Robert Anderson (1913-1997) was a Canadian filmmaker who specialized in films about psychiatry, first with the National Film Board of Canada, and then through his own company. He was the first filmmaker to create truthful, objective films about mental health and addiction, and to make films of this type using actual patients, doctors and hospitals, rather than actors in reconstructions. His most famous film is Drug Addict, which caused a furor when it was banned in the United States. Anderson was co-founder of the Canadian National Science Film Library, and he played a large role in bringing television to the Canadian House of Commons. Biography Anderson was born in Bismarck, North Dakota. His family moved to Winnipeg when he was 14, and then to Saskatoon. While in law school at the University of Saskatchewan, he and a friend proposed to the local radio station, CFQC, that they do a weekly variety show called University Hour; the show ran for a year. After graduation, Anderson moved to Regina and got a $10.00 a week job at CHWC radio, working as an announcer, copywriter and DJ. In 1935, Anderson moved to Ottawa, where he was hired by Ernie Bushnell to work as an announcer at CRCO (now CBO, or CBC Radio Ottawa). When the CBC came into being in 1936, and acquired CRCO, Anderson was sent to Halifax as one of the four people who ran the CBC's Maritime Region. In 1938, he was sent back to Ottawa, where he became the CRCO program director and, along with Lorne Greene and Allan McFee, part of the CBC's announcing team. It was this team that also trained other CBC employees in voice technique, diction and pronunciation. In 1943, Anderson was assigned to produce a series of talks by John Grierson, who had just become the head of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Grierson asked him to join the NFB; he was first assigned to produce and direct some military and nature films. In the course of making the military films, Anderson met Brock Chisholm, a psychiatrist who was, at the time, Director General of Medical Services for the Canadian Army. At Chisholm's suggestion, the NFB made the film A Soldier? Afraid?. This piqued Anderson's interest in psychiatry; at the time, people didn't talk about mental health and he saw the need and opportunity. Anderson spent the next four years making the