- Anderson, director James Flood and director William Beaudine, were all lifelong friends who had grown up together in the same neighborhood in New York City. His wife, Marie Augusta Fleischer, was the sister of Flood and Beaudine's wives.
- Father of actor Robert J. Anderson - arguably best known for playing the young George Bailey in Frank Capra's classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - and Gene Anderson Jr.. Through another one of his sons, he is a great-grandfather of actress Hayley Marie Norman.
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