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