Peter Duryea

With his all-American good looks, "Peter Duryea" was a natural at playing wide-eyed innocents, but he also had considerable acting ability to go with the pretty-boy appearance -- the result was his ability at portraying evil of the most visceral and calculating sort. Thus, "Gene Roddenberry" chose him to play Jose Tyler, the junior bridge officer on the starship Enterprise, in ""The Cage"," the 1964 pilot for "Star Trek", a role that wasn't picked up until the subsequent series went into production two years later. "Jack Webb" got even more impressive results, however, by casting Duryea in villainous roles in a string of "Dragnet" episodes, most notably... Full Biography