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Acting

Dan Dailey

Career: Active from 1940 to 1977, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 38
top three billing

Average score: 58/100

Highest rated: The Kid from Left Field
71/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 27 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Dan Dailey Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.0, average 5.4
Mystery
1.9, average 4.0
Violence
2.1, average 4.1
Crime
1.8, average 3.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Hollywood 5
Wholesome Entertainment 3
Post-War Drama 2
Character-Driven 2
Family Dynamics 2
Nostalgic 2
Moral Dilemma 2
Melancholic Tone 2
Comfort Viewing 2
Character Study 2
Family Comedy 2
Political Intrigue 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

63

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

1 title

TV show · as Narrator (archive sound)

1970s

7 titles · average score 62

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

53

as Clyde Tolson

Testimony of Two Men

TV show · as Father Maguire

That's Entertainment, Part II

70

as (archive footage)

The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return

as Joshua Cabe

Faraday and Company

TV show · as Frank Faraday

Michael O'Hara the Fourth

as Michael O'Hara III

Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones

as Mr. Greher

1960s

6 titles · average score 52

Here's Lucy

68

TV show · as Dan Dailey

Vacation Playhouse

TV show · as Sergeant Mike Parker

Marilyn

as archive footage

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

54

TV show · as Philip Bartel

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man

30

as Billy Campbell

Pepe

56

as Ted Holt

1950s

24 titles · average score 60

The Four Just Men

TV show · as Tim Collier

Underwater Warrior

as Cmdr. David Forest

The Wings of Eagles

47

as 'Jughead' Carson

Oh, Men! Oh, Women!

56

as Arthur Turner

Meet Me in Las Vegas

57

as Chuck Rodwell

It's Always Fair Weather

68

as Doug Hallerton

The Girl Next Door

57

as Bill Carter

What Price Glory

57

as Sergeant Quirt

I Can Get It for You Wholesale

59

as Teddy Sherman

A Ticket to Tomahawk

54

as Johnny Behind-the-Deuces

When Willie Comes Marching Home

54

as William 'Bill' Kluggs

My Blue Heaven

66

as Jack Moran

1940s

25 titles · average score 60

You're My Everything

53

as Timothy O'Connor

Chicken Every Sunday

58

as Jim Hefferen

You Were Meant for Me

61

as Chuck Arnold

When My Baby Smiles at Me

56

as "Skid" Johnson

Give My Regards to Broadway

as Bert Norwick

Mother Wore Tights

62

as Father

Mokey

58

as Herbert Delano

Sunday Punch

58

as Ole

Timber!

as Kansas (as Dan Dailey Jr.)

Down in San Diego

as Al Haines

Moon Over Her Shoulder

as Rex (as Dan Dailey Jr.)

Hullabaloo

62

as Bob Strong (as Dan Dailey Jr.)