Dana Andrews
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).
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.355 |
| Birthday | 1909-01-01 |
| Place of Birth | Covington County, Mississippi, USA |
| Also Known As | Carver Dana Andrews, |
1946
The Best Years of Our Lives
7.7/764
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrive...
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The Best Years of Our Lives
1943
The Ox-Bow Incident
7.7/439
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
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The Ox-Bow Incident
1944
Laura
7.6/940
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
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Laura
1947
Daisy Kenyon
6.627/55
Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara....
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Daisy Kenyon
1956
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
6.837/130
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in a...
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1965
Crack in the World
5.803/76
Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth. Thi...
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Crack in the World
1957
Night of the Demon
7/320
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was ki...
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Night of the Demon
1945
Fallen Angel
6.5/135
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely wa...
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Fallen Angel
1948
The Iron Curtain
6/27
The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to t...
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The Iron Curtain
1945
State Fair
6.6/73
During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine B...
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State Fair
1965
The Satan Bug
6.078/58
A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The b...
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The Satan Bug
1958
The Fearmakers
6.2/15
A Korean War veteran returns to Washington D.C. only to discover his business partner had died and their public-research business sold, so he works th...
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The Fearmakers
1974
Airport 1975
5.784/305
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls....
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Airport 1975
1965
Battle of the Bulge
6.9/288
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive...
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Battle of the Bulge
1967
Hot Rods to Hell
4.711/19
While on a business trip, Tom Phillips is in a car accident caused by a reckless driver. Tom survives the accident with but a severe chronic back inj...
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Hot Rods to Hell
1965
Brainstorm
6.123/30
Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.
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Brainstorm
1983
The Horror of It All
8.317/6
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
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The Horror of It All
1948
Deep Waters
6.1/8
A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.
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Deep Waters
1950
Edge of Doom
6.1/22
A Catholic priest finds himself investigating the murder of his colleague.
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Edge of Doom
1941
Ball of Fire
7.4/252
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is...
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Ball of Fire
1956
While the City Sleeps
6.9/149
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
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While the City Sleeps
1940
The Westerner
7.073/137
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by...
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The Westerner
1946
Canyon Passage
6.7/70
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the l...
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Canyon Passage
1944
The Purple Heart
6.107/14
This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in cap...
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The Purple Heart
1954
Elephant Walk
5.9/41
Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Tay...
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Elephant Walk
1945
A Walk in the Sun
5.903/64
It's 1943 and the allied landings in and around the town of Salerno,Italy are underway.A platoon from the U.S 36th Infantry Division is tasked with ad...
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A Walk in the Sun
1976
The Last Tycoon
6.316/167
Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.
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The Last Tycoon
1975
Take a Hard Ride
5.3/44
After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Sonora, M...
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Take a Hard Ride
1951
The Frogmen
6.2/28
The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over...
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The Frogmen
1965
In Harm's Way
6.57/166
A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
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In Harm's Way
1941
Swamp Water
6.354/46
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to to...
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Swamp Water
1965
The Loved One
6.2/47
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whisp...
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The Loved One
1950
Where the Sidewalk Ends
7.193/210
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
1943
The North Star
6/30
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."
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The North Star
1941
Tobacco Road
6.8/61
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existe...
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Tobacco Road
1947
Boomerang!
7.061/89
When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the p...
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Boomerang!
1967
The Cobra
7.5/4
A disgraced treasury agent Mike Rand, who teams with his boss to halt a Red Chinese plot to destroy the free world by flooding the market with opium a...
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The Cobra
1944
Wing and a Prayer
6.7/13
An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of M...
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Wing and a Prayer
1982
Showbiz Goes to War
10/1
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the A...
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Showbiz Goes to War
1941
Belle Starr
5.9/17
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breakin...
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Belle Starr
1957
Zero Hour!
6.575/56
In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to land...
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Zero Hour!
1961
Madison Avenue
6.6/5
An adman and an adwoman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House.
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Madison Avenue
1943
Crash Dive
6.4/27
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new...
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Crash Dive
1980
The Pilot
6.917/6
Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year". Nobody knows that he's got private sorrows - he's an...
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The Pilot
1960
The Crowded Sky
5.9/15
When Navy pilot Dale Heath takes off, he doesn't expect his navigational equipment to fail and must adapt when it goes out along with his radio. Headi...
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The Crowded Sky
1952
Assignment: Paris
5.895/19
Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race is sent by his boss behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the...
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Assignment: Paris
1972
Innocent Bystanders
7.8/5
Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scientist on the run. Cross and double-cross is the name...
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Innocent Bystanders
1943
December 7th
5.768/28
"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii a...
