Howard Duff

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

Known For: Acting

Born: null, 1913-11-24

Died: 1990-07-08

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1945	Know Your Enemy: Japan	Narrator	58
2	1947	Brute Force	Robert 'Soldier' Becker	73
3	1948	The Naked City	Frank Niles	72
4	1948	All My Sons	George Deever	62
5	1949	Johnny Stool Pigeon	George Morton	65
6	1949	Red Canyon	Lin Sloane	50
7	1949	Illegal Entry	Bert Powers	54
8	1949	Calamity Jane and Sam Bass	Sam Bass	57
9	1950	Woman in Hiding	Keith Ramsey	62
10	1950	Spy Hunt	Steve Quain	60
11	1950	Shakedown	Jack Early	61
12	1951	The Lady from Texas	Dan Mason	0
13	1952	Steel Town	Jim Denko	60
14	1952	Models Inc.	Lennie Stone	50
15	1953	Roar of the Crowd	Johnny Tracy	0
16	1953	Spaceways	Dr. Stephen Mitchell	47
17	1953	Jennifer	Jim Hollis	57
18	1954	Tanganyika	Dan Harder	75
19	1954	Private Hell 36	Police Sgt. Jack Farnham	62
20	1954	The Yellow Mountain	Pete Menlo	51
21	1955	Women's Prison	Dr. Crane	57
22	1955	Flame of the Islands	Doug Duryea	35
23	1956	The Broken Star	Thornton W. Wills	64
24	1956	Blackjack Ketchum Desperado	Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum	65
25	1956	While the City Sleeps	Lt. Burt Kaufman	69
26	1957	Sierra Stranger	Jess Collins	50
27	1962	Boys' Night Out	Doug Jackson	58
28	1962	War Gods of Babylon	Sardanapolo	70
29	1964	Calhoun	Sid Rayner	60
30	1968	Panic in the City	Dave Pomeroy	52
31	1969	The D.A.: Murder One	Lynn D. Compton	0
32	1971	In Search of America	Ray Chandler	50
33	1971	A Little Game	Dunlap	67
34	1972	The Heist	Lieutenant Nicholson	80
35	1973	Snatched	Duncan Wood	67
36	1974	Tight as a Drum	Hollister	0
37	1977	The Late Show	Harry Regan	62
38	1977	In the Glitter Palace	Raymond Dawson Travers	35
39	1978	Actor	Winfield Sheehan	0
40	1978	Ski Lift to Death	Ben Forbes	0
41	1978	A Wedding	Dr. Jules Meecham	63
42	1978	Battered	Bill Thompson	0
43	1979	Kramer vs. Kramer	John Shaunessy	76
44	1979	Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand	Herman Rusk	0
45	1980	Valentine Magic on Love Island	A.J. Morgan	10
46	1980	Flamingo Road	Sheriff Titus Semple	0
47	1980	Double Negative	Lester Harlen	35
48	1982	Lily for President?	General	0
49	1982	The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch	Col. Samuel Isaacs	10
50	1983	This Girl For Hire	Wolfe Macready	42
51	1985	Love on the Run	Lionel Rockland	0
52	1986	Monster in the Closet	Father Martin Finnegan	51
53	1987	Roses Are for the Rich	Denton	60
54	1987	No Way Out	Senator William 'Billy' Duvall	69
55	1989	Settle the Score	Cy Whately	45
56	1990	Too Much Sun	O.M.	50
57	2004	Los Angeles Plays Itself	Dave Pomeroy in Panic in the City (archive footage)	77

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	66
2	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Jim	60
3	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Terence Kerrigan	70
4	1952	The Ford Television Theatre	Johnny Abel	70
5	1954	The Whistler		0
6	1954	Studio 57		0
7	1954	Climax!		30
8	1954	Climax!	Dr. John C. Clark	30
9	1956	The Dinah Shore Chevy Show	Self	53
10	1957	Mr. Adams and Eve		0
11	1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar	Self	65
12	1957	The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour	Howard Duff	86
13	1959	The Twilight Zone		84
14	1959	The Twilight Zone	Arthur Curtis / Gerry Reagan	84
15	1960	Dante	Willie Dante	60
16	1961	Bus Stop		0
17	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self - Co-Host	51
18	1962	Sam Benedict		60
19	1962	The Virginian	Ed Frazer	64
20	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Peter Harding	78
21	1962	Combat!	Col. Hobey Jabko	76
22	1963	Arrest and Trial		70
23	1963	Burke's Law	Lou Cole	60
24	1963	Burke's Law	Charlie January	60
25	1963	Mr. Novak	Joe Stillman	65
26	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre		55
27	1964	The Rogues	G. Carter Huntington	72
28	1965	I Spy	Sean	63
29	1966	Batman	Det. Sgt. Sam Stone	73
30	1966	Batman	Cabala	73
31	1966	Felony Squad	Det. Sgt. Sam Stone	64
32	1967	Judd for the Defense		75
33	1967	Mannix		67
34	1968	The Mod Squad		63
35	1970	The Immortal		74
36	1971	Alias Smith and Jones		69
37	1972	Search		69
38	1972	The Streets of San Francisco		70
39	1972	Kung Fu		76
40	1973	Police Story		69
41	1974	The Rockford Files	Edward J. Marks	75
42	1975	Medical Story		50
43	1975	Switch	Ira Larkin	67
44	1975	Ellery Queen		74
45	1975	Matt Helm	Dan Mallory	74
46	1976	Charlie's Angels	Harrigan	66
47	1977	The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries		70
48	1978	Fantasy Island	Douglas Shane	63
49	1979	Knots Landing	Paul Galveston	67
50	1980	The Dream Merchants	Charles Slade	45
51	1980	Magnum, P.I.		72
52	1981	Flamingo Road		60
53	1981	East of Eden	Jules Edwards	71
54	1982	Hotel		68
55	1982	St. Elsewhere		55
56	1983	Scarecrow and Mrs. King		63
57	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Ralph Earl / Stephen Earl	75
58	1985	The Golden Girls	Mangiacavallo	75
59	1988	War and Remembrance		79