Dan Duryea
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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
Sahara (1943)
as Jimmy Doyle
Winchester '73 (1950)
as Waco Johnnie Dean
Scarlet Street (1945)
as Johnny Prince
The Little Foxes (1941)
as Leo Hubbard
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
as Standish
The Woman in the Window (1944)
as Heidt / Tim, the Doorman
Battle Hymn (1957)
as Sgt. Herman
Ball of Fire (1941)
as Duke Pastrami
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
as Hank Hanneman
Thunder Bay (1953)
as Johnny Gambi
Criss Cross (1949)
as Slim Dundee
Taggart (1965)
as Jason
The Valley of Decision (1945)
as William Scott Jr.
Night Passage (1957)
as Whitey Harbin
Storm Fear (1955)
as Fred
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987)
as Self (archive footage)
Black Bart (1948)
as Charles E. Boles / Black Bart
Black Angel (1946)
as Martin Blair
Screen Actors (1950)
as Self (uncredited)
Silver Lode (1954)
as Fred McCarty
Six Black Horses (1962)
as Frank Jesse
Mrs. Parkington (1944)
as Jack Stilham
Incident at Phantom Hill (1966)
as Joe Barlow
Ministry of Fear (1944)
as Cost/Travers the Tailor
He Rides Tall (1964)
as Bart Thorne
Foxfire (1955)
as Hugh Slater
Al Jennings of Oklahoma (1951)
as Al Jennings
The Underworld Story (1950)
as Mike Reese
Winchester '73 (1967)
as Bart McAdam
Rails Into Laramie (1954)
as Jim Shanessy
Lady on a Train (1945)
as Arnold Waring
The Bamboo Saucer (1968)
as Hank Peters
Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)
as Whitey Kincade
Along Came Jones (1945)
as Monte Jarrad
Manhandled (1949)
as Karl Benson
One Way Street (1950)
as John Wheeler
Too Late for Tears (1949)
as Danny Fuller
River Lady (1948)
as Beauvais
The Bounty Killer (1965)
as Willie Duggan
The Great Flamarion (1945)
as Al Wallace
Kathy O' (1958)
as Harry Johnson
Another Part of the Forest (1948)
as Oscar Hubbard
This Is My Love (1954)
as Murray Myer
Five Golden Dragons (1967)
as Dragon #1
The Burglar (1957)
as Nat Harbin
The Hills Run Red (1966)
as Col. Winny Getz
Larceny (1948)
as Silky Randall
Stranger on the Run (1967)
as O.E. Hotchkiss
None But the Lonely Heart (1944)
as Lew Tate
The Marauders (1955)
as Avery
Gundown at Sandoval (1959)
as Dan Trask
Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)
as Johnny Evans
Do You Know This Voice? (1964)
as John Hopta
Sky Commando (1953)
as Col. Ed 'E.D.' Wyatt
Slaughter on 10th Avenue (1957)
as John Jacob Masters
36 Hours (1953)
as Major Bill Rogers
Main Street After Dark (1945)
as Posey Dibson
Chicago Calling (1951)
as Bill Cannon
World for Ransom (1954)
as Mike Callahan / Corrigan
That Other Woman (1942)
as Ralph Cobb
White Tie and Tails (1946)
as Charles Dumont
Platinum High School (1960)
as Maj. Redfern Kelly
Walk a Tightrope (1963)
as Carl Lutcher
Man from Frisco (1944)
as Jim Benson