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.

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No Way Out

The Naked City

The Heist

Actor

Kramer vs. Kramer

Women's Prison

Brute Force

Boys' Night Out

Private Hell 36

The Late Show

While the City Sleeps

Woman in Hiding

Illegal Entry

All My Sons

A Wedding

Jennifer

Monster in the Closet

Johnny Stool Pigeon

Too Much Sun

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Shakedown

Lily for President?

In Search of America

Spaceways

Calamity Jane and Sam Bass

Models Inc.

The Lady from Texas

Red Canyon

Flame of the Islands

The Yellow Mountain

A Little Game

Tanganyika

Sierra Stranger

The Broken Star

War Gods of Babylon

Blackjack Ketchum Desperado

Panic in the City

Roses Are for the Rich

Tight as a Drum

Steel Town

Love on the Run

The D.A.: Murder One

Settle the Score

Flamingo Road

Double Negative

Snatched

Ski Lift to Death

Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand

Know Your Enemy: Japan

In the Glitter Palace

Spy Hunt

Valentine Magic on Love Island

Calhoun

This Girl for Hire

The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch

Roar of the Crowd

Battered