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