Skip over navigation

Dana Andrews



What members say | Filmography

Dana Andrews - what members say


  • Fallen Angel
  • Fallen Angel review by from london
    Rated - 5.0 stars Sleepwalking the nightmare 21 May 2004
    ... he is in Walton, in the middle of nowhere. And that's were the trouble starts. Dana Andrews is a perfect casting as nearly unlikeable, tough-talking representation of amb...   Read customer review
  • Where The Sidewalk Ends
  • Where The Sidewalk Ends review by A customer from Yorkshire
    Rated - 4.0 stars Great film noir detective story. 18 August 2004
    ...ctive drama, recommended for fans of The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, etc. Dana Andrews is a great lead for this sort of film, equal to Bogie (though far less well kno...   Read customer review
  • The Best Years Of Our Lives
  • The Best Years Of Our Lives review by from Derby, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Classic American Film 3 November 2004
    ...ir lives. The stellar cast includes Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright and Dana Andrews - all who give touching and human performances. My only slight complaint (an...   Read customer review

Dana Andrews - filmography


  • Good Guys Wear Black on DVD (1978)
    Starring: James Franciscus,  Dana Andrews,  Larry Casey
    Director: Ted Post
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    John T. Booker (Chuck Norris) leads a quiet life as a political science professor, but is haunted by his US Army past in Vietnam. Sent on a mission to rescue American POWs, Booker's squad had been almost entirely wiped out, the remaining six soldiers enduring three weeks in the jungle before making ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 254 members
    Sign up
  • Johnny Reno on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Jane Russell,  John Agar
    Director: R.G. Springsteen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Western drama. US Marshall Johnny Reno (Dana Andrews) is travelling to the town of Stone Junction in Kansas when he is attacked by two outlaws who mistakenly believe he has come to apprehend them. In the gunfight, one of the outlaws is killed, while Reno captures the other and takes him to the lock-..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 43 members
    Sign up
  • The Loved One (1965)
    Starring: Robert Morse,  Rod Steiger,  Jonathan Winters
    Director: Tony Richardson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Outrageous black comedy, promoted as "the motion picture with something to offend everyone!," stars Robert Morse as a British poet who visits California and, after his uncle's death, is introduced to the seamier side of the funeral industry.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 22 members
    Currently unavailable
    Sign up
  • Battle Of The Bulge on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Charles Bronson,  Robert Ryan
    Director: Ken Annakin
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Historical film account (starring Henry Fonda and Robert Shaw), of Germany's last major European offensive of WWII at the Ardennes in Belgium, in December 1944. Germany, under the command of Hessler, plans an attack with the secret panzer division, but they are desperately short of fuel and their ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,910 member
    Sign up
  • In Harm's Way on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Paula Prentiss,  Kirk Douglas,  Dana Andrews
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In Harm's Way, based on James Bassett's novel Harm's Way, has enough plot in it for four movies or a good miniseries (when it was shown on network television in prime time, it was broken into two very full nights). On the morning of December 7, 1941, a heavy cruiser, commanded by Captain Rockwell ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 415 members
    Sign up
  • Beyond a Reasonable Doubt on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Joan Fontaine,  Sidney Blackmer
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Hoping to expose fatal flaws in the legal system, a writer (DANA ANDREWS, Laura) places a bet that he can have himself convicted of murder on purely circumstantial evidence by planting false clues at a crime scene, before sensationally revealing his trick at the last minute. However, a series of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 163 members
    Sign up
  • Smoke Signal on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Piper Laurie
    Director: Jerry Hopper
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Dana Andrews and Piper Laurie star in this gripping drama set during the unforgiving time and the merciless surroundings of the Wild West. When an isolated cavalry fort is besieged by Indians, a small group of survivors are left with only one route of escape - the uncharted rapids of the wild ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 17 members
    Sign up
  • Elephant Walk (1954)
    Starring: Elizabeth Taylor,  Dana Andrews,  Abner Biberman
    Director: William Dieterle
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Hollywood melodrama starring Elizabeth Taylor. Ruth (Taylor) is the beautiful new bride of dour tea plantation owner John Wiley (Peter Finch). Frustrated in the stultifying atmosphere of Ceylon, Ruth falls for handsome American overseer Dick Carver (Dana Andrews), but before the couple can run away ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 147 members
    Currently unavailable
    Sign up
  • Where The Sidewalk Ends on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Gary Merrill,  Dana Andrews,  Bert Freed
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Mark Dixon (Dana Andrews) is a corrupt cop, in this gritty thriller shot on the rain-slicked streets of New York. Already in trouble for his brutal methods, alienated from his colleagues, he pursues a gang leader with vindictive zeal and accidentally kills a possible murder suspect. His guilt ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 804 members
    Sign up
  • My Foolish Heart (1949)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Susan Hayward
    Director: Mark Robson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers her time with her true love, Walt Dreiser, at the beginning of the Second World War. She recalls the events ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 7 members
    Currently unavailable
    Sign up
  • Canyon Passage on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Ward Bond,  Dana Andrews,  Patricia Roc
    Director: Jacques Tourneur
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Dana Andrews -- in one of the best performances of his career -- plays Logan Stuart, a bold, ambitious general store and freight company owner based in the mining settlement of Jacksonville, OR, in 1856. He and his best friend, local banker and express company owner George Camrose (Brian Donlevy), ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 68 members
