Name | Hurd Hatfield |
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Caption | from the trailer for The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) |
Birthname | William Rukard Hurd Hatfield |
Birth date | December 07, 1917 |
Birth place | New York City, New York, U.S. |
Death date | December 26, 1998 |
Death place | Rathcormac, County Cork, Ireland |
Yearsactive | 1944 - 1991 |
Occupation | actor |
William Rukard Hurd Hatfield (December 7, 1917 – December 26, 1998) was an American actor.
His subsequent films, The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946), The Beginning or the End (1947), and The Unsuspected (1947) were successful, but Hatfield's career began to lose momentum very quickly.
Hatfield's other films include Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950), King of Kings (as Pontius Pilate) (1961), El Cid (1961), Harlow (1965), The Boston Strangler (1968), King David (1985), Crimes of the Heart (1986), and Her Alibi (1989).
He also appeared frequently on television and received an Emmy Award nomination for the Hallmark Hall of Fame videotaped play The Invincible Mr. Disraeli (1963). In 1957, he appeared in Beyond This Place which was directed by Sidney Lumet. Among Hatfield's many other television credits are three guest appearances on Murder, She Wrote opposite his Picture of Dorian Gray costar, Angela Lansbury, who had become a lifelong friend, and who also had a home in County Cork.
In 1952, Mr. Hatfield appeared as Joseph in Westinghouse Studio One 's The Nativity, with a full supporting cast and singing provided by the Robert Shaw Chorale. This was, in some ways, a true television event, a rare commercial network staging of a fourteenth-century mystery play, adapted from the York and Chester plays. The program has since been issued on a made-to-order DVD.
In 1966, he appeared on the television series The Wild Wild West in an episode entitled "The Night of the Man-Eating House". In a twist on his Dorian role, his character starts as an old man who, upon entering a house inhabited by the ghost of his mother, is turned back into a youthful Confederate soldier. A second appearance in the third season episode "The Night of the Undead" had him portray the vengeful and mad Dr. Articulus.
In his later years, Hatfield was noted for his youthful appearance, and in interviews would joke about the picture he was hiding in his attic, in reference to Dorian Gray.
According to the magazine Film in Review, Hatfield was ambivalent about Dorian Gray, feeling that it had typecast him. "You know, I was never a great beauty in Gray," he is reported to have said, "and I never understood why I got the part and have spent my career regretting it."
Both his home, Ballinterry House and his collection were inherited by his long time close friend and colleague Maggie Williams, who maintained the historic Irish country home exactly as it was at the time of Hatfield's death. The house was sold at the end of 2006 and the entire contents of the 'Hurd Hatfield Collection' was sold at an auction on the premises 'Country House Antique & Fine Art Auction' in March 2007.
At the time of his death, Hatfield was writing his autobiography.
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