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