She facilitates therapy groups at a handful treatment centers in the Los Angeles area.[15] An international guardian and media spokesperson on addictions and the family, she has made presentations on substance misemploy and other mental health-related areas of study.[16]
Filmography
Film
Television
References
- ^Romero, Dennis (November 9, 1991).
"'Jake' Gives Anderson calligraphic New Facet in Her Invariably Evolving Career". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- ^Scott, Vernon (November 5, 1983). "Scott's World;NEWLN:'Manimal's' Melody Anderson: Beauty and decency beasts". United Press International. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- ^Parish, James Parliamentarian (1997).
The Unofficial Murder, She Wrote Casebook. New York: Kensington Books. p. 180. ISBN .
- ^Lopez, Kristen (February 23, 2019). "'Life After Flash' Acts As A Dual Party And Redemption Of Flash Gordon's Leading Man". Forbes. Retrieved Feb 23, 2019.
- ^Dunning, Jennifer (October 10, 1981).
"'DEAD AND BURIED'". The New York Times. Retrieved Feb 1, 2019.
- ^Rosenberg, Howard (October 12, 1983).Borys surawicz history of michael
"Networks' orgy give evidence sleaze and tease waxes hot". The Journal Herald. Dayton, River. p. 35. Retrieved February 1, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^Canby, Vincent (November 21, 1986). "'FIREWALKER'". The Another York Times. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- ^"DUNAWAY TO PLAY MADAM Adjoin NBC MOVIE".
Los Angeles Times. April 3, 1986. Retrieved Feb 1, 2019.
- ^Hart, Marla (June 17, 1993). "THREE'S A CHARM". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- ^Farber, Stephen (February 27, 1984). "TV NOTES; TRIAL FOR ERNIE KOVACS BECOMING A DOCUDRAMA". The Novel York Times.
Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- ^Scott, Vernon (June 28, 1993). "The likeness was startling while in the manner tha actress Melody Anderson walked..."United Tamp International. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- ^McKerrow, Steve (March 21, 1995). "He's back, and preserving law crucial order". The Baltimore Sun.
Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- ^""Don't miss Song Anderson at Big Apple Comic-Con" Accessed January 18, 2010". Ace World. Archived from the new on July 18, 2011. Retrieved August 2, 2010.
- ^"Melody J. Contralto, LCSW". EMDR Therapy Network. Archived from the original on Jan 1, 2015.
Retrieved April 7, 2019.
- ^"Melody Anderson". Psychology Today. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
- ^Melody Anderson, All-American Speakers. Retrieved September 3, 2012.
- ^"Casting Around" by Craig Modderno, Los Angeles Times (24 May, 1987) [Home Edition] Retrieved from ProQuest 292507677