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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.
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21 June 1962
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor.
20 September 1949
Drifter Sam Bass shows up in Denton, Texas (soon to host a great horse race) looking for work. Before long, he attracts the attention of pretty storekeeper Katherine Egan (the sheriff's sister) and that wild frontiers woman, Calamity Jane.
01 September 1951
An eccentric Civil War widow is accused of being insane.
06 January 1950
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident.
20 April 1949
A federal agent infiltrates a crime syndicate.
29 August 1978
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli Italian connection is suspect, security guards watch the gifts rather over-zealously, and Dino's grandma expires in bed just as the reception starts.
07 December 1979
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him.
04 December 1955
A café singer buys a gambling casino and several men fall in love with her.
01 October 1968
An American agent is assigned to track down a renegade Soviet spy who is building an atomic device in Los Angeles and plans to destroy the city with it.
19 April 1956
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
14 August 1987
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell.
09 August 1945
Frank Capra-directed propaganda film produced during World War II depicting the United States' new enemy: Japan.
01 September 1950
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder.
16 November 1954
A formula brawling-buddies western where one goes bad and then returns to the fold. Pete Menlo owns some gold claims in Nevada where he is joined by his old friend Andy Martin.
03 July 1954
A landowner in colonial Africa leads a safari through Nukumbi territory in order to capture an escaped criminal.
23 February 1977
The ex-girlfriend of a lawyer, who left him for a lesbian lover, asks him to defend her lover in a murder case.
31 October 1982
It's quiet in Chastity Gulch, a small town in the Wild West. The men of the village are all in the army and fight their battles far away.
03 March 1978
A sports promoter tries to matchmake for a pair of ski champions and, as a result, they end up trapped in a derailed ski-lift car along with a gangster and the hitman sent to kill him.
31 January 1973
The wives of three wealthy men are kidnapped and held for a $3 million ransom, but one of the men doesn't want to pay his share.
30 October 1989
Katherine Whately, a tough, young Chicago cop, comes home to her small town to settle her teenage rape.
23 March 1971
Michael (Jeff Bridges) drops out of college with the intention of finding himself. When his parents (Carl Betz and Vera Miles) balk, he talks them into joining him in traveling the country and educating themselves about the state of things.
01 April 1956
A deputy sheriff defies local ranchers to investigate a Mexican's murder.
11 February 1974
A military school graduation ceremony is interrupted when a student's dope-smuggling father is killed in the gym.
11 January 1983
In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the murder of a obnoxious mystery writer.
01 April 1956
A former gunslinger comes to the aid of ranchers battling a murderous land baron.
12 May 1980
A carnival drifter marries into an aristocratic family and unwillingly takes on a ruthless sheriff who fancies himself a political kingmaker in this pilot film to the later series.
08 December 1969
A Deputy District Attorney suspects that a nurse has been murdering her rich husbands and relatives by giving them unneeded insulin doses, but his superiors don't believe him.
16 July 1947
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey.
26 December 1979
Ben Maverick (Charles Frank) inherits the poker hand of a friend who died during a high stakes game.
17 May 1987
In a small town in Appalachia, Autumn's young husband is killed in a suspicious mine explosion. She vows vengeance on mine owner Douglas Osborne and dedicates her life to destroying him, even at the cost of her own happiness.
31 May 1953
Johnny Tracy, son of veteran race driver Pop Tracy, is working his way up on the racing circuit, but is urged by his sweetheart, Marcy Parker, to give up the track if he wants to marry her.
04 March 1948
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
01 February 1955
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
25 October 1953
A young woman is hired to take care of an eerie old mansion, where she finds herself entangled with an enigmatic murderer.
31 October 1971
A hostile youngster who will stop at nothing to break up his mother's marriage is suspected of homicide, and his stepfather fears that he may be the boy's next victim.
24 November 1962
Noble, wise King Sardanapolo and his more soft and naive younger brother Prince Sammash get into a bitter feud over the affections of sweet and alluring innocent peasant girl Mirra.
29 November 1972
An armored-car guard must convince the authorities he is innocent after he is forced to rob his own company.
09 May 1952
Steve Kostain, nephew of the owner, begins working at a steel mill to learn the business from the bottom up.
15 February 1980
Janis Paige presides over the proceedings at a posh resort, using magical powers to help eight attractive, amiable vacationers discover one another, aided by her nephew and niece in this unsold pilot variation of "Fantasy Island.
10 October 1990
A multimillionaire, whose son is gay and daughter a lesbian, leaves a will with one clause: His children will inherit his money only if at least one of them produces him a grandchild within a year of his death.
21 October 1985
A criminal lawyer goes on the run with her new lover — a convict she had as a client and whom she helped escape from prison.
01 May 1948
During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever.
26 September 1978
Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their husbands.
08 July 1964
Unaired pilot for a drama/adventure series about a county agent.
15 May 1986
After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a "mild-mannered" reporter, a college professor, her son and a befuddled professor band together to uncover the mystery but not without involving the U.
19 May 1952
The wealthy owner of a modeling agency keeps a new student in the high life, unaware that she and a recently released convict share a criminal and personal history.
06 June 1980
An ex New York cop is desperate to find his kidnapped daughter.
21 February 1978
A musical play based on the early years of actor Paul Muni.
01 May 1957
A prospector becomes a small town outcast after he rescues a man about to be lynched.
28 July 2004
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies.
03 September 1954
In New York, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft.
08 June 1950
Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, has hidden a microfilm in the collar of one of the animals.
12 May 1980
Mentally tortured photojournalist attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
10 February 1977
Over-the-hill gumshoe in Los Angeles seeks to avenge the killing of an old pal, another detective who had gotten himself involved in a case concerning a murdered broad, stolen stamps, a nickel-plated handgun, a cheating dolly, and a kidnapped pussycat.
01 July 1953
The test launch for the first inter-planetary research station goes wrong when the satellite station is inadvertently set up instead of returning to earth.
20 May 1982
Comedian Lily Tomlin stars in this comical farce which deals with her experiences running for the office of President of the United States.
27 April 1949
A former outlaw goes straight and is determined to catch and tame a wild stallion. Western.
01 June 1949
Long before he became producer/director of The Tonight Show, Fred DeCordova helmed the Universal meller Illegal Entry.
