Acting · Born November 24, 1913
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.
TVThe World of Hammer
1994
as Self (archive footage)
MovieToo Much Sun
1991
as O.M.
MovieSettle the Score
1989
as Cy Whately
TVWar and Remembrance
1988
as William Tuttle
MovieNo Way Out
1987
as Senator William 'Billy' Duvall
MovieRoses Are for the Rich
1987
as Denton
TVRoses Are for the Rich
1987
as Denton
MovieMonster in the Closet
1986
as Father Martin Finnegan
MovieLove on the Run
1985
as Lionel Rockland
TVThe Golden Girls
1985
as Mangiacavallo
TVMurder, She Wrote
1984
as Ralph Earl / Stephen Earl
TVScarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
MovieThis Girl for Hire
1983
as Wolfe Macready
MovieThe Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
1982
as Col. Samuel Isaacs
TVSt. Elsewhere
1982
as Herbie
TVHotel
1982
as Byron Comstock
MovieLily for President?
1982
as General
TVEast of Eden
1981
as Jules Edwards
TVFlamingo Road
1981
as Titus Semple
TVMagnum, P.I.
1980
as Captain Thomas Sullivan Magnum I
MovieFlamingo Road
1980
as Sheriff Titus Semple
MovieDouble Negative
1980
as Lester Harlen
TVThe Dream Merchants
1980
as Charles Slade
MovieValentine Magic on Love Island
1980
as A.J. Morgan
TVKnots Landing
1979
as Paul Galveston
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
1979
as Herman Rusk
MovieKramer vs. Kramer
1979
as John Shaunessy
$weepstake$
1979
MovieBattered
1978
as Bill Thompson
MovieA Wedding
1978
as Dr. Jules Meecham
MovieSki Lift to Death
1978
as Ben Forbes
MovieActor
1978
as Winfield Sheehan
TVFantasy Island
1978
as Douglas Shane
TVThe Love Boat
1977
as Glen Leciter
MovieA Little Game
1977
as Dunlap
MovieIn the Glitter Palace
1977
as Raymond Dawson Travers
MovieThe Late Show
1977
as Harry Regan
TVThe Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
TVCharlie's Angels
1976
as Harrigan
TVMatt Helm
1975
as Dan Mallory
TVEllery Queen
1975
TVSwitch
1975
as Ira Larkin
TVMedical Story
1975
as Roger Graham
TVThe Rockford Files
1974
as Edward J. Marks
MovieTight as a Drum
1974
as Hollister
TVFaraday and Company
1973
as Clark Sanford
TVPolice Story
1973
MovieSnatched
1973
as Duncan Wood
MovieThe Heist
1972
as Lieutenant Nicholson
TVKung Fu
1972
as Noah Fleck
TVThe Streets of San Francisco
1972
TVSearch
1972
MovieIn Search of America
1971
as Ray Chandler
TVAlias Smith and Jones
1971
TVThe Immortal
1970
MovieThe D.A.: Murder One
1969
as Lynn D. Compton
MoviePanic in the City
1968
as Dave Pomeroy
TVThe Mod Squad
1968
TVThe Name of the Game
1968
as Wally Cook
TVMannix
1967
TVJudd, for the Defense
1967
TVFelony Squad
1966
as Det. Sgt. Sam Stone
TVBatman
1966
as Det. Sgt. Sam Stone
TVI Spy
1965
as Sean
TVThe Rogues
1964
as G. Carter Huntington
MovieCalhoun
1964
as Sid Rayner
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
TVMr. Novak
1963
as Joe Stillman
TVBurke's Law
1963
as Lou Cole
TVArrest and Trial
1963
MovieWar Gods of Babylon
1962
as Sardanapolo
TVCombat!
1962
as Col. Hobey Jabko
TVThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Peter Harding
TVThe Virginian
1962
as Ed Frazer
TVSam Benedict
1962
MovieBoys' Night Out
1962
as Doug Jackson
TVThe Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self - Co-Host
TVBus Stop
1961
TVDante
1960
as Willie Dante
TVThe Twilight Zone
1959
The George Burns Show
1958
as Self
TVThe Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
1957
as Howard Duff
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
as Self
MovieSierra Stranger
1957
as Jess Collins
TVMr. Adams and Eve
1957
TVThe Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self
MovieWhile the City Sleeps
1956
as Lt. Burt Kaufman
MovieThe Broken Star
1956
as Deputy Marshal Frank Smeed
MovieBlackjack Ketchum Desperado
1956
as Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum
MovieFlame of the Islands
1955
as Doug Duryea
MovieWomen's Prison
1955
as Dr. Crane
MovieThe Yellow Mountain
1954
as Pete Menlo
TVClimax!
1954
TVStudio 57
1954
MoviePrivate Hell 36
1954
as Police Sgt. Jack Farnham
TVThe Whistler
1954
MovieTanganyika
1954
as Dan Harder
MovieJennifer
1953
as Jim Hollis
MovieSpaceways
1953
as Dr. Stephen Mitchell
MovieRoar of the Crowd
1953
as Johnny Tracy
TVThe Ford Television Theatre
1952
as Johnny Abel
MovieModels Inc.
1952
as Lennie Stone
MovieSteel Town
1952
as Jim Denko
TVSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Terence Kerrigan
MovieThe Lady from Texas
1951
as Dan Mason
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Jim
MovieShakedown
1950
as Jack Early
MovieSpy Hunt
1950
as Steve Quain
MovieWoman in Hiding
1950
as Keith Ramsey
MovieCalamity Jane and Sam Bass
1949
as Sam Bass
MovieIllegal Entry
1949
as Bert Powers
MovieRed Canyon
1949
as Lin Sloane
MovieJohnny Stool Pigeon
1949
as George Morton
TVThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
MovieAll My Sons
1948
as George Deever
MovieThe Naked City
1948
as Frank Niles
MovieBrute Force
1947
as Robert 'Soldier' Becker
MovieKnow Your Enemy: Japan
1945
as Narrator
