Cast: Dana Andrews
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Dana Andrews. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
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The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 · Movie · 170 min. · United States
Direction William Wyler
Cast Dana Andrews · Fredric March · Myrna Loy · Harold Russell
Synopsis The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) follows three American veterans returning home after World War II, each struggling to reintegrate into civilian life. Fred, a decorated bombardier, faces unemployment and marital strain. Al, a middle-aged sergeant, grapples with alcoholism...
8.2
8K votes
8.2
8K votes
Laura
1944 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Otto Preminger
Cast Gene Tierney · Dana Andrews · Clifton Webb · Judith Anderson
Synopsis Beautiful Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) is found shot to death in her apartment. Hard nosed Lieutenant Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is assigned as the lead investigator for the case. As he gets into the investigation, he learns that all the...
8.1
17K votes
8.1
17K votes
The Ox-Bow Incident
1942 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Henry Fonda · Dana Andrews · Mary Beth Hughes · Anthony Quinn
Synopsis In Nevada in 1885, two worn out cowboys, Gil (Henry Fonda) and Art (Harry Morgan), ride into Darby’s Saloon and Hotel looking for a drink. Shortly after their arrival, they learn that Mr. Kinkaid, a local resident, has been murdered...
8.0
4K votes
8.0
4K votes
Ball of Fire
1941 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Oskar Homolka · Henry Travers
Synopsis In Ball of Fire (1941), a group of professors working on an encyclopedia encounter Sugarpuss O'Shea, a vivacious nightclub singer on the run from the law. She takes refuge with them, bringing chaos and charm into their sheltered academic world....
7.9
6K votes
7.9
6K votes
While the City Sleeps
1956 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Dana Andrews · Ida Lupino · George Sanders · Rhonda Fleming
Synopsis A serial killer has been killing beautiful women in New York, and the new owner of a media company offers a high ranking job to the 1st administrator who can get the earliest scoops on the case.
7.4
3K votes
7.4
3K votes
The Westerner
1940 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction William Wyler
Cast Gary Cooper · Walter Brennan · Doris Davenport · Fred Stone
Synopsis "Cole Harden just doesn't look like a horse thief", Jane-Ellen Matthews tells Judge Roy Bean as she steps up to the bar. Cole says he can't take it with him as he empties all of his coins on the bar...
7.4
2K votes
7.4
2K votes
Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Otto Preminger
Cast Dana Andrews · Gene Tierney · Gary Merrill · Bert Freed
Synopsis Cop Mark Dixon (Dan Andrews) is already in trouble with his superiors for his brutal tactics when he accidentally kills a murder suspect. To protect himself, he decides to cover it up and pin the killing on a racketeer he...
7.4
2K votes
7.4
2K votes
Swamp Water
1941 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Jean Renoir
Cast Dana Andrews · Walter Brennan · Anne Baxter · Walter Huston
Synopsis "Butt-headed" Dana Andrews sets off into the Okefenokee swamp to look for his lost dog, despite his father's threat to disown him if he's not back in two days. He crosses paths with escaped convict Tom Keeler (Walter Brennan), a...
7.1
858 votes
7.1
858 votes
Tobacco Road
1941 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Charley Grapewin · Marjorie Rambeau · Gene Tierney · William Tracy
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1956 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Dana Andrews · Joan Fontaine · Sidney Blackmer · Arthur Franz
Synopsis Writer sets himself up to take murder rap to show the errors of circumstantial evidence. With a friend holding back evidence so he can prove his innocence at the last minute, he goes to trial. But during the trial, his...
7.1
3K votes
7.1
3K votes
Fallen Angel
1945 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Otto Preminger
Cast Dana Andrews · Alice Faye · Linda Darnell · Charles Bickford
Synopsis Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews), thrown off a bus for not having the fare, begins to frequent a diner called "Pop's Eats", whose main attraction is a beautiful waitress by the name of Stella. When Stella seems not interested in Eric,...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
Night of the Demon
1957 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jacques Tourneur
Cast Dana Andrews · Peggy Cummins · Niall MacGinnis · Maurice Denham
Synopsis Dr. John Holden ventures to London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the intention to expose devil cult leader, Julian Karswell. Holden is a skeptic and does not believe in Karswell's power. Nonetheless, he accepts an invitation to stay...
7.0
2K votes
7.0
2K votes
Night Gallery (TV Series)
1969 · Series · 50 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · Jeannot Szwarc · Jeff Corey · Gene R. Kearney
Cast Rod Serling · John Astin · Geraldine Page · Vincent Price
Synopsis Serling appeared in an art gallery setting and introduced the macabre tales that made up each episode by unveiling paintings (by artist Tom Wright) that depicted the stories. Night Gallery regularly presented adaptations of classic fantasy tales by authors such...
6.9
166 votes
6.9
166 votes
Daisy Kenyon
1947 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Otto Preminger
Cast Joan Crawford · Dana Andrews · Henry Fonda · Ruth Warrick
6.9
491 votes
6.9
491 votes
Canyon Passage
1946 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Jacques Tourneur
Cast Dana Andrews · Brian Donlevy · Susan Hayward · Patricia Roc
Synopsis In 1856, backwoods businessman Logan Stuart escorts Lucy Overmire, his friend's fiancée, back home to remote Jacksonville, Oregon; in the course of the hard journey, Lucy is attracted to Logan, whose heart seems to belong to another. Once arrived in...
6.8
724 votes
6.8
724 votes
Boomerang!
1947 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Elia Kazan
Cast Dana Andrews · Jane Wyatt · Lee J. Cobb · Arthur Kennedy
Synopsis This dramatization of a factual incident opens in a quiet Connecticut town where a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner. The citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John...
6.7
626 votes
6.7
626 votes
In Harm's Way
1965 · Movie · 167 min. · United States
Direction Otto Preminger
Cast John Wayne · Kirk Douglas · Patricia Neal · Tom Tryon
Synopsis This all-star epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor details the devastating sneak attack on the naval base as well as the explosive behind-the-scenes stories. A navy man goes out to capture strategic islands held by the Japanese during...
6.6
805 votes
6.6
805 votes
Sealed Cargo
1951 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Alfred L. Werker
Cast Dana Andrews · Carla Balenda · Claude Rains · Philip Dorn
Synopsis During the war off Nova Scotia a fishing boat comes across a badly damaged Danish schooner with only the captain aboard after it has apparently been shelled by a German U-boat. Not realising the sinister real purpose of the larger...
6.5
87 votes
6.5
87 votes
Battle of the Bulge
1965 · Movie · 167 min. · United States
Direction Ken Annakin
Cast Henry Fonda · Robert Ryan · Robert Shaw · Dana Andrews
Synopsis This World War II spectacular tells the story of the tank battles of December, 1944, in which the Nazi Panzer forces staged a massive last-ditch offensive on the Belgian front. An action-packed drama about the battle that brought World War...
6.4
2K votes
6.4
2K votes
Elephant Walk
1954 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Dana Andrews · Peter Finch · Abraham Sofaer
Synopsis John Wiley takes his new bride, Ruth to "Elephant Walk", a tea plantation in Ceylon which happens to be on the path where elephants roam. Soon Ruth discovers the truth about John's plantation and the effect it has on him....
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes