Dan Duryea

Dan Duryea

Born: January 23, 1907
Died: June 7, 1968
in White Plains, New York, USA
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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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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Title: James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
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The Bamboo Saucer
Title: The Bamboo Saucer
Character: Hank Peters
Released: October 23, 1968
Type: Movie
A flying saucer hidden in a Red Chinese peasant village is sought by teams from the United States and U.S.S.R. On finding it, they band together to explore the saucer and take a trip into space.
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Stranger on the Run
Title: Stranger on the Run
Character: O.E. Hotchkiss
Released: October 31, 1967
Type: Movie
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.
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Five Golden Dragons
Title: Five Golden Dragons
Character: Dragon #1
Released: August 3, 1967
Type: Movie
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.
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Winchester '73
Title: Winchester '73
Character: Bart McAdam
Released: March 14, 1967
Type: Movie
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.
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The Hills Run Red
Title: The Hills Run Red
Character: Col. Winny Getz
Released: September 9, 1966
Type: Movie
After the Civil War ends, two soldiers return home with a cache of stolen money. They are caught by Union troops. One escapes, but the other is sent to prison for five years. When he gets out and goes home, he finds that his wife has died in poverty because his partner kept all the money, and is now a major power in the area with an army of deadly gunmen to back him up.
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Title: The Monroes
Released: September 7, 1966
Type: TV
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Incident at Phantom Hill
Title: Incident at Phantom Hill
Character: Joe Barlow
Released: July 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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. Martin, his prisoner and a handful of men enter Indian territory in search of the precious cargo. The Apaches, outlaws and storms will make it not too easy.
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The Flight of the Phoenix
Title: The Flight of the Phoenix
Character: Standish
Released: December 15, 1965
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The Loner
Released: September 18, 1965
Type: TV
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The Bounty Killer
Title: The Bounty Killer
Character: Willie Duggan
Released: July 30, 1965
Type: Movie
Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violence. Willie discovers the easy money in bounty killing and must choose between that violent lifestyle and the love of a beautiful saloon singer.
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Taggart
Title: Taggart
Character: Jason
Released: February 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Taggart's family is slaughtered by a rival rancher. Taggart mortally wounds the rancher and kills his son. Before he dies the rancher hires three bounty hunters to avenge him with the promise of $5000 as a reward. Taggart must flee into Apache territory to escape the wrath of the trio of hired killers.
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Do You Know This Voice?
Title: Do You Know This Voice?
Character: John Hopta
Released: December 1, 1964
Type: Movie
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. Though her recollection is vague, she volunteers to act as bait for the killer – telling the press that she had seen the kidnapper's face and she waits for him to attack.
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Walk a Tightrope
Title: Walk a Tightrope
Character: Carl Lutcher
Released: October 30, 1964
Type: Movie
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. Jason's friend assists Ellen go over the facts to see if they can find the real killer.
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Title: Daniel Boone
Character: Simon Perigore
Released: September 24, 1964
Type: TV
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He Rides Tall
Title: He Rides Tall
Character: Bart Thorne
Released: February 26, 1964
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Kraft Suspense Theatre
Character: Lt. Boyd Manners
Released: October 10, 1963
Type: TV
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Hop Sing Kelly
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Sam Atherton
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
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Title: Going My Way
Released: October 3, 1962
Type: TV
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Title: Combat!
Character: Bernie Wallace
Released: October 2, 1962
Type: TV
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Title: Combat!
Character: Barton
Released: October 2, 1962
Type: TV
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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: Raymond Brown
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: TV
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Title: The Virginian
Character: Ben Crayton
Released: September 19, 1962
Type: TV
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Six Black Horses
Title: Six Black Horses
Character: Frank Jesse
Released: April 24, 1962
Type: Movie
Audie and Dan Duryea are hired by a mysterious woman to take her across Indian country to her husband. On route, she tries to seduce Audie by offering to give him Duryea's share of the money if he will help her achieve her real goal: kill Duryea for having killed her husband. Audie dreams of a getting enough money to buy a ranch of his own, but his loyalty to his friend prevails. In the end, Duryea is killed anyway by the Indians and gets his wish: a funeral carriage pulled by - you guessed it - six black horses.
