
Dan Duryea
Biography
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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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Acting (63 movies)

Foxfire
1955

The Flight of the Phoenix
1965

Black Angel
1946

Lady on a Train
1945

Ministry of Fear
1944

Criss Cross
1949

Night Passage
1957

Larceny
1948

The Bamboo Saucer
1968

Too Late for Tears
1949

The Burglar
1957

Silver Lode
1954

The Great Flamarion
1945

The Underworld Story
1950

World for Ransom
1954

One Way Street
1950

Winchester '73
1950

Manhandled
1949

Chicago Calling
1951

36 Hours
1953

Thunder Bay
1953

The Little Foxes
1941

The Valley of Decision
1945

Six Black Horses
1962

Scarlet Street
1945

The Woman in the Window
1944

Sahara
1943

Mrs. Parkington
1944

The Pride of the Yankees
1942

Johnny Stool Pigeon
1949

Along Came Jones
1945

Slaughter on 10th Avenue
1957

Battle Hymn
1957

Storm Fear
1955

Five Golden Dragons
1967

The Hills Run Red
1966

Sky Commando
1953

Main Street After Dark
1945

White Tie and Tails
1946

Al Jennings of Oklahoma
1951

River Lady
1948

Incident at Phantom Hill
1966

Taggart
1965

Another Part of the Forest
1948

Platinum High School
1960

Ride Clear of Diablo
1954

Black Bart
1948

The Marauders
1955

Do You Know This Voice?
1964

This Is My Love
1954

Man from Frisco
1944

He Rides Tall
1964

Rails Into Laramie
1954

Stranger on the Run
1967

Kathy O'
1958

The Bounty Killer
1965

Walk a Tightrope
1963

None But the Lonely Heart
1944

That Other Woman
1942

Winchester '73
1967

Ball of Fire
1941

Gundown at Sandoval
1959

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
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