Dana Andrews Net Worth
Dana Andrews Net Worth is
$15 Million
Dana Andrews Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Dana Andrews (January 1, 1909 – December 17, 1992) 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. One of his best-known roles, and the one for which he received the most praise, was as war veteran Fred Derry in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). | Full Name | Dana Andrews |
| Date Of Birth | January 1, 1909, Covington County, Mississippi, United States |
| Died | December 17, 1992, Los Alamitos, California, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Covington County, Mississippi, USA |
| Height | 5' 10" (1.78 m) |
| Profession | Actor, Soundtrack |
| Education | Sam Houston State University |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Mary Todd (m. 1939–1992), Janet Murray (m. 1932–1935) |
| Children | Katharine Andrews, David Andrews, Stephen Andrews, Susan Andrews |
| Parents | Annis Andrews, Charles Forrest Andrews |
| Siblings | Steve Forrest |
| Movies | Laura, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Ox-Bow Incident, Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Westerner, Night of the Demon, Fallen Angel, While the City Sleeps, A Walk in the Sun, Daisy Kenyon, The Purple Heart, Tobacco Road, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Ball of Fire, Battle of the Bulge, In Harm's Way, The ... |
| Star Sign | Capricorn |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | [in 1982, regarding his acting career and his investments] I'm retired now. I've made all the money I want. So I just do what I feel like doing. If I act again, it has to be something meaningful. |
| 2 | [in 1982, regarding his real-estate investments] [I earn more money] with all my apartment buildings and hotels than I ever did when I was a movie star. |
| 3 | [on why he couldn't pick one of his films as his favorite] I simply love this business. That's all. |
| 4 | I went through all the psychiatry thing, trying to find out why I drank. I finally ended up with the president of the American Psychiatry Association in Hartford telling me, "I'm damned if I know why you drink". |
| 5 | [regarding his alcoholism] Finally, I said to myself, "You're a miserable man. Whether or not you want to remain miserable is up to you". So I quit. |
| 6 | It's not difficult for me to hide emotion [on-screen], since I've always hidden it in my personal life. |
| 7 | [after having received "permission" from Samuel Goldwyn to get married] About a week before the wedding was planned I got a call from the casting director: "Let your hair and your beard grow. You're going to be in a western". So in the society column of the Santa Monica paper there was a picture of the two of us, me with this beard, and it said, "Mr. Andrews is an actor. Note the beard." |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | He was important to the Disaster genre specifying in Airliners in Peril: First as the same role Robert Hays would play in its remake, Airplane!, the role of Ted Striker in 'Zero Hour'. Then as a commercial pilot who must land the plane in The Crowded Sky. And then he appeared in a small but important to the plot role in Airport 1975. (Both Zero Hour! and Airport 1975 were inspirations for Airplane!). |
| 2 | Sealed Cargo (1951) was the only film that he and his younger brother Steve Forrest made together. |
| 3 | He and his younger brother Steve Forrest made guest appearances in consecutive episodes of The Twilight Zone (1959): Andrews in The Twilight Zone: No Time Like the Past (1963) and Forrest in The Twilight Zone: The Parallel (1963). |
| 4 | The "Bright Promise" Bancroft University interior corridors, classrooms, and administrative offices set floor plan was an extensive lay-out. The "hub" of the set was the University President Tom Boswell's (Dana Andrews's) office. Because the President's set was the center of the interior complex floor plan-footprint, when the class-room hall corridors and office sets and classrooms were required, the entire Dana Andrews' set had to be set up. After Dana Andrews left the series, his office-set was never dressed, nor ever used after his departure from the NBC series. |
| 5 | Initial concept discussions about scenery for "Bright Promise" between producer Gloria Monte and production designer Hub Braden concentrated on the series stage set's wall color related to the series star Dana Andrews (at age 60 in 1969). The final over-all set color, hue, solution had to have a rose tint for stage-set wall bounce-lighting reflections. The bounce light from the rose-beige set wall color would enhance any actor's facial make-up for camera appearances. The color solution was to make the 60 year old Dana Andrews look younger for "camera." Production designer Hub Braden was asked to take over Angela Lansbury's CBS TV series "Murder, She Wrote" in August, 1988. Braden used the same "Dana Andrews' rose-beige tinted wall color scheme" in determining the painted color for any stage set, and location set, built that Angela Lansbury (age 63 in 1988) appeared in on her series role as "Jessica Fletcher.". |
