TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Dana Andrews.
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Birthdate: January 1, 1909
Death date: December 17, 1992
Dana Andrews
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1940s
2.8635
31
1950s
2.5005
19
1960s
2.1603
17
1970s
1.4782
6
1980s
No Reviews
2
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.6588
2.6588
Dana Andrews Movie Rankings
1
3.5152Three American servicemen return home to Boone City after the war, to find their lives irrevocably changed by their military experience. ...more about Best Years of Our Lives
DVD from $4.86
(13 sellers)
2
3.2884Detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is investigating the murder of a famous advertising agent named Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney). While investigating the murder Mark falls in love with Laura through her photographs and the things he learns about her from her diary, letters, friends and family. ...more about Laura
DVD from $6.59
(13 sellers)
3
3.0181A local farmer has been killed and his cattle stolen. The towns people ban together to catch the murdering thief. A couple of traveling cowboys get wrapped up in the comotion and join the mob hoping to serve justice. ...more about Ox-Bow Incident
DVD from $4.86
(11 sellers)
4
2.8636
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent this occurrence, Hitler orders an all out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp. ...more about Battle of the Bulge
DVD from $4.60
(14 sellers)
5
2.8570
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. ...more about Loved One
DVD from $12.71
(11 sellers)
6
2.8457
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. ...more about Night of the Demon
DVD from $15.97
(8 sellers)
7
2.7727
Cole Hardin 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 to buy drinks for the jury. ...more about Westerner
- Not Available on DVD
8
2.7500
Against his personal preference, PT boat commander Ward Stewart is made executive officer of the submarine USS Corsair. On leave before sailing, he meets schoolteacher Jean Hewlett and gives her a romantic rush... ...more about Crash Dive
DVD from $8.97
(8 sellers)
9
2.7267
Sexy, wisecracking nightclub singer Sugarpuss O'Shea is a hot tomato who needs to be kept on ice: mobster boyfriend Joe Lilac is suspected of murder and Sugarpuss' testimony could put him away. ...more about Ball of Fire
- Not Available on DVD
10
2.6658
Colonial tea planter John Wiley, visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation. ...more about Elephant Walk
DVD from $7.18
(10 sellers)
11
2.6341
A WWII film of the highest caliber, THE FROGMEN sports fast-paced action and extraordinary cinematography, and earned a well-deserved Oscar nomination for its especially breathtaking underwater photography. Richard Widmark (HOW THE WEST WAS WON) stars as Lt. Cmdr. ...more about Frogmen
DVD from $5.86
(11 sellers)
12
2.6170
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. ...more about Boomerang!
- Not Available on DVD
14
2.5387
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of hillbilly stereotypes live in a rural backwater where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. ...more about Tobacco Road
- Not Available on DVD
15
2.5058
Farm family Frake, with discontented daughter Margy, head for the Iowa State Fair. On the first day, both Margy and brother Wayne meet attractive new flames; so does father's prize hog, Blue Boy. ...more about State Fair
DVD from $12.99
(12 sellers)
16
2.4519
Commercial artist Daisy Kenyon is involved with married lawyer Dan O'Mara, and hopes someday to marry him, if he ever divorces his wife Lucille. ...more about Daisy Kenyon
- Not Available on DVD
17
2.4474
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in love with his best friend Joe. ...more about Up in Arms
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.4218
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 seems disinterested in Eric, he decides if he had money she would ...more about Fallen Angel
DVD from $6.59
(9 sellers)
19
2.3515
Documentary about the bombing of Pearl Habour on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US effors to beat back the Japanese inforcements. ...more about December 7th
DVD from $2.99
(10 sellers)
20
2.3260
Captain Rockwell Torrey and Commander Paul Eddington are part of the Navy's effort to recuperate from, and retaliate for, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. ...more about In Harm's Way
DVD from $3.90
(11 sellers)
21
2.2921
After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. ...more about My Foolish Heart
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.2908
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 friend is killed in a car accident. ...more about Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
- Not Available on DVD
23
2.2894
Cop Mark Dixon is already in trouble with his superiors for his brutal tactics when he accidentally kills a murder suspect. ...more about Where the Sidewalk Ends
DVD from $6.54
(10 sellers)
24
2.2830
An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway. ...more about Wing and a Prayer
DVD from $8.65
(12 sellers)
25
2.2747
A mid-air collision involving a a small plane and a commercial jetliner leads to potential disaster, as a plane loaded with passengers and no pilot becomes the worst nightmare for a flight attendant tasked with flying the craft. ...more about Airport 1975
DVD from $12.95
(10 sellers)
26
2.2373
In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount. ...more about Walk in the Sun
DVD from $5.16
(8 sellers)
27
2.1820
During World War II a special fighting unit is formed combining a crack Canadian outfit and a conglomeration of US Army misfits previously serving time in military jails. ...more about Devil's Brigade
DVD from $9.99
(8 sellers)
28
2.1812
A routine flight turns into a major emergency as passengers and crew succumb to food poisoning - is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane? If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because 'Airplane' was a send-up of this forerunner of the 1970s ...more about Zero Hour!
