President of the Screen Actors Guild from 1963 to 1965, Dana Andrews was one of the first to speak out against the degradation of the acting profession, particularly actresses doing nude scenes just to get a role. Probably the first actor to do a public service announcement about alcoholism (in 1972 for the U.S. Department of Transportation), he was a member of the National Council on Alcoholism and did public speaking tours. Quote from Bob Greene, “Chicago Tribune”, November 3, 1993: “To me, Andrews . . . represented both the grand possibilities and the ultimate despair the movies can offer a man. He was a certified movie star, yet by the end of his life he enjoyed neither artistic acclaim granted a Fellini, nor the ease of getting a job taken for granted by a Phoenix.” Worked with such directors as Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, William Wyler, William A. Wellman, Jean Renoir, Elia Kazan.
Dana Andrews Biography / Wiki
| Name | Dana Andrews |
| Also Know | Carver Dana Andrews |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Covington County, Mississippi, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1909-01-01 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 83 |
| Deathday | 1992-12-17 |
Dana Andrews Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Tom Garrett | 1956-09-13 | A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in a… |
| Crack in the World | Dr. Stephen Sorenson | 1965-04-15 | Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth’s interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth. Thi… |
| Night of the Demon | Dr. John Holden | 1957-11-09 | American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was ki… |
| The Iron Curtain | Igor Gouzenko | 1948-06-16 | The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to t… |
| The Fearmakers | Alan Eaton | 1958-10-01 | A Korean War veteran returns to Washington D.C. only to discover his business partner had died and their public-research business sold, so he works th… |
| Hot Rods to Hell | Tom Phillips | 1967-01-27 | While on a business trip, Tom Phillips is in a car accident caused by a reckless driver. Tom survives the accident with a severe chronic back injury … |
| Deep Waters | Hod Stillwell | 1948-07-22 | A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard…. |
| Edge of Doom | Thomas Roth | 1950-08-03 | A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues…. |
| While the City Sleeps | Edward Mobley | 1956-04-19 | Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed “The Lipstick Killer”…. |
| The Purple Heart | Capt. Harvey Ross | 1944-02-25 | This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in cap… |
| Canyon Passage | Logan Stuart | 1946-07-17 | Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850s Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes … |
| A Walk in the Sun | Sgt. Bill Tyne | 1945-12-25 | In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and… |
| Where the Sidewalk Ends | Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon | 1950-07-07 | A police detective’s violent nature keeps him from being a good cop…. |
| The North Star | Kolya Simonov | 1943-11-04 | A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as “Armored Attack.”… |
| Boomerang! | State’s Attorney Henry L. Harvey | 1947-02-28 | In a quiet Connecticut town, a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner. The citizens are horrified and demand action from the polic… |
| The Cobra | Capt. Kelly | 1967-03-25 | A disgraced treasury agent Mike Rand, who teams with his boss to halt a Red Chinese plot to destroy the free world by flooding the market with opium a… |
| Madison Avenue | Clint Lorimer | 1961-04-13 | An adman and an adwoman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House…. |
| Zero Hour! | Lt. Ted Stryker | 1957-11-13 | In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to land… |
| The Crowded Sky | Dick Barnett | 1960-09-02 | When Navy pilot Dale Heath takes off, he doesn’t expect his navigational equipment to fail and must adapt when it goes out along with his radio. Headi… |
| Assignment: Paris | Jimmy Race | 1952-09-04 | Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a m… |
| Johnny Reno | Johnny Reno | 1966-03-09 | The townsfolk are set on lynching an accused killer held in the town lockup. But US Marshal Johnny Reno stands in their way…. |
| Comanche | Jim Read | 1956-03-01 | Common efforts of the U.S. government and the Comanche nation to negotiate a peace treaty are sabotaged by renegade Indians and by the short-sighted I… |
| The Frozen Dead | Dr. Norberg | 1966-10-15 | A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third… |
| My Foolish Heart | Walt Dreiser | 1950-01-19 | After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise’s daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew W… |