| 6 | In mid-summer 1969 he was hired to be the lead in an NBC daytime soap opera to be called Bright Promise (1969). The plot was about how students at the fictional Bancroft College were being trained to be the "bright promise" leaders of the future. Writers/producers Doris Hursley and Frank Hursley developed the show, a co-production of Bing Crosby Productions and Paramount Television (under the name Fandor Productions), with assistance from Cox Broadcasting. The Hursleys, who had previously created the iconic soap opera General Hospital (1963), brought aboard producer/director Gloria Monte. Andrews was to play university president Thomas Boswell, the central character around whom other characters and story lines would be spun. The show premiered in 1969 and shared facilities at the NBC studios in Burbank, CA, with the popular soap Days of Our Lives (1965), and Andrews--who was a trained opera singer--actually got to use his singing skills on the show (something he was seldom allowed to do in his film career). In 1971, after the show had been on for about a year, Andrews was reading the "Los Angeles Times'" entertainment section, called Calendar, and learned that he had been fired from the show by the network. His character was written out and he was replaced two weeks later by Anne Jeffreys. NBC also fired the show's producer, Dick Dunn, and brought in one of its own people, Jerry Layton, to replace him. The series itself was canceled the next year, replaced by Return to Peyton Place (1972)--like Andrews, the show's cast and crew found out they were out of work by reading about it in the L.A. Times' Calendar section. Ironically, in 1974 "Return to Peyton Place" was also canceled and its cast and crew found out about it the same way--by reading about it in the L.A. Times. The series was replaced by a game show. . |
| 7 | Although his career was considered to be slowing down by the early 1960s, in 1965, he appeared in eight different productions, by far the most roles in any one year of his entire career. Of those eight roles, all were feature films, and he portrayed military officers in five of them. |
| 8 | After the expiration of his last studio contract in 1952, he formed his own production company, Lawrence Productions. |
| 9 | When his film and television career declined in the 1960s, he began investing in real estate after reading a "how to" book on the subject, and with a friend and business partner, built his first apartment building in Garden Grove, California. |
| 10 | He met both his first and second wives at the Pasadena Playhouse. |
| 11 | In 1931, at the height of the Great Depression, he quit his job in Texas working for an oil company, and hitchhiked to Los Angeles, hoping to break into show business. |
| 12 | He had three grandchildren at the time of his death. |
| 13 | His first wife, Janet Murray, died of pneumonia in 1935. Their only child, David, became a pianist, organist, composer, and radio announcer, before dying in 1964 due to a cerebral hemorrhage. |
| 14 | Friend of Vincent Price, Henry Fonda, Burt Lancaster, Jane Wyman, Coral Browne, Gene Tierney, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, and Anne Bancroft. |
| 15 | After arriving in Los Angeles, he worked a variety of jobs before his first job as an actor, including driving a school bus, gas station attendant, truck driver, ditch digger, picking fruit, and working in a department store's stock room. He applied at, and was turned down by, every film studio and production company. He also applied at the Pasadena Playhouse, known as prime training ground for budding actors and actresses, but he was turned down there, at first, too. After he took singing lessons, he decided to give the Pasadena Playhouse a second go, and much to his surprise, he was accepted. His first role at Pasadena was as a spear carrier in a William Shakespeare drama. |
| 16 | Spent the last years of his life in a nursing facility in Los Alamitos, California, due to Alzheimer's Disease. Long-time friend Burt Lancaster was visiting him when Lancaster he the paralyzing stroke from which he never recovered and that led to his death two years later. |
| 17 | Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 3, 1991-1993, pages 22-23. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001. |
| 18 | He appeared with Gene Tierney in five films: Tobacco Road (1941), Belle Starr (1941), Laura (1944), The Iron Curtain (1948) and Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950). |
| 19 | Suffered from Alzheimer's Disease in his last years. |
| 20 | Mentioned in the opening song to The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) ("Science Fiction") |
| 21 | President of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) from 1963-65. |
