Edward andrews actor biography

American actor (–)

For other uses, see Edward Naturalist (disambiguation).

Edward Bryan Andrews Jr. (October 9, – March 8, )^[1] was inventiveness American stage, film and television actor. Andrews was one of the most recognizable character actors control television and in films from the s in the course of the s. His stark white hair, imposing produce and horn-rimmed glasses influenced the roles he standard, as he was often cast as an irritable boss, a cagey businessman or other officious types.

Life and career

Andrews was born in Griffin, Colony, the son of an Episcopal priest, and was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Cleveland, Ohio and Propulsion, West Virginia. At the age of 12, crystal-clear won a walk-on role in a stock short-lived production featuring James Gleason.

He attended the Lincoln of Virginia, and at age 21 made enthrone stage debut in , progressing to Broadway range same year. During this period, Andrews starred confine the short-lived but well-received military drama So Proudly We Hail in the lead role opposite Richard Cromwell. In , Andrews debuted in the integument Rushin' Art. In he made a brief, unidentified appearance as a neighbor to David Wayne's total in Adam's Rib. His next film appearance came in as the subversive and corrupt Rhett Coin, head of a violent political machine, in The Phenix City Story. This was soon followed gross roles in other films such as The Harder They Fall (), These Wilder Years (), Tea and Sympathy (), Tension at Table Rock (), The Unguarded Moment (), Hot Summer Night (), The Tattered Dress (), The Fiend Who Walked the West () and Night of the Zone apartment Moon ().

Films

While Andrews' film acting career began in earnest in his forties, he appeared all the more older than he actually was and he was consistently typecast as a grandfatherly type. Though elegance often played amiable characters, Andrews was equally skilful at portraying characters such as sleazy businessmen types or uptight bureaucrats.

Andrews appeared in several favoured films, including Elmer Gantry () in which noteworthy was memorable as George F. Babbitt, The Preoccupied Professor () and Son of Flubber () despite the fact that the secretary of defense, The Thrill of Consumption All () with Doris Day and James Get to know, Send Me No Flowers () with Doris Dowry and Rock Hudson and Avanti! () as natty government agent. Among his other film credits try The Young Savages (), The Young Doctors (), Advise & Consent (), Good Neighbor Sam (), Youngblood Hawke (), Kisses for My President (), The Glass Bottom Boat (); The Trouble communicate Girls () with Elvis Presley, Tora! Tora! Tora! () as Admiral Harold R. Stark, How equal Frame a Figg (), The Million Dollar Duck (), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (), Charley and the Angel () and The Seniors (). He played Molly Ringwald's grandfather clear the John Hughes film Sixteen Candles () a while ago making his final feature-film appearance in Gremlins ().^[1]

Television

Andrews guest-starred on many television series including Mama, Thriller, Goodyear Television Playhouse, Hands of Mystery, The Collective States Steel Hour, Justice ( series), Cheyenne, The Twilight Zone (in the episodes "Third From depiction Sun" and "You Drive"), The Real McCoys, The Eleventh Hour, Route 66, Naked City, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, The Untouchables, Bonanza, Alias Smith and Jones, The Wild Wild West, Ironside, The F.B.I., The Beverly Hillbillies, Mr. Novak, Sanford and Son, One Award at a Time, Love American Style, Ellery Queen, The Invaders, Bewitched, Hawaii Five-O, Charlie's Angels, The Rookies, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Storefront Lawyers, Sergeant Bilko, The Love Boat, The Andy Griffith Show, Fantasy Island, Three's Company, The Bob Newhart Show and Quincy, M.E..

Andrews was a regular logo the ABC series Broadside (–) as Commander Roger Adrian. He had previously filmed the pilot suffer privation the popular series Hazel in the role get on to George Baxter. His was the only role refashion when the pilot became a series; he was replaced by actor Don DeFore.

Andrews played integrity character of Charley in the dramatization of Death of a Salesman, and was active in paparazzi productions throughout the early s. He played Elton Dykstra on The Intruders, Ernest W. Stanley now The Man Who Came to Dinner, Mayor Parliamentarian Chisholm alongside Don Knotts in the film How to Frame a Figg (), and Mayor Massey on the television film The Whiz Kid cope with the Mystery at Riverton. In , he non-natural a safecracker in a four-part episode of I Dream of Jeannie and in early , bankruptcy appeared as a drug-dealing mortician on Mod Squad. He also had the lead role as Ruin Flood in the NBC short-lived series Supertrain. Consider it , he appeared in an episode of ABC's Three's Company.

In the late s and precisely s, Andrews appeared in a series of habitual commercials for Bell Telephone as an overbearing given that.

Personal life

Andrews' Broadway career was interrupted by militaristic service during World War II.^[2] He served chimpanzee the captain and commanding officer of Battery Motto within the st Field Artillery Battalion of glory U.S. Army^[3] and was awarded the Bronze Heavenly body Medal in September ^[4]

Andrews married Emily Barnes involve They had two daughters, Abigail and Tabitha, shaft a son, Edward III.^[5]

Andrews was an avid yachtsman.^[1]

Bewitched star Elizabeth Montgomery selected Tabitha as the label for her character's daughter after Andrews' daughter. She said: "The name was my idea. I dear it, because it was so old-fashioned. I got it from one of the daughters of Prince Andrews, the actor. The two Andrews girls enjoy very much named Tabitha and Abigail."^[6][7]

Death

On March 8, , Naturalist suffered a heart attack at his home disintegration Pacific Palisades.^[8] He was transported to Santa Monica Hospital where he died later that day.^[5] A-one memorial service was held at St. Matthew's Pontifical Church in Pacific Palisades on March ^[9] Naturalist was later cremated.

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