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Aliases: Carver Dana Andrews

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Covington County, Mississippi, USA

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Movie Involvements: 79

TV Involvements: 18


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

What's My Line?
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7

What's My Line?

(1950) Self - Panelist
Ironside
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7

Ironside

(1967) Courtenay Eliot
The Twilight Zone
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8

The Twilight Zone

(1959) Paul Driscoll
Falcon Crest
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6

Falcon Crest

(1981) Elliot McKay
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
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7
Night Gallery
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8

Night Gallery

(1970) Paul Koch (segment "The Different Ones")
Ben Casey
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6

Ben Casey

(1961) Dr. Ernest Farrow
Checkmate
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4

Checkmate

(1960) Judge Leland McIntyre

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2001 Self (archive footage)
1991 Det. Lt. Mark McPherson (archive footage) (uncredited)
1985 The Cardinal
1983 Himself
1982 (archive footage)
1981 Elliot McKay
1980 Randolph Evers
1979 Gen. George C. Marshall
Gen. George C. Marshall
1978 Tom Phillips
Phillips
Edgar Harolds
The Man
1977 Roger Shanley
Mr. Paul Gerber
Townley
1976 Red Ridingwood
1975 Morgan
Lewis Marshall
Dr. Hutchins
Len Raeburn
1974 Scott Freeman
Sarge
1973 Self
1972 Blake
1971 Allan McDonald
1970 Paul Koch (segment "The Different Ones")
1969 Thomas Boswell
1968 Self - Guest
Brig. Gen. Walter Naylor
1967 Il gioielliere
Courtenay Eliot
Capt. Kelly
George Kimmins
Tom Phillips
1966 Dr. Norberg
Harv Mullen
Johnny Reno
1965 Colonel Pritchard
Gen. Buck Brinkman
Col. Lancaster
Tom Rosser
Cort Benson
Dr. Stephen Sorenson
Admiral Broderick
Gen. Williams
1963 Douglas Vinson
1961 Dr. Ernest Farrow
Paul Oakland
Nat Keough
Cdr. Jason Vanning
Narrator
N/A
Clint Lorimer
1960 Clint Evans
Judge Leland McIntyre
Dick Barnett
1959 Paul Driscoll
1958 Abner "Ab" Bedford
Alan Eaton
1957 Lt. Ted Stryker
Dr. John Holden
Fred Davis
Kolya Simonov
1956 Mark Bragg
Leo Bass
Tom Garrett
Edward Mobley
Jim Read
1955 Dr. Rourke O'Brien
Brett Halliday
1954 Jim Guthrie
Scott Walters
Dick Carver
1953 Carl Anderson
1952 Jimmy Race
1951 Roger Shanley
Martin Greer
Pat Bannon
Jake Flannigan
1950 Thomas Roth
Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon
Self - Panelist
Walt Dreiser
1949 Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mike Dillon
Henry Lambert / Gilbert Lauderdale
1948 Perry Ashwell
Hod Stillwell
Self
Igor Gouzenko
Dan Evans
1947 Dan O'Mara
State's Attorney Henry L. Harvey
1946 Fred Derry
Logan Stuart
1945 Sgt. Bill Tyne
Eric Stanton
Pat Gilbert
N/A
1944 Det. Lt. Mark McPherson
Capt. Harvey Ross
Joe Nelson
Edward Moulton
1943 Kolya Simonov
Lt. Cdr. Dewey Connors
Donald Martin
Ghost of US sailor killed at Pearl Harbor
1942 Bill Roberts
1941 Joe Lilac
Ben Ragan
Thomas Crail
Capt. Tim Harmon
1940 Hod Johnson
Captain John C. Fremont
Scrappy Wilson
Sergeant Dunn
Year Character Movie/Tv

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