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Title: Route 66
Released: October 7, 1960
Type: TV
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Title: The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Character: Pierre
Released: September 19, 1960
Type: TV
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Platinum High School
Title: Platinum High School
Character: Maj. Redfern Kelly
Released: May 13, 1960
Type: Movie
At an exclusive military academy on Sabre Island, rich young delinquents think money puts them above the law. Enter Steve Conway - there to investigate the death of his son, who he had been told died in an accident.
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Title: Adventures in Paradise
Character: Theodore Florian
Released: October 5, 1959
Type: TV
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Al Denton
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
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Title: Laramie
Released: September 15, 1959
Type: TV
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Title: Riverboat
Character: Captain Brad Turner
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: TV
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Brother William
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Jardin
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Abner Cannon
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
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Gundown at Sandoval
Title: Gundown at Sandoval
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
In this exciting western, cowpoke Texas John Slaughter rides out for revenge against the man who killed his friend. He heads for Sandoval, a notorious outlaw lair. Horses gallop, guns blaze, and mayhem ensues.
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Title: Pursuit
Character: Matt Shaw
Released: October 22, 1958
Type: TV
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Title: Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Released: October 6, 1958
Type: TV
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Title: Naked City
Character: Clyde Royd
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
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Title: Cimarron City
Released: September 27, 1958
Type: TV
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Kathy O'
Title: Kathy O'
Character: Harry Johnson
Released: September 24, 1958
Type: Movie
A movie publicist is assigned to keep the public from learning that a beloved child star is an egotistical little brat.
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Title: Suspicion
Character: Eddie Schumaker / McDillard
Released: September 30, 1957
Type: TV
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Title: Wagon Train
Character: Amos
Released: September 18, 1957
Type: TV
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Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Title: Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Character: John Jacob Masters
Released: September 1, 1957
Type: Movie
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.
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Night Passage
Title: Night Passage
Character: Whitey Harbin
Released: July 24, 1957
Type: Movie
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.
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The Burglar
Title: The Burglar
Character: Nat Harbin
Released: June 1, 1957
Type: Movie
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. Using Nat's female ward, Gladden, to pose as an admirer and case the mansion where the woman lives, they set up a perfect break-in. Things get complicated afterwards.
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Battle Hymn
Title: Battle Hymn
Character: Sgt. Herman
Released: February 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he’s a failure at preaching. Rejoined to train pilots early in the Korean War, he finds Korean orphans raiding the airbase garbage. With a pretty Korean teacher, he sets up an orphanage for them and others.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Kirk Joiner
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Henry Jacob Hanley
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
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Storm Fear
Title: Storm Fear
Character: Fred
Released: December 16, 1955
Type: Movie
A wounded bank robber takes over his brother's home.
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Title: The 20th Century Fox Hour
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
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The Marauders
Title: The Marauders
Character: Avery
Released: September 26, 1955
Type: Movie
A poor homesteader fights back when he's targeted for extinction by a powerful rancher and his gang of hired thugs.
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Title: Star Stage
Character: Jason
Released: September 9, 1955
Type: TV
The show featured two-act plays. Two-thirds were live, and the rest on film.
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Foxfire
Title: Foxfire
Character: Hugh Slater
Released: July 13, 1955
Type: Movie
A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.
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This Is My Love
Title: This Is My Love
Character: Murray Myer
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: Movie
A single woman tries to keep her sister from another man by framing her for her husband's murder.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Dr. Dennis Sullivan
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
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Title: December Bride
Released: October 4, 1954
Type: TV
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Title: Studio 57
Released: September 21, 1954
Type: TV
Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956.
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Silver Lode
Title: Silver Lode
Character: Fred McCarty
Released: July 23, 1954
Type: Movie
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. Ballard seeks to stall McCarty while tracking down evidence that will prove his innocence.
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Rails Into Laramie
Title: Rails Into Laramie
Character: Jim Shanessy
Released: April 14, 1954
Type: Movie
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.
