Dana Andrews
Gender: Male
Born: 1st January 1909
Died: 17th December 1992
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: A Walk in the Sun, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Boomerang, Brainstorm, Crack in the World, Edge of Doom, Fallen Angel, Hot Rods to Hell, In Harm's Way, Laura, Night of the Demon, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Satan Bug, Where the Sidewalk Ends, While the City Sleeps, Wing and a Prayer, The Purple Heart, Good Guys Wear Black, The North Star, Daisy Kenyon, The Frogmen, Zero Hour!, Elephant Walk, Sailor's Lady, My Foolish Heart, Airport 1975, State Fair, Sword in the Desert, Canyon Passage, The Loved One, Johnny Reno, Lucky Cisco Kid, Tobacco Road, Crash Dive, The Iron Curtain, Comanche, Sealed Cargo, December 7th, Belle Starr, Britannia Mews, Deep Waters, I Want You, The Westerner, Battle of the Bulge, Swamp Water, The Last Tycoon, Ball of Fire, Vintage Movie Classics: It's War, The Fearmakers, The Frozen Dead, Town Tamer, No Minor Vices, Assignment: Paris
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.
He was born Carver Dana Andrews on a farmstead outside Collins, Covington County, Mississippi, the third of nine children of Charles Forrest Andrews, a Baptist minister, and his wife Annis (née Speed). The family subsequently moved to Huntsville, Texas, where his younger siblings (including actor Steve Forrest) were born.
Andrews attended college at Sam Houston State University and also studied business administration in Houston, Texas, working briefly as an accountant for Gulf & Western . In 1931, he travelled to Los Angeles, California seeking opportunities as a singer. He worked at various jobs to earn a living, including pumping gas at a filling station in Van Nuys. One of his employers believed in him and paid for his studies in opera and also at the Pasadena Playhouse, a theater and acting school.
Andrews signed a contract with Samuel Goldwyn and nine years after arriving in Los Angeles was offered his first movie role in William Wyler's The Westerner (1940),
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