Dana Andrews Movies

Want to know the best Dana Andrews movies?  How about the worst Dana Andrews movies?  Curious about Dana Andrews box office grosses or which Dana Andrews movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Dana Andrews movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Dana Andrews (1909-1992) was an American actor whose career lasted almost 50 years.  Andrews was one of the biggest stars in the 1940s….appearing in 18 $100 million (adjusted gross) box office hits from 1940 to 1949.  His IMDb page shows 104 acting credits from 1940-1984. This page will rank Dana Andrews movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in theaters were not included in the rankings.

Drivel part of the page:  We have been getting requests for a Dana Andrews page for years now.  The length of his career and the many low budget movies pretty much scared us away….but….we finally a Dana Andrews UMR page.  Sorry for the delay:  SteinHOF, Hinton66, Flora, Bob, Pierre, Lyle and anybody else that has made this request over the last three or four years.

Dana Andrews in 1946’s The Best Years Of Our Lives

Dana Andrews Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Dana Andrews Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Dana Andrews movies by co-stars of his movies.
  • Sort Dana Andrews movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Dana Andrews movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Dana Andrews movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Dana Andrews movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Dana Andrews movie won.
  • Sort Dana Andrews movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Dana Andrews in 1944’s Laura

Ten Possibly Interesting Facts About Dana Andrews

1. Carver Dana Andrews was born near Collins, Mississippi in 1909.

2. Dana Andrews worked at a gas station near Los Angeles while waiting for his big show business break.  In 1940 after 9 years he appeared in his first movie.  He appeared in 4 movies that with Gary Cooper’s The Westerner being the most famous.

3. Dana Andrews was a trained opera singer.  He rarely got to use his singing voice on screen. It can be heard in 1943’s The North Star….but he is dubbed in his 1945 musical State Fair.

3. Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney appeared in 5 movies together.  Their 5 movies grossed over $635 million in adjusted domestic box office…..that included 4 movies that crossed the $100 million gross mark.  Their most famous together is 1944’s Laura.

4. Dana Andrews was never nominated for an Oscar® or a Golden Globe®….actually on IMDb.com…the only award listed is the Golden Apple Award for Most Cooperative Actor.  That seems a shame.

5. Dana Andrews career domestic adjusted box office is $5.82 billion.  From 1940 to 1949, Andrews appeared in 30 movies that grossed $3.94 billion or $132.52 million per movie.  From 1950 to 1980 he appeared in 39 movies that grossed $2.03 billion or $52.05 million per movie.

6. After not appearing in a movie in 1962, 1963 and 1964…Dana Andrews appeared in 8 movies in 1965.

7. Dana Andrews was married twice…..he had four children.

8. Dana Andrews was the older brother of actor Steve “Mommie Dearest” Forrest.  Dana was 16 years older than Steve.  Steve and Dana appeared together in one film….1951’s Sealed Cargo.

9. Dana Andrews was president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) from 1963-65.

10. Check out Dana Andrews’ career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

And finally…..we have adjusted Worldwide Box Office Grosses on 9 Dana Andrews Movies

  1. Ball of Fire (1941) $256.30 million in adjusted worldwide gross
  2. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) $859.60 million in adjusted worldwide gross
  3. Canyon Passage (1946) $266.80 million in adjusted worldwide gross
  4. Edge Of Doom (1950) $58.40 million in adjusted worldwide gross
  5. Night Song (1947) $96.60 million in adjusted worldwide gross
  6. No Minor Vices (1948) $35.60 million in adjusted worldwide gross
  7. The North Star (1943) $244.10 million in adjusted worldwide gross
  8. Sealed Cargo (1951) $57.70 million in adjusted worldwide gross
  9. Strange Lady In Town (1955) $121.60 million in adjusted worldwide gross

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Editor’s note:  Calculating adjusted is not an exact science.  Most of our calculations are based on solid sources that we have collected over the years.  In this page we have some great sources for almost all of Dana Andrews’ movies from 1940 to about 1954. After 1955…our sources get a little shaky on some of his movies…as we had to use biographies, movie books, articles and other sources that do not provide the best statistics.   So please keep that in mind when you are looking at the grosses of some of his low budget B movies.

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60 thoughts on “Dana Andrews Movies”

  1. Thanks Mr. Cogerson. I had forgotten I had made this request. That was probably when I first discovered your wonderful website. My grandfather loved Dana Andrews and I have fond memories of watching some great action films with him. Favorites would include A Walk In The Sun, Battle of the Bulge and In Harm’s Way. Never much of a fan of Best Years no action lots of talking. Thanks so much for this page.

