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Dan Duryea

Dan Duryea

Acting

January 23, 1907 – June 7, 1968 (died at 61)
White Plains, New York, USA
Male
64 Movies
47 TV Shows

​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.

Scarlet Street
Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street

1945 7.6

as Johnny Prince

Age 38 (now 61)
Winchester '73
Winchester '73

Winchester '73

1950 7.3

as Waco Johnnie Dean

Age 43 (now 61)
Criss Cross
Criss Cross

Criss Cross

1949 7.1

as Slim Dundee

Age 42 (now 61)
The Woman in the Window
The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window

1944 7.4

as Heidt / Tim, the Doorman

Age 37 (now 61)
The Little Foxes
The Little Foxes

The Little Foxes

1941 7.5

as Leo Hubbard

Age 34 (now 61)
Black Angel
Black Angel

Black Angel

1946 6.1

as Martin Blair

Age 39 (now 61)
Too Late for Tears
Too Late for Tears

Too Late for Tears

1949 6.8

as Danny Fuller

Age 42 (now 61)
The Pride of the Yankees
The Pride of the Yankees

The Pride of the Yankees

1942 7.4

as Hank Hanneman

Age 35 (now 61)
Night Passage
Night Passage

Night Passage

1957 6.5

as Whitey Harbin

Age 50 (now 61)
Ministry of Fear
Ministry of Fear

Ministry of Fear

1944 6.9

as Cost/Travers the Tailor

Age 37 (now 61)
Silver Lode
Silver Lode

Silver Lode

1954 6.2

as Fred McCarty

Age 47 (now 61)
The Flight of the Phoenix
The Flight of the Phoenix

The Flight of the Phoenix

1965 7.2

as Standish

Age 58 (now 61)
The Burglar
The Burglar

The Burglar

1957 5.7

as Nat Harbin

Age 50 (now 61)
The Underworld Story
The Underworld Story

The Underworld Story

1950 6.3

as Mike Reese

Age 43 (now 61)
Sahara
Sahara

Sahara

1943 7.2

as Jimmy Doyle

Age 36 (now 61)
The Great Flamarion
The Great Flamarion

The Great Flamarion

1945 6.1

as Al Wallace

Age 37 (now 61)