Carl Andy

Carlton Mordechai Anderson professionally working as Carl Andy (Born October 17, 1939) is a retired American Film Director, Writer, Musician Singer, and Record producer best known for directing Music Videos for various acts in the 70s, 80s and 90s such as Fleetwood Mac, Chicago, Billy Joel, Steely Dan, Heart, Prince and the Revolution, Talking Heads, Men at Work, Elvis Costello, Squeeze, Pearl Jam, etc. he also ventured into Film and Television a couple of times directing films such as Toby (1975), and Funk Your Mama (1977)

Early Years
Andy was born Carlton Anderson In San Fernando, California in 1939 to a Jewish-American family, He was the son of late actor George Andy, who acted in films in the 1930s-60s, and Sofia Benjamin, a Jewish priest at a local Synagogue, he was also the Nephew of actor Bud Jamison who appeared in Comedy shorts of the 30s and 40s.

during his Teen years in the 1950s, Andy worked at Paramount's Famous Studios (later Paramount Cartoon Studios) as a both janitor and a gag writer, he would even direct some of these shorts in the 1960s, around 1962-63, Andy attended Beatnik clubs in New York with a film camera and filmed interviews many people at the clubs, with this he made his live action directorial debut, the short documentary A Study in Beat (1963), about the Beatnik subculture of the late 50s to the early 60s and was released by Paramount, the short was nominated for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 1964 Academy Awards.

Andy also was practicing getting into the music industry, he started performing country music for The Porter Wagoner Show, a period he would later see in embarrassment, capitalizing on Andy's newfound fame at Columbia/CBS Records, RCA Victor released an album of songs he recorded for The Porter Wagoner Show, Andy called for the album to be pulled from the shelves leading to it's obscurity.

Career at ABC
in his mid to late 20s, Andy later would work at ABC as a writer and director for episodes of shows such as McHale's Navy, Bewitched, Batman, The Addams Family and My Three Sons, before directing full time for shows like The Fugitive, Combat, General Hospital and The Mod Squad.

also during this time, Andy tried his hand at Instrumental Jazz, recording for ABC Records, he recorded one album And Now... Carl Andy (1967) before getting being fired from ABC in 1969 for making out with a male co-worker.

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Discography

 * And Now... Carl Andy (1967) ABC
 * Andy's Wide World of Jazz (1969) Columbia
 * Live from The Porter Wagoner Show (1972) RCA Victor
 * Rocket Man and other Jazz Covers (1974) Columbia
 * Andy Goes to the Movies (1975) Columbia
 * The Jewish Experience (1977) Columbia
 * A Softer Side of Andy (1979) Columbia
 * Album Cuts (1981) Columbia
 * An Album of Peace (1984) Columbia
 * The Best of Carl Andy (1986) Columbia
 * My Farewell Album (1989) Columbia
 * The Essential Carl Andy (2003) Columbia/Legacy

Filmography

 * A Study in Beat (1963) - Paramount Pictures
 * Home Invader (1971) - United Artists
 * Toby (1975) - United Artists
 * The Preservationist (1976) - United Artists
 * Funk Your Mama (1977) - United Artists/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 * What's in the Closet?... (1978) United Artists/Lorimar
 * Horseshoe (1979) - 20th Century-Fox
 * My Sharona (1980) - United Artists
 * Faith of a Rabbi (1982) - Walt Disney Pictures
 * Mr. Con Man (1983) Universal Pictures/PolyGram Pictures
 * Man of All Men (1984) - Warner Bros. Pictures/The Ladd Company
 * Dangerous Games (1985) - TriStar Pictures/Carolco Pictures
 * The Booter (1987) Warner Bros. Pictures/The Geffen Company
 * Astro Boy (1988) - MGM/UA Communications
 * Margaret (1990) - Columbia Pictures
 * The Creep (1993) Hollywood Pictures/Caravan Pictures
 * Secret Recipe (1994) Touchstone Pictures/Simpson/Bruckheimer Films
 * You're Friends, The Convicts (1995) Gramercy Pictures/PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
 * Going Crazy in Vegas (1996) - Hollywood Pictures/Cinergi Pictures
 * Orgy (1997) Miramax Films/PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
 * End of Night (1999) - Touchstone Pictures/Spyglass Entertainment
 * The Impatient Artist (2001) Miramax Films
 * Calamity (2003) - Columbia Pictures/Revolution Studios
 * Nerdy Nerds of Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow and the Future (2005) - Paramount Pictures

Films he rejected/passed on Directing

 * King Kong (1976) Rejected it due to his feeling the Evil Corporation trope had been played out
 * FM (1978)
 * The Wiz (1978) due to feeling the script wasn't accurate to the play
 * Superman (1978) Passed due to it being too expensive
 * Rocky II (1979) due to having already directed Toby
 * The Empire Strikes Back (1980) same as Superman
 * Shock Treatment (1981) due to his experience on directing "My Sharona"
 * Reds (1981) Rejected it due to his Anti-Communist beliefs
 * Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
 * Ghostbusters (1984) same as Superman, He would later call this decision the biggest mistake of his career
 * Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) due to it's possible Jingoistic themes
 * The Color Purple (1985) due to Alice Walker's Anti-Israeli stance, ironically Steven Spielberg, a Jew himself would direct the film
 * Aliens (1986) same as Superman
 * Predator (1987) same as Above
 * Moonwalker (1988) same as Above
 * UHF (1989) same as Shock Treatment
 * Batman (1989) same as Superman
 * Misery (1990)
 * What About Bob? (1991)
 * A Few Good Men (1992)
 * Super Mario Bros. (1993) same as Superman
 * Sleepless in Seattle (1994)
 * Godzilla (1998) this was early in development before Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin stepped in
 * Shakespeare in Love (1998)
 * X-Men (2000)
 * Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
 * Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
 * Mission: Impossible III (2006)
 * Transformers (2007) the last film he was ever involved with until retiring from films in 2008

Unrealized Projects
One of Andy's unmade projects was a Live-Action film based on the Peanuts strips for United Artists in 1972, which was rejected by creator Charles Schulz (Andy's friend at the time), Andy changed his mind and cancelled the project.