Howard Duff
Known for Acting · 118 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 (62)
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self - Co-Host
The Love Boat
1977
as Glen Leciter
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Ralph Earl / Stephen Earl
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Knots Landing
1979
as Paul Galveston
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Peter Harding
Fantasy Island
1978
as Douglas Shane
The Twilight Zone
1959
as Arthur Curtis / Gerry Reagan
Climax!
1954
as Dr. John C. Clark
Batman
1966
as Det. Sgt. Sam Stone / Cabala
Mannix
1967
St. Elsewhere
1982
as Herbie
The Rockford Files
1974
as Edward J. Marks
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
Burke's Law
1963
as Lou Cole / Charlie January
The Golden Girls
1985
as Mangiacavallo
The Virginian
1962
as Ed Frazer
Magnum, P.I.
1980
as Captain Thomas Sullivan Magnum I
Charlie's Angels
1976
as Harrigan
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
Hotel
1982
as Byron Comstock / Adam Korsak
Combat!
1962
as Col. Hobey Jabko
The World of Hammer
1994
as Self (archive footage)
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Studio 57
1954
The Name of the Game
1968
as Wally Cook
Switch
1975
as Ira Larkin
Police Story
1973
as Sergeant Al Butler
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Mr. Novak
1963
as Joe Stillman
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
as Self
Felony Squad
1966
as Det. Sgt. Sam Stone
The Mod Squad
1968
Ellery Queen
1975
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Jim
Arrest and Trial
1963
Judd, for the Defense
1967
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
as Johnny Abel
I Spy
1965
as Sean
Matt Helm
1975
as Dan Mallory
Medical Story
1975
as Roger Graham
The Whistler
1954
War and Remembrance
1988
as William Tuttle
Sam Benedict
1962
The Rogues
1964
as G. Carter Huntington
Search
1972
Flamingo Road
1981
as Titus Semple
The Immortal
1970
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
1957
as Howard Duff
Bus Stop
1961
Dante
1960
as Willie Dante
The George Burns Show
1958
as Self
Mr. Adams and Eve
1957
$weepstake$
1979
East of Eden
1981
as Jules Edwards
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Terence Kerrigan
Roses Are for the Rich
1987
as Denton
Faraday and Company
1973
as Clark Sanford
Movies (56)
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979
as John Shaunessy
No Way Out
1987
as Senator William 'Billy' Duvall
Brute Force
1947
as Robert 'Soldier' Becker
The Naked City
1948
as Frank Niles
While the City Sleeps
1956
as Lt. Burt Kaufman
Spaceways
1953
as Dr. Stephen Mitchell
Monster in the Closet
1986
as Father Martin Finnegan
Actor
1978
as Winfield Sheehan
Know Your Enemy: Japan
1945
as Narrator
All My Sons
1948
as George Deever
Boys' Night Out
1962
as Doug Jackson
The Broken Star
1956
as Deputy Marshal Frank Smeed
Too Much Sun
1991
as O.M.
Panic in the City
1968
as Dave Pomeroy
Woman in Hiding
1950
as Keith Ramsey
In Search of America
1971
as Ray Chandler
The Late Show
1977
as Harry Regan
Johnny Stool Pigeon
1949
as George Morton
This Girl for Hire
1983
as Wolfe Macready
The Yellow Mountain
1954
as Pete Menlo
In the Glitter Palace
1977
as Raymond Dawson Travers
Roses Are for the Rich
1987
as Denton
A Wedding
1978
as Dr. Jules Meecham
Settle the Score
1989
as Cy Whately
Women's Prison
1955
as Dr. Crane
Flame of the Islands
1955
as Doug Duryea
Snatched
1973
as Duncan Wood
A Little Game
1977
as Dunlap
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
1949
as Sam Bass
Models Inc.
1952
as Lennie Stone
Shakedown
1950
as Jack Early
Illegal Entry
1949
as Bert Powers
Love on the Run
1985
as Lionel Rockland
The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
1982
as Col. Samuel Isaacs
The Lady from Texas
1951
as Dan Mason
Valentine Magic on Love Island
1980
as A.J. Morgan
Lily for President?
1982
as General
Jennifer
1953
as Jim Hollis
Private Hell 36
1954
as Police Sgt. Jack Farnham
Red Canyon
1949
as Lin Sloane
Double Negative
1980
as Lester Harlen
The Heist
1972
as Lieutenant Nicholson
The D.A.: Murder One
1969
as Lynn D. Compton
Sierra Stranger
1957
as Jess Collins
Ski Lift to Death
1978
as Ben Forbes
Spy Hunt
1950
as Steve Quain
Roar of the Crowd
1953
as Johnny Tracy
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
1979
as Herman Rusk
Blackjack Ketchum Desperado
1956
as Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum
Battered
1978
as Bill Thompson
Flamingo Road
1980
as Sheriff Titus Semple
Tanganyika
1954
as Dan Harder
Calhoun
1964
as Sid Rayner
Tight as a Drum
1974
as Hollister
War Gods of Babylon
1962
as Sardanapolo
Steel Town
1952
as Jim Denko
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 118 credits spanning from 1945 to 1994, Howard Duff has appeared in 56 films and 62 TV shows.
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Most Popular Howard Duff Movies
- Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) — as John Shaunessy
- No Way Out (1987) — as Senator William 'Billy' Duvall
- Brute Force (1947) — as Robert 'Soldier' Becker
- The Naked City (1948) — as Frank Niles
- While the City Sleeps (1956) — as Lt. Burt Kaufman
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