David Andrews (actor)

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David Andrews
Born	David Andrews 1952 (age 55–56) Baton Rouge, Louisiana

David Andrews (born 1952) is an American actor. Andrews was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His undergraduate work at LSU was followed by a year of law school at Duke and two at Stanford, from which he received his law degree in the late 1970s.

He set his career off in style by starring in the 1984 horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street. For the rest of the 80s Andrews didn't have any major hits, mainly focusing on a TV career. In 1990 he starred in Stephen King's Graveyard Shift. His career was boosted by starring in the TV series Mann & Machine. In 1995 he played astronaut Pete Conrad, alongside Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton in the classic space drama Apollo 13. In the late 90s Andrews concentrated on more television projects and starred in TV films such as Our Son, the Matchmaker, Fifteen and Pregnant, which also starred Kirsten Dunst, and the hit TV film Switched at Birth. In 1998 he played another astronaut, Frank Borman, in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. He had a brief role as Major General Maxwell D. Taylor in the Band of Brothers miniseries.

1999 was a great year for Andrews, not only that he did get the success from Switched at Birth but also Fight Club, which starred Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. Andrews started off the millennium by starring in Navigating the Heart before moving on to the sequel of the cannibal series Hannibal, starring Anthony Hopkins. In 2002 he appeared in A Walk to Remember, and in 2003 he starred in Two Soldiers, The Chester Story and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. He also replaced John M. Jackson in the final season of JAG, playing Judge Advocate General Major General Gordon 'Biff' Cresswell.

[edit] External links

• David Andrews at the Internet Movie Database
• David Andrews at Allmovie

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NAME	Andrews, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Andrews, David
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor
DATE OF BIRTH	1952 (age 55–56)
PLACE OF BIRTH	Baton Rouge, Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH