Dan Duryea

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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Birthday	1907-01-23
Place of Birth	White Plains, New York, USA
Also Known As

Foxfire

The Flight of the Phoenix

Black Angel

Lady on a Train

Ministry of Fear

Criss Cross

Night Passage

Larceny

The Bamboo Saucer

Too Late for Tears

The Burglar

Silver Lode

The Great Flamarion

The Underworld Story

World for Ransom

One Way Street

Winchester '73

Manhandled

Chicago Calling

36 Hours

Thunder Bay

The Little Foxes

The Valley of Decision

Six Black Horses

Scarlet Street

The Woman in the Window

Sahara

Mrs. Parkington

The Pride of the Yankees

Johnny Stool Pigeon

Along Came Jones

Slaughter on 10th Avenue

Battle Hymn

Storm Fear

Five Golden Dragons

The Hills Run Red

Sky Commando

Main Street After Dark

White Tie and Tails

Al Jennings of Oklahoma

River Lady

Incident at Phantom Hill

Taggart

Another Part of the Forest

Platinum High School

Ride Clear of Diablo

Black Bart

The Marauders

Do You Know This Voice?

This Is My Love

Man from Frisco

He Rides Tall

Rails Into Laramie

Stranger on the Run

Kathy O'

The Bounty Killer

Walk a Tightrope

None But the Lonely Heart

That Other Woman

Winchester '73

Ball of Fire

Gundown at Sandoval

Screen Actors

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