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'''John Murray Anderson''' (September 20, 1886 – January 30, 1954) was a [[theatre director]] and [[theatre producer|producer]], [[songwriter]], [[actor]], [[screenwriter]], and [[lighting designer]]. He worked almost every genre of show business, including [[vaudeville]], [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]], and film.
Born in [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's]], [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]], the son of Hon. [[John Anderson (Newfoundland politician)|John Anderson]] and brother of [[Hugh Abercrombie Anderson]], he received his early education at [[Bishop Feild College]] in St. John’s. He was then sent to Europe, where he was educated at [[Edinburgh Academy]] in [[Scotland]] and [[Lausanne University]] in [[Switzerland]]. He studied singing with [[Charles Stanley|Sir Charles Stanley]] and art with [[Herbert Beerbohm Tree|Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree]]. Before beginning his theatrical career, he was an antiques dealer in [[New York City]], where he sold collections he had accumulated in Newfoundland.<ref name="encyclopedia">''[[Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador]]'', ISBN 0-9693422-1-7.</ref> This lasted a year, as he said, because he had "everything but customers" in his store.<ref>J. Ernest Kerr, ''Imprint of the Maritimes'', 1959, Boston: Christopher Publishing, p. 35.</ref>
In New York, Anderson quickly became involved in theatre, first as a dance instructor, before becoming a writer and producer. He made his [[Broadway theatre|Broadway debut]] wearing three hats, as writer, director, and producer of ''The Greenwich Village Follies'' in 1919. He subsequently produced new editions of the [[revue]] in each of the five succeeding years. He also was responsible for productions of the ''[[Ziegfeld Follies]]'' in 1934, 1936, and 1943, the [[Harold Arlen]]-[[Ira Gershwin]]-[[E. Y. Harburg]] revue ''[[Life Begins at 8:40]]'' (1934), [[Billy Rose]]'s ''[[Jumbo (musical)|Jumbo]]'' (1935), ''One for the Money'' (1939), ''[[Two for the Show (musical)|Two for the Show]]'' (1940), and ''Three to Make Ready'' (1946), and ''[[New Faces of 1952]]''. In the [[West End theatre|West End]] he directed ''The League of Notions'', ''Bow Bells'', and ''Fanfare''.
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