Cast & creator
Howard Duff
Best known for The Mike Douglas Show, The Mike Douglas Show, The Love Boat
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.
Also known as: Howard Green Duff
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1945–1994 · acting roles
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Filmography (130)
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The Mike Douglas Show
Self - Co-Host
1961The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
The Love Boat
Glen Leciter
1977
Knots Landing
Paul Galveston
1979
Murder, She Wrote
Ralph Earl / Stephen Earl
1984
Magnum, P.I.
Captain Thomas Sullivan Magnum I
1980
Mannix
1967
Charlie's Angels
Harrigan
1976
The Rockford Files
Edward J. Marks
1974
St. Elsewhere
Herbie
1982
Climax!
1954Climax!
Dr. John C. Clark
1954
Batman
Det. Sgt. Sam Stone
1966Batman
Cabala
1966Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Peter Harding
1962
The Virginian
Ed Frazer
1962
The Twilight Zone
1959The Twilight Zone
Arthur Curtis / Gerry Reagan
1959
The Golden Girls
Mangiacavallo
1985
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self
1957
Hotel
Byron Comstock
1982Hotel
Adam Korsak
1982
The Name of the Game
Wally Cook
1968
Combat!
Col. Hobey Jabko
1962
Burke's Law
Lou Cole
1963Burke's Law
Charlie January
1963
Fantasy Island
Douglas Shane
1978
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
1956
The Ford Television Theatre
Johnny Abel
1952
Switch
Ira Larkin
1975
Police Story
1973Police Story
Sergeant Al Butler
1973
Judd, for the Defense
1967
The Mod Squad
1968
Studio 57
1954
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Felony Squad
Det. Sgt. Sam Stone
1966Felony Squad
Director
1966
I Spy
Sean
1965
Mr. Novak
Joe Stillman
1963
Ellery Queen
1975
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977Lux Video Theatre
Jim
1950
Arrest and Trial
1963
Sam Benedict
1962
The Rogues
G. Carter Huntington
1964
War and Remembrance
William Tuttle
1988
The World of Hammer
Self (archive footage)
1994
Bus Stop
1961
Crossroads
1955
The Whistler
1954
Medical Story
Roger Graham
1975
East of Eden
Jules Edwards
1981
Matt Helm
Dan Mallory
1975
Flamingo Road
Titus Semple
1981
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
Howard Duff
1957
Mr. Adams and Eve
1957
Kramer vs. Kramer
John Shaunessy
1979
The Immortal
1970$weepstake$
1979
No Way Out
Senator William 'Billy' Duvall
1987
Dante
Willie Dante
1960
Search
1972The George Burns Show
Self
1958
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Terence Kerrigan
1951
Faraday and Company
Clark Sanford
1973
Camp Runamuck
Director
1965
Brute Force
Robert 'Soldier' Becker
1947
The Dream Merchants
Charles Slade
1980
Roses Are for the Rich
Denton
1987
Night of the Juggler
Props
1980
While the City Sleeps
Lt. Burt Kaufman
1956
Boys' Night Out
Doug Jackson
1962
The Naked City
Frank Niles
1948
Monster in the Closet
Father Martin Finnegan
1986
The D.A.: Murder One
Lynn D. Compton
1969
The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
Col. Samuel Isaacs
1982
Spaceways
Dr. Stephen Mitchell
1953
This Girl for Hire
Wolfe Macready
1983
All My Sons
George Deever
1948
Know Your Enemy: Japan
Narrator
1945
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
Sam Bass
1949
Panic in the City
Dave Pomeroy
1968
A Wedding
Dr. Jules Meecham
1978
Kung Fu
Noah Fleck
1972Kung Fu
Mr. Jenkins
1972
Love on the Run
Lionel Rockland
1985
Too Much Sun
O.M.
1991
The Late Show
Harry Regan
1977
Roses Are for the Rich
Denton
1987
Actor
Winfield Sheehan
1978
Flamingo Road
Sheriff Titus Semple
1980
Double Negative
Lester Harlen
1980
Woman in Hiding
Keith Ramsey
1950
Flame of the Islands
Doug Duryea
1955
War Gods of Babylon
Sardanapolo
1962
The Broken Star
Deputy Marshal Frank Smeed
1956
Red Canyon
Lin Sloane
1949
Tight as a Drum
Hollister
1974
The Lady from Texas
Dan Mason
1951
Johnny Stool Pigeon
George Morton
1949
Private Hell 36
Police Sgt. Jack Farnham
1954
Valentine Magic on Love Island
A.J. Morgan
1980
Ski Lift to Death
Ben Forbes
1978
Roar of the Crowd
Johnny Tracy
1953
Sierra Stranger
Jess Collins
1957Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
Herman Rusk
1979
Snatched
Duncan Wood
1973
In the Glitter Palace
Raymond Dawson Travers
1977
Shakedown
Jack Early
1950
Lily for President?
General
1982
Settle the Score
Cy Whately
1989
The Yellow Mountain
Pete Menlo
1954
Illegal Entry
Bert Powers
1949
Blackjack Ketchum Desperado
Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum
1956
Women's Prison
Dr. Crane
1955
Battered
Bill Thompson
1978
Tanganyika
Dan Harder
1954
Jennifer
Jim Hollis
1953
Steel Town
Jim Denko
1952
Spy Hunt
Steve Quain
1950
Calhoun
Sid Rayner
1964
The Heist
Lieutenant Nicholson
1972
A Little Game
Dunlap
1977
Models Inc.
Lennie Stone
1952
In Search of America
Ray Chandler
1971