Howard Duff
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1913-11-24
Deathday 1990-07-08 (76 years old)
Also Known As Howard Green Duff
Howard 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). 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
Actor
as Dave Pomeroy in Panic in the City (archive footage)
as O.M.
as Cy Whately
as Senator William 'Billy' Duvall
as Denton
as Father Martin Finnegan
as Lionel Rockland
as Mangiacavallo
as Ralph Earl / Stephen Earl
as Wolfe Macready
as Col. Samuel Isaacs
as General
as Jules Edwards
as Sheriff Titus Semple
as Lester Harlen
as A.J. Morgan
as Charles Slade
as Herman Rusk
as John Shaunessy
as Paul Galveston
as Bill Thompson
as Dr. Jules Meecham
as Ben Forbes
as Winfield Sheehan
as Douglas Shane
as Raymond Dawson Travers
as Harry Regan
as Harrigan
as Dan Mallory
as Ira Larkin
as Hollister
as Edward J. Marks
as Duncan Wood
as Lieutenant Nicholson
as Dunlap
as Ray Chandler
as Lynn D. Compton
as Dave Pomeroy
as Det. Sgt. Sam Stone
as Det. Sgt. Sam Stone
as Cabala
as Sean
as Sid Rayner
as G. Carter Huntington
as Joe Stillman
as Lou Cole
as Charlie January
as Sardanapolo
as Doug Jackson
as Col. Hobey Jabko
as Peter Harding
as Ed Frazer
as Self - Co-Host
as Willie Dante
as Arthur Curtis / Gerry Reagan
as Jess Collins
as Howard Duff
as Self
as Lt. Burt Kaufman
as Thornton W. Wills
as Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum
as Self
as Doug Duryea
as Dr. Crane
as Pete Menlo
as Police Sgt. Jack Farnham
as Dan Harder
as Dr. John C. Clark
as Jim Hollis
as Dr. Stephen Mitchell
as Johnny Tracy
as Lennie Stone
as Jim Denko
as Johnny Abel
as Dan Mason
as Terence Kerrigan
as Jack Early
as Steve Quain
as Keith Ramsey
as Jim
as Sam Bass
as Bert Powers
as Lin Sloane
as George Morton
as George Deever
as Frank Niles
as Self
as Robert 'Soldier' Becker
as Narrator
Director
as Director
as Director
Art
as Props