- Born Name: Dan Duryea
- Birthday: 1907-01-23 (Year-Month-Day)
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- Spouse(s): Helen Bryan (1932-1967) (her death) 2 Children
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- Medium: Actor
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Dan Duryea, For the Prohibition gangster, see Danny Hogan.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 NBCs 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.[edit] FilmsThe Little Foxes (1941)Ball of Fire (1941)That Other Woman (1942)The Pride of the Yankees (1942)Sahara (1943)Man from Frisco (1944)None But the Lonely Heart (1944)The Woman in the Window (1944)Mrs. Parkington (1944)Ministry of Fear (1944)Main Street After Dark (1945)The Great Flamarion (1945)The Woman in the Window (1945)The Valley of Decision (1945)Along Came Jones (1945)Lady on a Train (1945)Scarlet Street (1945)Black Angel (1946)White Tie and Tails (1946)Black Bart (1948)Another Part of the Forest (1948)River Lady (film) (1948)Larceny (1948)Criss Cross (1949)Manhandled (1949)Too Late for Tears (1949) rereleased as Killer Bait in 1955Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)One Way Street (1950)Winchester 73 (1950)The Underworld Story (1950)Al Jennings of Oklahoma (1951)Chicago Calling (1952)Thunder Bay (1953)Sky Commando (1953)Terror Street (1953)World for Ransom (1954)Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)Rails Into Laramie (1954)Silver Lode (1954)This Is My Love (1954)Foxfire (1955)The Marauders (1955)Storm Fear (1955)Battle Hymn (1956)The Burglar (1957)Night Passage (1957)Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957)Kathy O (1958)Gundown at Sandoval (1959)Platinum High School (1960)Six Black Horses (1962)He Rides Tall (1964)Do You Know This Voice? (1964)Taggart (1964)Walk a Tightrope (1965)The Bounty Killer (1965)The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)Un Fiume di dollari (1966)Incident at Phantom Hill (1966)The Hills Run Red (1966)Five Golden Dragons (1967)The Bamboo Saucer (1968)[edit] External linksBiography portalWikimedia Commons has media related to: Dan DuryeaDan Duryea at the Internet Movie DatabaseDan Duryea at the Internet Broadway DatabaseDuryea interviewDan Duryea at Find a GravePersondataNameDuryea, DanAlternative namesShort descriptionActorDate of birth1907-01-23Place of birthWhite Plains, New York, USADate of death1968-06-7Place of deathHollywood, California, USARetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_DuryeaCategories: 1907 births | 1968 deaths | American film actors | American television actors | Cornell University alumni | Western (genre) film actors | Cancer deaths in California | People from the Greater Los Angeles Area | People from White Plains, New YorkHidden categories: Infobox person using deprecated parameters | Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesAragonésDeutschEspañolFrançaisItalianoSuomiSvenska This page was last modified on 9 December 2010 at 02:53.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimers if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha(); if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();