![]() He was probably the first actor to do a public service announcement about alcoholism (in 1972 for the U.S. ![]() Andrews took steps to curb his addiction and in his later years was an outspoken member of the National Council on Alcoholism, who decried public refusal to face the problem. In addition, his increasing alcoholism caused him to lose the confidence of some producers. Andrews slipped into a steady stream of unremarkable films in which he gave sturdy performances, until age and other interests resulted in fewer appearances. During his career, he had worked with with such directors as Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, William Wyler, William A. A starring role in the hit Laura (1944), followed by one in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), made him a star, but no later film quite lived up to the quality of these. It was two years before Goldwyn and 20th Century-Fox (to whom Goldwyn had sold half of Andrews' contract) put him in a film, but the roles, though secondary, were mostly in top-quality pictures such as The Westerner (1940) and The Ox-Bow Incident (1943). He played opposite future star Robert Preston in a play about composers Gilbert and Sullivan, and soon thereafter was offered a contract by Samuel Goldwyn. He appeared in scores of plays there in the 1930s, becoming a favorite of the company. Andrews studied opera and also entered the Pasadena Community Playhouse, the famed theatre company and drama school. ![]() His employer at a Van Nuys gas station believed in him and agreed to invest in him, asking to be repaid if and when Andrews made it as an actor. He drove a school bus, dug ditches, picked oranges, worked as a stock boy, and pumped gas while trying without luck to break into the movies. In 1931, he hitchhiked to California, hoping to get work as an actor. Andrews studied business administration at Sam Houston State Teachers College in Texas, but took a bookkeeping job with Gulf Oil in 1929, aged 20, prior to graduating. One of thirteen children, including fellow actor Steve Forrest, he was a son of Annis (Speed) and Charles Forrest Andrews, a Baptist minister. Interests include water and snow skiing and horseback riding.Īmerican leading man of the 1940s and 1950s, Dana Andrews was born Carver Dana Andrews on New Years Day 1909 on a farmstead outside Collins, Covington County, Mississippi. Happy to be anchored in New York, Somerhalder spends much of his time studying acting, writing and practicing yoga. He was cast later for the drama Changing Hearts (2002) directed by Martin Guigui. Talent manager visiting a client on the set spotted Somerhalder in aĬrowd scene of 400 and immediately signed him for representation. While working as an extra in a club scene in the feature film, At 17, he began studying acting in New York and, byġ9, had committed himself to the craft, working with preeminent acting Of work, travel and study that took him to cities, including Paris, In Europe arose, Somerhalder grabbed it, embarking on an enriching path A few years later, when the opportunity to model Junior high, he opted to put modeling on the back burner and focus more With his mother's encouragement, at age 10, heīegan a modeling career that took him to New York each summer. Time growing up, as did the school drama club and performing with the Swimming, fishing and training horses filled much of his recreational He has Cajun (French), English, and Scots-Irish ancestry. Therapist, and his father, Robert Somerhalder, is a buildingĬontractor. His mother, Edna (née Israel), is a massage Ian Somerhalder was born and raised in the small southern town ofĬovington, Louisiana.
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