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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…
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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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Dan Duryea's Filmography
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
The Bamboo Saucer
as Hank Peters
Stranger on the Run
as O.E. Hotchkiss
Five Golden Dragons
as Dragon #1
Winchester '73
as Bart McAdam
The Hills Run Red
as Col. Winny Getz
Incident at Phantom Hill
as Joe Barlow
The Flight of the Phoenix
as Standish
The Bounty Killer
as Willie Duggan
Taggart
as Jason
Do You Know This Voice?
as John Hopta
He Rides Tall
as Bart Thorne
Walk a Tightrope
as Carl Lutcher
Six Black Horses
as Frank Jesse
Platinum High School
as Maj. Redfern Kelly
Gundown at Sandoval
as Dan Trask
Kathy O'
as Harry Johnson
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
as John Jacob Masters
Night Passage
as Whitey Harbin
The Burglar
as Nat Harbin
Battle Hymn
as Sgt. Herman
Storm Fear
as Fred
The Marauders
as Avery
Foxfire
as Hugh Slater
This Is My Love
as Murray Myer
Silver Lode
as Fred McCarty
Rails Into Laramie
as Jim Shanessy
Ride Clear of Diablo
as Whitey Kincade
World for Ransom
as Mike Callahan / Corrigan
36 Hours
as Major Bill Rogers
Sky Commando
as Col. Ed 'E.D.' Wyatt
Thunder Bay
as Johnny Gambi
Chicago Calling
as Bill Cannon
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
as Al Jennings
The Underworld Story
as Mike Reese
Winchester '73
as Waco Johnnie Dean
No Poster
Screen Actors
as Self (uncredited)
One Way Street
as John Wheeler
Manhandled
as Karl Benson
Too Late for Tears
as Danny Fuller
Johnny Stool Pigeon
as Johnny Evans
Criss Cross
as Slim Dundee
Larceny
as Silky Randall
River Lady
as Beauvais
Another Part of the Forest
as Oscar Hubbard
Black Bart
as Charles E. Boles / Black Bart
White Tie and Tails
as Charles Dumont
Black Angel
as Martin Blair
Scarlet Street
as Johnny Prince
Lady on a Train
as Arnold Waring
Along Came Jones
as Monte Jarrad
The Valley of Decision
as William Scott Jr.
The Great Flamarion
as Al Wallace
Main Street After Dark
as Posey Dibson
The Woman in the Window
as Heidt / Tim, the Doorman
None But the Lonely Heart
as Lew Tate
Mrs. Parkington
as Jack Stilham
Man from Frisco
as Jim Benson
Ministry of Fear
as Cost/Travers the Tailor
Sahara
as Jimmy Doyle
That Other Woman
as Ralph Cobb
The Pride of the Yankees
as Hank Hanneman
Ball of Fire
as Duke Pastrami
The Little Foxes
as Leo Hubbard