Howard Duff
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 24, 1913
- Died
- July 8, 1990 (aged 76)
- Birthplace
- Bremerton, Washington, USA
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). 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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Filmography
The World of Hammer
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Too Much Sun
Movie · as O.M.
Settle the Score
Movie · as Cy Whately
War and Remembrance
TV · as William Tuttle · 1 ep
No Way Out
Movie · as Senator William 'Billy' Duvall
Roses Are for the Rich
Movie · as Denton
Roses Are for the Rich
TV · as Denton · 2 eps
Monster in the Closet
Movie · as Father Martin Finnegan
Love on the Run
Movie · as Lionel Rockland
The Golden Girls
TV · as Mangiacavallo · 1 ep
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Ralph Earl / Stephen Earl · 1 ep
This Girl for Hire
Movie · as Wolfe Macready
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
TV · 2 eps
Lily for President?
Movie · as General
The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
Movie · as Col. Samuel Isaacs
St. Elsewhere
TV · as Herbie · 1 ep
Hotel
TV · as Byron Comstock, Adam Korsak · 1 ep
Flamingo Road
TV · as Titus Semple · 37 eps
East of Eden
TV · as Jules Edwards · 3 eps
Flamingo Road
Movie · as Sheriff Titus Semple
Double Negative
Movie · as Lester Harlen
Valentine Magic on Love Island
Movie · as A.J. Morgan
Magnum, P.I.
TV · as Captain Thomas Sullivan Magnum I · 2 eps
The Dream Merchants
TV · as Charles Slade · 3 eps
Kramer vs. Kramer
Movie · as John Shaunessy
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
Movie · as Herman Rusk
Knots Landing
TV · as Paul Galveston · 10 eps
$weepstake$
TV · 1 ep
Actor
Movie · as Winfield Sheehan
A Wedding
Movie · as Dr. Jules Meecham
Ski Lift to Death
Movie · as Ben Forbes
Battered
Movie · as Bill Thompson
Fantasy Island
TV · as Douglas Shane · 1 ep
The Late Show
Movie · as Harry Regan
A Little Game
Movie · as Dunlap
In the Glitter Palace
Movie · as Raymond Dawson Travers
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
TV · 2 eps
The Love Boat
TV · as Glen Leciter · 1 ep
Charlie's Angels
TV · as Harrigan · 1 ep
Switch
TV · as Ira Larkin · 1 ep
Ellery Queen
TV · 1 ep
Matt Helm
TV · as Dan Mallory · 1 ep
Medical Story
TV · as Roger Graham · 1 ep
Tight as a Drum
Movie · as Hollister
The Rockford Files
TV · as Edward J. Marks · 1 ep
Snatched
Movie · as Duncan Wood
Police Story
TV · as Sergeant Al Butler · 5 eps
Faraday and Company
TV · as Clark Sanford · 1 ep
The Heist
Movie · as Lieutenant Nicholson
Kung Fu
TV · as Noah Fleck, Mr. Jenkins · 1 ep
The Streets of San Francisco
TV · 1 ep
Search
TV · 1 ep
In Search of America
Movie · as Ray Chandler
Alias Smith and Jones
TV · 1 ep
The Immortal
TV · 1 ep
The D.A.: Murder One
Movie · as Lynn D. Compton
Panic in the City
Movie · as Dave Pomeroy
The Mod Squad
TV · 1 ep
The Name of the Game
TV · as Wally Cook · 1 ep
Mannix
TV · 1 ep
Judd, for the Defense
TV · 1 ep
Batman
TV · as Det. Sgt. Sam Stone, Cabala · 1 ep
Felony Squad
TV · as Det. Sgt. Sam Stone · 73 eps
I Spy
TV · as Sean · 1 ep
Calhoun
Movie · as Sid Rayner
The Rogues
TV · as G. Carter Huntington · 1 ep
Burke's Law
TV · as Lou Cole, Charlie January · 1 ep
Arrest and Trial
TV · 1 ep
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV · 1 ep
Mr. Novak
TV · as Joe Stillman · 1 ep
Boys' Night Out
Movie · as Doug Jackson
War Gods of Babylon
Movie · as Sardanapolo
Combat!
TV · as Col. Hobey Jabko · 1 ep
Sam Benedict
TV · 1 ep
The Virginian
TV · as Ed Frazer · 1 ep
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV · as Peter Harding · 1 ep
Bus Stop
TV · 1 ep
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self - Co-Host · 1 ep
Dante
TV · as Willie Dante · 26 eps
The Twilight Zone
TV · as Arthur Curtis / Gerry Reagan
The George Burns Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Sierra Stranger
Movie · as Jess Collins
Mr. Adams and Eve
TV · 65 eps
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
TV · as Howard Duff · 1 ep
While the City Sleeps
Movie · as Lt. Burt Kaufman
The Broken Star
Movie · as Deputy Marshal Frank Smeed
Blackjack Ketchum Desperado
Movie · as Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Women's Prison
Movie · as Dr. Crane
Flame of the Islands
Movie · as Doug Duryea
Crossroads
TV · 1 ep
Private Hell 36
Movie · as Police Sgt. Jack Farnham
The Yellow Mountain
Movie · as Pete Menlo
Tanganyika
Movie · as Dan Harder
Climax!
TV · as Dr. John C. Clark · 1 ep
The Whistler
TV · 1 ep
Studio 57
TV · 1 ep
Jennifer
Movie · as Jim Hollis
Spaceways
Movie · as Dr. Stephen Mitchell
Roar of the Crowd
Movie · as Johnny Tracy
Models Inc.
Movie · as Lennie Stone
Steel Town
Movie · as Jim Denko
The Ford Television Theatre
TV · as Johnny Abel · 1 ep
The Lady from Texas
Movie · as Dan Mason
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV · as Terence Kerrigan · 1 ep
Woman in Hiding
Movie · as Keith Ramsey
Shakedown
Movie · as Jack Early
Spy Hunt
Movie · as Steve Quain
Lux Video Theatre
TV · as Jim · 1 ep
Illegal Entry
Movie · as Bert Powers
Johnny Stool Pigeon
Movie · as George Morton
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
Movie · as Sam Bass
Red Canyon
Movie · as Lin Sloane
The Naked City
Movie · as Frank Niles
All My Sons
Movie · as George Deever
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Brute Force
Movie · as Robert 'Soldier' Becker
Know Your Enemy: Japan
Movie · as Narrator