Dan Duryea

Acting · Born 1907-01-23 in White Plains, New York, USA

Biography

​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…

Filmography

• Foxfire as Hugh Slater
• The Flight of the Phoenix as Standish
• Black Angel as Martin Blair
• Lady on a Train as Arnold Waring
• Ministry of Fear as Cost/Travers the Tailor
• Criss Cross as Slim Dundee
• Night Passage as Whitey Harbin
• Larceny as Silky Randall
• The Bamboo Saucer as Hank Peters
• Too Late for Tears as Danny Fuller