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Ride Clear of Diablo
Title: Ride Clear of Diablo
Character: Whitey Kincade
Released: February 10, 1954
Type: Movie
A young railroad surveyor returns to his hometown to find the man who murdered his father and brother.
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World for Ransom
Title: World for Ransom
Character: Mike Callahan / Corrigan
Released: January 31, 1954
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The New Adventures of China Smith
Character: China Smith
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: TV
In this syndicated series China Smith is an adventurer based in 1950's Singapore. He takes on an array jobs to earn money, from fleecing the deserving to doing investigative work. Hobson is the local lawmen while Shira the mysterious temptress.
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36 Hours
Title: 36 Hours
Character: Major Bill Rogers
Released: December 4, 1953
Type: Movie
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.
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Sky Commando
Title: Sky Commando
Character: Col. Ed 'E.D.' Wyatt
Released: August 21, 1953
Type: Movie
Colonel Ed Wyatt is regarded by pilots under his command as being a ruthless disciplinarian. His co-pilot, Lt. Hobson Lee, and Jo McWethy, a war correspondent assigned to the squadron become more friendly than meets Wyatt's approval. When Wyatt's plane is forced down behind enemy lines, he orders his crew to proceed to the American lines with the vital film they have shot, while he remains behind to hold off the enemy.
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Thunder Bay
Title: Thunder Bay
Character: Johnny Gambi
Released: May 21, 1953
Type: Movie
Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Brad Lawson
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Barnaby Hooke
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Title: Cavalcade of America
Character: Joe Kohler
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
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Title: China Smith
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: TV
China Smith was a 1950s television adventure series starring Dan Duryea. The television show takes place in Singapore. Much of the cast and crew also worked on the film World for Ransom, which is considered an extension of the television program. Director Robert Aldrich had also directed two episodes of the series. The title character was a soldier of fortune wearing a white suit living in Singapore who would face danger and excitement every week. The series was made with a two-year gap; the first 26 episodes being filmed in Mexico, the second 26 episodes were shot in 1954-1955. In 1959 Daffy Duck played China Jones a parody of Duryea's character.
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Chicago Calling
Title: Chicago Calling
Character: Bill Cannon
Released: December 31, 1951
Type: Movie
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. His wife will call later with news, but Bill’s short the $53 he needs to keep his phone from being disconnected. Filled with anguish, he heads out onto the Los Angeles streets to find some way to come up with the cash. As his character encounters expected cruelty and unexpected kindness, Duryea takes what might have been mere melodrama and turns it into a perceptive examination of one shattered soul. The other fine star of this race-against-the-clock programmer is an unglamorous, lunch-bucket L.A. rarely captured on film.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Pete Richards
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Federal Agent Sam Ireland
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: China Smith
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Title: Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Character: Al Jennings
Released: January 17, 1951
Type: Movie
Bank robber serves his time in prison, tries to go straight.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Howard Boyd
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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The Underworld Story
Title: The Underworld Story
Character: Mike Reese
Released: July 26, 1950
Type: Movie
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
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Winchester '73
Title: Winchester '73
Character: Waco Johnnie Dean
Released: July 12, 1950
Type: Movie
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
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Screen Actors
Title: Screen Actors
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1950
Type: Movie
This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors.
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One Way Street
Title: One Way Street
Character: John Wheeler
Released: April 1, 1950
Type: Movie
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
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Manhandled
Title: Manhandled
Character: Karl Benson
Released: July 21, 1949
Type: Movie
Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his wife, and she includes the fact that the wife owns valuable jewels. When the wife is found murdered in a manner identical to that of her husband's dream, the husband is naturally the prime suspect. But as the investigation of the police and insurance investigator Joe Cooper proceeds, it turns out that several people in the case, including Merle, are not what they seem.
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Too Late for Tears
Title: Too Late for Tears
Character: Danny Fuller
Released: July 17, 1949
Type: Movie
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.
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Johnny Stool Pigeon
Title: Johnny Stool Pigeon
Character: Johnny Evans
Released: April 20, 1949
Type: Movie
A federal agent infiltrates a crime syndicate.
