- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- December 7, 1917
- Place of Birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Died
- December 26, 1998
Hurd Hatfield
William Rukard Hurd Hatfield was an American actor, best known for often playing characters of handsome, narcissistic young men, most notably Dorian Gray in the film The Picture of Dorian Gray. Hatfield was born in New York City to William Henry Hatfield, who died in 1954, an attorney who served as deputy attorney general for New York, and his wife, Adele (née McGuire). Hurd was educated at Columbia University, then moved to London, England where he studied drama and began acting in theatre. He returned to America for his film debut in Dragon Seed, in which he and his co-stars (Katharine Hepburn, Akim Tamiroff, Aline MacMahon, Turhan Bey) portrayed Chinese peasants, some more convincingly than others. Hatfield's second film, The Picture of Dorian Gray, made him a star. As Oscar Wilde's ageless anti-hero, Hatfield received widespread acclaim for his dark good looks as much as for his ac…
Filmography
movieLies of the Twins
1991 · Gil Selwyn
movieHer Alibi
1989 · Troppa
movieCrimes of the Heart
1986 · Old Granddaddy
tvBlacke's Magic
1986
tvAmazing Stories
1985 · Logan Webb
tvLime Street
1985
movieKing David
1985 · Ahimelech
Mellow Moon
1985 · (himself)
tvMurder, She Wrote
1984 · Jean-Pierre Dusant, William Readford, Leo Peterson
tvKnight Rider
1982 · Ariel Marsden
movieYou Can't Go Home Again
1979 · Foxhall Edwards
tvThe Word
1978 · Cedric Plummer
tvKojak
1973 · Don Luiz Cabrillo
movieThe House and the Brain
1973 · Constantine St. Mal
movieThe Norliss Tapes
1973 · Charles Langdon
tvSearch
1972
movieThief
1971 · Herman Gray
movieVon Richthofen and Brown
1971 · Anthony Fokker
movieMontserrat
1971
movieThe Boston Strangler
1968 · Terence Huntley
movieTen Blocks on the Camino Real
1966 · Jacques Casanova
tvNET Playhouse
1966 · Jacques Casanova
movieThe Double-Barrelled Detective Story
1965 · Father
movieMickey One
1965 · Castle
tvThe F.B.I.
1965 · Karole Schumann
tvThe Wild Wild West
1965 · Liston Day
movieHarlow
1965 · Paul Bern
tvVoyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1964 · Leopold Zeraff
movieA Cry of Angels
1963
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963 · Tsezar
movieThe Invincible Mr. Disraeli
1963 · Lionel Rothschild
movieHéroes de blanco
1962 · Augusto Peña
movieEl Cid
1961 · Arias
movieKing of Kings
1961 · Pontius Pilate
movieThe Left Handed Gun
1958 · Moultrie
tvDuPont Show of the Month
1957 · Sir Hugh, Oswald
tvAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Paul Tallendier, Seymour Johnston
Appointment with Adventure
1955 · Martin
tvThe Millionaire
1955 · Jack Miner
tvClimax!
1954 · Ted, Paul Randolph, Morini
movieThe Play of the Nativity of the Child Jesus
1952 · Narrator
tvOmnibus
1952
tvHallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Lionel Rothschild, Prince Frederic, Sagredo Niccolini
tvSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Dobbins
movieTarzan and the Slave Girl
1950 · Prince of the Lionians
movieDestination Murder
1950 · Stretch Norton
tvRobert Montgomery Presents
1950 · Gringoire
movieChinatown at Midnight
1949 · Clifford Ward
tvLights Out
1949
tvSuspense
1949
movieJoan of Arc
1948 · Father Pasquerel, Joan's Chaplain
tvStudio One
1948 · Narrator (uncredited), Harry Vane
movieThe Checkered Coat
1948 · Stephen "Creepy" Bolan
tvThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self
movieThe Unsuspected
1947 · Oliver Keane
movieThe Beginning or the End
1947 · Dr. John Wyatt
movieThe Diary of a Chambermaid
1946 · Georges Lanlaire
movieThe Picture of Dorian Gray
1945 · Dorian Gray
movieDragon Seed
1944 · Lao San Tan - Youngest Son