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Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 24, 1913
Died
July 8, 1990
Place of Birth
N/A
Also Known As
- Howard Green Duff
Howard Duff
0.7 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.6
Dave Pomeroy in Panic in the City (archive footage)
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
6.5
Self (archive footage)
The World of Hammer
1994
4.3
O.M.
Too Much Sun
1991
4.5
Cy Whately
Settle the Score
1989
7.8
War and Remembrance
1988
6.9
Senator William 'Billy' Duvall
No Way Out
1987
0.0
Denton
Roses Are for the Rich
1987
6.0
Denton
Roses Are for the Rich
1987
4.9
Father Martin Finnegan
Monster in the Closet
1986
1.0
Lionel Rockland
Love on the Run
1985
Credits
Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Dave Pomeroy in Panic in the City (archive footage)
2004
7.6
The World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage)
1994
6.5
Too Much Sun
as O.M.
1991
4.3
Settle the Score
as Cy Whately
1989
4.5
War and Remembrance
1988
7.8
No Way Out
as Senator William 'Billy' Duvall
1987
6.9
Roses Are for the Rich
as Denton
1987
0.0
Roses Are for the Rich
as Denton
1987
6.0
Monster in the Closet
as Father Martin Finnegan
1986
4.9
Love on the Run
as Lionel Rockland
1985
1.0
The Golden Girls
as Mangiacavallo
1985
7.6
Murder, She Wrote
as Ralph Earl / Stephen Earl
1984
7.5
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
6.4
This Girl for Hire
as Wolfe Macready
1983
3.6
The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
as Col. Samuel Isaacs
1982
1.0
St. Elsewhere
as Herbie
1982
5.6
Hotel
1982
6.8
Lily for President?
as General
1982
0.0
East of Eden
as Jules Edwards
1981
7.3
Flamingo Road
as Titus Semple
1981
6.1
Magnum, P.I.
as Captain Thomas Sullivan Magnum I
1980
7.3
Double Negative
as Lester Harlen
1980
2.8
The Dream Merchants
as Charles Slade
1980
4.5
Flamingo Road
as Sheriff Titus Semple
1980
0.0
Valentine Magic on Love Island
as A.J. Morgan
1980
1.0
Knots Landing
as Paul Galveston
1979
6.7
🎬
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
as Herman Rusk
1979
0.0
Kramer vs. Kramer
as John Shaunessy
1979
7.6
🎬
$weepstake$
1979
0.0
Battered
as Bill Thompson
1978
0.0
A Wedding
as Dr. Jules Meecham
1978
6.2
Ski Lift to Death
as Ben Forbes
1978
0.0
Actor
as Winfield Sheehan
1978
0.0
Fantasy Island
as Douglas Shane
1978
6.4
A Little Game
as Dunlap
1977
6.7
In the Glitter Palace
as Raymond Dawson Travers
1977
2.7
The Late Show
as Harry Regan
1977
6.2
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
7.1
Charlie's Angels
as Harrigan
1976
6.7
Matt Helm
as Dan Mallory
1975
7.4
Ellery Queen
1975
7.4
Switch
as Ira Larkin
1975
6.7
Medical Story
1975
3.0
The Rockford Files
as Edward J. Marks
1974
7.6
Tight as a Drum
as Hollister
1974
0.0
Police Story
1973
6.9
Snatched
as Duncan Wood
1973
5.2
The Heist
as Lieutenant Nicholson
1972
8.0
Kung Fu
as Noah Fleck
1972
7.7
Kung Fu
as Mr. Jenkins
1972
7.7
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
7.0
Search
1972
6.9
In Search of America
as Ray Chandler
1971
3.0
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
7.0
The Immortal
1970
7.4
The D.A.: Murder One
as Lynn D. Compton
1969
0.0
Panic in the City
as Dave Pomeroy
1968
5.2
The Mod Squad
1968
6.2
Mannix
1967
6.7
Judd for the Defense
1967
7.5
Felony Squad
as Det. Sgt. Sam Stone
1966
6.4
Batman
as Det. Sgt. Sam Stone
1966
7.3
Batman
as Cabala
1966
7.3
I Spy
as Sean
1965
6.5
The Rogues
as G. Carter Huntington
1964
7.2
Calhoun
as Sid Rayner
1964
6.0
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
5.7
Mr. Novak
as Joe Stillman
1963
6.5
Burke's Law
as Lou Cole
1963
6.0
Burke's Law
as Charlie January
1963
6.0
Arrest and Trial
1963
7.7
War Gods of Babylon
as Sardanapolo
1962
7.0
Combat!
as Col. Hobey Jabko
1962
7.7
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Peter Harding
1962
7.8
The Virginian
as Ed Frazer
1962
6.4
Sam Benedict
1962
6.0
Boys' Night Out
as Doug Jackson
1962
5.7
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Co-Host
1961
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Bus Stop
1961
0.0
Dante
as Willie Dante
1960
6.0
The Twilight Zone
1959
8.5
The Twilight Zone
as Arthur Curtis / Gerry Reagan
1959
8.5
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
as Howard Duff
1957
8.6
🎬
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
1957
7.0
Sierra Stranger
as Jess Collins
1957
4.5
Mr. Adams and Eve
1957
0.0
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
6.0
While the City Sleeps
as Lt. Burt Kaufman
1956
6.9
Blackjack Ketchum Desperado
as Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum
1956
6.5
The Broken Star
as Deputy Marshal Frank Smeed
1956
6.4
Flame of the Islands
as Doug Duryea
1955
3.7
Women's Prison
as Dr. Crane
1955
5.7
The Yellow Mountain
as Pete Menlo
1954
5.2
Climax!
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Dr. John C. Clark
1954
3.3
Studio 57
1954
0.0
Private Hell 36
as Police Sgt. Jack Farnham
1954
6.2
🎬
The Whistler
1954
0.0
Tanganyika
as Dan Harder
1954
7.5
Jennifer
as Jim Hollis
1953
5.8
Spaceways
as Dr. Stephen Mitchell
1953
4.4
Roar of the Crowd
as Johnny Tracy
1953
0.0
The Ford Television Theatre
as Johnny Abel
1952
7.3
Models Inc.
as Lennie Stone
1952
5.0
Steel Town
as Jim Denko
1952
6.0
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Terence Kerrigan
1951
7.2
The Lady from Texas
as Dan Mason
1951
0.0
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Jim
1950
6.3
Shakedown
as Jack Early
1950
6.2
Spy Hunt
as Steve Quain
1950
6.0
Woman in Hiding
as Keith Ramsey
1950
6.2
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
as Sam Bass
1949
5.9
Illegal Entry
as Bert Powers
1949
5.4
Red Canyon
as Lin Sloane
1949
5.0
Johnny Stool Pigeon
as George Morton
1949
6.2
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
All My Sons
as George Deever
1948
6.3
The Naked City
as Frank Niles
1948
7.2
Brute Force
as Robert 'Soldier' Becker
1947
7.3
Know Your Enemy: Japan
as Narrator
1945
5.9