Howard Duff

Howard Duff

Birthday: 1913-11-24

Deathday: 1990-07-08

Place of birth:

Also known as: Howard Green Duff

imdb_id: nm0003318

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Howard Duff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

Played in movies:

The Heist

Score: 8.0

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Score: 7.6

Kramer vs. Kramer

Score: 7.6

Tanganyika

Score: 7.5

Brute Force

Score: 7.3

The Naked City

Score: 7.2

War Gods of Babylon

Score: 7.0

While the City Sleeps

Score: 6.9

No Way Out

Score: 6.9

Snatched

Score: 6.7

A Little Game

Score: 6.7

Blackjack Ketchum Desperado

Score: 6.5

Johnny Stool Pigeon

Score: 6.5

The Broken Star

Score: 6.4

A Wedding

Score: 6.3

All My Sons

Score: 6.2

Woman in Hiding

Score: 6.2

The Late Show

Score: 6.2

Private Hell 36

Score: 6.2

Shakedown

Score: 6.1

Calhoun

Score: 6.0

Spy Hunt

Score: 6.0

Steel Town

Score: 6.0

Roses Are for the Rich

Score: 6.0

Know Your Enemy: Japan

Score: 5.8

Boys' Night Out

Score: 5.8

Jennifer

Score: 5.8

Calamity Jane and Sam Bass

Score: 5.7

Women's Prison

Score: 5.7

Illegal Entry

Score: 5.4

Panic in the City

Score: 5.2

The Yellow Mountain

Score: 5.1

Sierra Stranger

Score: 5.0

Red Canyon

Score: 5.0

Models Inc.

Score: 5.0

In Search of America

Score: 5.0

Too Much Sun

Score: 5.0

Monster in the Closet

Score: 5.0

Spaceways

Score: 4.7

Settle the Score

Score: 4.5

This Girl For Hire

Score: 4.2

Flame of the Islands

Score: 4.2

Double Negative

Score: 4.0

In the Glitter Palace

Score: 3.5

The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch

Score: 1.0

Valentine Magic on Love Island

Score: 1.0

Battered

Score: 0.0

Roar of the Crowd

Score: 0.0

Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand

Score: 0.0

Ski Lift to Death

Score: 0.0

Flamingo Road

Score: 0.0

The D.A.: Murder One

Score: 0.0

Love on the Run

Score: 0.0

Tight as a Drum

Score: 0.0

The Lady from Texas

Score: 0.0

Lily for President?

Score: 0.0

Actor

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

Score: 8.6

The Twilight Zone

Score: 8.4

The Twilight Zone

Score: 8.4

War and Remembrance

Score: 7.9

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Score: 7.8

Arrest and Trial

Score: 7.7

Combat!

Score: 7.6

Kung Fu

Score: 7.6

The Rockford Files

Score: 7.5

The Golden Girls

Score: 7.5

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

Judd for the Defense

Score: 7.5

Matt Helm

Score: 7.4

Ellery Queen

Score: 7.4

The Immortal

Score: 7.4

The Ford Television Theatre

Score: 7.3

Batman

Score: 7.3

Batman

Score: 7.3

Magnum, P.I.

Score: 7.3

East of Eden

Score: 7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

The Rogues

Score: 7.2

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

Score: 7.1

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Score: 7.0

The Streets of San Francisco

Score: 6.9

Search

Score: 6.9

Alias Smith and Jones

Score: 6.9

Police Story

Score: 6.9

Hotel

Score: 6.8

The Ed Sullivan Show

Score: 6.7

Charlie's Angels

Score: 6.7

Switch

Score: 6.7

Mannix

Score: 6.7

Knots Landing

Score: 6.7

Mr. Novak

Score: 6.5

The Virginian

Score: 6.5

Felony Squad

Score: 6.4

Fantasy Island

Score: 6.4

Lux Video Theatre

Score: 6.3

I Spy

Score: 6.3

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Score: 6.3

The Mod Squad

Score: 6.3

Burke's Law

Score: 6.0

Dante

Score: 6.0

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Score: 6.0

Sam Benedict

Score: 6.0

Flamingo Road

Score: 6.0

Burke's Law

Score: 6.0

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Score: 5.7

St. Elsewhere

Score: 5.5

The Mike Douglas Show

Score: 5.4

Medical Story

Score: 5.0

The Dream Merchants

Score: 4.5

Climax!

Score: 3.3

Climax!

Score: 3.3

Studio 57

Score: 0.0

Mr. Adams and Eve

Score: 0.0

The Whistler

Score: 0.0

Bus Stop

Score: 0.0