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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