
Birthday:
07-27-1920
Deathday:
07-25-1998 (77 years)
Birthplace:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Biography
David Durand (born David Grey Parker) was an American child, teen, and young-adult actor whose career ran from 1925 to 1944.
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Golden Gloves
Act like Gumdrop Wilbur
event1940 star_border 5
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An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.
Little Men
Act like Nat Blake
event1934 star_border 4
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The former Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for homeless boys. One of the boys, Nat, invites Dan, a street kid, to come to the school, where the boys are all loved and well cared for. Dan is a young tough, but his heart is good, and when he is accused of theft at the school, Jo continues to believe in him and that the true thief will be found out.
Good Cheer
Act like Mary's brother
event1926 star_border 6.1
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On Christmas Eve, the Gang copes with hardships, helps capture a gang of thieves, and learns that Santa Claus really exists for those who wish fervently enough.
Son of the Border
Act like Frankie Breen
event1933 star_border 9
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An honest rancher, after killing his best friend who's turned outlaw, takes his pal's orphaned younger brother into his own home. The boy, however, isn't aware he's now living with the man responsible for his brother's death. This 1933 RKO B-western, directed by Lloyd Nosler, stars Tom Keene, Lon Chaney Jr., David Durand, Julie Haydon, Edgar Kennedy, Charles King and Al Bridge.
A Criminal Is Born
Act like Rodney 'Rod'
event1938 star_border 7.5
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An entry in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series, this short tells the true story of how a young man, ignored by his parents, gets into a gang and starts a crime spree which leads to murder.
Live and Learn
Act like Reginald
event1930 star_border 1
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A jealous husband endeavors to reach his wife who is quarantined in an apartment with her former spouse.
Wednesday's Child
Act like Charles Nevins
event1934 star_border 3
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A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.
Boys' Reformatory
Act like Knuckles Malone
event1939 star_border 5.5
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A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor.
Probation
Act like David
event1932 star_border 5
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Janet Holman is suspicious of her fiancé, Allen Wells, after he kisses her best friend Gwen when the lights are turned out during a party. Allen leaves early, purportedly for business reasons, but in reality, he is going to visit his secret girl friend, seventeen-year-old Ruth Jarrett. When Ruth's neighbor and landlady, Mrs. Humphries, overhears her talking to Allen on the phone, she becomes morally outraged and calls the police. Ruth is taken away to juvenile hall, and when Ruth's older brother Nick comes home to celebrate Ruth's birthday, Mrs. Humphries explains that Ruth has been seeing an older, wealthy man who has been leading her astray, and that she sent her away for her own good. Nick is saddened that he has failed to keep Ruth on the right track, and when he returns to his apartment, he becomes enraged to see Allen there. When Allen claims ignorance of Ruth's age, Nick hits him, and they engage in a brawl.
As the Earth Turns
Act like Manuel
event1934 star_border 5.3
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Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Act like George Lewis
event1933 star_border 6
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Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and womanizer behind the scenes. Intoxicated at a party, he punches a reporter who threatens to expose his hypocrisy, and accidentally kills him. Dolan panics and skips town, winding up on a farm that serves as a home for disabled children run by kindhearted Peggy. As the cynical Dolan falls for Peggy, he begins to change his ways.
The Great Jasper
Act like Andrew Horn (child)
event1933
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Generational saga about a failed streetcar conductor, who finds success as an Atlantic City fortune teller, and his son. Drama.
Innocents of Paris
Act like Jo-Jo
event1929
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A Parisian junk dealer has to choose between love and fame after he rescues a boy.
The Bands Plays On
Act like Tony as a Boy
event1934 star_border 8.5
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A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
Wells Fargo
Act like Alex Trimball
event1937 star_border 5.1
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In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
Get Your Man
Act like Robert as a boy
event1927 star_border 6.4
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A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man.
Pleased to Mitt You
Act like Terry Kelly
event1940
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Terry Kelly is leaving for college, and Ma Kelly and Uncle Pat invite his friends and sweetheart Kitty to the house for a going-away party. The bigger surprise is Uncle Pat's gift of $1400 for Terry's tuition, money he earned promoting Terry as an amateur boxer. Accompanying Terry and Kitty's school friends to the party is Diggins, Terry's rival for Kitty's affections. After an argument, Diggins takes off... with the envelope containing Pat's gift. The kids track Diggins down at Regan's Road House, and a brawl breaks out.
Her First Romance
Act like Student (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.5
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A bookish co-ed is pranked into attending a formal dance, but her stepsister refuses to help her prepare. With support from a cook and her cousin, she gets a dress, but after learning it’s a joke, she initially declines—until a charming opera star offers to escort her, leading to surprising revelations.
Hat, Coat and Glove
Act like Thomas Sullivan
event1934 star_border 5.5
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A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the murder of a model in Greenwich Village.
He Married His Wife
Act like Usher
event1940 star_border 5.1
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Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.
Viva Villa!
Act like Bugle Boy
event1934 star_border 6.3
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In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.
