Dan Duryea

Born: 1907-01-23

​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.


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The Little Foxes

as Leo Hubbard
Released: 1941-08-29

In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build...

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Criss Cross

as Slim Dundee
Released: 1949-02-04

An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster...

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Scarlet Street

as Johnny Prince
Released: 1945-12-25

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful...

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The Flight of the Phoenix

as Standish
Released: 1965-12-15

A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One...

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Sahara

as Jimmy Doyle
Released: 1943-09-22

Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese...

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Ball of Fire

as Duke Pastrami
Released: 1941-12-02

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia....

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Winchester '73

as Waco Johnnie Dean
Released: 1950-07-12

Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting...

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The Pride of the Yankees

as Hank Hanneman
Released: 1942-07-14

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

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Ministry of Fear

as Cost aka Travers the tailor
Released: 1944-05-19

Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so...

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The Woman in the Window

as Heidt / Tim, the Doorman
Released: 1944-10-25

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

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Night Passage

as Whitey Harbin
Released: 1957-07-24

Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother,...

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Foxfire

as Hugh Slater
Released: 1955-07-13

A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.

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Black Angel

as Martin Blair
Released: 1946-08-02

A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up...

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Silver Lode

as Fred McCarty
Released: 1954-07-23

Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted...

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The Valley of Decision

as William Scott Jr.
Released: 1945-05-03

Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her...

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Incident at Phantom Hill

as Joe Barlow
Released: 1966-07-01

At the end of the Civil War, a major shipment of gold has been stolen and buried in the desert....

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The Hills Run Red

as Col. Winny Getz
Released: 1966-09-09

After the Civil War ends, two soldiers return home with a cache of stolen money. They are caught...

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Taggart

as Jason
Released: 1965-02-01

Taggart's family is slaughtered by a rival rancher. Taggart mortally wounds the rancher and...

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One Way Street

as John Wheeler
Released: 1950-04-01

After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in...

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Too Late for Tears

as Danny Fuller
Released: 1949-07-17

Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000,...

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Battle Hymn

as Sgt. Herman
Released: 1957-02-14

Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he’s a...

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The Great Flamarion

as Al Wallace
Released: 1945-01-13

A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to...

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Lady on a Train

as Arnold Waring
Released: 1945-08-03

While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building....

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Ride Clear of Diablo

as Whitey Kincade
Released: 1954-02-10

A young railroad surveyor returns to his hometown to find the man who murdered his father and...

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Five Golden Dragons

as Dragon #1
Released: 1967-08-03

While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of...

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Black Bart

as Charles E. Boles / Black Bart
Released: 1948-02-17

Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California,...

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The Bamboo Saucer

as Hank Peters
Released: 1968-10-23

A flying saucer hidden in a Red Chinese peasant village is sought by teams from the United...

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Six Black Horses

as Frank Jesse
Released: 1962-04-24

Audie and Dan Duryea are hired by a mysterious woman to take her across Indian country to her...

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Along Came Jones

as Monte Jarrad
Released: 1945-07-19

An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it...

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None But the Lonely Heart

as Lew Tate
Released: 1944-10-17

When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they're both...

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Rails Into Laramie

as Jim Shanessy
Released: 1954-04-14

A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the...

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Thunder Bay

as Johnny Gambi
Released: 1953-05-21

Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.

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The Bounty Killer

as Willie Duggan
Released: 1965-07-30

Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its...

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36 Hours

as Major Bill Rogers
Released: 1953-12-04

When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes...

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The Marauders

as Avery
Released: 1955-09-26

A poor homesteader fights back when he's targeted for extinction by a powerful rancher and his...

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He Rides Tall

as Bart Thorne
Released: 1964-02-26

A rancher is pressured by his cheating wife and a gang leader, into trying to cripple a...

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Mrs. Parkington

as Jack Stilham
Released: 1944-10-12

In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid...

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World for Ransom

as Mike Callahan / Corrigan
Released: 1954-01-31

In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime...

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The Burglar

as Nat Harbin
Released: 1957-06-01

Burglar Nat Harbin and his two associates set their sights on wealthy spiritualist Sister Sarah,...

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Manhandled

as Karl Benson
Released: 1949-07-21

Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a...

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Winchester '73

as Bart McAdam
Released: 1967-03-14

TV Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an...

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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1988-11-22

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

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Larceny

as Silky Randall
Released: 1948-09-03

Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief....

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The Underworld Story

as Mike Reese
Released: 1950-07-26

A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a...

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Main Street After Dark

as Posey Dibson
Released: 1945-01-12

A police detective (Edward Arnold) uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket (Selena Royle)...

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Chicago Calling

as Bill Cannon
Released: 1951-12-31

Bill Cannon (Dan Duryea) loses everything to alcohol: his job, his family, his self-respect....

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Platinum High School

as Maj. Redfern Kelly
Released: 1960-05-13

At an exclusive military academy on Sabre Island, rich young delinquents think money puts them...

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This Is My Love

as Murray Myer
Released: 1954-10-27

A single woman tries to keep her sister from another man by framing her for her husband's murder.