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    1. Hey SteinHOF….you are very welcome. So that was one of your first requests? Very cool to know that…sorry it took so long. Thanks for sharing your memories of watching Dana Andrews war movies with your grandfather….sounds like a great memory.

      “Never much of a fan of Best Years”….sorry to hear that….but I agree there is no action in this one….just the effects of war…..and it is certainly not a movie that begs for re-watching. Good comment!

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  2. You gotta see Hot Rods to Hell (1967), seeing is believing.

    Dana Andrews is not currently on the Oracle of Bacon Top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list. He was 451 on the original list. These are the people on the current list who worked with Dana.

    Airport 1975 (1974) – 77 Karen Black, 247 Charlton Heston, 313 George Kennedy, 347 Clyde Kusatsu, 869 Jerry Stiller
    Battle of the Bulge (1965) – 767 Robert Rietty
    Deep Waters (1948) – 198 Dean Stockwell
    In Harm’s Way (1965) – 313 George Kennedy
    Innocent Bystanders (1972) – 122 Geraldine Chaplin, 323 Donald Pleasence
    My Foolish Heart (1949) – 912 Arthur Tovey
    No Minor Vices (1948) – 677 Beau Bridges
    Spring Reunion (1957) – 912 Arthur Tovey
    Strange Lady in Town (1955) – 840 Lois Smith
    The Devil’s Brigade (1968) – 914 Cliff Robertson
    The Frogmen (1951) – 271 Robert Wagner, 762 Jack Warden
    The Last Tycoon (1976) – 6 Robert De Niro, 15 Seymour Cassell, 323 Donald Pleasence, 382 Anjelica Huston, 491 Jack Nicholson, 809 Robert Mitchum, 819 Theresa Russell, 897 Tony Curtis
    The Loved One (1965) – 112 Rod Steiger, 413 James Coburn, 592 John Gielgud, 937 Robert Easton
    The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) – 681 Anthony Quinn
    The Pilot (1980) – 914 Cliff Robertson
    The Satan Bug (1965) – 67 James Hong, 482 Edward Asner
    The Westerner (1940) – Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan
    Three Hours to Kill (1954) – Donna Reed
    Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) – Karl Malden
    While the City Sleeps (1956) – George Sanders, Thomas Mitchell

    I count 34 Oscar winners that Dana worked with;

    Airport 1975 (1974) – Charlton Heston, George Kennedy
    Assignment Paris (1952) – George Sanders
    Ball of Fire (1941) – Gary Cooper
    Battle of the Bulge (1965) – Henry Fonda
    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) – Joan Fontaine
    Boomerang! (1947) – Karl Malden
    Canyon Passage (1946) – Susan Hayward
    Crash Dive (1943) – Anne Baxter
    Daisy Kenyon (1947) – Henry Fonda, Joan Crawford
    December 7th (1943) – Walter Huston
    Elephant Walk (1954) – Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Finch
    In Harm’s Way (1965) – George Kennedy, Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Patricia Neal
    My Foolish Heart (1949) – Susan Hayward
    Night Song (1947) – Ethel Barrymore
    Strange Lady in Town (1955) – Greer Garson
    Swamp Water (1941) – Anne Baxter, Walter Brennan, Walter Huston
    The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) – Fredric March, Harold Russell, Teresa Wright
    The Devil’s Brigade (1968) – Cliff Robertson, William Holden
    The Last Tycoon (1976) – Anjelica Huston, Jack Nicholson, Ray Milland, Robert De Niro
    The Loved One (1965) – James Coburn, John Gielgud, Rod Steiger
    The North Star (1943) – Anne Baxter, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Walter Huston
    The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) – Anthony Quinn, Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell
    The Pilot (1980) – Cliff Robertson
    The Purple Heart (1944) – Anne Baxter

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    1. Hey Dan
      1. Thanks for the visit.
      2. I will have to see if I can track down Hot Rods to Hell….I was shocked when that title appeared on the Variety top grosser list.
      3. So he went from the Top 500 to off the list…it always seems sad when you share that info.
      4. The Last Tycoon is loaded with Oracle stars…to bad it is not a good movie.
      5. 34 Oscar winners seems slightly less than average for a person in so many movies and with such a long career.
      Thanks for sharing this information.

