Tom D'Andrea

Tom D'Andrea

Thomas J. D'Andrea was an American actor in films and on television. D'Andrea's first job was at the Chicago Public Library, after which he worked in publicity at the Sherman Hotel in Chicago. Contacts with entertainers at the hotel led to an opportunity to work in Hollywood. After moving there in 1934, he became a publicist for Betty Grable, Gene Autry, Mae Clarke and Jackie Coogan. He began writing scripts in 1937, creating lines for Ben Bernie, Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor and Olsen and Johnson and continued in television, writing for Cantor and Donald O'Connor on their shows. In 1941, D'Andrea was drafted into the Army Air Corps. He was assigned to write a Gracie Fields program after being stationed at Camp Roberts, California..Reading lines at a rehearsal, Fields decided to have him read the lines in the show. He was assigned to the Overseas Radio Unit in 1943, and he began performing comedy in addition to writing. While at Ciro's Restaurant on Sunset Strip attracted a Warner Bros.' executive's attention, resulting in a role in This is the Army, with Ronald Reagan. In 1946, the studio sighed him to a long-term contract. He went on to roles in Pride of the Marines with John Garfield, Night and Day with Cary Grant, Never Say Goodbye, Silver River with Errol Flynn, and Dark Passage with Humphrey Bogart. His last film was A House Is Not a Home with Shelley Winters in 1964. After working in the film Kill the Umpire, with William Bendix in 1950, D'Andrea was chosen to play the part of Gillis, Riley's talkative neighbor in the long running television series, The Life of Riley starring Bendix. Other TV shows he appeared in were "Death Valley Days" with Ronald Reagan, "Playhouse 90" and the "Hallmark Hall of Fame." "He retired in his '60s. But, he didn't really retire. Like all actors and writers he never stopped performing. They would meet at places like the Friars Club and amuse themselves," said his son Tom. "That was when he started doing club dates at The Sands with Frank Sinatra. He Coalso did a summer replacement TV show called 'The Soldiers' with Hal March. After they left, the show was kept on with Phil Silvers and renamed 'Sgt. Bilko'. On television, D'Andrea portrayed Bill, the bartender, in Dante and acted as himself in The Soldiers. He appeared in the films This Is the Army, Pride of the Marines, Night and Day, Two Guys from Milwaukee, Never Say Goodbye, Humoresque, Love and Learn, Dark Passage, To the Victor, Silver River, Smart Girls Don't Talk, Fighter Squadron, Flaxy Martin, Tension, Kill the Umpire, The Next Voice You Hear..., Little Egypt and A House Is Not a Home. He appeared in the television series' The Soldiers, The Life of Riley, The Bill Dana Show, My Living Doll, The Farmer's Daughter, The Double Life of Henry Phyfe, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Andy Griffith Show, Green Acres and That Girl, among others.

  • Title: Tom D'Andrea
  • Popularity: 2.789
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1909-05-15
  • Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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  • Also Known As: Sgt. Tom D'Andrea, T/Sgt. Tom D'Andrea, Thomas J. D'Andrea
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Tom D'Andrea Movies

  • 1949
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    Tension

    Tension

    6.8 1949 HD

    Warren Quimby manages a drugstore while trying to keep his volatile wife, Claire, happy. However, when Claire leaves him for a liquor store salesman,...

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  • 1947
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    Humoresque

    Humoresque

    7.1 1947 HD

    A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.

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  • 1942
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    Across the Pacific

    Across the Pacific

    6.5 1942 HD

    Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship...

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  • 1946
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    Never Say Goodbye

    Never Say Goodbye

    6.1 1946 HD

    Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip...

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  • 1950
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    The Next Voice You Hear...

    The Next Voice You Hear...

    5.7 1950 HD

    The Next Voice You Hear... (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the...

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  • 1947
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    Dark Passage

    Dark Passage

    7.3 1947 HD

    A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

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  • 1949
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    Flaxy Martin

    Flaxy Martin

    5.711 1949 HD

    Attorney Walter Colby has ties to the mob, but he begins to regret his criminal affiliations. When his girlfriend, showgirl Flaxy Martin, who also...

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  • 1948
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    Smart Girls Don't Talk

    Smart Girls Don't Talk

    5.5 1948 HD

    A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans.

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  • 1945
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    Pride of the Marines

    Pride of the Marines

    6.5 1945 HD

    Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be...

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  • 1943
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    This Is the Army

    This Is the Army

    5.7 1943 HD

    In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his...

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  • 1964
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    A House Is Not a Home

    A House Is Not a Home

    4.5 1964 HD

    Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.

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  • 1951
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    Little Egypt

    Little Egypt

    1 1951 HD

    A belly dancer causes a scandal with her suggestive dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.

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  • 1967
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    Divorce American Style

    Divorce American Style

    5.8 1967 HD

    After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.

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  • 1948
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    To the Victor

    To the Victor

    1 1948 HD

    An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.

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  • 1948
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    Fighter Squadron

    Fighter Squadron

    5.7 1948 HD

    During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promoted.

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  • 1947
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    Love and Learn

    Love and Learn

    5.5 1947 HD

    A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music...

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  • 1948
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    Silver River

    Silver River

    5.9 1948 HD

    Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming...

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  • 1950
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    Kill the Umpire

    Kill the Umpire

    6.2 1950 HD

    Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah...

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  • 1946
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    Two Guys from Milwaukee

    Two Guys from Milwaukee

    4.8 1946 HD

    Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the...

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  • 1946
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    Night and Day

    Night and Day

    5.7 1946 HD

    When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee...

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  • 1960
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    The Andy Griffith Show

    The Andy Griffith Show

    7.6 1960 HD

    The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed...

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  • 1969
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    My World and Welcome to It

    My World and Welcome to It

    5.5 1969 HD

    My World and Welcome to It is an American half-hour television sitcom based on the humor and cartoons of James Thurber. It starred William Windom as...

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  • 1950
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7 1950 HD

    The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many...

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  • 1966
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    That Girl

    That Girl

    6.1 1966 HD

    That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an aspiring actress, who...

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  • 1962
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    The Beverly Hillbillies

    The Beverly Hillbillies

    6.9 1962 HD

    Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of...

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  • 1964
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    The Addams Family

    The Addams Family

    8.049 1964 HD

    A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque...

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  • 1960
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    Dante

    Dante

    6 1960 HD

    Dante is a short-lived NBC adventure/drama television series starring Howard Duff as Willie Dante, a former gambler who operates Dante's Inferno, a...

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  • 1954
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    The George Gobel Show

    The George Gobel Show

    7 1954 HD

    The George Gobel Show is an American television series hosted George Gobel that aired on NBC from 1954 to 1960.

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  • 1965
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    Green Acres

    Green Acres

    7.303 1965 HD

    Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. Produced by...

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  • 1965
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    Green Acres

    Green Acres

    7.303 1965 HD

    Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. Produced by...

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  • 1953
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    The Life Of Riley

    The Life Of Riley

    6 1953 HD

    Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed...

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  • 1953
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    The Life Of Riley

    The Life Of Riley

    6 1953 HD

    Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed...

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  • 1961
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    The Dick Van Dyke Show

    The Dick Van Dyke Show

    7.404 1961 HD

    The Dick Van Dyke Show centers around the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie. The plots generally revolve around problems at...

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  • 1965
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    Green Acres

    Green Acres

    7.303 1965 HD

    Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. Produced by...

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