Bob Anderson (director)

Bob Anderson is an American animation director on The Simpsons.^[1] He also contributed additional sequence direction on The Simpsons Movie.

After high school, Anderson enrolled at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art to pursue an education in animation. He began his professional career before graduating from the Joe Kubert School. Hired by Broadcast Arts in New York City, he started work on a variety of commercials.

In 1990, Anderson moved to Los Angeles to work as an assistant director for The Simpsons. In the fifth season, after fourteen episodes as an assistant to Jim Reardon and one episode for Mark Kirkland, he made his directorial debut with the episode "Bart's Inner Child" in 1993.