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  3. Hello Bruce,

    Good choice this page. Dana Andrews was a good actor and I like all the 10 movies that I’ve seen with him. But in France, except Best Years of Our Live, he hasn’t big success. Years was a hit with near of 4.7 millions admissions.

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    1. Hey Laurent….thanks for checking out our latest page. So in our tally contest…..many countries are well represented.

      Flora/Canada….27 Dana movies watched
      Bern1960/Canada….26 Dana movies watched
      Lupino/Germany…..26 Dana movies watched
      Steve/England…..16 Dana movies watched
      Cogerson/USA….14 Dana movies watched
      Laurent/France…..10 Dana movies watched

      Interesting that only Best Years of Our Lives was successful in France….I would have guessed some of his film noir classics would have been popular over there…movies like Laura and Whee The Sidewalk Ends. 🙂

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      1. Laura, is his knowest movie in France today. But at the time it was a little success with 1.1 admissions. The Sidewalk Ends was a flop.

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        1. Hey Laurent…..thanks for the box office in France on Laura….so the home of Film Noir did support one of the greatest film noir movies of all-time…..you guys make no sense….lol (laugh out loud).

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      2. Lol, this is what is called the French paradox.

        In fact, it was because of the Second World War. Between 1940 and 1945, during the German occupation, American films were banned in France. On the liberation between the French, American and other nationalities, the reissue of successes of the thirties, and the American and English films released during these six years, the French public was literally overwhelmed with films. Thousands every year for 4-5 years. It was too much and the selection was unforgiving.
        After six years of occupation, the French wanted to see gay movies, movies to escape the mind. Comedy, adventure films, comedies, operettas and, of course, comedies. So for the dramas, the darker westerns than in the previous decade, war movies and obviously Film noirs, it was difficult to be successful.
        Films noirs were very appreciated by French critics, but much less by the public. However, the genre had its audience that was faithful to him. While there were never any big successes in the genre, these films regularly made between 500,000 and more than one million admissions.
        Me on the other hand, I am a fan of these films.

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        1. Hey Laurent…great information in this comment. I had never even thought of that….that would take many years to digest that many movies. That would be like not seeing a new Hollywood movie from 2011 to 2016….and then having all of the last 6 years of movies in theaters…all the time the 2017 movies are here to. I am sure some French movie buffs could add the end of the movie boycott as another great reason the war ended. It is mind boggling. One of the best comments ever here at UMR. Really opened my eyes.

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  4. Dana Andrews, good actor, brother of Steve Forrest. Is there a resemblance? A bit?

    I’ve seen 16 of the 68 films here, maybe more I can’t remember the titles. Favorites include – Night of the Demon (one of my favorite classic horrors, watched it many times on TV, video tape and DVD), Battle of the Bulge, The Satan Bug, Airport 75, Zero Hour! (the inspiration for Airplane) and Laura.

    It’s that film again! I still have not seen The Best Years of Our Lives, State Fair, A Wing and a Prayer or Fallen Angel.

    Good to see Night of the Demon in the critics top 10. And it’s interesting to note that the mighty Best Years of Our Lives has been knocked down to no.2 on the critics chart by a Howard Hawks comedy.

    Whoa! The Best Lives of Our Years was a monster hit at the worldwide box office in adjusted dollars. I am impressed. One day I will see this much vaunted film (and probably wonder what all the fuss was about). It does have the lovely Myrna ‘Hollywood’s Box Office Queen’ Loy in the cast and that’s always a good reason to watch. 🙂

    Another expert movie page Bruce. Has to be a Vote Up!

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    1. Hey Steve….one day you will see The Best Years Of Our Lives…and one day Flora will see The Godfather….lol. Your 16 has me slightly beat…but looking at the other tally counts out there…you are off the medal platform.

      Of the ones you listed as favorites…I have not seen The Satan Bug or Zero Hero….while the only one I have seen of your missing movies is Best Years. Night of the Demon also known as Curse of the Demon is a cult classic…filled with some great performances. Huge Myrna fans like Bob just can’t understand why you have not seen her greatest movie…lol.

      As for the top critic/audience score …the top three are almost tied…with Ball of Fire having a slight edge. Thanks for yet another great comment.

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  5. 1. Dana is done.
    2. I have seen 14 of these 68 movies or 20.58%
    3. Favorites include Laura (of course), Ox-Bow Incident, Night of the Demon and Best Years Of Our Lives.
    4. Yes Steve…..another page in which the person’s top movie is The Best Years Of Our Lives.
    5. This page wiped me out tonight….need to get some sleep….will have to catch up on comments tomorrow.

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