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Dana Andrews is a Actor American born on 1 january 1909 at Covington County (USA)

Dana Andrews

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Birth name Carver Dana Andrews
Nationality USA
Birth 1 january 1909 at Covington County (USA)
Death 17 december 1992 (at 83 years) at Los Alamitos (USA)

Dana Andrews (January 1, 1909 – December 17, 1992) was an American film actor. He was one of Hollywood's major stars of the 1940s, and continued acting, though generally in less prestigious roles, into the 1980s. One of his best-known roles, and the one for which he received the most praise, was as war veteran Fred Derry in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).

Biography

Andrews married Janet Murray on New Year's Eve, 1932. Their son David (1933–1964) was a musician and composer who died from a cerebral hemorrhage. Janet Andrews died in 1935 of pneumonia. On November 17, 1939, he married actress Mary Todd, by whom he had three children, Katharine, Stephen and Susan. For two decades the family lived in Toluca Lake.

Andrews eventually brought his alcoholism under control and worked actively with the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. In 1972, he appeared in a television public service advertisement on the subject.

He spent his final years living at the John Douglas French Center for Alzheimer's Disease in Los Alamitos, California.

Best films

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
(Actor)
Laura (1944)
(Actor)
My Foolish Heart (1950)
(Actor)
Deep Waters (1948)
(Actor)

Usually with

Thomas Little
Thomas Little
(16 films)
Lyle Wheeler
Lyle Wheeler
(11 films)
Richard Day
Richard Day
(9 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Dana Andrews (78 films)

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Actor

The Pilot
The Pilot (1980)

Directed by Cliff Robertson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Cliff Robertson, Diane Baker, Frank Converse, Judy Wilson, Dana Andrews, Milo O'Shea
Roles Randolph Evers
Rating63% 3.192773.192773.192773.192773.19277
Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and a candidate for the honor of Best Pilot of the Year. There's only one problem -- Mike is an alcoholic.
Born Again
Born Again (1978)
, 1h50
Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Political films
Actors Dean Jones, Anne Francis, Jay Robinson, Dana Andrews, Raymond St. Jacques, Corey Feldman
Roles Tom Phillips
Rating51% 2.578432.578432.578432.578432.57843
L'implication de Charles Colson, conseiller à la Maison-Blanche du président Richard Nixon, dans le scandale du Watergate, sa conversion ultérieure au christianisme et sa peine de prison découlant de Watergate.
Good Guys Wear Black, 1h35
Directed by Ted Post
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Martial arts
Themes Politique, Sports films, Martial arts films, Political films
Actors Chuck Norris, Anne Archer, Soon-Tek Oh, Dana Andrews, James Franciscus, Lloyd Haynes
Roles Edgar Harolds
Rating51% 2.553322.553322.553322.553322.55332
Back in 1973, one United States Senator Conrad Morgan (James Franciscus), the chief delegate diplomat in negotiating the terms of the end of Vietnam War, made a deal in Paris, France with Kuong Yen, the North Vietnamese negotiator. The deal called for Yen to release certain key CIA POWs in exchange for Morgan setting up a death-trap for an elite group of CIA assassins, known as the Black Tigers. The treaty signed, the Black Tigers were sent into the jungles of 'Nam to their unknowing demise, under the guise that they were on mission to liberate American POWs. However, the truly important thing to understand is that the negotiators failed to realize one thing: the commando's team leader was one Major John T. Booker (Chuck Norris). So, needless to say and despite all odds, Booker survives. As do the four men wise enough to have remained in his general vicinity.
The Last Hurrah, 1h45
Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Carroll O'Connor, Patrick O'Neal, Dana Andrews, John Anderson, Mariette Hartley, Jack Carter
Roles Roger Shanley
Rating71% 3.5666553.5666553.5666553.5666553.566655
A big-city mayor, Frank Skeffington, runs a powerful political machine as he seeks a fourth term, but his age, health and unhappy adversaries all stand in his way.
The Last Tycoon, 2h2
Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson, Donald Pleasence, Jeanne Moreau
Roles Red Ridingwood
Rating62% 3.101183.101183.101183.101183.10118
Monroe Stahr is the young production chief and the most creative executive of one of the biggest studios of the Golden Age of Hollywood. He is a tireless worker in a time of turmoil in the industry due to the creation of the Writers Guild of America, Monroe being accustomed to make his underlings, including screenwriters, do whatever he says.
Take a Hard Ride, 1h43
Directed by Antonio Margheriti, Hal Needham
Origin Italie
Genres Action, Western
Actors Lee Van Cleef, Fred Williamson, Catherine Spaak, Jim Kelly, Barry Sullivan, Dana Andrews
Roles Morgan
Rating56% 2.84992.84992.84992.84992.8499
Pike (Jim Brown), the right-hand man of cattle rancher Bob Morgan (Dana Andrews), is entrusted with a mission to deliver $86,000 across the border to the Morgan Ranch in Sonora, Mexico after his boss dies. Pike teams up with dishonest gambler Tyree (Fred Williamson) and they are forced to trust each other while being pursued by various outlaws and gunmen trying to possess the money, including the ruthless bounty hunter Kiefer (Lee Van Cleef) and corrupt sheriff Kane (Barry Sullivan).
Airport 1975, 1h46
Directed by Jack Smight
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist II, Susan Clark, Gloria Swanson
Roles Scott Freeman
Rating57% 2.8503152.8503152.8503152.8503152.850315
Columbia Air Lines' Flight 409 is a Boeing 747-100 on a red-eye route from Washington Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport. Scott Freeman, meanwhile, is a New Mexican businessman flying his private Beechcraft Baron to an urgent sales meeting in Boise, Idaho. However, an occluded front has the entire West Coast socked in, with Los Angeles reporting zero visibility. Columbia 409 and Freeman's Beechcraft are both diverted to Salt Lake City International Airport.
Innocent Bystanders, 1h51
Directed by Peter Collinson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Stanley Baker, Geraldine Chaplin, Donald Pleasence, Dana Andrews, Sue Lloyd, Derren Nesbitt
Roles Blake
Rating58% 2.907342.907342.907342.907342.90734
John Craig (Baker) is an aging British secret agent who is tasked with returning a defector, the Russian scientist Kaplan (Mayne) who has foregone science for a modest life as a goatherd in Turkey. Craig faces opposition from his boss, his younger replacements, an American secret agent, a Turkish hotel keeper, and an organization of Russian Jews hostile to Kaplan. Craig's mission is complicated by Miriam (Chaplin), an innocent bystander who is taken hostage.
The Failing of Raymond
Directed by Boris Sagal
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Jane Wyman, Dean Stockwell, Dana Andrews, Paul Henreid, Murray Hamilton, Katey Sagal
Roles Allan McDonald
Rating66% 3.3079753.3079753.3079753.3079753.307975
On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previously is out to kill her.
The Devil's Brigade, 2h10
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards, Harry Carey, Jr., Andrew Prine, Claude Akins
Roles Brig. Gen. Walter Naylor
Rating66% 3.347153.347153.347153.347153.34715
American Lieutenant Colonel Robert T. Frederick is summoned to Britain where he is authorized by Admiral Louis Mountbatten to raise a commando force comprising both American and Canadian personnel for operations in Norway. Back in the U.S. Frederick receives his American troops — all are Army convicts. When the Canadian contingent arrives they immediately cause friction with the Americans and chaos ensues. By the time Frederick manages to overcome the national differences and to mould the 1st Special Service Force into a highly trained commando force, the Allied High Command have had a change of heart and offered the Norway missions to British troops. Left without a role, Frederick manages to persuade General Mark Clark in Italy to give his men a chance to prove themselves. Clark asks Frederick for the 1st Special Service Force to reconnoitre a German garrison in an Italian town, but Frederick decides to go one better and capture the entire town. Convinced now of the ability of Frederick's men, Clark gives them the task no other Allied troops have managed to achieve — to capture Monte la Difensa. Facing severe obstacles, they drive the Germans off the stronghold, allowing the allies to continue their advance into Italy.
The Cobra
The Cobra (1967)

Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Dana Andrews, Peter Martell, Anita Ekberg, Jesús Puente, George Eastman, Giovanni Petrucci
Roles Capt. Kelly
Rating49% 2.4536852.4536852.4536852.4536852.453685
US intelligence comes in action to discover powerful organization in drug trafficking active in the Mediterranean.
Hot Rods to Hell
Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Mimsy Farmer, Jeffrey Byron, Charles P. Thompson, Liz Renay
Roles Tom Phillips
Rating53% 2.6545852.6545852.6545852.6545852.654585
Traveling salesman Tom Phillips (Dana Andrews) is driving home to Boston, Massachusetts for Christmas when he encounters a drunken driver on a rain-streaked road. He cannot avoid a collision, and is hospitalized with spinal damage. Since he cannot be a traveling salesman anymore, his brother arranges for Tom to buy a remote motel in the desert town of Mayville, California. Tom is reluctant, since he has never been an innkeeper before—but in the end he decides that he must travel in order to get as far away from the site of his accident as possible, as soon as possible.
Johnny Reno, 1h23
Directed by R. G. Springsteen
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Dana Andrews, Jane Russell, Lon Chaney, Jr., John Agar, Lyle Bettger, Tom Drake
Roles Johnny Reno
Rating57% 2.8591852.8591852.8591852.8591852.859185
The film features Dana Andrews, Jane Russell, and Lon Chaney, Jr., and involves a frontier marshal (Andrews) who finds himself desperately trying to stop a man he had brought to jail from being lynched by the furious townspeople.
The Frozen Dead, 1h35
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Dana Andrews, Anna Palk, Philip Gilbert, Karel Štěpánek, Alan Tilvern, Edward Fox
Roles Dr. Norberg
Rating51% 2.5571052.5571052.5571052.5571052.557105
Un scientifique fou garde en vie la tête des criminels de guerre nazis jusqu'à ce qu'il puisse trouver des corps appropriés sur lesquels les attacher afin de faire revivre le Troisième Reich.