- His most famous series Thunderbirds (1965) was named after an Arizona airfield "Thunderbird Field", where his elder brother first trained as a Mosquito pilot.
- Father of Jamie Anderson. Gerry also has two daughters, Linda (b. 1954) and Joy (b. 1957), from his marriage to Betty Wrightman.
- He was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen's 2001 Birthday Honours List for his services to Animation.
- At one stage, Anderson employed a staff of 250 people, including designers and special effects artists. His company was bought out by Lew Grade in 1962, but he managed to retain creative control and received 10% of overall profits.
- Anderson's ancestral (from the Russian-Polish border) name was Bieloglovski. This was changed to "Abrahams" by a British immigration official in 1895. His mother, Deborah, changed it to "Anderson" because she liked the sound of it.
- His film career started as a teenager under George Pearson at the Colonial Film Unit.
- Died in a nursing home, on December 26, 2012, near Oxfordshire, England. Had suffered from Alzheimer's since 2010.
- Came from an impoverished family and spent his early childhood living with his parents and older brother in a one-room flat with no running water.
- His early work experience prior to becoming the master of "supermarionation" included being a fibrous plasterer (which he had to give up, because the lime gave him dermatitis), portrait photography and a job in air traffic control. He then joined the Ministry of Information as a film trainee and subsequently became a cutter at Gainsborough.
- Claims he never watched any of his old shows even if he stumbled across them on TV.
- Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England (July 2008)
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