Dan Duryea

​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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Duryea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Dan Duryea (White Plains, Nova York, 23 de gener de 1907 – Los Angeles, Califòrnia, 7 de juny de 1968) va ser un actor de cinema, de televisió i de teatre estatunidenc.

Dan Duryea war ein US-amerikanischer Film-, Bühnen- und Fernsehschauspieler. Er schloss sein Studium an der Cornell University 1928 ab und wurde während seiner Zeit dort in die Sphinx Head Society aufgenommen. Seinen Durchbruch feierte er am Broadway mit dem Stück „Dead End“, gefolgt von „The Little Foxes“, in dem er den unehrlichen und nicht besonders intelligenten Leo Hubbard verkörperte. 1940 zog er nach Hollywood, um in der Verfilmung dieselbe Rolle zu spielen. Er etablierte sich in Filmen mit ähnlichen Nebenrollen als Gegenpart, meist als schwacher oder nervtötend unreifer Charakter, beispielsweise in „Der große Wurf“. Im Laufe seiner Karriere in den 1940er-Jahren profilierte er sich als gewalttätiger, aber sexy Bösewicht in einer Reihe von Film noirs. Dadurch gewann er eine große weibliche Fangemeinde und erlangte mit der Zeit Kultstatus. Zu seinen Werken dieser Zeit zählen „Gefährliche Begegnung“, „Straße der Versuchung“, „Schwarzer Engel“ und „Gewagtes Alibi“. Ab den 1950er-Jahren war Duryea häufiger in Western zu sehen, insbesondere als charismatischer Bösewicht in „Winchester '73“ (1950). Weitere bemerkenswerte Rollen in der späteren Phase seiner Karriere umfassen „Die Todesbucht von Louisiana“ (1953), „Ein Toter lügt nicht“ (1957), „Der Flug des Phönix“ (1965) und die Primetime-Seifenoper „Peyton Place“.

Dan Duryea (White Plains, Nova York, 23 de janeiro de 1907 - 7 de junho de 1968) foi um ator norte-americano de cinema, teatro e televisão. Conhecido por retratar uma vasta gama de papéis de personagem como um vilão, ele ainda assim teve uma longa carreira em uma ampla variedade de papéis principais e secundários. Duryea contracenou com Gary Cooper três vezes na década de 1940: Ball of Fire, Pride of the Yankees e Along Came Jones. Na década de 1950, Duryea co-estrelou com James Stewart em três filmes, Winchester '73 (como o covarde "Waco Johnny" Dean), Thunder Bay e Night Passage.