Howard Duff
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 24, 1913
- Died
- July 8, 1990
- Movies
- 56
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).
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1991 | Too Much Sun | O.M. |
| 1989 | Settle the Score | Cy Whately |
| 1987 | No Way Out | Senator William 'Billy' Duvall |
| 1987 | Roses Are for the Rich | Denton |
| 1986 | Monster in the Closet | Father Martin Finnegan |
| 1985 | Love on the Run | Lionel Rockland |
| 1983 | This Girl for Hire | Wolfe Macready |
| 1982 | The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch | Col. Samuel Isaacs |
| 1982 | Lily for President? | General |
| 1980 | Flamingo Road | Sheriff Titus Semple |
| 1980 | Double Negative | Lester Harlen |
| 1980 | Valentine Magic on Love Island | A.J. Morgan |
| 1979 | Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand | Herman Rusk |
| 1979 | Kramer vs. Kramer | John Shaunessy |
| 1978 | A Wedding | Dr. Jules Meecham |
| 1978 | Battered | Bill Thompson |
| 1978 | Ski Lift to Death | Ben Forbes |
| 1978 | Actor | Winfield Sheehan |
| 1977 | A Little Game | Dunlap |
| 1977 | In the Glitter Palace | Raymond Dawson Travers |
| 1977 | The Late Show | Harry Regan |
| 1974 | Tight as a Drum | Hollister |
| 1973 | Snatched | Duncan Wood |
| 1972 | The Heist | Lieutenant Nicholson |
| 1971 | In Search of America | Ray Chandler |
| 1969 | The D.A.: Murder One | Lynn D. Compton |
| 1968 | Panic in the City | Dave Pomeroy |
| 1964 | Calhoun | Sid Rayner |
| 1962 | War Gods of Babylon | Sardanapolo |
| 1962 | Boys' Night Out | Doug Jackson |
| 1957 | Sierra Stranger | Jess Collins |
| 1956 | While the City Sleeps | Lt. Burt Kaufman |
| 1956 | The Broken Star | Deputy Marshal Frank Smeed |
| 1956 | Blackjack Ketchum Desperado | Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum |
| 1955 | Flame of the Islands | Doug Duryea |
| 1955 | Women's Prison | Dr. Crane |
| 1954 | The Yellow Mountain | Pete Menlo |
| 1954 | Private Hell 36 | Police Sgt. Jack Farnham |
| 1954 | Tanganyika | Dan Harder |
| 1953 | Jennifer | Jim Hollis |
| 1953 | Spaceways | Dr. Stephen Mitchell |
| 1953 | Roar of the Crowd | Johnny Tracy |
| 1952 | Models Inc. | Lennie Stone |
| 1952 | Steel Town | Jim Denko |
| 1951 | The Lady from Texas | Dan Mason |
| 1950 | Shakedown | Jack Early |
| 1950 | Spy Hunt | Steve Quain |
| 1950 | Woman in Hiding | Keith Ramsey |
| 1949 | Calamity Jane and Sam Bass | Sam Bass |
| 1949 | Illegal Entry | Bert Powers |
| 1949 | Red Canyon | Lin Sloane |
| 1949 | Johnny Stool Pigeon | George Morton |
| 1948 | All My Sons | George Deever |
| 1948 | The Naked City | Frank Niles |
| 1947 | Brute Force | Robert 'Soldier' Becker |
| 1945 | Know Your Enemy: Japan | Narrator |
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