Dan Duryea
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 23, 1907
- Died
- June 7, 1968 (aged 61)
- Birthplace
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Bamboo Saucer
Movie · as Hank Peters
Five Golden Dragons
Movie · as Dragon #1
Stranger on the Run
Movie · as O.E. Hotchkiss
Winchester '73
Movie · as Bart McAdam
The Hills Run Red
Movie · as Col. Winny Getz
Incident at Phantom Hill
Movie · as Joe Barlow
The Monroes
TV · 1 ep
The Flight of the Phoenix
Movie · as Standish
Taggart
Movie · as Jason
The Bounty Killer
Movie · as Willie Duggan
The Loner
TV · 1 ep
Do You Know This Voice?
Movie · as John Hopta
He Rides Tall
Movie · as Bart Thorne
Daniel Boone
TV · as Simon Perigore · 1 ep
Walk a Tightrope
Movie · as Carl Lutcher
Burke's Law
TV · as Hop Sing Kelly, Sam Atherton · 1 ep
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV · as Lt. Boyd Manners · 1 ep
Six Black Horses
Movie · as Frank Jesse
Combat!
TV · as Barton, Bernie Wallace · 1 ep
The Virginian
TV · as Ben Crayton · 1 ep
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV · as Raymond Brown · 1 ep
Going My Way
TV · as Harold Harrison · 1 ep
Platinum High School
Movie · as Maj. Redfern Kelly
Route 66
TV · 2 eps
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV · as Pierre · 1 ep
Gundown at Sandoval
Movie · as Dan Trask
The Twilight Zone
TV · as Al Denton · 1 ep
Rawhide
TV · as Jardin, Abner Cannon, Brother William · 1 ep
Adventures in Paradise
TV · as Theodore Florian · 1 ep
Laramie
TV · 1 ep
Riverboat
TV · as Captain Brad Turner · 2 eps
Bonanza
TV · as Marshal Gerald Eskith · 1 ep
Kathy O'
Movie · as Harry Johnson
Naked City
TV · as Clyde Royd · 1 ep
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV · 1 ep
Cimarron City
TV · 1 ep
Pursuit
TV · as Matt Shaw · 1 ep
Shirley Temple's Storybook
TV · as Muff Potter · 1 ep
Night Passage
Movie · as Whitey Harbin
The Burglar
Movie · as Nat Harbin
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Movie · as John Jacob Masters
Battle Hymn
Movie · as Sgt. Herman
Wagon Train
TV · as Amos, Cliff Grundy, Samuel Bleymier · 1 ep
Suspicion
TV · as Eddie Schumaker / McDillard · 1 ep
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV · as Kirk Joiner, Henry Jacob Hanley · 1 ep
Foxfire
Movie · as Hugh Slater
Storm Fear
Movie · as Fred
The Marauders
Movie · as Avery
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV · 1 ep
Star Stage
TV · as Jason · 1 ep
Silver Lode
Movie · as Fred McCarty
World for Ransom
Movie · as Mike Callahan / Corrigan
Ride Clear of Diablo
Movie · as Whitey Kincade
This Is My Love
Movie · as Murray Myer
Rails Into Laramie
Movie · as Jim Shanessy
December Bride
TV · 1 ep
Climax!
TV · as Dr. Dennis Sullivan · 1 ep
Studio 57
TV · 1 ep
The New Adventures of China Smith
TV · as China Smith · 1 ep
36 Hours
Movie · as Major Bill Rogers
Thunder Bay
Movie · as Johnny Gambi
Sky Commando
Movie · as Col. Ed 'E.D.' Wyatt
General Electric Theater
TV · as Brad Lawson, Barnaby Hooke · 1 ep
China Smith
TV · 52 eps
Cavalcade of America
TV · as Joe Kohler · 1 ep
Chicago Calling
Movie · as Bill Cannon
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Movie · as Al Jennings
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV · as China Smith, Federal Agent Sam Ireland, Pete Richards · 1 ep
The Underworld Story
Movie · as Mike Reese
One Way Street
Movie · as John Wheeler
Winchester '73
Movie · as Waco Johnnie Dean
Screen Actors
Movie · as Self (uncredited)
Lux Video Theatre
TV · as Howard Boyd · 1 ep
Criss Cross
Movie · as Slim Dundee
Too Late for Tears
Movie · as Danny Fuller
Manhandled
Movie · as Karl Benson
Johnny Stool Pigeon
Movie · as Johnny Evans
Larceny
Movie · as Silky Randall
River Lady
Movie · as Beauvais
Another Part of the Forest
Movie · as Oscar Hubbard
Black Bart
Movie · as Charles E. Boles / Black Bart
Black Angel
Movie · as Martin Blair
White Tie and Tails
Movie · as Charles Dumont
Lady on a Train
Movie · as Arnold Waring
The Great Flamarion
Movie · as Al Wallace
The Valley of Decision
Movie · as William Scott Jr.
Scarlet Street
Movie · as Johnny Prince
Along Came Jones
Movie · as Monte Jarrad
Main Street After Dark
Movie · as Posey Dibson
Ministry of Fear
Movie · as Cost/Travers the Tailor
The Woman in the Window
Movie · as Heidt / Tim, the Doorman
Mrs. Parkington
Movie · as Jack Stilham
Man from Frisco
Movie · as Jim Benson
None But the Lonely Heart
Movie · as Lew Tate
Sahara
Movie · as Jimmy Doyle
The Pride of the Yankees
Movie · as Hank Hanneman
That Other Woman
Movie · as Ralph Cobb
The Little Foxes
Movie · as Leo Hubbard
Ball of Fire
Movie · as Duke Pastrami