British-born Anthony Waller grew up both in the Middle East and England. As an 11 year-old, he started experimenting with Super-8 film. While still in his early teens, three of his animated films were finalists in two international film competitions sponsored and televised by the BBC.

In 1978 Anthony was admitted to the UK's National Film School as the youngest ever student, where he studied until 1981. After film school, director John Schlesinger (MIDNIGHT COWBOY, MARATHON MAN) awarded Anthony the Shakespeare Scholarship 1981 with which he spent a year on attachment at Munich's HFF (Film and Television School) in Germany.

In November 1981 Anthony won 1st prize in the fiction category for his graduation short film WHEN THE RAIN STOPS at the International Festival of Film Schools in Munich. Anthony stayed on in Germany, initially working for German television as a vision mixer and editor for FORMEL EINS, a TV music show. From 1984 to 1986 he worked as a feature film editor, as well as directing and editing numerous music videos, commercials and movie trailers.

Since 1986 Anthony has directed and edited around 200 commercials for cinema and television for clients such as IBM, Coca Cola, Camel and TDK (featuring the Rolling Stones). A Pizza Hut commercial won him a Gold Medal at the New York Advertising Film Festival 1991.

Anthony also began composing music professionally in 1984 with a Christmas Carol he wrote for the German football team FC Bayern. Since then, Anthony has composed some of the jingles for the commercials he directed, including MB Games, Bahlsen, Baileys and notably Old Spice, the song of which was also sung by him and released as a Maxi CD by Intercord in 1993.

In 1989 Anthony created the feature length compilation film ALS DIE LIEBE LAUFEN LERNTE, which became a significant hit in German cinemas.With partners Pieter Lony and Norbert Soentgen, Anthony founded the commercial production company Cobblestone Pictures in Hamburg in 1992. He left the company in 1995 to pursue his movie career.

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Anthony's first feature film was the thriller MUTE WITNESS (aka TEMOIN MUET STUMME ZEUGIN, GLI OCCHI DEL TESTIMONE), filmed entirely in Moscow in 1993. Mute Witness was invited to 23 festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival, Courmayeur (Audience Award), Gerardmer (Audience and Grand Jury Award), Moscow (Audience Award), Birminham (Grand Jury Award) Sundance, Toronto and Tokyo. It was distributed worldwide by Columbia Tristar in all major territories. In addition to writing and directing, Anthony also produced and co-financed the film, which included a cameo performance by Sir Alec Guinness (shot 8 years earlier in 1985).

In 1995, Anthony founded the Amsterdam and L.A.-based Stonewood Communications with film producer Richard Claus, forming a merger with German based Comet Film. An international film sales company was added later, all operating under the banner of "Cometstone".

In 1996, Cometstone's first production was AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN PARIS (aka LOUP GAROU DE PARIS, UN LUPO MANNARO AMERICANO A PARIGI), which Anthony directed and co-wrote. With a budget of $22 million, the movie was shot in Paris, Luxembourg and Amsterdam, and was Disney's 1997 Christmas release reaping a box-office of $27 million in the USA alone.

In 1999, Anthony directed the psychological thriller THE GUILTY (aka LE COUPABLE, IL COLPEVOLE) starring Bill Pullman (INDEPENDENCE DAY). Anthony was also an executive producer of the movie.

In 2000, Anthony executive produced Cometstone's $20 million production THE LITTLE VAMPIRE. The film was awarded a “Deutsche Bundesfilmpreis” (German Oscar) as the best children’s movie of the year 2001.

Since then, Anthony has been writing and developing further feature projects such as NINE MILES DOWN, a “philosophical chiller” set in the desert of Australia, and ABOVE THE CLOUDS, an English-language historical drama about the pioneering days of the Russian space program, told from a Russian perspective.