Howard Duff
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 24, 1913
- Died
- Jul 8, 1990 (aged 76)
- Credits
- 119
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.
Known for
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979Movie
John Shaunessy
The Twilight Zone
1959TV
Arthur Curtis / Gerry Reagan
No Way Out
1987Movie
Senator William 'Billy' Duvall
Batman
1966TV
Det. Sgt. Sam Stone, Cabala
Murder, She Wrote
1984TV
Ralph Earl / Stephen Earl
Magnum, P.I.
1980TV
Captain Thomas Sullivan Magnum I
Filmography
The World of Hammer
1994TV
Self (archive footage)
Too Much Sun
1991Movie
O.M.
Settle the Score
1989Movie
Cy Whately
War and Remembrance
1988TV
William Tuttle
No Way Out
1987Movie
Senator William 'Billy' Duvall
Roses Are for the Rich
1987Movie
Denton
Roses Are for the Rich
1987TV
Denton
Monster in the Closet
1986Movie
Father Martin Finnegan
Love on the Run
1985Movie
Lionel Rockland
The Golden Girls
1985TV
Mangiacavallo
Murder, She Wrote
1984TV
Ralph Earl / Stephen Earl
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983TV
This Girl for Hire
1983Movie
Wolfe Macready
The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
1982Movie
Col. Samuel Isaacs
St. Elsewhere
1982TV
Herbie
Hotel
1982TV
Byron Comstock, Adam Korsak
Lily for President?
1982Movie
General
East of Eden
1981TV
Jules Edwards
Flamingo Road
1981TV
Titus Semple
Magnum, P.I.
1980TV
Captain Thomas Sullivan Magnum I
Flamingo Road
1980Movie
Sheriff Titus Semple
Double Negative
1980Movie
Lester Harlen
The Dream Merchants
1980TV
Charles Slade
Valentine Magic on Love Island
1980Movie
A.J. Morgan
Knots Landing
1979TV
Paul Galveston
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
1979Movie
Herman Rusk
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979Movie
John Shaunessy
$weepstake$
1979TV
A Wedding
1978Movie
Dr. Jules Meecham
Battered
1978Movie
Bill Thompson
Ski Lift to Death
1978Movie
Ben Forbes
Actor
1978Movie
Winfield Sheehan
Fantasy Island
1978TV
Douglas Shane
The Love Boat
1977TV
Glen Leciter
A Little Game
1977Movie
Dunlap
In the Glitter Palace
1977Movie
Raymond Dawson Travers
The Late Show
1977Movie
Harry Regan
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977TV
Charlie's Angels
1976TV
Harrigan
Matt Helm
1975TV
Dan Mallory
Ellery Queen
1975TV
Switch
1975TV
Ira Larkin
Medical Story
1975TV
Roger Graham
The Rockford Files
1974TV
Edward J. Marks
Tight as a Drum
1974Movie
Hollister
Faraday and Company
1973TV
Clark Sanford
Police Story
1973TV
Sergeant Al Butler
Snatched
1973Movie
Duncan Wood
The Heist
1972Movie
Lieutenant Nicholson
Kung Fu
1972TV
Noah Fleck, Mr. Jenkins
The Streets of San Francisco
1972TV
Search
1972TV
In Search of America
1971Movie
Ray Chandler
Alias Smith and Jones
1971TV
The Immortal
1970TV
The D.A.: Murder One
1969Movie
Lynn D. Compton
Panic in the City
1968Movie
Dave Pomeroy
The Mod Squad
1968TV
The Name of the Game
1968TV
Wally Cook
Mannix
1967TV
Judd, for the Defense
1967TV
Felony Squad
1966TV
Det. Sgt. Sam Stone
Batman
1966TV
Det. Sgt. Sam Stone, Cabala
I Spy
1965TV
Sean
The Rogues
1964TV
G. Carter Huntington
Calhoun
1964Movie
Sid Rayner
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963TV
Mr. Novak
1963TV
Joe Stillman
Burke's Law
1963TV
Lou Cole, Charlie January
Arrest and Trial
1963TV
War Gods of Babylon
1962Movie
Sardanapolo
Combat!
1962TV
Col. Hobey Jabko
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962TV
Peter Harding
The Virginian
1962TV
Ed Frazer
Sam Benedict
1962TV
Boys' Night Out
1962Movie
Doug Jackson
The Mike Douglas Show
1961TV
Self - Co-Host, Self
Bus Stop
1961TV
Dante
1960TV
Willie Dante
The Twilight Zone
1959TV
Arthur Curtis / Gerry Reagan
The George Burns Show
1958TV
Self
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
1957TV
Howard Duff
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957TV
Self
Sierra Stranger
1957Movie
Jess Collins
Mr. Adams and Eve
1957TV
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956TV
Self
While the City Sleeps
1956Movie
Lt. Burt Kaufman
The Broken Star
1956Movie
Deputy Marshal Frank Smeed
Blackjack Ketchum Desperado
1956Movie
Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum
Flame of the Islands
1955Movie
Doug Duryea
Crossroads
1955TV
Women's Prison
1955Movie
Dr. Crane
The Yellow Mountain
1954Movie
Pete Menlo
Climax!
1954TV
Dr. John C. Clark
Studio 57
1954TV
Private Hell 36
1954Movie
Police Sgt. Jack Farnham
The Whistler
1954TV
Tanganyika
1954Movie
Dan Harder
Jennifer
1953Movie
Jim Hollis
Spaceways
1953Movie
Dr. Stephen Mitchell
Roar of the Crowd
1953Movie
Johnny Tracy
The Ford Television Theatre
1952TV
Johnny Abel
Models Inc.
1952Movie
Lennie Stone
Steel Town
1952Movie
Jim Denko
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951TV
Terence Kerrigan
The Lady from Texas
1951Movie
Dan Mason
Lux Video Theatre
1950TV
Jim
Shakedown
1950Movie
Jack Early
Spy Hunt
1950Movie
Steve Quain
Woman in Hiding
1950Movie
Keith Ramsey
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
1949Movie
Sam Bass
Illegal Entry
1949Movie
Bert Powers
Red Canyon
1949Movie
Lin Sloane
Johnny Stool Pigeon
1949Movie
George Morton
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948TV
Self
All My Sons
1948Movie
George Deever
The Naked City
1948Movie
Frank Niles
Brute Force
1947Movie
Robert 'Soldier' Becker
Know Your Enemy: Japan
1945Movie
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