🎬Dan Duryea

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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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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	The Bamboo Saucer (1968)	Hank Peters		5
2	The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)	Standish		7
3	Slaughter on 10th Avenue (1957)	John Jacob Masters		5
4	The Burglar (1957)	Nat Harbin		4
5	Foxfire (1955)	Hugh Slater	-	-
6	Storm Fear (1955)	Fred		4
7	World for Ransom (1954)	Mike Callahan / Corrigan		5
8	Silver Lode (1954)	Fred McCarty		5
9	Winchester '73 (1950)	Waco Johnnie Dean		7.5
10	One Way Street (1950)	John Wheeler		5
11	The Underworld Story (1950)	Mike Reese		5
12	Too Late for Tears (1949)	Danny Fuller		6
13	Criss Cross (1949)	Slim Dundee		6.5
14	Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)	Johnny Evans		5
15	Manhandled (1949)	Karl Benson		4
16	Larceny (1948)	Silky Randall		5
17	Black Angel (1946)	Martin Blair		7
18	Lady on a Train (1945)	Arnold Waring		3
19	Scarlet Street (1945)	Johnny Prince		6.8
20	The Great Flamarion (1945)	Al Wallace		4
21	Mrs. Parkington (1944)	Jack Stilham	-	-
22	None But the Lonely Heart (1944)	Lew Tate		4
23	The Woman in the Window (1944)	Heidt / Tim, the Doorman		6
24	Ministry of Fear (1944)	Cost/Travers the Tailor		6
25	The Pride of the Yankees (1942)	Hank Hanneman		6.5
26	Ball of Fire (1941)	Duke Pastrami		8
27	The Little Foxes (1941)	Leo Hubbard		6