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.
Fotos
Películas (57)
Too Much Sun
1991 · O.M.
Settle the Score
1989 · Cy Whately
No Way Out
1987 · Senator William 'Billy' Duvall
Roses Are for the Rich
1987 · Denton
Monster in the Closet
1986 · Father Martin Finnegan
Love on the Run
1985 · Lionel Rockland
This Girl for Hire
1983 · Wolfe Macready
The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
1982 · Col. Samuel Isaacs
Lily for President?
1982 · General
Night of the Juggler
1980 · Props
Flamingo Road
1980 · Sheriff Titus Semple
Double Negative
1980 · Lester Harlen
Valentine Magic on Love Island
1980 · A.J. Morgan
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
1979 · Herman Rusk
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979 · John Shaunessy
A Wedding
1978 · Dr. Jules Meecham
Battered
1978 · Bill Thompson
Ski Lift to Death
1978 · Ben Forbes
Actor
1978 · Winfield Sheehan
A Little Game
1977 · Dunlap
In the Glitter Palace
1977 · Raymond Dawson Travers
The Late Show
1977 · Harry Regan
Tight as a Drum
1974 · Hollister
Snatched
1973 · Duncan Wood
The Heist
1972 · Lieutenant Nicholson
In Search of America
1971 · Ray Chandler
The D.A.: Murder One
1969 · Lynn D. Compton
Panic in the City
1968 · Dave Pomeroy
Calhoun
1964 · Sid Rayner
War Gods of Babylon
1962 · Sardanapolo
Boys' Night Out
1962 · Doug Jackson
Sierra Stranger
1957 · Jess Collins
While the City Sleeps
1956 · Lt. Burt Kaufman
The Broken Star
1956 · Deputy Marshal Frank Smeed
Blackjack Ketchum Desperado
1956 · Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum
Flame of the Islands
1955 · Doug Duryea
Women's Prison
1955 · Dr. Crane
The Yellow Mountain
1954 · Pete Menlo
Private Hell 36
1954 · Police Sgt. Jack Farnham
Tanganyika
1954 · Dan Harder
Jennifer
1953 · Jim Hollis
Spaceways
1953 · Dr. Stephen Mitchell
Roar of the Crowd
1953 · Johnny Tracy
Models Inc.
1952 · Lennie Stone
Steel Town
1952 · Jim Denko
The Lady from Texas
1951 · Dan Mason
Shakedown
1950 · Jack Early
Spy Hunt
1950 · Steve Quain
Woman in Hiding
1950 · Keith Ramsey
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
1949 · Sam Bass
Illegal Entry
1949 · Bert Powers
Red Canyon
1949 · Lin Sloane
Johnny Stool Pigeon
1949 · George Morton
All My Sons
1948 · George Deever
The Naked City
1948 · Frank Niles
Brute Force
1947 · Robert 'Soldier' Becker
Know Your Enemy: Japan
1945 · Narrator
Series (64)
The World of Hammer
1994 · Self (archive footage)
War and Remembrance
1988 · William Tuttle
Roses Are for the Rich
1987 · Denton
The Golden Girls
1985 · Mangiacavallo
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Ralph Earl / Stephen Earl
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
St. Elsewhere
1982 · Herbie
Hotel
1982 · Byron Comstock, Adam Korsak
East of Eden
1981 · Jules Edwards
Flamingo Road
1981 · Titus Semple
Magnum, P.I.
1980 · Captain Thomas Sullivan Magnum I
The Dream Merchants
1980 · Charles Slade
Knots Landing
1979 · Paul Galveston
$weepstake$
1979
Fantasy Island
1978 · Douglas Shane
Vacaciones en el mar
1977 · Glen Leciter
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
Charlie's Angels
1976 · Harrigan
Matt Helm
1975 · Dan Mallory
Ellery Queen
1975
Switch
1975 · Ira Larkin
Medical Story
1975 · Roger Graham
The Rockford Files
1974 · Edward J. Marks
Faraday and Company
1973 · Clark Sanford
Police Story
1973 · Sergeant Al Butler
Kung Fu
1972 · Noah Fleck, Mr. Jenkins
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Search
1972
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
The Immortal
1970
The Mod Squad
1968
The Name of the Game
1968 · Wally Cook
Mannix
1967
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Felony Squad
1966 · Det. Sgt. Sam Stone, Director
Batman
1966 · Det. Sgt. Sam Stone, Cabala
Camp Runamuck
1965 · Director
I Spy
1965 · Sean
The Rogues
1964 · G. Carter Huntington
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Mr. Novak
1963 · Joe Stillman
Burke's Law
1963 · Lou Cole, Charlie January
Arrest and Trial
1963
Combat!
1962 · Col. Hobey Jabko
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · Peter Harding
The Virginian
1962 · Ed Frazer
Sam Benedict
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self - Co-Host, Self
Bus Stop
1961
Dante
1960 · Willie Dante
The Twilight Zone
1959 · Arthur Curtis / Gerry Reagan
The George Burns Show
1958 · Self
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
1957 · Howard Duff
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957 · Self
Mr. Adams and Eve
1957
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956 · Self
Crossroads
1955
Climax!
1954 · Dr. John C. Clark
Studio 57
1954
The Whistler
1954
The Ford Television Theatre
1952 · Johnny Abel
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Terence Kerrigan
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Jim
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self