Cast: Dana Andrews

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Dana Andrews. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Best Years of Our Lives

1946 · Movie · 170 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Dana Andrews · Fredric March · Myrna Loy · Harold Russell

Plot After the Second World War, the soldiers who survived, some of them with physical problems, came back to the United States. Initially, they were treated as heroes, but afterwards they...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 8 Professors are in the 9th year of a 12 year encyclopedia writing project. The youngest is Bertram Potts who specializes in language and grammar. When Professor Potts discovers that...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot "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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot "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...

7.1

858 votes

7.1

858 votes

Tobacco Road

1941 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

6.9

166 votes

6.9

166 votes

Daisy Kenyon

1947 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

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

Plot 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,...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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....

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

Plot 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...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes