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

• The Flight of the Phoenix as Standish
• Winchester '73 as Waco Johnnie Dean
• Scarlet Street as Johnny Prince
• The Woman in the Window as Heidt / Tim, the Doorman
• Ball of Fire as Duke Pastrami
• Foxfire as Hugh Slater
• 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

TV

• Combat! as Barton
• The Twilight Zone as Al Denton
• Combat! as Bernie Wallace
• Burke's Law as Hop Sing Kelly
• December Bride
• Kraft Suspense Theatre as Lt. Boyd Manners
• Route 66
• Naked City as Clyde Royd
• General Electric Theater as Brad Lawson
• The Monroes