| The Forbidden Street | Henry Lambert / Gilbert Lauderdale | 1949-03-31 | In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarre… |
| Smoke Signal | Brett Halliday | 1955-03-01 | Capt. Harper’s cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent cause is the recapture of Army traitor Brett Hallid… |
| Night Song | Dan Evans | 1947-11-10 | A socialite pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist…. |
| Sealed Cargo | Pat Bannon | 1951-05-19 | A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishing… |
| Spring Reunion | Fred Davis | 1957-03-01 | A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion…. |
| I Want You | Martin Greer | 1951-12-22 | The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea has a profound effect on several people. WWII veter… |
| No Minor Vices | Perry Ashwell | 1948-11-12 | Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. So confident is he of his position that h… |
| Town Tamer | Tom Rosser | 1965-07-07 | A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruc… |
| Duel in the Jungle | Scott Walters | 1954-06-30 | An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the coast… |
| Sword in the Desert | Mike Dillon | 1949-08-24 | First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation of the state of Israel…. |
| Your Job in Germany | 1945-04-15 | Your Job In Germany is a short film made for the United States War Department in 1945 just before Victory in Europe Day (VE). It was shown to US soldi… | |
| Prince Jack | The Cardinal | 1985-12-01 | A dramatic look at the inner workings of the Kennedy administration…. |
| Three Hours to Kill | Jim Guthrie | 1954-11-04 | After three years on the run, Jim Guthrie returns with the scar of a rope burn on his neck. In a flashback, we learn how he was framed for murder but … |
| Enchanted Island | Abner “Ab” Bedford | 1958-11-08 | Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold…. |
| The Art Director | 1949-11-12 | A film’s art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This short film walks the viewer through art directors’ … | |
| Armored Attack! | Kolya Simonov | 1957-01-01 | A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version of The North Star (1943), to remove positive referenc… |
| A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud | The Man | 1978-01-01 | A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud is a short film… |
| The Ox-Bow Incident | Donald Martin | 1942-12-04 | Gil Carter and Art Croft ride into a small Nevada town plagued by cattle thieves. Initially suspected of being the rustlers themselves, Carter and Cro… |
| Laura | Det. Lt. Mark McPherson | 1944-10-11 | A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating…. |
| Daisy Kenyon | Dan O’Mara | 1947-12-25 | Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer named Dan O’Mara. O’Mara is marr… |
| Fallen Angel | Eric Stanton | 1945-11-15 | An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely wa… |
| State Fair | Pat Gilbert | 1945-08-29 | During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine B… |
| The Horror of It All | Himself | 1983-02-23 | A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them…. |
| Wing and a Prayer | Edward Moulton | 1944-01-01 | An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of M… |
| Strange Lady in Town | Dr. Rourke O’Brien | 1955-04-12 | There’s a new doctor in old Santa Fe, and it’s Greer Garson. Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1955 western also stars Dana Andrews, Cameron Mitchell, Lois Smi… |
| The Ten Million Dollar Grab | George Kimmins | 1967-02-09 | A thief fakes his death in order to steal a 10 million dollar Diamond from his former employer. He has the gem then he looses it and gets it back thro… |
| Berlin Correspondent | Bill Roberts | 1942-08-17 | Dana Andrews plays Bill Roberts, an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. Having witnessed Nazi brutalities … |
| The Best Years of Our Lives | Fred Derry | 1946-12-25 | It’s the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrive… |
| Brainstorm | Cort Benson | 1965-05-05 | Brainstorm, released in 1965, is a late film noir whose male protagonist at first prevents the suicide of his employer’s wife, falls in love with her,… |
| Elephant Walk | Dick Carver | 1954-04-21 | Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Tay… |
| The Frogmen | Jake Flannigan | 1951-01-25 | The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team–nicknamed “Frogmen”–must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over… |
| Belle Starr | Thomas Crail | 1941-09-12 | After her family’s mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr (Scott) Belle Shirley (Tierney) vows to tak… |
| Crash Dive | Lt. Cdr. Dewey Connors | 1943-04-22 | A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new… |
