Michael Anderson
Michael Anderson, film director, died on 25 April 2018, aged 98. He directed several famous films, including Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) and sci-fi classic Logan's Run (1976). Our historic local directories show that he lived in Vine Grove, Hillingdon in 1957 and 1958.
Probably his best-remembered film, The Dambusters (1955) commemorated the British wartime attacks on strategic German dams on 16 and 17 May 1943 - using the bouncing bomb invented by Dr (later Sir) Barnes Wallis.
In 1957, Michael released The Yangtse Incident, which told the true story of a British ship, the HMS Amethyst, caught up in the Chinese Civil War in 1949. It starred Richard Todd as Lt Commander Kerans, and was filmed on location in Suffolk.
On 7 October, the film had a special performance at the Regal Cinema, Uxbridge, when the Mayor and Corporation of Uxbridge were invited. Staffing a stall at the event were members of the Ruislip, Northwood and Ickenham Sea Cadet Corps.