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name: "Hesper Anderson"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "2 August 1934"
died: "17 October 2018"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T06:45:49.588295+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Hesper Anderson

Writer. Born 2 August 1934 in New York City. Died 17 October 2018.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 2 August 1934, New York City
- **Died:** 17 October 2018
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22107133, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0026803/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1187538

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*Children of a Lesser God*](https://film.one/film/children-of-a-lesser-god.md) (66)

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## Biography

Hesper Anderson was an American screenwriter and novelist. She wrote the screenplay for the 1986 film *Children of a Lesser God*, adapted from Mark Medoff's play, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as nominations from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the Writers Guild of America.

Born in New York City in 1934, Anderson was the daughter of playwright Maxwell Anderson. She began her career writing for television series such as *Marcus Welby, M.D.* and *The Streets of San Francisco*, and contributed teleplays including *The UFO Incident* (1975) and *The Deliberate Stranger* (1986). Her other screen credits include *Touched by Love* (1980) and *Grand Isle* (1991). She later published the memoir *South Mountain Road* (2000) and the novel *MacDougal Street Ghosts* (2005). Anderson died in 2018.

*Sources: imdb.com, encyclopedia.com, en.wikipedia.org, legacy.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Children of a Lesser God* (1986), Fi1m 66, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/children-of-a-lesser-god.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Grand Isle* (1991), Screenplay
- *Unspeakable Acts* (1990), Teleplay
- *Children of a Lesser God* (1986), Screenplay — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/children-of-a-lesser-god.md)
- *The Deliberate Stranger* (1986), Teleplay
- *The Deliberate Stranger* (1986), series, Writer
- *Touched by Love* (1980), Screenplay
- *Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case* (1980), Writer
- *The UFO Incident* (1975), Teleplay
- *Born Free* (1974), series, Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1987: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Children of a Lesser God*

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay 1981: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay (nominated), for *Touched by Love*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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