Timeline Dana Andrews

American actor, a leading man of 1940s film noir and war films, from Laura to The Best Years of Our Lives.

All

Person

Event

Conflicts

Disaster / crisis

Science

Culture

Companies

Countries

Dashed left edge = started before this timeline · Dashed right edge = still ongoing

Dana Andrews 17

1909 Dana Andrews born in Collins, Mississippi Dana Andrews is born in Collins, Mississippi.
1931 Dana Andrews hitchhikes to Los Angeles He heads to California hoping to become a singer and ends up at the Pasadena Playhouse.
1940 Dana Andrews in The Westerner One of his first film roles, in William Wyler's western.
1941 Dana Andrews in Ball of Fire He plays gangster Joe Lilac in Howard Hawks's comedy.
1941 Dana Andrews in Tobacco Road He appears in John Ford's film of the Erskine Caldwell novel.
1943 Dana Andrews in The Ox-Bow Incident He plays one of three men lynched by a posse.
1944 Dana Andrews in Laura He plays detective Mark McPherson opposite Gene Tierney.
1945 Dana Andrews in A Walk in the Sun He leads a platoon in the Second World War drama.
1945 Dana Andrews in State Fair He stars in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
1946 Dana Andrews in The Best Years of Our Lives He plays returning airman Fred Derry.
1947 Dana Andrews in Boomerang! He plays a prosecutor in Elia Kazan's drama.
1950 Dana Andrews in Where the Sidewalk Ends He reunites with Gene Tierney and Otto Preminger.
1956 Dana Andrews in While the City Sleeps He stars in Fritz Lang's newspaper thriller.
1957 Dana Andrews in Night of the Demon He stars in Jacques Tourneur's horror film.
1963 Dana Andrews president of the Screen Actors Guild He leads the actors' union until 1965.
1965 Dana Andrews in Battle of the Bulge He appears in the war epic.
1992 Dana Andrews dies in Los Alamitos Dana Andrews dies aged 83.