
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.
Acting (56 movies)

No Way Out
1987

The Naked City
1948

The Heist
1972

Actor
1978

Kramer vs. Kramer
1979

Women's Prison
1955

Brute Force
1947

Boys' Night Out
1962

Private Hell 36
1954

The Late Show
1977

While the City Sleeps
1956

Woman in Hiding
1950

Illegal Entry
1949

All My Sons
1948

A Wedding
1978

Jennifer
1953

Monster in the Closet
1986

Johnny Stool Pigeon
1949

Too Much Sun
1991

Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004

Shakedown
1950

Lily for President?
1982

In Search of America
1971

Spaceways
1953

Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
1949

Models Inc.
1952

The Lady from Texas
1951

Red Canyon
1949

Flame of the Islands
1955

The Yellow Mountain
1954

A Little Game
1977

Tanganyika
1954

Sierra Stranger
1957

The Broken Star
1956

War Gods of Babylon
1962

Blackjack Ketchum Desperado
1956

Panic in the City
1968

Roses Are for the Rich
1987

Tight as a Drum
1974

Steel Town
1952

Love on the Run
1985

The D.A.: Murder One
1969

Settle the Score
1989

Flamingo Road
1980

Double Negative
1980

Snatched
1973

Ski Lift to Death
1978

Know Your Enemy: Japan
1945

In the Glitter Palace
1977

Spy Hunt
1950

Valentine Magic on Love Island
1980

Calhoun
1964

This Girl for Hire
1983

The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
1982

Roar of the Crowd
1953

Battered
1978
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