| 22 | In the late 1940s, during the height of his popularity, the publicist for Fox sent a telegram to the mayor of Collins, Mississippi, suggesting that the town officially change its name to Andrews in honor of its native son. The mayor wired back: "We will not change our name to Andrews. Have Andrews change his to Collins". |
| 23 | Sons: David Andrews (1934-1964) & Stephen Andrews (b. 1944). Daughters: Katharine Andrews (b. 1942) & Susan Andrews (b. 1948). |
| 24 | Older brother of actor Steve Forrest, and also had three other brothers, all of whom survived at the time of his death. |
| 25 | Trained as an opera singer, but was rarely--e.g. in The North Star (1943)--allowed to use his fine singing voice in the movies. In the one musical he did make, State Fair (1945), his voice was dubbed because the studio was unaware he was a trained singer. He later explained that he didn't correct their mistake because he felt the singer dubbing him probably needed the money. |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enchanted Island | 1958 | Abner 'Ab' Bedford | |
| The Fearmakers | 1958 | Alan Eaton | |
| Curse of the Demon | 1957 | John Holden | |
| Zero Hour! | 1957 | Lt. Ted Stryker | |
| Spring Reunion | 1957 | Fred Davis | |
| Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | 1956 | Tom Garrett | |
| While the City Sleeps | 1956 | Edward Mobley | |
| Comanche | 1956 | Jim Read | |
| Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes a Fishin' | 1956 | Short | Dana Andrews |
| Strange Lady in Town | 1955 | Dr. Rourke O'Brien | |
| Smoke Signal | 1955 | Brett Halliday | |
| Three Hours to Kill | 1954 | Jim Guthrie | |
| Duel in the Jungle | 1954 | Scott Walters | |
| Elephant Walk | 1954 | Dick Carver | |
| Assignment: Paris | 1952 | Jimmy Race | |
| I Want You | 1951 | Martin Greer | |
| The Frogmen | 1951 | Jake Flannigan | |
| Sealed Cargo | 1951 | Pat Bannon | |
| Edge of Doom | 1950 | Father Thomas Roth | |
| Where the Sidewalk Ends | 1950 | Det. Mark Dixon | |
| My Foolish Heart | 1949 | Walt Dreiser | |
| Sword in the Desert | 1949 | Mike Dillon | |
| The Forbidden Street | 1949 | Henry Lambert / Gilbert Lauderdale | |
| No Minor Vices | 1948 | Perry Ashwell | |
| Deep Waters | 1948 | Hod Stillwell | |
| The Iron Curtain | 1948 | Igor Gouzenko | |
| Daisy Kenyon | 1947 | Dan O'Mara | |
| Night Song | 1947 | Dan | |
| Boomerang! | 1947 | State's Atty. Henry L. Harvey | |
| The Best Years of Our Lives | 1946 | Fred Derry | |
| Canyon Passage | 1946 | Logan Stuart | |
| A Walk in the Sun | 1945 | Sgt. Bill Tyne | |
| Fallen Angel | 1945 | Eric Stanton | |
| State Fair | 1945 | Pat Gilbert | |
| Laura | 1944 | Det. Lt. Mark McPherson | |
| Wing and a Prayer | 1944 | Lt. Cmdr. Edward Moulton | |
| The Purple Heart | 1944 | Capt. Harvey Ross | |
| Up in Arms | 1944 | Joe | |
| December 7th: The Movie | 1943 | Ghost of US Sailor Killed at Pearl Harbor | |
| The North Star | 1943 | Kolya Simonov | |
| The Ox-Bow Incident | 1943 | Donald Martin | |
| Crash Dive | 1943 | Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors | |
| Berlin Correspondent | 1942 | Bill Roberts | |
| Ball of Fire | 1941 | Joe Lilac | |
| Swamp Water | 1941 | Ben | |
| Belle Starr | 1941 | Maj. Thomas Crail | |
| Tobacco Road | 1941 | Captain Tim | |
| The Westerner | 1940 | Hod Johnson | |
| Kit Carson | 1940 | Captain John C. Fremont | |
| Sailor's Lady | 1940 | Scrappy Wilson | |
| Lucky Cisco Kid | 1940 | Sgt. Dunn | |
| Prince Jack | 1984 | The Cardinal | |
| Falcon Crest | 1982-1983 | TV Series | Elliot McKay |
| The Love Boat | 1982 | TV Series | Mr. Paul Gerber |
| The Pilot | 1980 | Randolph Evers | |
| Ike: The War Years | 1980 | TV Movie | General George C. Marshall |
| Ike: The War Years | 1979 | TV Mini-Series | Gen. George C. Marshall |
| A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud | 1978 | Short | |
| The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | 1978 | TV Series | Townley |
| Born Again | 1978 | Tom Phillips | |
| The American Girls | 1978 | TV Series | Phillips |
| Good Guys Wear Black | 1978 | Edgar Harolds | |
| The Last Hurrah | 1977 | TV Movie | Roger Shanley |
| The Last Tycoon | 1976 | Red Ridingwood | |
| Ellery Queen | 1976 | TV Series | Lewis Marshall |
| Take a Hard Ride | 1975 | Morgan | |
| The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant | 1975 | TV Movie | Dr. Hutchins |
| A Shadow in the Streets | 1975 | TV Movie | Len Raeburn |
| Get Christie Love! | 1974 | TV Series | Sarge |
| Ironside | 1974 | TV Series | Courtenay Eliot |
| Airport 1975 | 1974 | Scott Freeman | |
| Innocent Bystanders | 1972 | Blake | |
| Night Gallery | 1971 | TV Series | Paul Koch (segment "The Different Ones") |
| The Failing of Raymond | 1971 | TV Movie | Allan McDonald |
| The Name of the Game | 1970 | TV Series | Marvin Taylor |
| Family Affair | 1969 | TV Series | Harv Mullen |
| Bright Promise | 1969 | TV Series | Thomas Boswell (1969-1970) |
| The Devil's Brigade | 1968 | Brig. Gen. Walter Naylor | |
| No Diamonds for Ursula | 1967 | Il gioielliere | |
| The Cobra | 1967 | Capt. Kelly | |
| The Ten Million Dollar Grab | 1967 | George Kimmins | |
