Child performer who appeared on stage (notably in "Poppy" with W.C. Fields) and vaudeville. Durkin entered films in 1930 and starred as Huckleberry Finn in the Jackie Coogan "Tom Sawyer" (1930) and "Huckleberry Finn" (1934). He was killed at age 20 when the car Jackie Coogan's father was driving home from a hunting trip in Mexico was forced from the road by another auto; all died except Jackie Coogan.