1913-11-24
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). 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Howard Duff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Los Angeles Plays Itself | Dave Pomeroy in Panic in the City (archive footage) | 2004-07-28 |
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Too Much Sun | O.M. | 1990-10-10 |
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Settle the Score | Cy Whately | 1989-10-30 |
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Roses Are for the Rich | Denton | 1987-05-17 |
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No Way Out | Senator William 'Billy' Duvall | 1987-08-14 |
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Monster in the Closet | Father Martin Finnegan | 1986-05-15 |
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Love on the Run | Lionel Rockland | 1985-10-21 |
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This Girl For Hire | Wolfe Macready | 1983-01-11 |
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The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch | Col. Samuel Isaacs | 1982-10-31 |
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Lily for President? | General | 1982-05-20 |
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Valentine Magic on Love Island | A.J. Morgan | 1980-02-15 |
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Double Negative | Lester Harlen | 1980-05-12 |
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Flamingo Road | Sheriff Titus Semple | 1980-05-12 |
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Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand | Herman Rusk | 1979-12-26 |
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Kramer vs. Kramer | John Shaunessy | 1979-12-07 |
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Battered | Bill Thompson | 1978-09-26 |
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Actor | Winfield Sheehan | 1978-02-21 |
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A Wedding | Dr. Jules Meecham | 1978-08-29 |
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Ski Lift to Death | Ben Forbes | 1978-03-03 |
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The Late Show | Harry Regan | 1977-02-10 |
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In the Glitter Palace | Raymond Dawson Travers | 1977-02-23 |
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Tight as a Drum | Hollister | 1974-02-11 |
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Snatched | Duncan Wood | 1973-01-31 |
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The Heist | Lieutenant Nicholson | 1972-11-29 |
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In Search of America | Ray Chandler | 1971-03-23 |
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A Little Game | Dunlap | 1971-10-31 |
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The D.A.: Murder One | Lynn D. Compton | 1969-12-08 |
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Panic in the City | Dave Pomeroy | 1968-10-01 |
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Calhoun | Sid Rayner | 1964-07-08 |
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Le sette folgori di Assur | Sardanapolo | 1962-11-24 |
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Boys' Night Out | Doug Jackson | 1962-06-21 |
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Sierra Stranger | Jess Collins | 1957-05-01 |
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Blackjack Ketchum Desperado | Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum | 1956-04-01 |
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The Broken Star | Thornton W. Wills | 1956-04-01 |
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While the City Sleeps | Lt. Burt Kaufman | 1956-04-19 |
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Flame of the Islands | Doug Duryea | 1955-12-04 |
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Women's Prison | Dr. Crane | 1955-02-01 |
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Tanganyika | Dan Harder | 1954-07-03 |
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The Yellow Mountain | Pete Menlo | 1954-11-16 |
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Private Hell 36 | Police Sgt. Jack Farnham | 1954-09-03 |
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Roar of the Crowd | Johnny Tracy | 1953-05-31 |
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Spaceways | Dr. Stephen Mitchell | 1953-07-01 |
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Jennifer | Jim Hollis | 1953-10-25 |
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Steel Town | Jim Denko | 1952-05-09 |
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Models Inc. | Lennie Stone | 1952-05-19 |
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The Lady from Texas | Dan Mason | 1951-09-01 |
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Woman in Hiding | Keith Ramsey | 1950-01-06 |
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Shakedown | Jack Early | 1950-09-01 |
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Spy Hunt | Steve Quain | 1950-06-08 |
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Red Canyon | Lin Sloane | 1949-04-27 |
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Illegal Entry | Bert Powers | 1949-06-01 |
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Calamity Jane and Sam Bass | Sam Bass | 1949-09-20 |
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Johnny Stool Pigeon | George Morton | 1949-04-20 |
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All My Sons | George Deever | 1948-05-01 |
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The Naked City | Frank Niles | 1948-03-04 |
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Brute Force | Robert 'Soldier' Becker | 1947-07-16 |
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Know Your Enemy: Japan | Narrator | 1945-08-09 |
