Profile of Dan Duryea on Famous Like Me

Dan Duryea (born January 23, 1907, in White Plains, New York; died June 7, 1968, in Hollywood, California) was a hard-working TV and movie actor. 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 film 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 he played a number of roles as a violent, yet sexy, bad guy throughout the 1940s in a number of film noirs. Duryea usually played a con man or criminal who beat his women. His work in this era included Scarlet Street, The Woman in the Window, Criss Cross and Black Angel.

By the 1950s, Duryea spent most of his time appearing in television programs and an occasional western. Other notable roles included parts in Winchester '73 and Flight of the Phoenix. 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.

Films

• The Bamboo Saucer (1968)
• Five Golden Dragons (1967)
• Incident at Phantom Hill (1966)
• Un Fiume di dollari (1966)
• The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
• The Bounty Killer (1965)
• Walk a Tightrope (1965)
• Taggart (1964)
• Do You Know This Voice? (1964)
• He Rides Tall (1964)
• Six Black Horses (1962)
• Platinum High School (1960)
• Gundown at Sandoval (1959)
• Kathy O' (1958)
• Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957)
• Night Passage (1957)
• The Burglar (1957)
• Battle Hymn (1956)
• Storm Fear (1955)
• The Marauders (1955)
• Foxfire (1955)
• This Is My Love (1954)
• Silver Lode (1954)
• Rails Into Laramie (1954)
• Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)
• World for Ransom (1954)
• 36 Hours (1953)
• Sky Commando (1953)
• Thunder Bay (1953)
• Chicago Calling (1952)
• Al Jennings of Oklahoma (1951)
• The Underworld Story (1950)
• Winchester '73 (1950)
• One Way Street (1950)
• Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)
• Too Late for Tears (1949)
• Manhandled (1949)
• Criss Cross (1949)
• Larceny (1948)
• River Lady (1948)
• Another Part of the Forest (1948)
• Black Bart (1948)
• White Tie and Tails (1946)
• Black Angel (1946)
• Scarlet Street (1945)
• Lady on a Train (1945)
• Along Came Jones (1945)
• The Valley of Decision (1945)
• The Woman in the Window (1945)
• The Great Flamarion (1945)
• Main Street After Dark (1945)
• Ministry of Fear (1944)
• Mrs. Parkington (1944)
• None But the Lonely Heart (1944)
• Man from Frisco (1944)
• Sahara (1943)
• The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
• That Other Woman (1942)
• Ball of Fire (1941)
• The Little Foxes (1941)

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