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Criss Cross
Title: Criss Cross
Character: Slim Dundee
Released: February 4, 1949
Type: Movie
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
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Larceny
Title: Larceny
Character: Silky Randall
Released: September 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Mason falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss, who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.
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River Lady
Title: River Lady
Character: Beauvais
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
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. Romance and deceit are catalyzed by the arrival of the gambling river boat, River Lady, owned by the beautiful Sequin. Bauvais, a representative of the local lumber syndicate and Sequin's business partner, is trying to convince H.L. Morrison, the mill owner, to sell his business.
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Another Part of the Forest
Title: Another Part of the Forest
Character: Oscar Hubbard
Released: May 18, 1948
Type: Movie
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
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Black Bart
Title: Black Bart
Character: Charles E. Boles / Black Bart
Released: February 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California, where the Gold Rush is beginning. Soon, a lone gunman in black is robbing Wells Fargo gold shipments. One fateful day, the stage he robs carries old friends Lance and Jersey...and notorious dancer Lola Montez, coming to perform in Sacramento. Black Bart and Lance become rivals for both Lola's favors and Wells Fargo's gold.
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White Tie and Tails
Title: White Tie and Tails
Character: Charles Dumont
Released: August 30, 1946
Type: Movie
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying an heiress.
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Black Angel
Title: Black Angel
Character: Martin Blair
Released: August 2, 1946
Type: Movie
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.
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Scarlet Street
Title: Scarlet Street
Character: Johnny Prince
Released: December 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
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Lady on a Train
Title: Lady on a Train
Character: Arnold Waring
Released: August 3, 1945
Type: Movie
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. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
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Along Came Jones
Title: Along Came Jones
Character: Monte Jarrad
Released: July 19, 1945
Type: Movie
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.
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The Valley of Decision
Title: The Valley of Decision
Character: William Scott Jr.
Released: May 3, 1945
Type: Movie
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. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.
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The Great Flamarion
Title: The Great Flamarion
Character: Al Wallace
Released: January 13, 1945
Type: Movie
A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.
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Main Street After Dark
Title: Main Street After Dark
Character: Posey Dibson
Released: January 12, 1945
Type: Movie
A police detective (Edward Arnold) uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket (Selena Royle) and her gang.
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The Woman in the Window
Title: The Woman in the Window
Character: Heidt / Tim, the Doorman
Released: October 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
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None But the Lonely Heart
Title: None But the Lonely Heart
Character: Lew Tate
Released: October 17, 1944
Type: Movie
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.
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Mrs. Parkington
Title: Mrs. Parkington
Character: Jack Stilham
Released: October 12, 1944
Type: Movie
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. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
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Man from Frisco
Title: Man from Frisco
Character: Jim Benson
Released: June 15, 1944
Type: Movie
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. A disappointed lover fails to deliver an important message on welds and it leads to the collapse of a new ship's superstructure and the death of a boy.
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Ministry of Fear
Title: Ministry of Fear
Character: Cost aka Travers the tailor
Released: May 19, 1944
Type: Movie
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.
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Sahara
Title: Sahara
Character: Jimmy Doyle
Released: September 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. Tambul, the Sudanese leads them to an abandoned desert fortress where they hope to find water. Soon a detachment of German soldiers arrives and attempts to barter food for water, but Gunn and his followers refuse. When the Germans attack, Gunn leads his desert-weary men in a desperate battle, hoping that British reinforcements can arrive in time.
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That Other Woman
Title: That Other Woman
Character: Ralph Cobb
Released: November 13, 1942
Type: Movie
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.
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The Pride of the Yankees
Title: The Pride of the Yankees
Character: Hank Hanneman
Released: July 14, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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Ball of Fire
Title: Ball of Fire
Character: Duke Pastrami
Released: December 2, 1941
Type: Movie
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. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
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The Little Foxes
Title: The Little Foxes
Character: Leo Hubbard
Released: August 29, 1941
Type: Movie
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.