He was then sent to Europe, where he was educated at Edinburgh Academy in Scotland and the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
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He worked almost every genre of show business, including vaudeville, Broadway, and film.
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Anderson directed the film King of Jazz (1930), wrote the screenplay for Ziegfeld Follies (1946), directed the water ballets in Bathing Beauty (1944), and directed the circus sequences in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952).
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He made his Broadway debut wearing three hats, as writer, director, and producer of The Greenwich Village Follies in 1919.
His major success, "Dinner for One", possibly written as early as the 1920s, premiered at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1948, and was later presented on Broadway in 1953 in the revue Almanac by John Murray Anderson.
He learned stage direction from John Murray Anderson and during his Broadway career he was instrumental in furthering the careers of Ray Bolger, John Brascia, Don Crichton, Betty Grable, Gene Kelly, Sheree North, Vera-Ellen and Charles Walters, among others.
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