Howard Duff

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1913-11-24 (77 years old)

Deathday

1990-07-08

Place of Birth

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Howard Duff

Biography

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 I...

Acting

1987

No Way Out

as Senator William 'Billy' Duvall

1948

The Naked City

as Frank Niles

1972

The Heist

as Lieutenant Nicholson

1978

Actor

as Winfield Sheehan

1979

Kramer vs. Kramer

as John Shaunessy

1955

Women's Prison

as Dr. Crane

1947

Brute Force

as Robert 'Soldier' Becker

1962

Boys' Night Out

as Doug Jackson

1954

Private Hell 36

as Police Sgt. Jack Farnham

1977

The Late Show

as Harry Regan

1956

While the City Sleeps

as Lt. Burt Kaufman

1950

Woman in Hiding

as Keith Ramsey

1949

Illegal Entry

as Bert Powers

1948

All My Sons

as George Deever

1978

A Wedding

as Dr. Jules Meecham

1953

Jennifer

as Jim Hollis

1986

Monster in the Closet

as Father Martin Finnegan

1949

Johnny Stool Pigeon

as George Morton

1990

2004

Los Angeles Plays Itself

as Dave Pomeroy in Panic in the City (archive footage)

1950

Shakedown

as Jack Early

1982

1971

In Search of America

as Ray Chandler

1953

Spaceways

as Dr. Stephen Mitchell

1952

Models Inc.

as Lennie Stone

1951

1949

Red Canyon

as Lin Sloane

1955

Flame of the Islands

as Doug Duryea

1954

The Yellow Mountain

as Pete Menlo

1971

A Little Game

as Dunlap

1954

Tanganyika

as Dan Harder

1957

Sierra Stranger

as Jess Collins

1956

The Broken Star

as Thornton W. Wills

1962

War Gods of Babylon

as Sardanapolo

1956

Blackjack Ketchum Desperado

as Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum

1968

Panic in the City

as Dave Pomeroy

1974

Tight as a Drum

as Hollister

1952

Steel Town

as Jim Denko

1985

Love on the Run

as Lionel Rockland

1969

The D.A.: Murder One

as Lynn D. Compton

1989

Settle the Score

as Cy Whately

1980

Flamingo Road

as Sheriff Titus Semple

1980

Double Negative

as Lester Harlen

1973

Snatched

as Duncan Wood

1978

Ski Lift to Death

as Ben Forbes

1945

1977

In the Glitter Palace

as Raymond Dawson Travers

1950

Spy Hunt

as Steve Quain

1964

Calhoun

as Sid Rayner

1983

This Girl for Hire

as Wolfe Macready

1982

1953

Roar of the Crowd

as Johnny Tracy

1978

Battered

as Bill Thompson

Production

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