    Sign up
  • The Best Years Of Our Lives on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Virginia Mayo,  Fredric March
    Director: William Wyler
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    William Wyler directs this classic wartime drama. Three soldiers return home from World War 2 to find life in America has moved on without them. Fred (Dana Andrews) has to re-acquaint himself with a wife he barely knows, Al (Frederic March) with his suddenly grown-up children, whilst Homer (Harold ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,497 members
    Sign up
  • A Walk In The Sun on DVD (1945)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Richard Conte,  George Tyne
    Director: Lewis Milestone
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Dana Andrews stars in this 1940s war drama adapted from the book by Harry Brown. Sergeant Bill Tyne (Andrews) is left in charge of the remaining platoons in his squad after his superiors are either killed or injured during the 1943 American invasion of Italy. He leads the soldiers in an attack to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 132 members
    Sign up
  • Fallen Angel on DVD (1945)
    Starring: Charles Bickford,  Linda Darnell,  Dana Andrews
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews), a press agent down on his luck, drifts into a small Californian coastal town. He meets June (Alice Faye), a wealthy but reclusive woman, and has his eye on Stella (Linda Darnell), a sultry waitress. In love with Stella but broke, Eric marries June for her money, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 591 members
    Sign up
  • The Purple Heart on DVD (1944)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Farley Granger,  Richard Conte
    Director: Lewis Milestone
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on a true story about a group of American servicemen who were put in a Japanese court and executed for alleged war crimes. Two bomber crews are captured by the Japanese after the 1942 raid against Tokyo. Dana Andrews plays the highest ranking officer, Captain Harvey Ross. When they are taken ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 44 members
    Sign up
  • Wing And A Prayer on DVD (1944)
    Starring: Don Ameche,  Dana Andrews,  William Eythe
    Director: Henry Hathaway
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Henry Hathaway's well-regarded World War 2 drama is set on an aircraft carrier in the South Pacific. As the US pilots struggle to play their part in the war and the death toll rises, they begin to doubt their tough flight officer (Don Ameche) but when the battle tide turns they realise he was right ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 87 members
    Sign up
  • Laura (1944)
    Starring: Preston Foster,  Gene Tierney,  Dana Andrews
    Director: William A. Wellman,  Otto Preminger,  John Ford
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Nominated for five Academy Awards, this stylish mystery thriller twists and turns with new suspects, new evidence and unexpected revelations. A wealthy, acid-tongued journalist (Clifford Webb) becomes entranced with a beautiful young career woman named Laura (Gene Tierney). But entrancement leads ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 871 members
    Currently unavailable
    Sign up
  • The Ox-Bow Incident on DVD (1943)
    Starring: Henry Fonda,  Dana Andrews,  Mary Beth Hughes
    Director: William A. Wellman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Two drifters are passing through a Western town, when news comes in that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The townspeople, joined by the drifters, form a posse to catch the perpetrators. They find three men in possession of the cattle, and are determined to see justice done ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 413 members
    Sign up
  • Crash Dive on DVD (1943)
    Starring: Tyrone Power,  Anne Baxter,  Dana Andrews
    Director: Archie Mayo
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In this thrilling, Academy Award-winning WWII drama (Best Special Effects, 1943), Tyrone Power plays Navy Lieutenant Ward Stewart, a crewmember aboard a sub responsible for investigating a suspicious tanker in the Atlantic. Initially Stewart takes a liking to his commander - Dewey Connors (Dana ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 45 members
    Sign up
  • Ball Of Fire on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Mary Field,  Dana Andrews,  Henry Travers
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Professor Bertram Potts is the youngest of eight bookish academics assembling a dictionary of slang. They find a perfect "research associate" in the curvaceous form of strip-tease dancer Kathryn "Sugar Puss" O'Shea, who has hidden out at the professors' domicile to escape Joe Lilac, her gangster ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 150 members
    Sign up
  • Swamp Water on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Walter Brennan
    Director: Jean Renoir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Classic drama from director Jean Renoir. Walter Brennan plays Tom Keefer, a man who is falsely convicted of a murder and sentenced to death by hanging. He has escaped from prison and is hiding out in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp. Keefer is dedicated to finding the real killer and clearing his name.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 111 members
    Sign up
  • December 7th on DVD
    Starring: Walter Huston,  Harry Davenport,  Dana Andrews
    Director: John Ford
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    During World War II, director John Ford joined the ranks of the many Hollywood actors and filmmakers who participated in the war's film propaganda effort. At the behest of the United States' military, John Ford and legendary cinematographer Gregg Toland (Citizen Kane, The Grapes of Wrath) mounted ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 3 members
    Sign up

Dana Andrews facts

5 most recent films

Good Guys Wear Black - 2.5 stars
Johnny Reno - 2.0 stars
The Loved One - 3.0 stars
Battle Of The Bulge - 3.5 stars
In Harm's Way - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Night Of The Demon / Curse Of The Demon - 4.0 stars
Ball Of Fire - 3.5 stars
Laura - 3.5 stars
The Ox-Bow Incident - 3.5 stars
Battle Of The Bulge - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Belle Starr - The Bandit Queen - 2.0 stars
Johnny Reno - 2.0 stars
December 7th - 2.5 stars
The Purple Heart - 2.5 stars
My Foolish Heart - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Gene Tierney - 3 times - show films
Henry Fonda - 3 times - show films
Richard Conte - 2 times - show films
George Sanders - 2 times - show films
Hoagy Carmichael - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Otto Preminger - 4 times - show films
William A. Wellman - 2 times - show films
Jacques Tourneur - 2 times - show films
John Ford - 2 times - show films
Fritz Lang - 2 times - show films