Edward Andrews

Actor

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Birth Place

Griffin, Georgia, USA

Born

October 09, 1914

Died

March 08, 1985

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

Biography

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Beaming, hearty character player with ubiquitous glasses who made a memorable film debut after a twenty-year stage career (at age forty) as the disingenuous power broker in "The Phenix City Story" (1955). Andrews used his amiable presence to convey quietly menacing villains and bluff, scheming bureaucrats as easily as he played avuncular, hale-and-hearty types; he was often cast as innoc...

Filmography

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Gremlins (1984)

Sixteen Candles (1984)

The Final Countdown (1980)

Undercover With the KKK (1979)

The Seniors (1978)

Lacy and the Mississippi Queen (1978)

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Brass Bottle, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) You're Beginning To Twitch

Brass Bottle, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Also From The Caterer?

Biography

Beaming, hearty character player with ubiquitous glasses who made a memorable film debut after a twenty-year stage career (at age forty) as the disingenuous power broker in "The Phenix City Story" (1955). Andrews used his amiable presence to convey quietly menacing villains and bluff, scheming bureaucrats as easily as he played avuncular, hale-and-hearty types; he was often cast as innocent dupes as well as clever business sharks. Andrews was featured in four Doris Day films and made guest appearances as her publisher on "The Doris Day Show" (1968-73).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Gremlins (1984)

Sixteen Candles (1984)

The Final Countdown (1980)

Undercover With the KKK (1979)

The Seniors (1978)

Lacy and the Mississippi Queen (1978)

Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready (1977)

How to Break Up a Happy Divorce (1976)

Charley and the Angel (1973)

[Joseph] J. J. Blodgett

Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972)

Mr. [Wilfred] Sampson

The Streets of San Francisco (1972)

The Man Who Came to Dinner (1972)

How to Frame a Figg (1971)

Mayor [Robert] Chisholm

The Million Dollar Duck (1971)

Travis Logan, D.A. (1971)

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Adm. Harold R. Stark

The Trouble with Girls (1969)

The Over-the-Hill Gang (1969)

The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)

Gen. Wallace Bleecker

Birds Do It (1966)

General Smithburn

Youngblood Hawke (1964)

A Tiger Walks (1964)

Good Neighbor Sam (1964)

The Brass Bottle (1964)

Kisses for My President (1964)

Send Me No Flowers (1964)

Dr. Ralph Morrisey

Forty Pounds of Trouble (1963)

The Man From Galveston (1963)

The Thrill of It All (1963)

Gardiner Fraleigh

Son of Flubber (1963)

Defense secretary

Advise & Consent (1962)

Sen. Orrin Knox

The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)

Defense secretary

The Young Doctors (1961)

The Young Savages (1961)

Love in a Goldfish Bowl (1961)

Senator Clyde Holloway

Night of the Quarter Moon (1959)

The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958)

Trooper Hook (1957)

Charlie Travers

Three Brave Men (1957)

Mayor Henry Jensen

The Tattered Dress (1957)

Lester Rawlings

Hot Summer Night (1957)

The Harder They Fall (1956)

The Unguarded Moment (1956)

Tea and Sympathy (1956)

These Wilder Years (1956)

Mr. [Leland G.] Spottsford

Tension at Table Rock (1956)

Friendly Persuasion (1956)

The Phenix City Story (1955)

Cast (Special)

Bell, Book and Candle (1976)

Bishop Fairbarn

Where's the Fire? (1975)

Keep U.S. Beautiful (1973)

Inside O.U.T. (1971)

Director Of Finance

Make More Room For Daddy (1967)

Colonel Macadams; Susan'S Father

Call to Danger (1961)

Notorious (1961)

Captain Prescott

O'Connor's Ocean (1960)

Ben Matthews (Guest)

Cast (Short)

Rushin' Art (1936)

Life Events

1926

Stage acting debut

1935

Broadway acting debut, "How Beautiful With Shoes"

1955

Screen acting debut in "The Phenix City Story"

1964

Played Commander Rogers Adrian on TV series, "Broadside"

Videos

Brass Bottle, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) You're Beginning To Twitch Leading man Tony Randall as architect Harold brings home the ancient bottle he's been warned is probably a fake, as a gift for his Egyptologist presumptive father-in-law (Edward Andrews) and wife (Ann Doran), who came home from Europe after hearing that he was engaged to their daughter (Barbara Eden), early in The Brass Bottle, 1964.

Brass Bottle, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Also From The Caterer? In total panic because his unwanted genie (Burl Ives) turned his house into an Arabian pleasure palace before the dinner he planned with his fianceè (Barbara Eden) and his skeptical in-laws (Edward Andrews, Ann Doran), things get even worse for architect Harold (Tony Randall) when a dancing “houri” (Kamala Devi) appears, in The Brass Bottle, 1964.

Good Neighbor Sam (1964) -- (Movie Clip) It's Like Sheep San Francisco ad man Sam (Jack Lemmon) getting a lift to work from wife Min (Dorothy Provine), then on the elevator with big boss Burke (Edward Andrews), early in director-producer David Swift's Good Neighbor Sam, 1964.