- Not Available on DVD
29
2.1112
Death of media magnat Amos Kyne is causing power struggle between his executives. In the meantime New York women become prey of a serial killer. ...more about While the City Sleeps
- Not Available on DVD
31
2.0547
In a peaceful Ukrainian village, the school year is just ending in June 1941. ...more about North Star
- Not Available on DVD
32
1.9756
This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals. ...more about Purple Heart
DVD from $9.59
(9 sellers)
35
1.8064
A germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the nasty germs has gotten free and killed several scientists. ...more about Satan Bug
- Not Available on DVD
36
1.6820
The former leader of a commando rescue attempt into Vietnam tries to discover why his squad members are being murdered, one-by-one, after the war is over. ...more about Good Guys Wear Black
DVD from $7.99
(10 sellers)
37
1.6803
A hunter (Andrews) happens upon a fugitive (Brennan) and his daughter (Baxter) living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and pursuades the fugitive to return to town. ...more about Swamp Water
- Not Available on DVD
38
1.6712
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. ...more about Canyon Passage
- Not Available on DVD
39
1.6176
A young scientist saves an attractive married woman from a suicide attempt, becomes romantically involved with her, plots to kill her husband, and then fakes insanity to escape the murder charge. ...more about Brainstorm
- Not Available on DVD
45
The setting is the Civil War and its aftermath. Belle's family has lost their land to Yankees. She marries Confederate guerilla leader Sam Starr and they continue activities against exploiters until she is shot riding to alert Sam to a trap. ...more about Belle Starr
- Not Available on DVD
46
American correspondent Bill Roberts (Dana Andrews) is a thorn in the side of the Nazis, as his paper always scoops the world with the truth about Germany. ...more about Berlin Correspondent
- Not Available on DVD
48
Charles Colson was involved in the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the administration of former President Richard Nixon. ...more about Born Again
- Not Available on DVD
51
Dr. Steven Sorenson (Andrews) plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth. ...more about Crack in the World
- Not Available on DVD
52
An navy jet with a defective radio system and a passenger plane get in danger of collision. In flashbacks we learn about the personal problems of the pilots and most of the crew. ...more about Crowded Sky
- Not Available on DVD
55
An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the coast. The broker was insured for $1 million so the insurerers are suspicious. ...more about Duel in the Jungle
- Not Available on DVD
56
A man is disabled in a car wreck and decides to move to the desert and open a hotel, only to be terorized by the native kids, in garish shirts, who chase his family off the road in their souped-up cars and play loud music. ...more about Hot Rods to Hell
DVD from $8.63
(11 sellers)
57
In 1950, life as usual in a middle-American town. Cold War paranoia is beginning; the young men's biggest concern is the draft board and deferments from the peacetime army. ...more about I Want You
- Not Available on DVD
59
Trapper Kit Carson and his band of men join John C. Fremont on his way to California. Enroute they are subjected to Indian attacks that are propagated by the Mexican Government, that does not want the contingency to reach California. ...more about Kit Carson
- Not Available on DVD
60
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. ...more about Lucky Cisco Kid
- Not Available on DVD
62
Cathy Mallory, beautiful socialite who prefers classical music, is taken by friends to a back-alley dance club. There, she meets blind pianist Dan Evans, who plays in Chick Morgan's swing band but seems to be a composer of great promise. ...more about Night Song
- Not Available on DVD
63
Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. So confident is he of his position that he introduces rich attractive painter Octavio Quaglini to his office and home. ...more about No Minor Vices
- Not Available on DVD
64
Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year". Nobody knows that he's got private sorrows - he's an alcoholic. A stewardess notices his regular visits of the toilet and reports it. ...more about Pilot
- Not Available on DVD
66
Sailor (Hall) is going to marry his girlfriend (Kelly) when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship. ...more about Sailor's Lady
- Not Available on DVD
67
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. ...more about Sealed Cargo
- Not Available on DVD
68
Capt. Harper's cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent cause is the recapture of Army traitor Brett Halliday, who deserted to the Utes in a previous war; but Brett has a different story. ...more about Smoke Signal
- Not Available on DVD
69
The Class of '41 at Carson High School is holding it's 15th Reunion. "Boy Most Likely To Succeed" Fred Davis is in town to sell his house before taking a job in San Francisco; he's been wandering from town to town since leaving college. ...more about Spring Reunion
- Not Available on DVD
72
Cynical freighter captain Mike Dillon hopes to take the money and run after helping to smuggle Jewish refugees ashore in pre-Israel Palestine. ...more about Sword in the Desert
- Not Available on DVD
74
After three years on the run, Jim Guthrie returns with the scar of a rope burn on his neck. In flashback we learn how he was framed for murder but then escaped from the lynch mob just as he was about to be hung. ...more about Three Hours to Kill
- Not Available on DVD
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