Dan Duryea Trailers
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life TrailerThe Bamboo Saucer TrailerStranger on the Run Trailer
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.
Most Popular Dan Duryea Trailers
Total trailers found: 64
14 February 1957
Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he’s a failure at preaching.
14 July 1942
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
19 May 1944
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either.
01 December 1964
When a ransom bid results in the death of a child, the police have only one lead – the old lady who witnessed the kidnapper using a public phone box.
22 November 1988
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
23 July 1954
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000.
10 February 1954
A young railroad surveyor returns to his hometown to find the man who murdered his father and brother.
03 May 1945
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill.
17 October 1944
When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they're both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.
31 December 1951
Bill Cannon (Dan Duryea) loses everything to alcohol: his job, his family, his self-respect. Soon after his wife and daughter leave him, he receives word his little girl has been injured in a car accident outside Chicago.
02 August 1946
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
14 March 1967
TV Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an ex-con the other a law officer, competing for possession of the famed repeating rifle.
09 September 1966
After the Civil War ends, two soldiers return home with a cache of stolen money. They are caught by Union troops.
30 July 1965
Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violence.
14 April 1954
A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
20 April 1949
A federal agent infiltrates a crime syndicate.
21 May 1953
Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.
27 October 1954
A single woman tries to keep her sister from another man by framing her for her husband's murder.
31 January 1954
In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder.
19 July 1945
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.
12 October 1944
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington.
03 August 1945
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels.
22 September 1943
In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.
01 July 1966
At the end of the Civil War, a major shipment of gold has been stolen and buried in the desert. Only one man knows the whereabouts of gold and the army sends captain Matt Martin to arrest him and come back with the gold.
01 September 1957
A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up with a "code of silence" amongst all potential witnesses.
26 July 1950
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
13 May 1960
At an exclusive military academy on Sabre Island, rich young delinquents think money puts them above the law.
01 June 1957
Burglar Nat Harbin and his two associates set their sights on wealthy spiritualist Sister Sarah, who has inherited a fortune -- including a renowned emerald necklace -- from a Philadelphia financier.
17 February 1948
Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California, where the Gold Rush is beginning.
26 February 1964
A rancher is pressured by his cheating wife and a gang leader, into trying to cripple a marshal's gun hand, after that marshal killed his murderous son in self defense.
24 September 1958
A movie publicist is assigned to keep the public from learning that a beloved child star is an egotistical little brat.
01 January 1959
In this exciting western, cowpoke Texas John Slaughter rides out for revenge against the man who killed his friend.
13 May 1950
This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
18 May 1948
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
26 September 1955
A poor homesteader fights back when he's targeted for extinction by a powerful rancher and his gang of hired thugs.
15 June 1944
Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated ships on the West Coast, but he is hindered by the former superintendent of the shipyard, Joel Kennedy.
02 December 1941
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language.
01 February 1965
Taggart's family is slaughtered by a rival rancher. Taggart mortally wounds the rancher and kills his son.
26 August 1963
Meet Ellen Sheppard, an American living in Britain. Her English husband, Jason Sheppard, has been killed and she's under suspicion despite the appearance of a happy marriage.
30 August 1946
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up getting involved with an heiress.
04 December 1953
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare.
25 October 1944
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
04 February 1949
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
13 November 1942
A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her which backfires after some bad advice.
17 July 1949
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
12 July 1950
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him.
21 July 1949
Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop.
15 December 1965
A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for a replacement aircraft they need to build before their food and water run out.
25 December 1945
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March.
29 August 1941
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
13 January 1945
A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.
23 October 1968
A flying saucer hidden in a Red Chinese peasant village is sought by teams from the United States and U.
24 July 1957
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape.
03 August 1967
While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden Dragons and the local mobsters.
24 April 1962
A beautiful woman with an ulterior motive hires two gunslingers to escort her through Indian territory so she can be reunited with her awaiting husband.
31 October 1967
A drifter finds himself wrongly accused of murder by a power-crazed sheriff. The sheriff gives him a horse, some supplies, and a one-hour head start into the desert before sending his murderous posse after him.
20 May 1948
In the 1850s, in a logging town on the Mississippi River, a conflict between the people of a mill town and the lumberjacks who work downriver.
13 July 1955
A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.
01 April 1950
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
16 December 1955
A wounded bank robber takes over his brother's home.
