Dan Duryea
One of the best known and most effective movie villains of the postwar years, actor Dan Duryea specialized in truly unpleasant figures who lacked even a shred of moral decency in such popular screen efforts as "Ball of Fire" (1941), "Along Came Jones" (1945), "Winchester '73" (1950) and classic noir like "Criss Cross" (1949). A rare screen heel that could charm audiences despite his criminal acts, Duryea enlivened both minor and major features for over a decade, which later boosted him from character player to leading man in the late 1940s and early 1950s, with occasional forays into heroic roles, most notably in "Black Angel" (1946) and on the television series "China Smith" (syndicated, 1952-56). In the late 1950s, Duryea returned to character parts, playing more even-tempered if still deeply flawed men in "The Burglar" (1957) and "The Flight of the Phoenix" (1965) for Robert Aldrich, who cast Duryea in several of his feature efforts. Television became his primary outlet in the 1960s, where he essayed memorable turns on "The Twilight Zone" (CBS, 1959-1964), among countless other shows, while lending his Hollywood pedigree to low-budget efforts for international film producers. A versatile character actor for over 20 years, Dan Duryea proved that, at least in the film business, bad guys sometimes finished first.
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Dan Duryea
Filmography
Movies
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Five Golden Dragons | Dragon 1 (Character) | - | 1967 |
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Winchester '73 | Bart McAdam (Character) | - | 1967 |
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Bamboo Saucer | Hank Peters (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stranger on the Run | O.E. Hotchkiss (Character) | - | 1967 |
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The Hills Run Red | Col. Winny Getz (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Incident at Phantom Hill | Joseph Henry "Joe" Barlow (Character) | - | 1966 |
87% |
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The Flight of the Phoenix | Standish (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bounty Killer | Willie Duggan (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Taggart | Jay Jason (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Do You Know This Voice? | John Hopta (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Walk a Tightrope | Carl Lutcher (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | He Rides Tall | Bart Thorne (Character) | - | 1964 |
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Six Black Horses | Frank Jesse (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Platinum High School | Maj. Redfern Kelly (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunfight at Sandoval | Unknown (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kathy O' | Harry Johnson (Character) | - | 1958 |
100% |
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The Burglar | Nat Harbin (Character) | - | 1957 |
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Battle Hymn | Sgt. Herman (Character) | - | 1957 |
50% |
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Night Passage | Whitey Harbin (Character) | - | 1957 |
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Slaughter on Tenth Avenue | John Jacob Masters (Character) | - | 1957 |
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Storm Fear | Fred (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Smoke Jumpers | Cliff Mason (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Foxfire | Hugh Slater (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Marauders | Avery (Character) | - | 1955 |
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World for Ransom |
Mike Callahan/ |
- | 1954 |
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Ride Clear of Diablo | Whitey Kincade (Character) | - | 1954 |
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Silver Lode | Ned McCarty (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Terror Street | Major Bill Rogers (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rails Into Laramie | Jim Shanessy (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | This Is My Love | Murray Myer (Character) | - | 1954 |
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Thunder Bay | Johnny Gambi (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sky Commando | Col. Ed Wyatt (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 36 Hours | Unknown (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Al Jennings of Oklahoma | Al Jennings (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chicago Calling | William R. Cannon (Character) | - | 1951 |
100% |
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Winchester '73 | Waco Johnnie Dean (Character) | - | 1950 |
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One Way Street | John Wheeler (Character) | - | 1950 |
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The Underworld Story | Mike Reese (Character) | - | 1950 |
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Manhandled | Karl Benson (Character) | - | 1949 |
100% |
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Too Late for Tears | Danny Fuller (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Johnny Stool Pigeon | Johnny Evans (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Killer Bait | Danny Fuller (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Black Bart |
Charles E. Boles/ |
- | 1948 |
86% |
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Criss Cross | Slim Dundee (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | River Lady | Beauvais (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Another Part of the Forest | Oscar Hubbard (Character) | - | 1948 |
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Larceny | Silky Randall (Character) | - | 1948 |
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Black Angel | Martin Blair (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | White Tie and Tails | Charles Dumont (Character) | - | 1946 |
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The Valley of Decision | William Scott Jr. (Character) | - | 1945 |
71% |
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Lady on a Train | Arnold Waring (Character) | - | 1945 |
40% |
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Along Came Jones | Monte Jarrad (Character) | - | 1945 |
100% |
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Scarlet Street | Johnny Prince (Character) | - | 1945 |
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The Great Flamarion | Al Wallace (Character) | - | 1945 |
85% |
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Ministry of Fear |
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None but the Lonely Heart | Lew Tate (Character) | - | 1944 |
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Mrs. Parkington | Jack Stilham (Character) | - | 1944 |
83% |
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The Woman in the Window |
Heidt/ |
- | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Main Street After Dark | Posey Dibson (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Man From Frisco | Jim Benson (Character) | - | 1944 |
92% |
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Sahara | Jimmy Doyle (Character) | - | 1943 |
94% |
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The Pride of the Yankees | Hank Hanneman (Character) | - | 1942 |
100% |
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The Little Foxes | Leo Hubbard (Character) | - | 1941 |
100% |
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Ball of Fire | Duke Pastrami (Character) | - | 1941 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Peyton Place | Eddie Jacks (Character) | 1964-1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Combat! | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Loner | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daniel Boone | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | U.S. Dep. Marshal Gerald Eskith (Guest Star) | 1960 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Samuel Bleymier (Guest Star) | 1957-1960 1962 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 1961-1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of Wells Fargo | Marshal Blake (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laramie | Ben Sanford (Guest Star) | 1959-1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Route 66 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 1958 1961 |
92% | 96% | The Twilight Zone | Al Denton (Character) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The 20th Century-Fox Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Star and the Story | Unknown (Character) | 1955 |