Good Neighbor Sam (1964) -- (Movie Clip) It Can't Be Helped Posing as her husband for her pursuing litigious cousins, Jack Lemmon as Bay Area ad-man Sam and Romy Schneider, as his wife’s visiting European friend Janet, have to continue the act when they find his boss (Edward Andrews) awaiting with the big client (Edward G. Robinson), in Good Neighbor Sam, 1964.

Tea And Sympathy (1956) -- (Movie Clip) -- He Is An Off Horse Faculty wife Laura (Deborah Kerr) is just meeting Herb (Edward Andrews), father of their boarder, who is ridiculed by his peers as "Sister Boy," when her husband (Leif Erickson), Herb's old classmate, arrives, in Vincente Minnelli's Tea And Sympathy, 1956.

Phenix City Story, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Having A Turtle Race Happy Alabama crime boss Tanner (Edward Andrews) and his sly aide Cassie (Jean Carson) are overseeing affairs at the "Poppy Club," as various characters are introduced in Phil Karlson's The Phenix City Story, 1955.

Advise & Consent (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Cockpit Of Angry Emotion Director Otto Preminger's view of the U.S. Senate in session, senators Munson (Walter Pidgeon), Knox (Edward Andrews), colorful Cooley (Charles Laughton) Danta (Paul Ford) and Smith (Peter Lawford) taking positions on the president's nominee for Secretary of State, in Advise & Consent, 1962.

Phenix City Story, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Open, That Industry Was Vice Richard Kiley narrates in the voice of his not-yet-introduced character, framing the story with factual content in director Phil Karlson's The Phenix City Story 1955.

Phenix City Story, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Thou Shalt Not Kill Big spoiler here, as Paterson (Richard Kiley) and Zeke (James Edwards) who both had family members murdered, have failed to stop the thugs killing their informant Ellie, and clash over how to deal with the now-exposed local vice boss Tanner (Edward Andrews), in Phil Karlson’s fact-based The Phenix City Story, 1955.

Harder They Fall, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) What Are You Made Of? Press agent Eddie Willis (Humphrey Bogart), now in charge of the tour promoting a bogus boxer (Mike Lane), tangles with the managers of fighters paid to lose, led by Weyerhaeuse (Edward Andrews), Nehemiah Persoff his doubting colleague, montage following, in The Harder They Fall, 1956.

Advise & Consent (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Are You Loyal To The United States? Chairman Anderson (Don Murray) opens the much anticipated senate testimony of Secretary Of State nominee Leffingwell (Henry Fonda), Knox (Edward Andrews) taking a shot before guest Cooley (Charles Laughton) steals the spotlight, in Otto Preminger's Advise & Consent, 1962.

Good Neighbor Sam (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Sham And Pretension Ad agency boss Burke (Edward Andrews) presents family man Sam (Jack Lemmon) to dairy owner and client Nurdlinger (Edward G. Robinson), who's convinced all ad-men are degenerates, in David Swift's Good Neighbor Sam, 1964.

Tension at Table Rock - (Original Trailer) When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place in Tension at Table Rock (1956) starring Richard Egan.

Night of the Quarter Moon - (Original Trailer) A San Francisco society boy learns that his new wife is one-quarter-black in Night of the Quarter Moon (1959).

Avanti! - (Original Trailer) A stuffy businessman (Jack Lemmon) discovers his father died having an affair, then meets his mistress' daughter in Billy Wilder's Avanti! (1972).

Thrill of It All, The - (Original Trailer) Let screenwriter Carl Reiner be your guide to the Doris Day/James Garner comedy The Thrill of It All (1963).

Send Me No Flowers - (Original Trailer) Rock Hudson and Doris Day in their last co-starring movie, Send Me No Flowers (1964).

These Wilder Years - (Original Trailer) James Cagney is a wealthy businessman who sets out to find his long-lost illegitimate son in These Wilder Years (1956).

Tea and Sympathy - (Original Trailer) A faculty wife risks her marriage to help a troubled student who questions his own sexuality in Tea and Sympathy (1956) starring Deborah Kerr.

Tora! Tora! Tora! - (Original Trailer) The Japanese take advantage of American blunders to launch a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970).

Glass Bottom Boat, The -- (Original Trailer) Doris Day is mistaken for a Russian spy in The Glass Bottom Boat (1966) co-starring Rod Taylor.

Hot Summer Night - (Original Trailer) A hotshot reporter risks his life to land an interview with a notorious gangster in Hot Summer Night (1957) starring Leslie Nielsen.

Youngblood Hawke - (Original Trailer) A novelist (James Franciscus) exercises a powerful spell over every woman he meets in Youngblood Hawke (1964).

Trouble With Girls, The - (Original Trailer) Elvis' next-to-last fictional film has him as the star of a 1920's Chautauqua show in The Trouble With Girls (1969).

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