Howard Duff
57 movies · 57 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 24, 1913
- Died
- Jul 8, 1990 (age 76)
- Also known as
- Howard Green Duff
Biography
Howard Green Duff (November 24, 1913 – July 8, 1990) was an American actor of film, television, stage, and radio.
Duff was born in Charleston, Washington, now a part of Bremerton. He graduated from Roosevelt High School in Seattle in 1932 where he began acting in school plays only after he was cut from the basketball team. His first film role was as an inmate in Brute Force. His other movies include The Naked City (1948), All My Sons (1948), Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949), Panic in the City (1968), In Search of America (1971), A Wedding (1978) and No Way Out (1987).
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He appeared in a number of films with his first wife, actress/director Ida Lupino. One of Duff's later performances was as Dustin Hoffman's attorney in the Academy Award-winning Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).
On radio, Duff played Dashiell Hammett's private eye Sam Spade from 1946–1950, starring in The Adventures of Sam Spade on three different networks - ABC, CBS and NBC. In 1951 Steve Dunne took over the role of Sam Spade. Duff also appeared in an episode of Climax! entitled Escape From Fear in 1955.
On television, Duff appeared with his then wife Ida Lupino in the CBS comedy Mr. Adams and Eve from January 1957 through September 1958, in which they played husband and wife film stars named Howard Adams and Eve Drake. He played the young Samuel Langhorne Clemens, in his early life in the West as a satirical and crusading journalist, in the TV series Bonanza ("Enter Mark Twain," season 1, episode 5, 1959). In 1960 he played the male main character in The Twilight Zone episode "A World of Difference" as Arthur Curtis/Jerry Raigan. From October 1960 through April 1961, Duff played Willie Dante, owner of the San Francisco nightclub, Dante's Inferno, in the NBC adventure/drama series Dante. In 1964, Duff guest starred as Harold Baker on the episode "Prodigy" of NBC's medical drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour, starring Jack Ging and Ralph Bellamy. In 1990, he guest starred on an episode of The Golden Girls (episode: The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present).
From September 1966 through January 1969, Duff portrayed Detective Sergeant Sam Stone in the ABC police drama Felony Squad with costar Dennis Cole. In the 1980s, he appeared on dramas such as NBC's Flamingo Road and Knots Landing, and Dallas, both on CBS.
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Known for
Howard Duff: movies and TV shows
Acting (112)
- 1991 Too Much Sun
as O.M.
- 1989 Settle the Score
as Cy Whately
- 1988
- 1987 No Way Out
as Senator William 'Billy' Duvall
- 1987 Roses Are for the Rich
as Denton
- 1987
- 1986 Monster in the Closet
as Father Martin Finnegan
- 1985 Love on the Run
as Lionel Rockland
- 1985
- 1984
- 1983
- 1983 This Girl for Hire
as Wolfe Macready
- 1982 The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
as Col. Samuel Isaacs
- 1982
- 1982
- 1982 Lily for President?
as General
- 1981
- 1981
- 1980
- 1980 Flamingo Road
as Sheriff Titus Semple
- 1980 Double Negative
as Lester Harlen
- 1980
- 1980 Valentine Magic on Love Island
as A.J. Morgan
- 1979
- 1979 Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
as Herman Rusk
- 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer
as John Shaunessy
- 1979
- 1978 A Wedding
as Dr. Jules Meecham
- 1978 Battered
as Bill Thompson
- 1978 Ski Lift to Death
as Ben Forbes
- 1978 Actor
as Winfield Sheehan
- 1978
- 1977
- 1977 A Little Game
as Dunlap
- 1977 In the Glitter Palace
as Raymond Dawson Travers
- 1977 The Late Show
as Harry Regan
- 1977
- 1976
- 1975
- 1975
- 1975
- 1975
- 1974
- 1974 Tight as a Drum
as Hollister
- 1973
- 1973
- 1973 Snatched
as Duncan Wood
- 1972 The Heist
as Lieutenant Nicholson
- 1972
- 1972
- 1972
- 1971 In Search of America
as Ray Chandler
- 1971
- 1970
- 1969 The D.A.: Murder One
as Lynn D. Compton
- 1968 Panic in the City
as Dave Pomeroy
- 1968
- 1968
- 1967
- 1967
- 1966
- 1966
- 1965
- 1964
- 1964 Calhoun
as Sid Rayner
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1962 War Gods of Babylon
as Sardanapolo
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962 Boys' Night Out
as Doug Jackson
- 1961
- 1960
- 1959
- 1957
- 1957 Sierra Stranger
as Jess Collins
- 1957
- 1956 While the City Sleeps
as Lt. Burt Kaufman
- 1956 The Broken Star
as Deputy Marshal Frank Smeed
- 1956 Blackjack Ketchum Desperado
as Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum
- 1955 Flame of the Islands
as Doug Duryea
- 1955
- 1955 Women's Prison
as Dr. Crane
- 1954 The Yellow Mountain
as Pete Menlo
- 1954
- 1954
- 1954 Private Hell 36
as Police Sgt. Jack Farnham
- 1954
- 1954 Tanganyika
as Dan Harder
- 1953 Jennifer
as Jim Hollis
- 1953 Spaceways
as Dr. Stephen Mitchell
- 1953 Roar of the Crowd
as Johnny Tracy
- 1952
- 1952 Models Inc.
as Lennie Stone
- 1952 Steel Town
as Jim Denko
- 1951
- 1951 The Lady from Texas
as Dan Mason
- 1950
- 1950 Shakedown
as Jack Early
- 1950 Spy Hunt
as Steve Quain
- 1950 Woman in Hiding
as Keith Ramsey
- 1949 Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
as Sam Bass
- 1949 Illegal Entry
as Bert Powers
- 1949 Red Canyon
as Lin Sloane
- 1949 Johnny Stool Pigeon
as George Morton
- 1948 All My Sons
as George Deever
- 1948 The Naked City
as Frank Niles
- 1947 Brute Force
as Robert 'Soldier' Becker
- 1945 Know Your Enemy: Japan
as Narrator
Behind the camera (3)
- 1980 Night of the Juggler
Props
- 1966
- 1965
Talk shows and appearances (7)
- 1994 The World of Hammer
1 episode
- 1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1 episode
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show
2 episodes
- 1958 The George Burns Show
1 episode
- 1957 Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1 episode
- 1956 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
2 episodes
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
1 episode