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Dan Duryea

Dan Duryea

Birthday: 1907-01-23 | Place of Birth: 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1968
The Bamboo Saucer

as    Hank Peters

1967
Winchester '73

as    Bart McAdam

1967
Five Golden Dragons

as    Dragon #1

1967
Stranger on the Run

as    O.E. Hotchkiss

1966
The Hills Run Red

as    Col. Winny Getz

1966
Incident at Phantom Hill

as    Joe Barlow

1965
Taggart

as    Jason

1965
The Flight of the Phoenix

as    Standish

1965
The Bounty Killer

as    Willie Duggan

1964
He Rides Tall

as    Bart Thorne

1962
Six Black Horses

as    Frank Jesse

1957
Slaughter on 10th Avenue

as    John Jacob Masters

1957
The Burglar

as    Nat Harbin

1957
Battle Hymn

as    Sgt. Herman

1957
Night Passage

as    Whitey Harbin

1955
Storm Fear

as    Fred

1955
Foxfire

as    Hugh Slater

1954
Silver Lode

as    Fred McCarty

1954
Rails Into Laramie

as    Jim Shanessy

1954
World for Ransom

as    Mike Callahan / Corrigan

1954
This Is My Love

as    Murray Myer

1954
Ride Clear of Diablo

as    Whitey Kincade

1953
Sky Commando

as    Col. Ed 'E.D.' Wyatt

1953
Thunder Bay

as    Johnny Gambi

1953
36 Hours

as    Major Bill Rogers

1950
The Underworld Story

as    Mike Reese

1950
Winchester '73

as    Waco Johnnie Dean

1949
Too Late for Tears

as    Danny Fuller

1949
Criss Cross

as    Slim Dundee