Dan Duryea
Acting • Born 1907-01-23 – Died 1968-06-07
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
111 credits
Foxfire
Movie • 1955
Hugh Slater
The Flight of the Phoenix
Movie • 1965
Standish
Black Angel
Movie • 1946
Martin Blair
Lady on a Train
Movie • 1945
Arnold Waring
Ministry of Fear
Movie • 1944
Cost/Travers the Tailor
Criss Cross
Movie • 1949
Slim Dundee
Night Passage
Movie • 1957
Whitey Harbin
Larceny
Movie • 1948
Silky Randall
The Bamboo Saucer
Movie • 1968
Hank Peters
Too Late for Tears
Movie • 1949
Danny Fuller
The Burglar
Movie • 1957
Nat Harbin
Silver Lode
Movie • 1954
Fred McCarty
The Underworld Story
Movie • 1950
Mike Reese
The Great Flamarion
Movie • 1945
Al Wallace
World for Ransom
Movie • 1954
Mike Callahan / Corrigan
One Way Street
Movie • 1950
John Wheeler
Winchester '73
Movie • 1950
Waco Johnnie Dean
Manhandled
Movie • 1949
Karl Benson
Chicago Calling
Movie • 1951
Bill Cannon
Thunder Bay
Movie • 1953
Johnny Gambi
36 Hours
Movie • 1953
Major Bill Rogers
The Little Foxes
Movie • 1941
Leo Hubbard
The Valley of Decision
Movie • 1945
William Scott Jr.
Six Black Horses
Movie • 1962
Frank Jesse
Scarlet Street
Movie • 1945
Johnny Prince
The Woman in the Window
Movie • 1944
Heidt / Tim, the Doorman
Sahara
Movie • 1943
Jimmy Doyle
Mrs. Parkington
Movie • 1944
Jack Stilham
The Pride of the Yankees
Movie • 1942
Hank Hanneman
Johnny Stool Pigeon
Movie • 1949
Johnny Evans
Along Came Jones
Movie • 1945
Monte Jarrad
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Movie • 1957
John Jacob Masters
Battle Hymn
Movie • 1957
Sgt. Herman
Storm Fear
Movie • 1955
Fred
Five Golden Dragons
Movie • 1967
Dragon #1
The Hills Run Red
Movie • 1966
Col. Winny Getz
Sky Commando
Movie • 1953
Col. Ed 'E.D.' Wyatt
Main Street After Dark
Movie • 1945
Posey Dibson
White Tie and Tails
Movie • 1946
Charles Dumont
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Movie • 1951
Al Jennings
River Lady
Movie • 1948
Beauvais
Incident at Phantom Hill
Movie • 1966
Joe Barlow
Taggart
Movie • 1965
Jason
Another Part of the Forest
Movie • 1948
Oscar Hubbard
Platinum High School
Movie • 1960
Maj. Redfern Kelly
Ride Clear of Diablo
Movie • 1954
Whitey Kincade
Black Bart
Movie • 1948
Charles E. Boles / Black Bart
The Marauders
Movie • 1955
Avery
Do You Know This Voice?
Movie • 1964
John Hopta
This Is My Love
Movie • 1954
Murray Myer
Man from Frisco
Movie • 1944
Jim Benson
He Rides Tall
Movie • 1964
Bart Thorne
Rails Into Laramie
Movie • 1954
Jim Shanessy
Stranger on the Run
Movie • 1967
O.E. Hotchkiss
Kathy O'
Movie • 1958
Harry Johnson
The Bounty Killer
Movie • 1965
Willie Duggan
Walk a Tightrope
Movie • 1963
Carl Lutcher
None But the Lonely Heart
Movie • 1944
Lew Tate
That Other Woman
Movie • 1942
Ralph Cobb
Winchester '73
Movie • 1967
Bart McAdam
Ball of Fire
Movie • 1941
Duke Pastrami
Gundown at Sandoval
Movie • 1959
Screen Actors
Movie • 1950
Self (uncredited)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie • 1987
Self (archive footage)
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Hop Sing Kelly
December Bride
TV • 1954
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV • 1963
Lt. Boyd Manners
Route 66
TV • 1960
Naked City
TV • 1958
Clyde Royd
Combat!
TV • 1962
Barton
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Brad Lawson
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Al Denton
The Monroes
TV • 1966
Going My Way
TV • 1962
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV • 1958
China Smith
TV • 1952
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Jardin
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Simon Perigore
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Ben Crayton
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Howard Boyd
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Climax!
TV • 1954
Dr. Dennis Sullivan
Adventures in Paradise
TV • 1959
Theodore Florian
The Loner
TV • 1965
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
Laramie
TV • 1959
Riverboat
TV • 1959
Captain Brad Turner
Cimarron City
TV • 1958
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Kirk Joiner
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Joe Kohler
Studio 57
TV • 1954
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV • 1960
Pierre
The New Adventures of China Smith
TV • 1954
China Smith
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Abner Cannon
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Brother William
Combat!
TV • 1962
Bernie Wallace
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Barnaby Hooke
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
China Smith
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Federal Agent Sam Ireland
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Pete Richards
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Henry Jacob Hanley
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Sam Atherton
Pursuit
TV • 1958
Matt Shaw
Star Stage
TV • 1955
Jason
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Amos
Suspicion
TV • 1957
Eddie Schumaker / McDillard
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Raymond Brown
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Marshal Gerald Eskith
Shirley Temple's Storybook
TV • 1958
Muff Potter
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Cliff Grundy
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Samuel Bleymier