Follow the Leader
Act like Danny
event1944 star_border 3.5
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Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlough; actually, Muggs has been honorably discharged with a physical defect, but he tells no one of this. Danny, another East Side kid, is in jail because a large amount of medical supplies have been stolen from the warehouse where he works. Muggs see Spider, a new member of the gang, flashing a large amount of money around, and Muggs shrewdly turns toughie, boasting that he has a dishonorable discharge because of thievery. This leads Spider to confide in Muggs that he is the one who has been aiding in the theft of supplies from the warehouse, and he gets paid for the loot by Larry, operator of a nightclub where Muggs' sister, Milly, is an entertainer. Fingers, a henchman for Larry, kills Spider when he learns that Muggs has been let in on the operation. The police then suspect Muggs of killing Spider.
Million Dollar Kid
Act like Danny
event1944 star_border 6.4
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The gang is friend with a millionaire because they saved him from an agression. However, the gang is suspecting that the man's son was actually one of the agressors.
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
Act like Danny
event1943
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Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs McGinnis is hired by wealthy Mrs. Murray, who has a penchant for picking up trouble-prone servants. At an engagement party for Mrs. Murray's spoiled daughter Brenda, Muggs enlists his pals as extra help.
Kid Dynamite
Act like Skinny Collins
event1943 star_border 6.6
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The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend Danny Lyons takes his place and wins the fight, only to have Mugs believe that Danny was responsible for his kidnapping.
The Ghost Breakers
Act like Bellhop (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.5
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After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.
Ladies Love Brutes
Act like Joey Forziati
event1930 star_border 5.7
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The movie stars George Bancroft, Mary Astor and Fredric March who are all excellent in their roles. The story begins as Joe Forziati (Bancroft), an Italian immigrant who has battled his way to success as a New York building contractor, decides to embark on a social career.
The Tulsa Kid
Act like Bob Wallace
event1940 star_border 6
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A protegee of notorious outlaw Montana (Beery), young Tom Benton decides to stay on the good side of the Law upon reaching maturity. Montana, however, has no such inclination to reform, the result being a climactic gun duel between the ageing gunman and his former pupil.
Keep 'Em Slugging
Act like Bingo
event1943 star_border 5.5
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A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
Scouts to the Rescue
Act like 'Rip' Dawson
event1939
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Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial is Universal's 40th sound-era serial. Eagle Scout Bruce Scott, leader of Martinsville Troop Number One, and his pack sets off in search of lost treasure and finds adventure
The Kink of the Campus
Act like Terry Kelly
event1941
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Terry is framed by a rival so that he'll be ineligible to play in the big football game.
Fresh as a Freshman
Act like Terry Kelly
event1941
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Terry arrives at school, but doesn't get exactly the welcome he expected.
Glove Affair
Act like Terry Kelly
event1941
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Terry protects his girlfriend's little brother from the town bully.
Mitt Me Tonight
Act like Terry Kelly
event1941
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Terry and his gang stow away on board an ocean liner.
Glove Birds
Act like Terry Kelly
event1942
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Terry (Durand) is erroneous jailed prior to an important boxing match.
College Belles
Act like Terry Kelly
event1942
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Terry and the gang put on a boxing exhibition in order to sell war bonds.
A Study in Socks
Act like Terry Kelly
event1942
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Terry invents a new formula for gasoline and shows it to his girlfriend's father.
The Jazz Cinderella
Act like Danny Murray
event1930
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Intending that her son, Herbert, marry debutante Mildred Vane, Mrs. Consuelo Carter is most dismayed when she learns that Herbert has fallen in love with Pat Murray, a model in Darrow's dress shop. Pat's emphatic refusal to take Mrs. Carter's "suggestion" that she give up Herbert leads to her being fired, and she reluctantly accepts Herbert's invitation to weekend at the Carter country home. Finally realizing the hopelessness of the situation, Pat makes a spectacle of herself at a party; but Herbert is not fooled, and their love triumphs.
Harmon of Michigan
Act like Perkins
event1941
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A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
Off the Record
Act like Blackie (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6
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After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
Silver Dollar
Act like Mark
event1932 star_border 5.7
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A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
Rich Man's Folly
Act like Brock Junior
event1931 star_border 4.5
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The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.
Cradle Song
Act like Tomas
event1933
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In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?
Tropic Madness
Act like Frankie
event1928
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Herbert Pomeroy's wife Juanita spends his money extravagantly and irresponsibly, finally driving him to bankruptcy. Desperate, he sends his son Frankie to live with his friend Henderson, a South Seas trader, then commits suicide. Although Juanita spends years searching for her son, she finally gives up and takes a world cruise on the yacht of wealthy Jules Lennox. One day the yacht docks on Henderson's island and Juanita, meeting Henderson, persuades him to let her be Frankie's governess. Complications ensue, involving a poor physician, a jealous island woman and a witch doctor.
The Bad Sister
Act like Hedrick Madison
event1931 star_border 5.4
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Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Marianne. Marianne returns and marries a wealthy young man, and Lindley turns his love toward Laura.
Streets of New York
Act like Spike Morgan
event1939 star_border 5.6
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Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of making his fortune. Along the way he faces numerous obstacles, opportunities and temptations, but through it all, he considers the actions of his hero, Abraham Lincoln, for guidance. Will Jimmy see his dreams come true, or will he be another of the countless hopefuls chewed up and spit out by New York's mean streets?
The Spy
Act like Vanya
event1931
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Sweethearts pitted against lovers, wives against husbands, sons against mothers, in a frantic struggle to escape the clutch and claw of the 'Tcheka,' Russia's sinister spy system.
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