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