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Acting
Birthday
January 23, 1907
Died
June 7, 1968
Place of Birth
White Plains, New York, USA
Dan Duryea
0.5 Popularity
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
6.0
Self (archive footage)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
4.9
Hank Peters
The Bamboo Saucer
1968
5.5
O.E. Hotchkiss
Stranger on the Run
1967
5.1
Dragon #1
Five Golden Dragons
1967
6.4
Bart McAdam
Winchester '73
1967
5.8
Col. Winny Getz
The Hills Run Red
1966
5.7
The Monroes
1966
6.1
Joe Barlow
Incident at Phantom Hill
1966
7.2
Standish
The Flight of the Phoenix
1965
5.7
The Loner
1965
Credits
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
1987
6.0
The Bamboo Saucer
as Hank Peters
1968
4.9
Stranger on the Run
as O.E. Hotchkiss
1967
5.5
Five Golden Dragons
as Dragon #1
1967
5.1
Winchester '73
as Bart McAdam
1967
6.4
The Hills Run Red
as Col. Winny Getz
1966
5.8
The Monroes
1966
5.7
Incident at Phantom Hill
as Joe Barlow
1966
6.1
The Flight of the Phoenix
as Standish
1965
7.2
The Loner
1965
5.7
The Bounty Killer
as Willie Duggan
1965
5.8
Taggart
as Jason
1965
5.4
Do You Know This Voice?
as John Hopta
1964
7.8
Daniel Boone
as Simon Perigore
1964
7.0
He Rides Tall
as Bart Thorne
1964
4.8
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Lt. Boyd Manners
1963
5.3
Burke's Law
as Hop Sing Kelly
1963
6.0
Burke's Law
as Sam Atherton
1963
6.0
Walk a Tightrope
as Carl Lutcher
1963
6.2
Going My Way
1962
5.7
Combat!
as Barton
1962
7.7
Combat!
as Bernie Wallace
1962
7.7
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Raymond Brown
1962
7.8
The Virginian
as Ben Crayton
1962
6.4
Six Black Horses
as Frank Jesse
1962
5.8
Route 66
1960
6.3
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Pierre
1960
6.2
Platinum High School
as Maj. Redfern Kelly
1960
6.0
Adventures in Paradise
as Theodore Florian
1959
5.7
The Twilight Zone
as Al Denton
1959
8.5
Laramie
1959
6.6
Riverboat
as Captain Brad Turner
1959
6.2
Bonanza
as Marshal Gerald Eskith
1959
7.5
Rawhide
as Jardin
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Abner Cannon
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Brother William
1959
7.2
Gundown at Sandoval
1959
0.0
🎬
Pursuit
as Matt Shaw
1958
0.0
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
5.8
Naked City
as Clyde Royd
1958
5.5
Cimarron City
1958
5.0
Kathy O'
as Harry Johnson
1958
10.0
Shirley Temple's Storybook
as Muff Potter
1958
6.2
Suspicion
as Eddie Schumaker / McDillard
1957
5.9
Wagon Train
as Amos
1957
6.6
Wagon Train
as Cliff Grundy
1957
6.6
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
as John Jacob Masters
1957
5.4
Night Passage
as Whitey Harbin
1957
6.4
The Burglar
as Nat Harbin
1957
5.6
Battle Hymn
as Sgt. Herman
1957
6.5
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Kirk Joiner
1956
6.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Henry Jacob Hanley
1956
6.0
Storm Fear
as Fred
1955
6.0
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
5.4
The Marauders
as Avery
1955
5.3
Star Stage
as Jason
1955
0.0
Foxfire
as Hugh Slater
1955
6.0
This Is My Love
as Murray Myer
1954
8.5
Climax!
as Dr. Dennis Sullivan
1954
3.3
December Bride
1954
5.5
Studio 57
1954
0.0
Silver Lode
as Fred McCarty
1954
6.1
Rails Into Laramie
as Jim Shanessy
1954
6.3
Ride Clear of Diablo
as Whitey Kincade
1954
5.8
World for Ransom
as Mike Callahan / Corrigan
1954
5.0
The New Adventures of China Smith
as China Smith
1954
0.0
36 Hours
as Major Bill Rogers
1953
5.9
Sky Commando
as Col. Ed 'E.D.' Wyatt
1953
5.5
Thunder Bay
as Johnny Gambi
1953
6.1
General Electric Theater
as Brad Lawson
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Barnaby Hooke
1953
6.4
Cavalcade of America
as Joe Kohler
1952
3.5
China Smith
1952
0.0
Chicago Calling
as Bill Cannon
1951
7.0
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as China Smith
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Federal Agent Sam Ireland
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Pete Richards
1951
7.2
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
as Al Jennings
1951
5.0
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Howard Boyd
1950
6.3
The Underworld Story
as Mike Reese
1950
6.1
Winchester '73
as Waco Johnnie Dean
1950
7.3
🎬
Screen Actors
as Self (uncredited)
1950
6.0
One Way Street
as John Wheeler
1950
5.2
Manhandled
as Karl Benson
1949
4.9
Too Late for Tears
as Danny Fuller
1949
6.8
Johnny Stool Pigeon
as Johnny Evans
1949
6.2
Criss Cross
as Slim Dundee
1949
7.1
Larceny
as Silky Randall
1948
5.8
River Lady
as Beauvais
1948
5.0
Another Part of the Forest
as Oscar Hubbard
1948
7.6
Black Bart
as Charles E. Boles / Black Bart
1948
4.5
White Tie and Tails
as Charles Dumont
1946
7.0
Black Angel
as Martin Blair
1946
6.0
Scarlet Street
as Johnny Prince
1945
7.6
Lady on a Train
as Arnold Waring
1945
6.6
Along Came Jones
as Monte Jarrad
1945
5.6
The Valley of Decision
as William Scott Jr.
1945
7.3
The Great Flamarion
as Al Wallace
1945
6.0
Main Street After Dark
as Posey Dibson
1945
4.0
The Woman in the Window
as Heidt / Tim, the Doorman
1944
7.4
None But the Lonely Heart
as Lew Tate
1944
6.3
Mrs. Parkington
as Jack Stilham
1944
5.9
Man from Frisco
as Jim Benson
1944
6.0
Ministry of Fear
as Cost aka Travers the tailor
1944
6.9
Sahara
as Jimmy Doyle
1943
7.2
That Other Woman
as Ralph Cobb
1942
5.5
The Pride of the Yankees
as Hank Hanneman
1942
7.4
Ball of Fire
as Duke Pastrami
1941
7.3
The Little Foxes
as Leo Hubbard
1941
7.5