Person Details

Birthday: 1907-01-23 14:21:11

Death: 1968-06-07 14:21:11

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: White Plains, New York, USA

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Movie Involvements: 57

TV Involvements: 26


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

The Virginian
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6

The Virginian

(1962) Ben Crayton
The Twilight Zone
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9

The Twilight Zone

(1959) Al Denton
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
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5

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

(1956) Henry Jacob Hanley
Rawhide
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7

Rawhide

(1959) Brother William
Lux Video Theatre
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5

Lux Video Theatre

(1950) Howard Boyd
Combat!
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8

Combat!

(1962) Bernie Wallace
Climax!
Average
3

Climax!

(1954) Dr. Dennis Sullivan
Burke's Law
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6

Burke's Law

(1963) Sam Atherton

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1988 Self (archive footage)
1968 Hank Peters
1967 O.E. Hotchkiss
Dragon #1
Bart McAdam
1966 Col. Winny Getz
N/A
Joe Barlow
1965 Standish
N/A
Willie Duggan
Jason
1964 John Hopta
Carl Lutcher
Simon Perigore
Bart Thorne
1963 Lt. Boyd Manners
Sam Atherton
Hop Sing Kelly
1962 N/A
Barton
Bernie Wallace
Raymond Brown
Ben Crayton
Frank Jesse
1960 N/A
Pierre
Maj. Redfern Kelly
1959 Theodore Florian
Al Denton
N/A
Captain Brad Turner
Jardin
Brother William
Abner Cannon
N/A
1958 Matt Shaw
N/A
Clyde Royd
N/A
Harry Johnson
1957 Eddie Schumaker / McDillard
Amos
John Jacob Masters
Whitey Harbin
Nat Harbin
Sgt. Herman
1956 Henry Jacob Hanley
Kirk Joiner
1955 Fred
N/A
Avery
Jason
Hugh Slater
1954 Murray Myer
Dr. Dennis Sullivan
N/A
N/A
Fred McCarty
Jim Shanessy
Whitey Kincade
Mike Callahan / Corrigan
China Smith
1953 Major Bill Rogers
Col. Ed 'E.D.' Wyatt
Johnny Gambi
Barnaby Hooke
Brad Lawson
1952 Joe Kohler
N/A
1951 Bill Cannon
Pete Richards
N/A
China Smith
Federal Agent Sam Ireland
Al Jennings
1950 Howard Boyd
Mike Reese
Waco Johnnie Dean
Self (uncredited)
John Wheeler
1949 Karl Benson
Danny Fuller
Johnny Evans
Slim Dundee
1948 Silky Randall
Beauvais
Oscar Hubbard
Charles E. Boles / Black Bart
1946 Charles Dumont
Martin Blair
1945 Johnny Prince
Arnold Waring
Monte Jarrad
William Scott Jr.
Al Wallace
Posey Dibson
1944 Heidt / Tim, the Doorman
Lew Tate
Jack Stilham
Jim Benson
Cost aka Travers the tailor
1943 Jimmy Doyle
1942 Ralph Cobb
Hank Hanneman
1941 Duke Pastrami
Leo Hubbard
N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

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