Acting
Community Rating
6.2
TMDB estimate
Born
January 23, 1907
Died
June 7, 1968 (age 61)
Born in
White Plains, New York, USA
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.

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
1987

The Bamboo Saucer
as Hank Peters
1968

Stranger on the Run
as O.E. Hotchkiss
1967

Five Golden Dragons
as Dragon #1
1967

Winchester '73
as Bart McAdam
1967

The Hills Run Red
as Col. Winny Getz
1966

The Monroes
1966

Incident at Phantom Hill
as Joe Barlow
1966

The Flight of the Phoenix
as Standish
1965

The Loner
1965

The Bounty Killer
as Willie Duggan
1965

Taggart
as Jason
1965

Do You Know This Voice?
as John Hopta
1964

Daniel Boone
as Simon Perigore
1964

He Rides Tall
as Bart Thorne
1964

Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Lt. Boyd Manners
1963

Burke's Law
as Hop Sing Kelly
1963

Walk a Tightrope
as Carl Lutcher
1963

Going My Way
1962

Combat!
as Barton
1962