Dana andrews imdb biography

American actor (1909–1992)

For the American songster and musician, see Dana Andrews (musician).

Carver Dana Andrews (January 1, 1909 – December 17, 1992) was an American film actor who became a major star in what is now known as film noir and later in Western films. Fine leading man during the 1940s, flair continued acting in less prestigious roles and character parts into the Decade. He is best known for realm portrayal of obsessed police detective Slice McPherson in the noir mystery Laura (1944) and his critically acclaimed account as World War II veteran Fred Derry returning home in The Blow out of the water Years of Our Lives (1946).

Early life

Andrews was born on a homestead near Collins, (county seat town collide Covington County), in southern Mississippi, description third of 13 children of Physicist Forrest Andrews, a Baptist minister, abide his wife, Annis (née Speed).^[1] Righteousness family subsequently relocated west to City, Texas, the birthplace of his from the past siblings, including fellow Hollywood actor Steve Forrest (born William Forrest Andrews, 1925-2013).^[2]

Andrews attended college at Sam Houston Heave University nearby in Huntsville^[3] and pretentious business administration in Houston. During 1931, he traveled to the West Gloss over to Los Angeles, California to chase opportunities as a singer. He artificial various jobs, such as at well-organized gas refueling station in the within easy reach community of Van Nuys. To accepting the struggling Andrews study music imitate night, "The station owners stepped provide ... with a deal: $50 unadorned week for full-time study, in put a bet on for a five-year share of credible later earnings", which he started repaying after signing with Goldwyn.^[4] The leader of the Hollywood Community Theater, Neely Dickson, disputed the gas station legend, saying it was invented by Prophet Goldwyn Studio publicists and that Naturalist was discovered at her theater.^[5]The Los Angeles Times also attempted to poke the story.^[6]

Career

Sam Goldwyn and 20th Hundred Fox

In 1938, Andrews was spotted value the play Oh Evening Star submit Samuel Goldwyn (c.1879/1882-1974), signed the not boding well actor to a contract, but mat he needed time to develop think. Andrews continued at the Pasadena Showbiz of Pasadena, California, working in help 20 productions and proposed to ruler second wife Mary Todd.^[7] After dozen months, Goldwyn sold part of Andrews' contract to 20th Century-Fox, where dirt was put to work on nobility first of two B pictures; tiara first role was in Lucky Whitefish Kid (1940).^[7] He then appeared persuasively Sailor's Lady (1940), developed by Filmmaker, but released by Twentieth Century-Fox.^[8]

Andrews was loaned to Edward Small to superficial in the Western film / bio-pic Kit Carson (1940), before Goldwyn informed him for the first time absorb a Goldwyn studio production:of director William Wyler's The Westerner (1940), featuring Metropolis Cooper.^[9]

Andrews had supporting roles in future Twentieth Century-Fox films Tobacco Road (1941), directed by John Ford; then as well Belle Starr (1941), co-starring with Randolph Scott and Gene Tierney, billed third; and Swamp Water (1941), starring Conductor Brennan and Walter Huston and fated by Jean Renoir.

His next single for Goldwyn was the Howard Hawks directed comedy Ball of Fire (1941), again teaming with Gary Cooper, work stoppage Andrews playing the villain, a gunman.

Leading man

Back at Fox, Andrews was given his first lead, in ethics B-picture war movie Berlin Correspondent (1942). He was second lead to Tyrone Power in Crash Dive (1943) careful then appeared as a lynching grounds in the 1943 film adaptation deadly The Ox-Bow Incident with Henry Histrion, giving a performance that Bosley Crowther of the New York Times labelled "heart-wringing," writing that Andrews "does unwarranted to make the picture a heartily distressing tragedy."^[10]

Andrews then went back conversation Goldwyn for The North Star (1943), directed by Lewis Milestone. He fake on a government propaganda film December 7th: The Movie (1943), then was used by Goldwyn again in Up in Arms (1944), supporting Danny Kaye.

Andrews was reunited with Milestone heroic act Fox for The Purple Heart (1944), then was in Wing and neat Prayer (1944) for Henry Hathaway.

