Dan Duryea

Dan Duryea

  • Birthday: 1907-01-23
  • Deathday: 1968-06-07
  • Place of birth: White Plains, New York, USA

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dan Duryea (January 23, 1907, in White Plains, New York – June 7, 1968, in Hollywood, California) was an American actor of film, stage and television. Duryea graduated from Cornell University in 1928. While at Cornell, Duryea was elected into the Sphinx Head Society. He made his name on Broadway in the play Dead End, followed by The Little Foxes, in which he played the dishonest and not particularly bright weakling Leo Hubbard. He moved to Hollywood in 1940 to appear in the film version in the same role. He established himself in films playing similar secondary roles as the foil, usually as a weak or annoyingly immature character, in movies such as The Pride of the Yankees. As his career progressed throughout the 1940s he began to carve a niche as a violent, yet sexy, bad guy in a number of film noirs. In so doing he established a significant female following and, over time, something of a cult status. His work in this era included Scarlet Street, The Woman in the Window, Criss Cross, Black Angel and Too Late for Tears. From the 1950s, Duryea was more often seen in Westerns, most notably his charismatic villain in Winchester '73 (1950). Other memorable work in the latter part of his career included Thunder Bay (1953), The Burglar (1957), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), and the primetime soap opera Peyton Place. He also appeared in one of the first Twilight Zone episodes in 1959 as a drunken former gunfighter in "Mr. Denton on Doomsday," written by Rod Serling. He guest starred on NBC's anthology series The Barbara Stanwyck Show. In 1963, Duryea appeared as Dr. Ben Lorrigan in the episode "Why Am I Grown So Cold" on the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour. Duryea was far removed from many of the characters he played in the course of his career. He was married for thirty-five years to his wife, Helen, who preceded him in death on January 21, 1967. The couple had two sons: Peter, who worked for a time as an actor, and Richard. Dan Duryea died of cancer at the age of sixty-one. His remains are interred in Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Duryea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Black Angel

1946

As Martin Blair

The Bamboo Saucer

1968

As Hank Peters

The Burglar

1957

As Nat Harbin

World for Ransom

1954

As Mike Callahan / Corrigan

The Underworld Story

1950

As Mike Reese

Chicago Calling

1951

As Bill Cannon

36 Hours

1953

As Major Bill Rogers

Sky Commando

1953

As Col. Ed 'E.D.' Wyatt

White Tie and Tails

1946

As Charles Dumont

Al Jennings of Oklahoma

1951

As Al Jennings

The Marauders

1955

As Avery

Do You Know This Voice?

1964

As John Hopta

Kathy O'

1958

As Harry Johnson

The Bounty Killer

1965

As Willie Duggan

Walk a Tightrope

1964

As Carl Lutcher

Six Black Horses

1962

As Frank Jesse

River Lady

1948

As Beauvais

Taggart

1965

As Jason

Black Bart

1948

As Charles E. Boles / Black Bart

Another Part of the Forest

1948

As Oscar Hubbard

This Is My Love

1954

As Murray Myer

He Rides Tall

1964

As Bart Thorne

Foxfire

1955

As Hugh Slater

Criss Cross

1949

As Slim Dundee

Night Passage

1957

As Whitey Harbin

Larceny

1948

As Silky Randall

Too Late for Tears

1949

As Danny Fuller

Silver Lode

1954

As Fred McCarty

The Great Flamarion

1945

As Al Wallace

Manhandled

1949

As Karl Benson

One Way Street

1950

As John Wheeler

Winchester '73

1950

As Waco Johnnie Dean

Scarlet Street

1945

As Johnny Prince

Johnny Stool Pigeon

1949

As Johnny Evans

Slaughter on 10th Avenue

1957

As John Jacob Masters

Battle Hymn

1957

As Sgt. Herman

Storm Fear

1955

As Fred

The Hills Run Red

1966

As Col. Winny Getz

Incident at Phantom Hill

1966

As Joe Barlow

Ride Clear of Diablo

1954

As Whitey Kincade

Platinum High School

1960

As Maj. Redfern Kelly

Rails Into Laramie

1954

As Jim Shanessy

That Other Woman

1942

As Ralph Cobb

Winchester '73

1967

As Bart McAdam

Thunder Bay

1953

As Johnny Gambi

Along Came Jones

1945

As Monte Jarrad

Man from Frisco

1944

As Jim Benson

Stranger on the Run

1967

As O.E. Hotchkiss

The Little Foxes

1941

As Leo Hubbard

The Woman in the Window

1944

As Heidt / Tim, the Doorman

The Pride of the Yankees

1942

As Hank Hanneman

Main Street After Dark

1945

As Posey Dibson

Screen Actors

1950

As Self (uncredited)

Lady on a Train

1945

As Arnold Waring

Ministry of Fear

1944

As Cost aka Travers the tailor

Sahara

1943

As Jimmy Doyle

None But the Lonely Heart

1944

As Lew Tate

Five Golden Dragons

1967

As Dragon #1

The Flight of the Phoenix

1965

As Standish

The Valley of Decision

1945

As William Scott Jr.

Mrs. Parkington

1944

As Jack Stilham

Ball of Fire

1941

As Duke Pastrami

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

1988

As Self (archive footage)

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