Dana Andrews
Date of birth: 1909-01-01
Place of birth: Covington County, Mississippi, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Carver Dana Andrews
Biography
Carver Dana Andrews (January 1, 1909 – December 17, 1992) was an American actor. A leading man during the 1940s, he continued acting in less prestigious roles and character parts into the 1980s. He is best known for his portrayal of obsessed police detective Mark McPherson in the noir Laura (1944) and his critically acclaimed performance as World War II veteran Fred Derry in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dana Andrews, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946-12-25
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943-03-11
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing t
Laura
1944-11-26
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
Daisy Kenyon
1947-12-25
Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1956-09-13
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence,
Crack in the World
1965-04-15
Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermon
Night of the Demon
1957-11-09
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover
Fallen Angel
1945-11-15
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around t
The Iron Curtain
1948-06-16
The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrew
State Fair
1945-08-29
During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patr
The Satan Bug
1965-03-26
A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has
The Fearmakers
1958-10-01
A Korean War veteran returns to Washington D.C. only to discover his business partner had died and t
Airport 1975
1974-10-18
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardes
Battle of the Bulge
1965-12-16
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year.
Hot Rods to Hell
1967-01-27
While on a business trip, Tom Phillips is in a car accident caused by a reckless driver. Tom surviv
Brainstorm
1965-05-05
Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.
The Horror of It All
1983-02-23
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made
Deep Waters
1948-07-22
A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.
Edge of Doom
1950-08-03
A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
Ball of Fire
1941-12-02
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. Whe
While the City Sleeps
1956-04-19
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
The Westerner
1940-09-18
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bea
Canyon Passage
1946-07-17
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty
Elephant Walk
1954-04-21
Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and
The Purple Heart
1944-02-25
This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war.
A Walk in the Sun
1945-12-25
In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to att
The Last Tycoon
1976-11-18
Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the whi
Take a Hard Ride
1975-10-29
After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to som
The Frogmen
1951-01-25
The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect o
In Harm's Way
1965-04-06
A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second
Swamp Water
1941-11-16
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with t
The Loved One
1965-10-11
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment
Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950-07-07
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
The North Star
1943-11-04
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and
Tobacco Road
1941-02-20
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors
Boomerang!
1947-02-28
When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the c
The Cobra
1967-03-25
A disgraced treasury agent Mike Rand, who teams with his boss to halt a Red Chinese plot to destroy
Wing and a Prayer
1944-01-01
An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus
Showbiz Goes to War
1982-12-31
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War
Belle Starr
1941-09-12
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam
Zero Hour!
1957-11-13
In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, t
Madison Avenue
1961-04-13
An adman and an adwoman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House.
Crash Dive
1943-04-22
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant ra
The Pilot
1980-11-26
Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year". Nob
The Crowded Sky
1960-09-02
When Navy pilot Dale Heath takes off, he doesn't expect his navigational equipment to fail and must
Assignment: Paris
1952-09-04
Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race is sent by his boss behind the Iron Curtain
Innocent Bystanders
1972-09-01
Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scienti
December 7th
1943-03-01
"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering
Johnny Reno
1966-03-09
The townsfolk are set on lynching an accused killer held in the town lockup. But US Marshal Johnny R
Comanche
1956-03-01
Common efforts of the U.S. government and the Comanche nation to negotiate a peace treaty are sabota
The Frozen Dead
1966-10-15
A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies
Strange Lady in Town
1955-04-12
Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 18
My Foolish Heart
1950-01-19
After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise
Up in Arms
1944-02-17
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-b
The Forbidden Street
1949-03-31
In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alco
Smoke Signal
1955-03-01
Capt. Harper's cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent c
Lucky Cisco Kid
1940-06-28
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the C
Sealed Cargo
1951-05-19
A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small
Night Song
1948-01-20
A socialite pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist.
Spring Reunion
1957-03-01
A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class
Kit Carson
1940-08-30
Frontiersman Kit Carson fights off Indian attacks on the trail to California.
Ike
1979-05-03
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other warti
Three Hours to Kill
1954-11-04
After three years on the run, Jim Guthrie returns with the scar of a rope burn on his neck. In a fla
I Want You
1951-12-22
The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea h
Enchanted Island
1958-11-08
Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold
The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
1975-05-13
A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first day
The Failing of Raymond
1971-11-27
On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previous
No Minor Vices
1948-11-12
Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for
Town Tamer
1965-07-07
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep
A Shadow in the Streets
1975-01-28
An ex-convict trying to straighten his life out takes a job as a parole agent in an experimental pro
No Diamonds for Ursula
1967-08-06
A beautiful, but naive, young woman kills a rapist in self defense. But her degenerate, crippled un
A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud
1978-01-01
A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud is a short film
The Ten Million Dollar Grab
1967-02-09
A thief fakes his death in order to steal a 10 million dollar Diamond from his former employer. He l
Spy in Your Eye
1965-09-17
A secret agent is assigned ot rescue the daughter of a deceased East German scienist, who discovered
Duel in the Jungle
1954-06-30
An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diam
Sword in the Desert
1949-08-24
First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation o
Good Guys Wear Black
1978-06-01
The former leader of a commando rescue attempt into Vietnam tries to discover why his squad members
Sailor's Lady
1940-07-05
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose
Berlin Correspondent
1942-08-17
Bill Roberts is an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor.
Prince Jack
1985-12-01
A dramatic look at the inner workings of the Kennedy administration.
The Last Hurrah
1977-11-16
The longtime head of a powerful political machine is determined to win a fourth election and stay in
Born Again
1978-10-01
Having been imprisoned for his part in the Watergate scandal, Charles Colson undergoes a religious c
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
2001-10-07
The life and work of Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish-born glove salesman who became one of Hollywood's grea
The Devil's Brigade
1968-05-15
At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called
The Art Director
1949-11-12
A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This s
Armored Attack!
1957-01-01
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version of
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991-10-28
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director O