| Hot Rods to Hell | 1967 | Tom Phillips | |
| The Frozen Dead | 1966 | Dr. Norberg | |
| Johnny Reno | 1966 | Johnny Reno | |
| Battle of the Bulge | 1965 | Col. Pritchard | |
| The Loved One | 1965 | Gen. Buck Brinkman | |
| Spy in Your Eye | 1965 | Col. Lancaster | |
| Town Tamer | 1965 | Tom Rosser | |
| Brainstorm | 1965 | Cort Benson | |
| Crack in the World | 1965 | Dr. Stephen Sorenson | |
| In Harm's Way | 1965 | Admiral Broderick | |
| The Satan Bug | 1965 | Gen. Williams | |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | 1964 | TV Series | Douglas Vinson |
| Ben Casey | 1964 | TV Series | Dr. Ernest Farrow |
| Alcoa Premiere | 1962-1963 | TV Series | Adam Stark / Pat Barrat |
| The Dick Powell Theatre | 1962-1963 | TV Series | Paul Oakland / Nat Keough |
| The Twilight Zone | 1963 | TV Series | Paul Driscoll |
| The DuPont Show of the Week | 1962 | TV Series | Commander Jason Vanning / Narrator |
| Checkmate | 1962 | TV Series | Judge Leland McIntyre |
| The Barbara Stanwyck Show | 1961 | TV Series | Clint Evans |
| Madison Avenue | 1961 | Clint Lorimer | |
| General Electric Theater | 1960 | TV Series | Carl Anderson |
| The Crowded Sky | 1960 | Dick Barnett | |
| Playhouse 90 | 1958-1960 | TV Series | Mark Bragg / Leo Bass |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Fair | 1945 | performer: "IT'S A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING" |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The New Bike | 2009 | Short acknowledgment |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 Years of Horror | 1996 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Star - 'Curse of the Demon' / Himself - Star, 'Curse of the Demon' |
| The 4th Annual American Cinema Awards | 1987 | TV Special | Himself |
| All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan | 1985 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Horror of It All | 1983 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Good Morning America | 1981 | TV Series | Himself |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Henry Fonda | 1978 | TV Special documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Hollywood & Vine | 1977 | Documentary short | Himself |
| The Mike Douglas Show | 1971-1976 | TV Series | Himself - Actor |
| This Is Your Life | 1973 | TV Series | Himself |
| The David Frost Show | 1972 | TV Series | Himself |
| Cinema | 1972 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Mantrap | 1971 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Presidency: A Splendid Misery | 1964 | TV Movie documentary | |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1963 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| What's My Line? | 1958-1962 | TV Series | Himself - Panelist |
| Here's Hollywood | 1961 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Bob Hope Show | 1961 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Annual National Sports Awards | 1961 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| The National Sports Awards | 1961 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| Person to Person | 1960 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| To Tell the Truth | 1960 | TV Series | Himself - Panelist |
| I've Got a Secret | 1958-1960 | TV Series | Himself - Celebrity Contestant / Himself - Guest |
| The 13th Annual Tony Awards | 1959 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| The 31st Annual Academy Awards | 1959 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1952-1958 | TV Series | Himself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss | 2010 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Dr. John Holden |
| Clandestine | 2009 | Short | Spy - Commercial |
| From Page to Screen to Stage: Rodgers & Hammerstein's State Fair | 2005 | Video short | Pat Gilbert |
| American Masters | 2001 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| 100 Years of Horror: Witchcraft and Demons | 1996 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Fonda on Fonda | 1992 | TV Movie documentary | Donald Martin (uncredited) |
| Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | 1991 | Documentary | Actor - 'Laura' (uncredited) |
| Showbiz Goes to War | 1982 | TV Movie | |
| Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies | 1982 | TV Movie documentary | Actor in 'The Ox-Bow Incident (uncredited) |
| Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals | 1974 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The Story on Page One | 1959 | Det. Lt. Mark McPherson | |
| The Art Director | 1949 | Documentary short | Himself - edited from 'Laura' (uncredited) |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | Golden Apple | Golden Apple Awards | Most Cooperative Actor |
Known for movies
Laura (1944)
as Det. Lt. Mark McPherson
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
as Fred Derry
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
as Donald Martin
Curse of the Demon (1957)
as John Holden