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Dan Duryea
Actor
Died June 7, 1968 (61 years)
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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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Filmography
| 1968 | The Bamboo Saucer · as Hank Peters |
| 1967 | Five Golden Dragons · as Dragon #1 |
| 1967 | Stranger on the Run · as O.E. Hotchkiss |
| 1967 | Winchester '73 · as Bart McAdam |
| 1965 | The Flight of the Phoenix · as Standish |
| 1965 | The Bounty Killer · as Willie Duggan |
| 1964 | Do You Know This Voice? · as John Hopta |
| 1964 | Daniel Boone (TV Series) · as Simon Perigore |
| 1963 | Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) · as Lt. Boyd Manners |
| 1962 | Six Black Horses · as Frank Jesse |
| 1962 | Combat! (TV Series) · as Bernie Wallace |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) · as Raymond Brown |
| 1962 | The Virginian (TV Series) · as Ben Crayton |
| 1961 | Gundown at Sandoval · as Unknown |
| 1960 | The Barbara Stanwyck Show (TV Series) · as Pierre |
| 1960 | Checkmate (TV Series) · as Major Sam Wilson |
| 1960 | Route 66 (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | Riverboat (TV Series) · as Captain Brad Turner |
| 1959 | Rawhide (TV Series) · as Abner Cannon |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | Laramie (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone (TV Series) · as Al Denton |
| 1958 | Cimarron City (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1958 | Naked City (TV Series) · as Clyde Royd |
| 1958 | Shirley Temple's Storybook (TV Series) · as Muff Potter |
| 1957 | Night Passage · as Whitey Harbin |
| 1957 | The Burglar · as Nat Harbin |
| 1957 | Battle Hymn · as Sgt. Herman |
| 1957 | Suspicion (TV Series) · as Eddie Schumaker / McDillard |
| 1957 | Tales of Wells Fargo (TV Series) · as Marshal Blake |
| 1957 | Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Amos |
| 1956 | Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) · as Henry Jacob Hanley |
| 1955 | Storm Fear · as Fred |
| 1955 | The Star and the Story (TV Series) · as Jim Ripley |
| 1954 | Silver Lode · as Fred McCarty |
| 1954 | Climax! (TV Series) · as Dr. Dennis Sullivan |
| 1954 | Disneyland (TV Series) · as Dan Trask |
| 1953 | Thunder Bay · as Johnny Gambi |
| 1953 | Terror Street · as Major Bill Rogers |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Brad Lawson |
| 1952 | Cavalcade of America (TV Series) · as Joe Kohler |
| 1950 | Winchester '73 · as Waco Johnnie Dean |
| 1950 | The Underworld Story · as Mike Reese |
| 1950 | The Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) · as Howard Boyd |
| 1950 | The Jack Benny Program (TV Series) · as Killer |
| 1949 | Criss Cross · as Slim Dundee |
| 1949 | Too Late for Tears · as Danny Fuller |
| 1948 | Black Bart · as Charles E. Boles / Black Bart |
| 1948 | Another Part of the Forest · as Oscar Hubbard |
| 1946 | Black Angel · as Martin Blair |
| 1945 | Scarlet Street · as Johnny Prince |
| 1945 | The Great Flamarion · as Al Wallace |
| 1945 | The Valley of Decision · as William Scott Jr. |
| 1945 | Along Came Jones · as Monte Jarrad |
| 1944 | The Woman in the Window · as Heidt / Tim, the Doorman |
| 1944 | Ministry of Fear · as Cost aka Travers the tailor |
| 1944 | Mrs. Parkington · as Jack Stilham |
| 1944 | None But the Lonely Heart · as Lew Tate |
| 1943 | Sahara · as Jimmy Doyle |
| 1942 | The Pride of the Yankees · as Hank Hanneman |
| 1941 | Ball of Fire · as Duke Pastrami |
| 1941 | The Little Foxes · as Leo Hubbard |