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Edward Andrews

Edward Andrews
Edward Andrews
Born: Oct 09, 1914 in Griffin, Georgia
Died: Mar 08, 1985 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California
Occupation: Actor
Active: '50s-'70s
Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
Career Highlights: The Phenix City Story, Avanti!, Birds Do It
First Major Screen Credit: The Phenix City Story (1955)
9 Videos for Edward Andrews
Gremlins (1984) The Trouble with Girls (1969) The Thrill of It All! (1963)
Sixteen Candles (1984) Send Me No Flowers (1964) Elmer Gantry (1960)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) 40 Pounds of Trouble (1963) Tea and Sympathy (1956)
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Biography:

The son of a clergyman, round-faced character actor Edward Andrews took to the stage at age twelve. He made his Broadway debut in 1935's How Beautiful With Shoes; three years later he co-starred in the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Time of Your Life. Sporting spectacles from the early 1950s onward, Andrews was ideally cast as pompous, overly ambitious military officers, politicians and attorneys.

His screen persona was malleable enough to allow for villainy (he played a viciously racist small-town politico in his first film, 1955's The Phenix City Story), though he preferred comedy, taking pride in a particular finger-waggling gesture of his that always resulted in loud audience laughter.

In 1964, he co-starred with Kathy Nolan in the distaff McHale's Navy rip-off TV sitcom Broadside. Edward Andrews joined several fellow acting veterans in Gremlins (1985), his last film. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.