David Andrews | |
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Born |
November 2, 1952 (age 64) Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
Other names | Stanley David Andrews |
Alma mater |
Louisiana State University Stanford Law School |
Home town | Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
Spouse(s) | Shannon Williams Andrews |
Children | 1 |
Louisiana State University
David Andrews (born 1952) is an American actor who is known for his role as Lieutenant General Robert Brewster in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
Andrews was born on November 2, 1952 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He attended the Louisiana State University as an undergraduate and followed with a year at the Duke University School of Law and two at Stanford Law School, from which he graduated in the late 1970s.
His first major role was in the 1984 horror A Nightmare on Elm Street. For the rest of the 80s Andrews did not have any major hits, mainly focusing on a TV career including the BBC detective series Pulaski in 1987. He was the lead in Cherry 2000, which appeared on videocasette and not in theaters. In 1990 he starred in Stephen King's Graveyard Shift and in 1994 he was James Earp in Kevin Costner's Wyatt Earp. His career was boosted by starring in the TV series Mann & Machine. In 1995 he played astronaut Pete Conrad, in the 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 Taylor, commander of the 101st Airborne Division, in the Band of Brothers miniseries.