David Durand

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

The Ghost Breakers poster
6.5

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.

The Ghost Breakers

1940

The Bad Sister poster
5.6

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.

The Bad Sister

1931

Little Men poster
5.7

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.

Little Men

1934

He Married His Wife poster
5.6

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.

He Married His Wife

1940

The Band Plays On poster
8.3

A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.

The Band Plays On

1934

Hat, Coat and Glove poster
7.0

A 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

The Ghost Breakers poster
6.5

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.

The Ghost Breakers

1940

He Married His Wife poster
5.6

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.

He Married His Wife

1940

Kid Dynamite poster
6.7

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.

Kid Dynamite

1943

Pleased to Mitt You poster
6.3

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.

Pleased to Mitt You

1940

Naval Academy poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Naval Academy

1941

Mr. Muggs Steps Out poster
8.0

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.

Mr. Muggs Steps Out

1943

Harmon of Michigan poster
7.5

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.

Harmon of Michigan

1941

Keep 'Em Slugging poster
5.8

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.

Keep 'Em Slugging

1943

Follow the Leader poster
3.8

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.

Follow the Leader

1944

Her First Romance poster
6.5

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.

Her First Romance

1940

Million Dollar Kid poster
5.9

In 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

No artwork available
10.0

Terry invents a new formula for gasoline and shows it to his girlfriend's father.

A Study in Socks

1942

The Kink of the Campus poster
9.0

Terry is framed by a rival so that he'll be ineligible to play in the big football game.

The Kink of the Campus

1941

Golden Gloves poster
6.0

An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.

Golden Gloves

1940

The Tulsa Kid poster
6.5

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.

The Tulsa Kid

1940

Fresh as a Freshman poster
9.0

Terry arrives at school, but doesn't get exactly the welcome he expected.

Fresh as a Freshman

1941

No artwork available
9.0

Terry and the gang put on a boxing exhibition in order to sell war bonds.

College Belles

1942

No artwork available
9.0

Terry (Durand) is erroneous jailed prior to an important boxing match.

Glove Birds

1942

No artwork available
8.0

Terry protects his girlfriend's little brother from the town bully.

Glove Affair

1941

No artwork available
8.0

Terry and his gang stow away on board an ocean liner.

Mitt Me Tonight

1941

1930s · 24 titles

The Bad Sister poster
5.6

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.

The Bad Sister

1931

Little Men poster
5.7

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.

Little Men

1934

The Band Plays On poster
8.3

A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.

The Band Plays On

1934

Hat, Coat and Glove poster
7.0

A 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

Wells Fargo poster
5.5

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.

Wells Fargo

1937

Rich Man's Folly poster
5.2

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.

Rich Man's Folly

1931

Streets of New York poster
5.4

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?

Streets of New York

1939

Boys' Reformatory poster
5.2

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.

Boys' Reformatory

1939

Scouts to the Rescue poster
10.0

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

Scouts to the Rescue

1939

Son of the Border poster
7.3

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.

Son of the Border

1933

Viva Villa! poster
6.2

In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.

Viva Villa!

1934

As the Earth Turns poster
5.6

Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.

As the Earth Turns

1934

The Life of Jimmy Dolan poster
6.2

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 Life of Jimmy Dolan

1933

Off the Record poster
6.4

After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.

Off the Record

1939

Cradle Song poster
10.0

In 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

Silver Dollar poster
6.2

A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.

Silver Dollar

1932

A Criminal Is Born poster
7.4

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.

A Criminal Is Born

1938

Probation poster
6.3

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.

Probation

1932

Wednesday's Child poster
3.8

A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.

Wednesday's Child

1934

No artwork available
3.3

A jealous husband endeavors to reach his wife who is quarantined in an apartment with her former spouse.

Live and Learn

1930

The Jazz Cinderella poster
8.0

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.

The Jazz Cinderella

1930

The Spy poster
8.0

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.

The Spy

1931

Ladies Love Brutes poster
6.4

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.

Ladies Love Brutes

1930

The Great Jasper poster
8.0

Generational 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