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