Dana Andrews
Carver Dana Andrews ( born January 1, 1909 in Covington County, Mississippi, USA, † December 17, 1992 in Los Alamitos, California ) was an American actor.
Life
Andrews was born as one of thirteen children of a Baptist minister. In 1931 he went to Los Angeles to find a job as a singer. In order to secure his livelihood, he took part in a variety of positions. One of his employers believed in Andrews ' talent and financed his studies at the opera and a drama school. 1940 Andrews received his first role in William Wyler's film The Westerner on the side of Gary Cooper.
His role in The Ox -Bow in 1943 is often referred to as his most important. Stardom but became Andrews in 1944 through the film Laura starring Gene Tierney and 1946 with the best years of our lives; However, his popularity faded quickly thereafter. From 1963-1965 was president of the Screen Actors Guild Andrews. His later films were not commercially successful; he only received commitments for so-called B- movies and took refuge more and more in the alcohol. After successfully fighting his alcoholism, he sat down in the 1970s for drug prevention campaigns and worked mainly for television.
Andrews later became ill with Alzheimer's disease and died in 1992 of heart failure. He left behind two daughters and a son from his marriage to his second wife, Mary Todd - his first, actress Janet Murray, had died in 1932 shortly after the birth of their son.
In the opening song Science Fiction / Double Feature of The Rocky Horror Show Dana Andrews is mentioned in The Curse of the Demon because of the notoriety of his role.