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December 7th
1966
Johnny Reno
6.5/22
The townsfolk are set on lynching an accused killer held in the town lockup. But US Marshal Johnny Reno stands in their way.
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Johnny Reno
1956
Comanche
5.159/22
Common efforts of the U.S. government and the Comanche nation to negotiate a peace treaty are sabotaged by renegade Indians and by the short-sighted I...
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Comanche
1966
The Frozen Dead
5.2/32
A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third...
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The Frozen Dead
1955
Strange Lady in Town
4.9/9
Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 1880, but is opposed by an established doctor, Rourk...
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Strange Lady in Town
1950
My Foolish Heart
6.6/19
After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew W...
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My Foolish Heart
1944
Up in Arms
5.727/11
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
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Up in Arms
1949
The Forbidden Street
6.857/7
In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarre...
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The Forbidden Street
1955
Smoke Signal
6.9/16
Capt. Harper's cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent cause is the recapture of Army traitor Brett Hallid...
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Smoke Signal
1940
Lucky Cisco Kid
6/6
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture...
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Lucky Cisco Kid
1948
Night Song
6.4/5
A socialite pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist.
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Night Song
1951
Sealed Cargo
6.543/23
A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishing...
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Sealed Cargo
1957
Spring Reunion
6.2/5
A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.
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Spring Reunion
1940
Kit Carson
6.1/13
Frontiersman Kit Carson fights off Indian attacks on the trail to California.
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Kit Carson
1979
Ike
6.833/3
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal rel...
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Ike
1954
Three Hours to Kill
5.1/17
After three years on the run, Jim Guthrie returns with the scar of a rope burn on his neck. In a flashback, we learn how he was framed for murder but...
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Three Hours to Kill
1951
I Want You
5.222/9
The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea has a profound effect on several people. WWII veter...
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I Want You
1958
Enchanted Island
4.9/12
To avoid the wrath and punishment of their ruthless captain, two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise may include a...
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Enchanted Island
1975
The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
8/1
A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first day finds himself making life-and-death decisions.
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The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
1971
The Failing of Raymond
6.2/5
On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previously is out to kill her.
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The Failing of Raymond
1948
No Minor Vices
7.1/8
Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. So confident is he of his position that h...
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No Minor Vices
1965
Town Tamer
6.833/12
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruc...
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Town Tamer
1975
A Shadow in the Streets
6/2
An ex-convict trying to straighten his life out takes a job as a parole agent in an experimental project to help former inmates.
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A Shadow in the Streets
1967
No Diamonds for Ursula
6/4
A beautiful, but naive, young woman kills a rapist in self defense. But her degenerate, crippled uncle, senses an opportunity and weaves a complex we...
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No Diamonds for Ursula
1978
A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud
7/1
A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud is a short film
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A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud
1967
The Ten Million Dollar Grab
10/0
A thief fakes his death in order to steal a 10 million dollar Diamond from his former employer. He loses it—and gets it back—through various ploys aro...
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The Ten Million Dollar Grab
1965
Spy in Your Eye
5.6/5
A secret agent is assigned ot rescue the daughter of a deceased East German scienist, who discovered a valuable formula.
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Spy in Your Eye
1954
Duel in the Jungle
6.357/7
An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the coast...
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Duel in the Jungle
1949
Sword in the Desert
7.5/4
First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation of the state of Israel.
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Sword in the Desert
1978
Good Guys Wear Black
5.086/99
The former leader of a commando rescue attempt into Vietnam tries to discover why his squad members are being murdered, one-by-one, after the war is o...
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Good Guys Wear Black
1940
Sailor's Lady
6.5/2
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is acci...
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Sailor's Lady
1942
Berlin Correspondent
6/10
Bill Roberts is an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. Having witnessed Nazi brutalities first hand, Robe...
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Berlin Correspondent
1985
Prince Jack
9/1
A dramatic look at the inner workings of the Kennedy administration.
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Prince Jack
1977
The Last Hurrah
0/0
The longtime head of a powerful political machine is determined to win a fourth election and stay in power, despite challenges to his regime by young,...
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The Last Hurrah
1978
Born Again
9/2
Having been imprisoned for his part in the Watergate scandal, Charles Colson undergoes a religious conversion.
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Born Again
2001
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
8.5/2
The life and work of Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish-born glove salesman who became one of Hollywood's greatest independent producers, is remembered in this...
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Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
1968
The Devil's Brigade
6.349/93
At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called the 1st Special Service Force, composed of elite C...
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The Devil's Brigade
1949
The Art Director
6.667/3
A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This short film walks the viewer through art directors'...
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The Art Director
1957
Armored Attack!
6.2/2
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version of The North Star (1943), to remove positive referenc...
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Armored Attack!
1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
8/7
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such me...
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