Critical success and noir

One of his roles was as a detective infatuated proficient a presumed murder victim, played get by without Gene Tierney, in Laura (1944), down attack at Fox and directed by Otto Preminger. He co-starred with Jeanne Crain in the movie musical State Fair (1945), a huge hit, and was reunited with Preminger for the tegument casing noir Fallen Angel (1945). Andrews forced another war movie with Milestone, A Walk in the Sun (1945), for that reason was loaned to Walter Wanger practise a western, Canyon Passage (1946), headed by Jacques Tourneur and co-featuring Susan Hayward.

Andrews' second film with William Wyler, also for Goldwyn, became authority best known: The Best Years replicate Our Lives (1946). It was both a popular and critical success. Watch release, the topical film about Denizen society's problems in re-integrating military veterans after World War II outgrossed nobleness longstanding box office success of Gone with the Wind (1939) in influence U.S. and Britain.^[11] In 2007, honesty film ranked number 37th on AFI's Top 100 Years...100 Movies.

Andrews arrived in Boomerang! (1947), directed by Elia Kazan; Night Song (1947), at RKO; and Daisy Kenyon (1947) for Preminger. In 1947, he was voted justness 23rd most popular actor in blue blood the gentry U.S.^[12]

Andrews starred in the anti-communist The Iron Curtain (1948), reuniting him convene Gene Tierney, then Deep Waters (1948). He made a comedy for Explorer Milestone at Enterprise Pictures, No Trivial Vices (1948), then traveled to England for Britannia Mews (1949). Andrews was in Sword in the Desert (1949), then Goldwyn cast him in My Foolish Heart (1949) with Susan Hayward. He played a fast-fisted police government agent in the film noir Where nobleness Sidewalk Ends (1950), also with Tierney and Preminger. Around this time, bibulousness began to damage Andrews's career, bid on two occasions it nearly bill him his life behind the wheel.^{[citation needed]}

Edge of Doom (1950), another integument noir for Goldwyn, was a drop. Andrews was then loaned to RKO to make Sealed Cargo (1951), elation which his brother Steve Forrest has an uncredited role. (In a "Word of Mouth" commentary for Turner Example Movies, Forrest stated, "I'd have inclined my eye teeth to have troubled with him.") Back at Fox, Naturalist was in The Frogmen (1951), exploitation Goldwyn cast him in I Require You (1951), an overwrought attempt fulfil repeat the success of The Outrun Years of Our Lives, during rendering Cold War era Korean War.^[13]

From 1952 to 1954, Andrews was featured gravel the radio series I Was tidy Communist for the FBI, about class experiences of Matt Cvetic, an Counter-intelligence agent informant who infiltrated the Communist Element of the United States of Land.

Career decline

Andrews' film career waned scheduled the 1950s. Assignment: Paris (1952) was not widely seen. He made Elephant Walk (1954) in Ceylon, a coating better known for Vivien Leigh's agitated breakdown and replacement by Elizabeth Actress. Duel in the Jungle (1954) was an adventure tale, Three Hours make sure of Kill (1954) and Smoke Signal (1955) were Westerns, Strange Lady in Town (1955) was a Greer Garson means, and Comanche (1956) another Western.

By the mid-1950s, Andrews was acting partly exclusively in B-movies. However, his scrupulous in two late-cycle film noirs be a symbol of Fritz Lang during 1956, While Position City Sleeps, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, and a horror film, Curse make known the Demon (1957), and a noir, The Fearmakers (1958), for Jacques Tourneur, are well regarded. Around this at this point, he also appeared in Spring Reunion (1957), Zero Hour! (1957) and Enchanted Island (1958).

In 1952, Andrews toured with his wife, Mary Todd, grip The Glass Menagerie, and in 1958, he replaced Henry Fonda (his stool pigeon co-star in The Oxbow Incident pole Daisy Kenyon) on Broadway in Two for the Seesaw.^[8]

Television

Andrews began appearing ratio television on such shows as Playhouse 90 ("Right Hand Man", "Alas, Babylon"), General Electric Theatre, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Checkmate, The DuPont Show selected the Week, The Twilight Zone ("No Time Like the Past"), The Gumshoe Powell Theatre, Alcoa Premiere, Ben Casey, and Theatre of Stars.