| December 7th | Ghost of US sailor killed at Pearl Harbor | 1943-01-01 | “Docudrama” about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii a… |
| Lucky Cisco Kid | Sergeant Dunn | 1940-06-28 | Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture… |
| Kit Carson | Captain John C. Fremont | 1940-08-30 | Frontiersman Kit Carson fights off Indian attacks on the trail to California…. |
| The Failing of Raymond | Allan McDonald | 1971-09-27 | On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previously is out to kill her…. |
| Up in Arms | Joe Nelson | 1944-02-17 | Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship…. |
| Ike | General George C. Marshall | 1979-05-03 | Dramatization of the World War II years of Dwight D. Eisenhower…. |
| Showbiz Goes to War | Archive Footage | 1982-12-31 | While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the A… |
| A Shadow in the Streets | Len Raeburn | 1975-01-28 | An ex-convict trying to straighten his life out takes a job as a parole agent in an experimental project to help former inmates…. |
| The Satan Bug | Gen. Williams | 1965-03-26 | A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The b… |
| Battle of the Bulge | Colonel Pritchard | 1965-12-16 | In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive … |
| Innocent Bystanders | Blake | 1972-09-01 | Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scientist on the run. Cross and double-cross is the name … |
| Spy in Your Eye | Col. Lancaster | 1965-09-17 | A secret agent is assigned ot rescue the daughter of a deceased East German scienist, who discovered a valuable formula…. |
| Sailor’s Lady | Scrappy Wilson | 1940-07-05 | Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is acci… |
| Born Again | Tom Phillips | 1978-10-01 | Having been imprisoned for his part in the Watergate scandal, Charles Colson undergoes a religious conversion…. |
| Swamp Water | Ben Ragan | 1941-11-16 | A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to to… |
| The Loved One | Gen. Buck Brinkman | 1965-10-11 | Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle’s interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whisp… |
| The Pilot | Randolph Evers | 1980-11-26 | Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor “Best Pilot of the Year”. Nobody knows that he’s got private sorrows – he’s an … |
| Good Guys Wear Black | Edgar Harolds | 1978-06-01 | The former leader of a commando rescue attempt into Vietnam tries to discover why his squad members are being murdered, one-by-one, after the war is o… |
| The Last Hurrah | Roger Shanley | 1977-11-16 | The longtime head of a powerful political machine is determined to win a fourth election and stay in power, despite challenges to his regime by young,… |
| Tobacco Road | Capt. Tim Harmon | 1941-02-20 | Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existe… |
| Take a Hard Ride | Morgan | 1975-10-29 | After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Senora, M… |
| The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant | Dr. Hutchins | 1975-05-13 | A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first day finds himself making life-and-death decisions…. |
| Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies | Himself (archive footage) | 2001-10-07 | The life and work of Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish-born glove salesman who became one of Hollywood’s greatest independent producers, is remembered in this … |
| Airport 1975 | Scott Freeman | 1974-10-18 | When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls…. |
| The Last Tycoon | Red Ridingwood | 1976-11-18 | Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death…. |
| In Harm’s Way | Admiral Broderick | 1965-04-06 | A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese…. |
| The Westerner | Hod Johnson | 1940-09-18 | Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by… |
| No Diamonds for Ursula | Il gioielliere | 1967-08-06 | A beautiful, but naive, young woman kills a rapist in self defense. But her degenerate, crippled uncle, senses an opportunity and weaves a complex we… |
| Ball of Fire | Joe Lilac | 1941-12-02 | A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is… |
| The Story on Page One | Det. Lt. Mark McPherson (voice) (archive footage) | 1959-12-01 | An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman’s husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story…. |
| The Devil’s Brigade | Brig. Gen. Walter Naylor | 1968-05-15 | At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called the 1st Special Service Force, composed of elite C… |
| Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | Det. Lt. Mark McPherson (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1991-10-28 | This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such me… |
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