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Howard Duff

Howard Duff

Birthday: 1913-11-24 | Place of Birth: Charleston, Washington, U.S.

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1990
Too Much Sun

as    O.M.

1987
Monster in the Closet

as    Father Martin Finnegan

1987
No Way Out

as    Senator William 'Billy' Duvall

1985
Love on the Run

as    Lionel Rockland

1980
Valentine Magic on Love Island

as    A.J. Morgan

1980
Double Negative

as    Lester Harlen

1979
Kramer vs. Kramer

as    John Shaunessy

1977
The Late Show

as    Harry Regan

1973
Snatched

as    Duncan Wood

1973
Shaft: Hit-Run

as    Tom Oliver

1968
Panic in the City

as    Dave Pomeroy

1966
Felony Squad

as    Det. Sgt. Sam Stone

1964
Calhoun

as    Sid Rayner

1962
Boys' Night Out

as    Doug Jackson

1960
Dante

as    Willie Dante

1956
While the City Sleeps

as    Lt. Burt Kaufman

1956
The Broken Star

as    Thornton W. Wills

1955
Flame of the Islands

as    Doug Duryea

1954
Tanganyika

as    Dan Harder

1954
The Yellow Mountain

as    Pete Menlo

1954
Private Hell 36

as    Police Sgt. Jack Farnham

1953
Spaceways

as    Dr. Stephen Mitchell

1953
Jennifer

as    Jim Hollis

1950
Woman in Hiding

as    Keith Ramsey

1949
Illegal Entry

as    Bert Powers

1949
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass

as    Sam Bass

1948
The Naked City

as    Frank Niles

1948
All My Sons

as    George Deever