Howard Duff
Known for Acting · 117 credits
- Born
- 1913-11-24
- Died
- 1990-07-08
- 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).
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).
Known For
TV Shows (60)
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self - Co-Host
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Ralph Earl / Stephen Earl
Mannix
1967
Knots Landing
1979
as Paul Galveston
Magnum, P.I.
1980
as Captain Thomas Sullivan Magnum I
Batman
1966
as Det. Sgt. Sam Stone / Cabala
Charlie's Angels
1976
as Harrigan
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Peter Harding
The Twilight Zone
1959
as Arthur Curtis / Gerry Reagan
The Virginian
1962
as Ed Frazer
St. Elsewhere
1982
as Herbie
Climax!
1954
as Dr. John C. Clark
The Rockford Files
1974
as Edward J. Marks
The Golden Girls
1985
as Mangiacavallo
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Hotel
1982
as Adam Korsak
Combat!
1962
as Col. Hobey Jabko
Fantasy Island
1978
as Douglas Shane
Burke's Law
1963
as Lou Cole / Charlie January
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
The Name of the Game
1968
as Wally Cook
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
as Johnny Abel
Switch
1975
as Ira Larkin
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
as Self
The Mod Squad
1968
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self
Studio 57
1954
Felony Squad
1966
as Det. Sgt. Sam Stone
Police Story
1973
as Sergeant Al Butler
Ellery Queen
1975
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Mr. Novak
1963
as Joe Stillman
I Spy
1965
as Sean
Arrest and Trial
1963
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Jim
The Rogues
1964
as G. Carter Huntington
Bus Stop
1961
Sam Benedict
1962
Search
1972
War and Remembrance
1988
as William Tuttle
Flamingo Road
1981
as Titus Semple
Matt Helm
1975
as Dan Mallory
Medical Story
1975
as Roger Graham
The World of Hammer
1994
as Self (archive footage)
The Whistler
1954
The Immortal
1970
Mr. Adams and Eve
1957
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
1957
as Howard Duff
$weepstake$
1979
East of Eden
1981
as Jules Edwards
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Terence Kerrigan
The Dream Merchants
1980
as Charles Slade
Faraday and Company
1973
as Clark Sanford
Dante
1960
as Willie Dante
Roses Are for the Rich
1987
as Denton
Kung Fu
1972
as Noah Fleck / Mr. Jenkins
Movies (57)
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979
as John Shaunessy
No Way Out
1987
as Senator William 'Billy' Duvall
A Wedding
1978
as Dr. Jules Meecham
Brute Force
1947
as Robert 'Soldier' Becker
The Naked City
1948
as Frank Niles
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
as Dave Pomeroy in Panic in the City (archive footage)
Illegal Entry
1949
as Bert Powers
All My Sons
1948
as George Deever
Actor
1978
as Winfield Sheehan
Snatched
1973
as Duncan Wood
Too Much Sun
1991
as O.M.
While the City Sleeps
1956
as Lt. Burt Kaufman
Monster in the Closet
1986
as Father Martin Finnegan
Boys' Night Out
1962
as Doug Jackson
Double Negative
1980
as Lester Harlen
Johnny Stool Pigeon
1949
as George Morton
The Late Show
1977
as Harry Regan
In the Glitter Palace
1977
as Raymond Dawson Travers
Shakedown
1950
as Jack Early
Private Hell 36
1954
as Police Sgt. Jack Farnham
The Yellow Mountain
1954
as Pete Menlo
This Girl for Hire
1983
as Wolfe Macready
Women's Prison
1955
as Dr. Crane
Red Canyon
1949
as Lin Sloane
Battered
1978
as Bill Thompson
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
1949
as Sam Bass
Blackjack Ketchum Desperado
1956
as Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum
Flamingo Road
1980
as Sheriff Titus Semple
In Search of America
1971
as Ray Chandler
Valentine Magic on Love Island
1980
as A.J. Morgan
Jennifer
1953
as Jim Hollis
Tanganyika
1954
as Dan Harder
Woman in Hiding
1950
as Keith Ramsey
War Gods of Babylon
1962
as Sardanapolo
The Heist
1972
as Lieutenant Nicholson
Lily for President?
1982
as General
Sierra Stranger
1957
as Jess Collins
A Little Game
1977
as Dunlap
The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
1982
as Col. Samuel Isaacs
Steel Town
1952
as Jim Denko
The Broken Star
1956
as Deputy Marshal Frank Smeed
Spaceways
1953
as Dr. Stephen Mitchell
Love on the Run
1985
as Lionel Rockland
Ski Lift to Death
1978
as Ben Forbes
Settle the Score
1989
as Cy Whately
Roar of the Crowd
1953
as Johnny Tracy
Spy Hunt
1950
as Steve Quain
Roses Are for the Rich
1987
as Denton
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
1979
as Herman Rusk
The D.A.: Murder One
1969
as Lynn D. Compton
Panic in the City
1968
as Dave Pomeroy
Models Inc.
1952
as Lennie Stone
The Lady from Texas
1951
as Dan Mason
Calhoun
1964
as Sid Rayner
Flame of the Islands
1955
as Doug Duryea
Know Your Enemy: Japan
1945
as Narrator
Tight as a Drum
1974
as Hollister
About 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 (19… With 117 credits spanning from 1945 to 2004, Howard Duff has appeared in 57 films and 60 TV shows.
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- Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) — as John Shaunessy
- No Way Out (1987) — as Senator William 'Billy' Duvall
- A Wedding (1978) — as Dr. Jules Meecham
- Brute Force (1947) — as Robert 'Soldier' Becker
- The Naked City (1948) — as Frank Niles
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