Profile
Dana Andrews
Actor
Male
Born
Jan 1, 1909
Hometown
Covington County,...
Died
Dec 17, 1992
Death Place
Los Alamitos, Cal...
Other Names
Andrews, Carver Dana
Dana Andrews 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.
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Mary Todd AndrewsMarried 1939
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1909
Birth
Born on January 1, 1909.
TWENTIES
1931
22 Years Old
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.
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THIRTIES
1941
32 Years Old
He was also memorable as the gangster in the 1941 comedy Ball of Fire.
1943
34 Years Old
In the 1943 movie adaptation of The Ox-Bow Incident with Henry Fonda, often cited as one of his best films, he played a lynching victim.
1946
37 Years Old
Andrews' two signature roles came as an obsessed detective in Laura (1944) opposite Gene Tierney, and as a U.S. Army Air Force officer returning home from the war in the Oscar-winning 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives.
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FORTIES
1952
43 Years Old
From 1952 to 1954, Andrews starred in the radio series I Was a Communist for the FBI about the experiences of Matt Cvetic, an FBI informer who infiltrated the Communist Party.
FIFTIES
1963
54 Years Old
In 1963, he was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1969
60 Years Old
Between 1969 and 1970, he appeared in a leading role as college president Tom Boswell on the NBC daytime soap opera Bright Promise.
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1972
63 Years Old
Andrews eventually brought his alcoholism under control. In 1972, he appeared in a television public service advertisement on the subject.
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1975
66 Years Old
Coincidentally, fifteen years later, Andrews and Zimbalist appeared in Airport 1975 in which Andrews plays a businessman pilot who has a heart attack and crashes his plane into a 747 that Zimbalist is flying.
1992
84 Years Old
In the last years of his life, Andrews suffered from Alzheimer's disease. In 1992, at the age of 83, he died of congestive heart failure and pneumonia.
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