Hurd Hatfield

I ask your deepest pardon for I have inhaled an ENTIRE BAKERY!

To be fair, how the hell could you like girls with a name like Hurd Hatfield?

He was gay; it was no secret.

I never found him attractive, and they sure could have gotten a hotter guy to play Dorian Gray.

I remember watching him on TV as Edmund Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo, my favorite book.

He reminds me of someone but I can't quite think of who.

He's in one of my favorite noir films, where he plays an embittered Datalounger married to Audrey Totter, starring Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, Constance Bennett, the pretty Michael (Ted) North and Fred Clark.

He made two tv appearances I'll always remember, ones he was terrific in -- the first was an Alfred Hitchcock mystery in which he plays, to the hilt, a young murderer whose vanity is his Achilles heel; the second was a Wild Wild West episode in which he gets beaten up by James West, as almost all (male) guest stars were.

Hurd Hatfield was Dorian Gray, role suited him right down to ground.

Very attractive Englishman who reeked of creamy rich British charm. Well bred of course, but with a slight bit of arrogance and streak of cruelty that is rather alluring....

Thing is Hurd Hatfield was an American, born in New York City moving to England at age 19 to study on a scholarship.

I remember reading that Angela Lansbury bought the painting of him from "Dorian Gray" and gifted it to him. After his death, it was eventually sold at auction at Christie's in NYC in 2015. It sold for $149,000. It is a beautiful portrait.

The 1945 version of Dorian Gray would have been an absolute masterpiece had they cast someone who didn't resemble an Egyptian mummy in the title role. I wonder whose dick he sucked to get such a big role less than a year after making his big screen debut, especially with his non-existent charisma and ugly looks.

But at least it sounds like he was a nice guy in real life. The house in Eire where he lived and died is now a B&B. I hope his ghost doesn't roam the premises.

Hurd's father was a lawyer. An 88-year-old friend's mother was his secretary. Met Hurd several times at their Morningside Drive apartment.

R10 Dame Angela supported him entirely in being gay and made sure he got work

Quintessential gayface and very gay-sounding name.

He's DEFINITELY got that GAY bone structure.

Will Arnett smelling freshly baked Pillsbury right out of the oven!

His look is wrong. He looks1940s pretty, not 1890s pretty.

Oh God! He does look like Will Arnett. Good catch.

Posted in the comments section of a blog about him:

[quote] Hurd Hatfield and his mother, Adele, were family friends when we all lived in Sag Harbor on New York's Long Island. They were lovely people, so elegant and always so beautifully dressed. Whenever he stopped by our house and knocked, my mother would call out, "Who is it?". He always answered, "It is only I, Hurd."

He's very entertaining following Paul Newman around like a dickmatized teenager in Arthur Penn's LEFT HANDED GUN (58).

Yul Brynner was more than just a "life long friend" of Hurd Hatfield, he tapped that ass....

Michael Garvey and his partner Ann O’Sullivan may have returned Ballinterry House in County Cork into something great, but they don't go out of their way to promote or even mention its most famous recent past owner.

More on Hurd Hatfield's Sag Harbor connections..

Story on what happened to that painting of Dorian Grey after Hurd Hatfield's death.

He starred in 3 Murder, She Wrote episodes with Dame Angela. She never forgot her old pals.

As Lord Byron in the original Broadway production of "Camino Real".