
Acting
David Durand
Born — Died
1920-07-27 — 1998-07-25
Place of birth
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
49 titles
David Durand (born David Grey Parker) was an American child, teen, and young-adult actor whose career ran from 1925 to 1944.
Known for
6.5After 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.
The Ghost Breakers
1940
5.6Marianne 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.
The Bad Sister
1931
5.7The 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.
Little Men
1934
5.6Race 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.
He Married His Wife
1940
8.3A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
The Band Plays On
1934
7.0A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the murder of a model in Greenwich Village.
Hat, Coat and Glove
1934
Film credits
1940s · 20 titles
6.5After 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.
The Ghost Breakers
1940
5.6Race 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.
He Married His Wife
1940
6.7The 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.
Kid Dynamite
1943
6.3Terry 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.
Pleased to Mitt You
1940
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Naval Academy
1941
8.0Ordered 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.
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
1943
7.5A 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.
Harmon of Michigan
1941
5.8A 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.
Keep 'Em Slugging
1943
3.8Muggs 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.
Follow the Leader
1944
6.5A 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.
Her First Romance
1940
5.9In ridding the area of muggers, the East Side Boys acquire a wealthy benefactor whose privileged son, unbeknownst to him, has fallen in with thugs.
Million Dollar Kid
1944
Terry invents a new formula for gasoline and shows it to his girlfriend's father.
A Study in Socks
1942
9.0Terry is framed by a rival so that he'll be ineligible to play in the big football game.
The Kink of the Campus
1941
6.0An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.
Golden Gloves
1940
6.5A 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.
The Tulsa Kid
1940
9.0Terry arrives at school, but doesn't get exactly the welcome he expected.
Fresh as a Freshman
1941
Terry and the gang put on a boxing exhibition in order to sell war bonds.
College Belles
1942
Terry (Durand) is erroneous jailed prior to an important boxing match.
Glove Birds
1942
Terry protects his girlfriend's little brother from the town bully.
Glove Affair
1941
Terry and his gang stow away on board an ocean liner.
Mitt Me Tonight
1941
1930s · 24 titles
5.6Marianne 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.
The Bad Sister
1931
5.7The 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.
Little Men
1934
8.3A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
The Band Plays On
1934
7.0A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the murder of a model in Greenwich Village.
Hat, Coat and Glove
1934
5.5In 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.
Wells Fargo
1937
5.2The 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.
Rich Man's Folly
1931
5.4Jimmy, 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?
Streets of New York
1939
5.2A 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.
Boys' Reformatory
1939
10.0Filmed 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
Scouts to the Rescue
1939
7.3An 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.
Son of the Border
1933
6.2In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.
Viva Villa!
1934
5.6Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
As the Earth Turns
1934
6.2Champion 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 Life of Jimmy Dolan
1933
6.4After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
Off the Record
1939
10.0In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?
Cradle Song
1933
6.2A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
Silver Dollar
1932
7.4An 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.
A Criminal Is Born
1938
6.3Janet 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.
Probation
1932
3.8A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.
Wednesday's Child
1934
A jealous husband endeavors to reach his wife who is quarantined in an apartment with her former spouse.
Live and Learn
1930
8.0Intending 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.
The Jazz Cinderella
1930
8.0Sweethearts 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.
The Spy
1931
6.4The 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.
Ladies Love Brutes
1930
8.0Generational saga about a failed streetcar conductor, who finds success as an Atlantic City fortune teller, and his son.
The Great Jasper
1933
1920s · 5 titles
6.4On 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.
Good Cheer
1926
8.0A Parisian junk dealer has to choose between love and fame after he rescues a boy.
Innocents of Paris
1929
4.7Tom and Anna Gibson, along with their little boy, Buddy, form a successful vaudeville song-and-dance act and a happy family. Anna, however, is worried about her son's future when she finds him playing ball, forgetting a performance.
Song of Love
1929
7.0Herbert 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.
Tropic Madness
1928
6.4A 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.
Get Your Man
1927
