Movies List
TV Show List
Too Much Sun

as O.M.

1990
No Way Out

as Senator William 'Billy' Duvall

1987
Monster in the Closet

as Father Martin Finnegan

1987
Love on the Run

as Lionel Rockland

1985
Double Negative

as Lester Harlen

1980
Valentine Magic on Love Island

as A.J. Morgan

1980
Kramer vs. Kramer

as John Shaunessy

1979
The Late Show

as Harry Regan

1977
Snatched

as Duncan Wood

1973
Shaft: Hit-Run

as Tom Oliver

1973
Panic in the City

as Dave Pomeroy

1968
Calhoun

as Sid Rayner

1964
Boys' Night Out

as Doug Jackson

1962
While the City Sleeps

as Lt. Burt Kaufman

1956
The Broken Star

as Thornton W. Wills

1956
Flame of the Islands

as Doug Duryea

1955
Private Hell 36

as Police Sgt. Jack Farnham

1954
The Yellow Mountain

as Pete Menlo

1954
Tanganyika

as Dan Harder

1954
Jennifer

as Jim Hollis

1953
Spaceways

as Dr. Stephen Mitchell

1953
Woman in Hiding

as Keith Ramsey

1950
Illegal Entry

as Bert Powers

1949
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass

as Sam Bass

1949
The Naked City

as Frank Niles

1948
All My Sons

as George Deever

1948
Howard Duff Howard Duff

Birthday

1913-11-24

Place of Birth

Charleston, Washington, U.S.

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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​
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