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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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Movies
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004-07-28
Too Much Sun
1990-10-10
Settle the Score
1989-10-30
No Way Out
1987-08-14
Roses Are for the Rich
1987-05-17
Monster in the Closet
1986-05-15
Love on the Run
1985-10-21
This Girl For Hire
1983-01-11
The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
1982-10-31
Lily for President?
1982-05-20
Flamingo Road
1980-05-12
Double Negative
1980-05-12
Valentine Magic on Love Island
1980-02-15
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
1979-12-26
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979-12-07
Battered
1978-09-26
A Wedding
1978-08-29
Ski Lift to Death
1978-03-03
Actor
1978-02-21
In the Glitter Palace
1977-02-23
The Late Show
1977-02-10
Tight as a Drum
1974-02-11
Snatched
1973-01-31
The Heist
1972-11-29
A Little Game
1971-10-31
In Search of America
1971-03-23
The D.A.: Murder One
1969-12-08
Panic in the City
1968-10-01
Calhoun
1964-07-08
War Gods of Babylon
1962-11-24
Boys' Night Out
1962-06-21
Sierra Stranger
1957-05-01
While the City Sleeps
1956-04-19
The Broken Star
1956-04-01
Blackjack Ketchum Desperado
1956-04-01
Flame of the Islands
1955-12-04
Women's Prison
1955-02-01
The Yellow Mountain
1954-11-16
Private Hell 36
1954-09-03
Tanganyika
1954-07-03
Jennifer
1953-10-25
Spaceways
1953-07-01
Roar of the Crowd
1953-05-31
Models Inc.
1952-05-19
Steel Town
1952-05-09
The Lady from Texas
1951-09-01
Shakedown
1950-09-01
Spy Hunt
1950-06-08
Woman in Hiding
1950-01-06
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
1949-09-20
Illegal Entry
1949-06-01
Red Canyon
1949-04-27
Johnny Stool Pigeon
1949-04-20
All My Sons
1948-05-01
The Naked City
1948-03-04
Brute Force
1947-07-16
Know Your Enemy: Japan
1945-08-09
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