Dan Duryea
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 23, 1907
- Died
- Jun 7, 1968 (aged 61)
- Place of birth
- White Plains, New York, USA
- Credits
- 100
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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.
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Known for
The Twilight Zone
1959TV
Al Denton
Bonanza
1959TV
Marshal Gerald Eskith
Scarlet Street
1945Movie
Johnny Prince
Winchester '73
1950Movie
Waco Johnnie Dean
The Woman in the Window
1944Movie
Heidt / Tim, the Doorman
The Flight of the Phoenix
1965Movie
Standish
Filmography
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Bamboo Saucer
1968Movie
Hank Peters
Stranger on the Run
1967Movie
O.E. Hotchkiss
Five Golden Dragons
1967Movie
Dragon #1
Winchester '73
1967Movie
Bart McAdam
The Hills Run Red
1966Movie
Col. Winny Getz
The Monroes
1966TV
Incident at Phantom Hill
1966Movie
Joe Barlow
The Flight of the Phoenix
1965Movie
Standish
The Loner
1965TV
The Bounty Killer
1965Movie
Willie Duggan
Taggart
1965Movie
Jason
Do You Know This Voice?
1964Movie
John Hopta
Daniel Boone
1964TV
Simon Perigore
He Rides Tall
1964Movie
Bart Thorne
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963TV
Lt. Boyd Manners
Burke's Law
1963TV
Hop Sing Kelly, Sam Atherton
Walk a Tightrope
1963Movie
Carl Lutcher
Going My Way
1962TV
Harold Harrison
Combat!
1962TV
Barton, Bernie Wallace
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962TV
Raymond Brown
The Virginian
1962TV
Ben Crayton
Six Black Horses
1962Movie
Frank Jesse
Route 66
1960TV
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960TV
Pierre
Platinum High School
1960Movie
Maj. Redfern Kelly
Adventures in Paradise
1959TV
Theodore Florian
The Twilight Zone
1959TV
Al Denton
Laramie
1959TV
Riverboat
1959TV
Captain Brad Turner
Bonanza
1959TV
Marshal Gerald Eskith
Rawhide
1959TV
Jardin, Abner Cannon, Brother William
Gundown at Sandoval
1959Movie
Dan Trask
Pursuit
1958TV
Matt Shaw
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958TV
Naked City
1958TV
Clyde Royd
Cimarron City
1958TV
Kathy O'
1958Movie
Harry Johnson
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958TV
Muff Potter
Suspicion
1957TV
Eddie Schumaker / McDillard
Wagon Train
1957TV
Amos, Cliff Grundy, Samuel Bleymier
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
1957Movie
John Jacob Masters
Night Passage
1957Movie
Whitey Harbin
The Burglar
1957Movie
Nat Harbin
Battle Hymn
1957Movie
Sgt. Herman
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956TV
Kirk Joiner, Henry Jacob Hanley
Storm Fear
1955Movie
Fred
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955TV
The Marauders
1955Movie
Avery
Star Stage
1955TV
Jason
Foxfire
1955Movie
Hugh Slater
This Is My Love
1954Movie
Murray Myer
Climax!
1954TV
Dr. Dennis Sullivan
December Bride
1954TV
Studio 57
1954TV
Silver Lode
1954Movie
Fred McCarty
Rails Into Laramie
1954Movie
Jim Shanessy
Ride Clear of Diablo
1954Movie
Whitey Kincade
World for Ransom
1954Movie
Mike Callahan / Corrigan
The New Adventures of China Smith
1954TV
China Smith
36 Hours
1953Movie
Major Bill Rogers
Sky Commando
1953Movie
Col. Ed 'E.D.' Wyatt
Thunder Bay
1953Movie
Johnny Gambi
General Electric Theater
1953TV
Brad Lawson, Barnaby Hooke
Cavalcade of America
1952TV
Joe Kohler
China Smith
1952TV
Chicago Calling
1951Movie
Bill Cannon
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951TV
China Smith, Federal Agent Sam Ireland, Pete Richards
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
1951Movie
Al Jennings
Lux Video Theatre
1950TV
Howard Boyd
The Underworld Story
1950Movie
Mike Reese
Winchester '73
1950Movie
Waco Johnnie Dean
Screen Actors
1950Movie
Self (uncredited)
One Way Street
1950Movie
John Wheeler
Manhandled
1949Movie
Karl Benson
Too Late for Tears
1949Movie
Danny Fuller
Johnny Stool Pigeon
1949Movie
Johnny Evans
Criss Cross
1949Movie
Slim Dundee
Larceny
1948Movie
Silky Randall
River Lady
1948Movie
Beauvais
Another Part of the Forest
1948Movie
Oscar Hubbard
Black Bart
1948Movie
Charles E. Boles / Black Bart
White Tie and Tails
1946Movie
Charles Dumont
Black Angel
1946Movie
Martin Blair
Scarlet Street
1945Movie
Johnny Prince
Lady on a Train
1945Movie
Arnold Waring
Along Came Jones
1945Movie
Monte Jarrad
The Valley of Decision
1945Movie
William Scott Jr.
The Great Flamarion
1945Movie
Al Wallace
Main Street After Dark
1945Movie
Posey Dibson
The Woman in the Window
1944Movie
Heidt / Tim, the Doorman
None But the Lonely Heart
1944Movie
Lew Tate
Mrs. Parkington
1944Movie
Jack Stilham
Man from Frisco
1944Movie
Jim Benson
Ministry of Fear
1944Movie
Cost/Travers the Tailor
Sahara
1943Movie
Jimmy Doyle
That Other Woman
1942Movie
Ralph Cobb
The Pride of the Yankees
1942Movie
Hank Hanneman
Ball of Fire
1941Movie
Duke Pastrami
The Little Foxes
1941Movie
Leo Hubbard