Dan Duryea
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
Credits
- 1988 · James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
- 1968 · The Bamboo Saucer as Hank Peters
- 1967 · Stranger on the Run as O.E. Hotchkiss
- 1967 · Five Golden Dragons as Dragon #1
- 1967 · Winchester '73 as Bart McAdam
- 1966 · The Hills Run Red as Col. Winny Getz
- 1966 · The Monroes as
- 1966 · Incident at Phantom Hill as Joe Barlow
- 1965 · The Flight of the Phoenix as Standish
- 1965 · The Loner as
- 1965 · The Bounty Killer as Willie Duggan
- 1965 · Taggart as Jason
- 1964 · Do You Know This Voice? as John Hopta
- 1964 · Daniel Boone as Simon Perigore
- 1964 · He Rides Tall as Bart Thorne
- 1963 · Kraft Suspense Theatre as Lt. Boyd Manners
- 1963 · Burke's Law as Hop Sing Kelly
- 1963 · Burke's Law as Sam Atherton
- 1963 · Walk a Tightrope as Carl Lutcher
- 1962 · Going My Way as
- 1962 · Combat! as Barton
- 1962 · Combat! as Bernie Wallace
- 1962 · The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Raymond Brown
- 1962 · The Virginian as Ben Crayton
- 1962 · Six Black Horses as Frank Jesse
- 1960 · Route 66 as
- 1960 · The Barbara Stanwyck Show as Pierre
- 1960 · Platinum High School as Maj. Redfern Kelly
- 1959 · Adventures in Paradise as Theodore Florian
- 1959 · The Twilight Zone as Al Denton
- 1959 · Laramie as
- 1959 · Riverboat as Captain Brad Turner
- 1959 · Rawhide as Jardin
- 1959 · Rawhide as Abner Cannon
- 1959 · Rawhide as Brother William
- 1959 · Gundown at Sandoval as
- 1958 · Pursuit as Matt Shaw
- 1958 · Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as
- 1958 · Naked City as Clyde Royd
- 1958 · Cimarron City as
- 1958 · Kathy O' as Harry Johnson
- 1957 · Suspicion as Eddie Schumaker / McDillard
- 1957 · Wagon Train as Amos
- 1957 · Slaughter on 10th Avenue as John Jacob Masters
- 1957 · Night Passage as Whitey Harbin
- 1957 · The Burglar as Nat Harbin
- 1957 · Battle Hymn as Sgt. Herman
- 1956 · Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Kirk Joiner
- 1956 · Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Henry Jacob Hanley
- 1955 · Storm Fear as Fred
- 1955 · The 20th Century Fox Hour as
- 1955 · The Marauders as Avery
- 1955 · Star Stage as Jason
- 1955 · Foxfire as Hugh Slater
- 1954 · This Is My Love as Murray Myer
- 1954 · Climax! as Dr. Dennis Sullivan
- 1954 · December Bride as
- 1954 · Studio 57 as
- 1954 · Silver Lode as Fred McCarty
- 1954 · Rails Into Laramie as Jim Shanessy
- 1954 · Ride Clear of Diablo as Whitey Kincade
- 1954 · World for Ransom as Mike Callahan / Corrigan
- 1954 · The New Adventures of China Smith as China Smith
- 1953 · 36 Hours as Major Bill Rogers
- 1953 · Sky Commando as Col. Ed 'E.D.' Wyatt
- 1953 · Thunder Bay as Johnny Gambi
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as Brad Lawson
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as Barnaby Hooke
- 1952 · Cavalcade of America as Joe Kohler
- 1952 · China Smith as
- 1951 · Chicago Calling as Bill Cannon
- 1951 · Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as
- 1951 · Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as China Smith
- 1951 · Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Federal Agent Sam Ireland
- 1951 · Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Pete Richards
- 1951 · Al Jennings of Oklahoma as Al Jennings
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Howard Boyd
- 1950 · The Underworld Story as Mike Reese
- 1950 · Winchester '73 as Waco Johnnie Dean
- 1950 · Screen Actors as Self (uncredited)
- 1950 · One Way Street as John Wheeler
- 1949 · Manhandled as Karl Benson
- 1949 · Too Late for Tears as Danny Fuller
- 1949 · Johnny Stool Pigeon as Johnny Evans
- 1949 · Criss Cross as Slim Dundee
- 1948 · Larceny as Silky Randall
- 1948 · River Lady as Beauvais
- 1948 · Another Part of the Forest as Oscar Hubbard
- 1948 · Black Bart as Charles E. Boles / Black Bart
- 1946 · White Tie and Tails as Charles Dumont
- 1946 · Black Angel as Martin Blair
- 1945 · Scarlet Street as Johnny Prince
- 1945 · Lady on a Train as Arnold Waring
- 1945 · Along Came Jones as Monte Jarrad
- 1945 · The Valley of Decision as William Scott Jr.
- 1945 · The Great Flamarion as Al Wallace
- 1945 · Main Street After Dark as Posey Dibson
- 1944 · The Woman in the Window as Heidt / Tim, the Doorman
- 1944 · None But the Lonely Heart as Lew Tate
- 1944 · Mrs. Parkington as Jack Stilham
- 1944 · Man from Frisco as Jim Benson
- 1944 · Ministry of Fear as Cost aka Travers the tailor
- 1943 · Sahara as Jimmy Doyle
- 1942 · That Other Woman as Ralph Cobb
- 1942 · The Pride of the Yankees as Hank Hanneman
- 1941 · Ball of Fire as Duke Pastrami
- 1941 · The Little Foxes as Leo Hubbard