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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Acted in
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
as Dave Pomeroy in Panic in the City (archive footage)
Too Much Sun
1990
as O.M.
Settle the Score
1989
as Cy Whately
War and Remembrance
1988
No Way Out
1987
as Senator William 'Billy' Duvall
Roses Are for the Rich
1987
as Denton
Monster in the Closet
1986
as Father Martin Finnegan
Love on the Run
1985
as Lionel Rockland
The Golden Girls
1985
as Mangiacavallo
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Ralph Earl / Stephen Earl
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
This Girl For Hire
1983
as Wolfe Macready
The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
1982
as Col. Samuel Isaacs
St. Elsewhere
1982
Hotel
1982
Lily for President?
1982
as General
East of Eden
1981
as Jules Edwards
Flamingo Road
1981
Magnum, P.I.
1980
Flamingo Road
1980
as Sheriff Titus Semple
Double Negative
1980
as Lester Harlen
The Dream Merchants
1980
as Charles Slade
Valentine Magic on Love Island
1980
as A.J. Morgan
Knots Landing
1979
as Paul Galveston
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
1979
as Herman Rusk
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979
as John Shaunessy
Battered
1978
as Bill Thompson
A Wedding
1978
as Dr. Jules Meecham
Ski Lift to Death
1978
as Ben Forbes
Actor
1978
as Winfield Sheehan
Fantasy Island
1978
as Douglas Shane
In the Glitter Palace
1977
as Raymond Dawson Travers
The Late Show
1977
as Harry Regan
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
Charlie's Angels
1976
as Harrigan
Matt Helm
1975
as Dan Mallory
Ellery Queen
1975
Switch
1975
as Ira Larkin
Medical Story
1975
The Rockford Files
1974
as Edward J. Marks
Tight as a Drum
1974
as Hollister
Police Story
1973
Snatched
1973
as Duncan Wood
The Heist
1972
as Lieutenant Nicholson
Kung Fu
1972
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Search
1972
A Little Game
1971
as Dunlap
In Search of America
1971
as Ray Chandler
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
The Immortal
1970
The D.A.: Murder One
1969
as Lynn D. Compton
Panic in the City
1968
as Dave Pomeroy
The Mod Squad
1968
Mannix
1967
Judd for the Defense
1967
Felony Squad
1966
as Det. Sgt. Sam Stone
Batman
1966
as Det. Sgt. Sam Stone
Batman
1966
as Cabala
I Spy
1965
as Sean
The Rogues
1964
as G. Carter Huntington
Calhoun
1964
as Sid Rayner
Mr. Novak
1963
as Joe Stillman
Burke's Law
1963
as Lou Cole
Burke's Law
1963
as Charlie January
Arrest and Trial
1963
War Gods of Babylon
1962
as Sardanapolo
Combat!
1962
as Col. Hobey Jabko
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Peter Harding
The Virginian
1962
as Ed Frazer
Sam Benedict
1962
Boys' Night Out
1962
as Doug Jackson
Bus Stop
1961
Dante
1960
as Willie Dante
The Twilight Zone
1959
The Twilight Zone
1959
as Arthur Curtis / Gerry Reagan
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
1957
as Howard Duff
Sierra Stranger
1957
as Jess Collins
Mr. Adams and Eve
1957
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self
While the City Sleeps
1956
as Lt. Burt Kaufman
The Broken Star
1956
as Thornton W. Wills
Blackjack Ketchum Desperado
1956
as Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum
Flame of the Islands
1955
as Doug Duryea
Women's Prison
1955
as Dr. Crane
The Yellow Mountain
1954
as Pete Menlo
Climax!
1954
Climax!
1954
as Dr. John C. Clark
Studio 57
1954
Private Hell 36
1954
as Police Sgt. Jack Farnham
The Whistler
1954
Tanganyika
1954
as Dan Harder
Jennifer
1953
as Jim Hollis
Spaceways
1953
as Dr. Stephen Mitchell
Roar of the Crowd
1953
as Johnny Tracy
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
as Johnny Abel
Models Inc.
1952
as Lennie Stone
Steel Town
1952
as Jim Denko
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Terence Kerrigan
The Lady from Texas
1951
as Dan Mason
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Jim
Shakedown
1950
as Jack Early
Spy Hunt
1950
as Steve Quain
Woman in Hiding
1950
as Keith Ramsey
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
1949
as Sam Bass
Illegal Entry
1949
as Bert Powers
Red Canyon
1949
as Lin Sloane
Johnny Stool Pigeon
1949
as George Morton
All My Sons
1948
as George Deever
The Naked City
1948
as Frank Niles
Brute Force
1947
as Robert 'Soldier' Becker
Know Your Enemy: Japan
1945
as Narrator