Dana Andrews is a Actor American born on 1 january 1909 at Covington County (USA)
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Birth name Carver Dana AndrewsNationality USABirth 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.
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