Dan Duryea
Age: 61 | From: White Plains, New York, USA
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
Homepage:
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
(1962) Ben Crayton
The Twilight Zone
(1959) Al Denton
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(1956) Henry Jacob Hanley
Rawhide
(1959) Brother William
Lux Video Theatre
(1950) Howard Boyd
Combat!
(1962) Bernie Wallace
Climax!
(1954) Dr. Dennis Sullivan
Burke's Law
(1963) Sam AthertonActing
| 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 | |
| Hop Sing Kelly | ||
| Sam Atherton | ||
| 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 | ||
| Abner Cannon | ||
| Brother William | ||
| 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 | Kirk Joiner | |
| Henry Jacob Hanley | ||
| 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 | ||
| Brad Lawson | ||
| Barnaby Hooke | ||
| 1952 | Joe Kohler | |
| N/A | ||
| 1951 | Bill Cannon | |
| N/A | ||
| China Smith | ||
| Federal Agent Sam Ireland | ||
| Pete Richards | ||
| 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 | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
