Dan Duryea
Acting
Born January 23, 1907, White Plains, New York, USA
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
- 1968The Bamboo Saucer — Hank Peters
- 1967Five Golden Dragons — Dragon #1
- 1967Stranger on the Run — O.E. Hotchkiss
- 1967Winchester '73 — Bart McAdam
- 1966Incident at Phantom Hill — Joe Barlow
- 1966The Hills Run Red — Col. Winny Getz
- The Monroes
- 1965Taggart — Jason
- 1965The Bounty Killer — Willie Duggan
- 1965The Flight of the Phoenix — Standish
- The Loner
- Daniel Boone — Simon Perigore
- 1964Do You Know This Voice? — John Hopta
- 1964He Rides Tall — Bart Thorne
- Burke's Law — Hop Sing Kelly, Sam Atherton
- Kraft Suspense Theatre — Lt. Boyd Manners
- 1963Walk a Tightrope — Carl Lutcher
- Combat! — Barton, Bernie Wallace
- Going My Way — Harold Harrison
- 1962Six Black Horses — Frank Jesse
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — Raymond Brown
- The Virginian — Ben Crayton
- 1960Platinum High School — Maj. Redfern Kelly
- Route 66
- The Barbara Stanwyck Show — Pierre
- Adventures in Paradise — Theodore Florian
- Bonanza — Marshal Gerald Eskith
- 1959Gundown at Sandoval — Dan Trask
- Laramie
- Rawhide — Jardin, Abner Cannon, Brother William
- Riverboat — Captain Brad Turner
- The Twilight Zone — Al Denton
- Cimarron City
- 1958Kathy O' — Harry Johnson
- Naked City — Clyde Royd
- Pursuit — Matt Shaw
- Shirley Temple's Storybook — Muff Potter
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- 1957Battle Hymn — Sgt. Herman
- 1957Night Passage — Whitey Harbin
- 1957Slaughter on 10th Avenue — John Jacob Masters
- Suspicion — Eddie Schumaker / McDillard
- 1957The Burglar — Nat Harbin
- Wagon Train — Amos, Cliff Grundy, Samuel Bleymier
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Kirk Joiner, Henry Jacob Hanley
- 1955Foxfire — Hugh Slater
- Star Stage — Jason
- 1955Storm Fear — Fred
- The 20th Century Fox Hour
- 1955The Marauders — Avery
- Climax! — Dr. Dennis Sullivan
- December Bride
- 1954Rails Into Laramie — Jim Shanessy
- 1954Ride Clear of Diablo — Whitey Kincade
- 1954Silver Lode — Fred McCarty
- Studio 57
- The New Adventures of China Smith — China Smith
- 1954This Is My Love — Murray Myer
- 1954World for Ransom — Mike Callahan / Corrigan
- 195336 Hours — Major Bill Rogers
- General Electric Theater — Brad Lawson, Barnaby Hooke
- 1953Sky Commando — Col. Ed 'E.D.' Wyatt
- 1953Thunder Bay — Johnny Gambi
- Cavalcade of America — Joe Kohler
- China Smith
- 1951Al Jennings of Oklahoma — Al Jennings
- 1951Chicago Calling — Bill Cannon
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — China Smith, Federal Agent Sam Ireland, Pete Richards
- Lux Video Theatre — Howard Boyd
- 1950One Way Street — John Wheeler
- 1950The Underworld Story — Mike Reese
- 1950Winchester '73 — Waco Johnnie Dean
- 1949Criss Cross — Slim Dundee
- 1949Johnny Stool Pigeon — Johnny Evans
- 1949Manhandled — Karl Benson
- 1949Too Late for Tears — Danny Fuller
- 1948Another Part of the Forest — Oscar Hubbard
- 1948Black Bart — Charles E. Boles / Black Bart
- 1948Larceny — Silky Randall
- 1948River Lady — Beauvais
- 1946Black Angel — Martin Blair
- 1946White Tie and Tails — Charles Dumont
- 1945Along Came Jones — Monte Jarrad
- 1945Lady on a Train — Arnold Waring
- 1945Main Street After Dark — Posey Dibson
- 1945Scarlet Street — Johnny Prince
- 1945The Great Flamarion — Al Wallace
- 1945The Valley of Decision — William Scott Jr.
- 1944Man from Frisco — Jim Benson
- 1944Ministry of Fear — Cost/Travers the Tailor
- 1944Mrs. Parkington — Jack Stilham
- 1944None But the Lonely Heart — Lew Tate
- 1944The Woman in the Window — Heidt / Tim, the Doorman
- 1943Sahara — Jimmy Doyle
- 1942That Other Woman — Ralph Cobb
- 1942The Pride of the Yankees — Hank Hanneman
- 1941Ball of Fire — Duke Pastrami
- 1941The Little Foxes — Leo Hubbard
Appearances as themselves (2)
- 1987James Stewart: A Wonderful Life — Self (archive footage)
- 1950Screen Actors — Self (uncredited)