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Al Jennings of Oklahoma

as Al Jennings
Released: 1951-01-17

Bank robber serves his time in prison, tries to go straight.

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White Tie and Tails

as Charles Dumont
Released: 1946-08-30

When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying...

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Johnny Stool Pigeon

as Johnny Evans
Released: 1949-04-20

A federal agent infiltrates a crime syndicate.

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That Other Woman

as Ralph Cobb
Released: 1942-11-13

A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry...

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Kathy O'

as Harry Johnson
Released: 1958-09-24

A movie publicist is assigned to keep the public from learning that a beloved child star is an...

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Sky Commando

as Col. Ed 'E.D.' Wyatt
Released: 1953-08-21

Colonel Ed Wyatt is regarded by pilots under his command as being a ruthless disciplinarian. His...

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River Lady

as Beauvais
Released: 1948-06-01

In the 1850s, in a logging town on the Mississippi River, a conflict between the people of a...

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Stranger on the Run

as O.E. Hotchkiss
Released: 1967-10-31

A drifter finds himself wrongly accused of murder by a power-crazed sheriff. The sheriff gives...

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Storm Fear

as Fred
Released: 1955-12-16

A wounded bank robber takes over his brother's home.

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Another Part of the Forest

as Oscar Hubbard
Released: 1948-05-18

This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard...

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Do You Know This Voice?

as John Hopta
Released: 1964-12-01

When a ransom bid results in the death of a child, the police have only one lead – the old lady...

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Slaughter on 10th Avenue

as John Jacob Masters
Released: 1957-09-01

A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for...

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Man from Frisco

as Jim Benson
Released: 1944-06-15

Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding....

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Gundown at Sandoval

as uncredited
Released: 1959-01-01

In this exciting western, cowpoke Texas John Slaughter rides out for revenge against the man who...

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Walk a Tightrope

as Carl Lutcher
Released: 1964-10-30

Meet Ellen Sheppard, an American living in Britain. Her English husband, Jason Sheppard, has...

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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Raymond Brown
First aired: 1962-09-20

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of...

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Burke's Law

as Hop Sing Kelly
First aired: 1963-09-20

Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on...

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Burke's Law

as Sam Atherton
First aired: 1963-09-20

Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on...

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The Twilight Zone

as Al Denton
First aired: 1959-10-02

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science...

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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Kirk Joiner
First aired: 1956-10-05

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American...

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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Henry Jacob Hanley
First aired: 1956-10-05

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American...

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The 20th Century Fox Hour

as uncredited
First aired: 1955-10-05

The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States...

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Kraft Suspense Theatre

as Lt. Boyd Manners
First aired: 1963-10-10

Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on...

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Adventures in Paradise

as Theodore Florian
First aired: 1959-10-05

Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on...

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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-10-06

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu...

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The Barbara Stanwyck Show

as Pierre
First aired: 1960-09-19

The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from...

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Cavalcade of America

as Joe Kohler
First aired: 1952-10-01

Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company,...

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Lux Video Theatre

as Howard Boyd
First aired: 1950-10-02

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The...

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Going My Way

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-10-03

Going My Way is an American comedy-drama series

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The Virginian

as Ben Crayton
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

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Daniel Boone

as Simon Perigore
First aired: 1964-09-24

Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel...

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Combat!

as Barton
First aired: 1962-10-02

Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The...

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Combat!

as Bernie Wallace
First aired: 1962-10-02

Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The...

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Climax!

as Dr. Dennis Sullivan
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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Wagon Train

as Amos
First aired: 1957-09-18

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later...

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Naked City

as Clyde Royd
First aired: 1958-09-30

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network....

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Route 66

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-10-07

Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet...

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Cimarron City

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-09-27

Cimarron City is an American Western television series, starring George Montgomery as Matt...

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Laramie

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-09-15

Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. A Revue...

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Rawhide

as Jardin
First aired: 1959-01-09

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...

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Rawhide

as Abner Cannon
First aired: 1959-01-09

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...

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Rawhide

as Brother William
First aired: 1959-01-09

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...

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December Bride

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-10-04

December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959,...

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Riverboat

as Captain Brad Turner
First aired: 1959-09-13

Riverboat is a 44-episode western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds...

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Suspicion

as Eddie Schumaker / McDillard
First aired: 1957-09-30

Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC...

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Studio 57

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-09-21

Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont...

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as China Smith
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Federal Agent Sam Ireland
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Pete Richards
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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The Loner

as uncredited
First aired: 1965-09-18

The Loner is an American western series that ran for less than one season on CBS from 1965 to...

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General Electric Theater

as Brad Lawson
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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General Electric Theater

as Barnaby Hooke
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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The Monroes

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-09-07

The Monroes is a 26-segment Western television series which originally aired on ABC during the...

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China Smith

as uncredited
First aired: 1952-01-01

China Smith was a 1950s television adventure series starring Dan Duryea. The television show...

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Star Stage

as Jason
First aired: 1955-09-09

The show featured two-act plays. Two-thirds were live, and the rest on film.

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The New Adventures of China Smith

as China Smith
First aired: 1954-01-01

In this syndicated series China Smith is an adventurer based in 1950's Singapore. He takes on an...

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