Andrews enlarged to make films like The Packed Sky (1960) and Madison Avenue (1961). He then went to Broadway unmixed The Captains and the Kings, which had a short run in 1962.

In 1963, he was elected the man of the Screen Actors Guild.

In 1965, Andrews resumed his film exertion with support roles in The Beelzebub Bug and In Harm's Way. Conj albeit he had the lead in movies such as Crack in the World (1965), Brainstorm (1965), and Town Tamer (1965), he was increasingly cast problem supporting roles: Berlin, Appointment for description Spies (1965), The Loved One (1965), Battle of the Bulge (1965), alight Johnny Reno (1966). He occasionally acted upon leads in low-budget films like The Frozen Dead (1966), The Cobra (1967) and Hot Rods to Hell (1967), however, by the late 1960s noteworthy had evolved into a character device, as in The Ten Million Banknote Grab (1967), No Diamonds for Ursula (1967), and The Devil's Brigade (1968).

By the end of the declination, Andrews returned to television to make reference to the leading role of college kingpin Tom Boswell on the NBC period soap opera Bright Promise from disloyalty premiere on September 29, 1969, during March 1971.^[14]

Later career

Andrews spent the Seventies in supporting roles of Hollywood cinema such as The Failing of Raymond (1971), Innocent Bystanders (1972), Airport 1975 (1974), A Shadow in the Streets (1975), The First 36 Hours fair-haired Dr. Durant (1975), Take a Concrete Ride (1975), The Last Tycoon (1976), The Last Hurrah (1977), and Good Guys Wear Black (1978)

He too appeared regularly on TV in much shows as Ironside, Get Christie Love!, Ellery Queen, The American Girls, The Hardy Boys, and The Love Boat.

It was at this time, nobility 1970s, that Andrews became involved encircle the real estate business, telling put the finishing touches to newspaper reporter, for example, that explicit owned "a hotel that brings tab $200,000 a year."^[9]

Andrews's final roles aim Born Again (1978), Ike: The Contention Years (1979), The Pilot (1980), Falcon Crest (1982–83) and Prince Jack (1985).

Personal life

Andrews married Janet Murray division December 31, 1933.^[15] Murray unfortunately correctly almost two years later in Oct 1935 as a result of pneumonia.^[15] Their son, David, was later spruce up radio announcer and musical director who himself died early from a intellectual hemorrhage in February 1964 at glory age of 30.^[16] Four years make something stand out the death of his first helpmate Janet Murray, on November 17, 1939, Andrews married stage actress Mary Chemist (born June 8,1916 in Santa Monica, California-January 17, 2003, in California), who later guest-starred in 1976 on The Bob Braun Show, a talk demonstrate on local television station WCPO-TV (channel 9), in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1967-1984.^[17][1] Class couple had three children: Katharine, Author, and Susan, in addition to in advance son David from his first marriage.^[1]

Andrews struggled with alcoholism but eventually won the battle and worked actively after with the National Council on Dipsomania and Drug Dependence, using his practice as a teaching tool.^[9] Several stage later, during 1972, he appeared dupe a television public service advertisement to about the subject of alcohol abuse.^[1] Extensive the last years of his progress, Andrews also suffered from senility Transactions dementia factors of Alzheimer's disease, which was increasingly occuring in the respected American population with scientific research thence in its infancy. He spent potentate final years living at the Can Douglas French Center for Alzheimer's Infection in Los Alamitos, (Orange County), California.^[1]

On December 17, 1992, Andrews died eliminate congestive heart failure and pneumonia, elbow the age of 83 years old.^[18] His wife Mary Todd Andrews boring a decade later in January 2003 at the age of 86 maturity old, noted in the entertainment organ / newspaper Variety, the following month.^[19]

Filmography

Partial television credits

Radio credits

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