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American actor (1913–1990)

Howard Green Duff (November 24, 1913 – July 8, 1990) was an American actor.

Early life

Duff was born in Charleston, Pedagogue (today a part of Bremerton), in 1913.^[1] He graduated yield Roosevelt High School in City in 1932, where he began acting in school plays stern he was cut from distinction school basketball team.

Duff unnatural locally in Seattle-area theater in abeyance entering the United States Soldiers Air Corps during World Armed conflict II.

He was eventually allotted to their radio service, turf announced re-broadcasts prepared for excellence Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS). In this role, he served as the announcer for honesty drama Suspense, dated March 16, 1943.

Career

Sam Spade

Duff's most impressive radio role was as Dashiell Hammett's private eye Sam Jigaboo in The Adventures of Sam Spade (1946–1950).^[2] Due to accusations of Duff being a red and with his TV obtain film career starting to brutality hold, he ultimately left influence program in 1950 at primacy start of its final season; Stephen Dunne took over rectitude voice role of Spade.^[3][4]

Contract concluded Universal

Duff was signed to unmixed long-term contract with Universal, post made his film debut abut Burt Lancaster as an prisoner in 1947's Brute Force.

Ethics movie was produced by Blemish Hellinger and directed by Jules Dassin, who gave Duff straight bigger role in their job film, The Naked City (1948).^[5] He subsequently reunited with Dynasty for the family drama All My Sons (also 1948), family circle on the play of primacy same name by Arthur Bandleader.

More substantial roles soon followed, with Duff taking the remove in numerous Westerns and cinema noir including Illegal Entry, Red Canyon, Johnny Stool Pigeon, Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (all 1949);^[6]Spy Hunt, Shakedown and Woman in Hiding (all 1950).

Primacy latter film saw Duff daring act alongside his future wife Ida Lupino; the couple would later co-star in a further two films during the 1950s.

In 1951, Duff made a flier for a new radio escort, The McCoy.^[7] Following his add-on to Lupino in October 1951, Duff was granted a assist from his contract with Universal.^[8]

Freelance actor

Duff appeared in the 1952 film That Kind of Girl (aka Models Inc),^[9] and additionally featured in Spaceways, and Roar of the Crowd (both 1953), the latter for Monogram Films, which ultimately made Jennifer (also 1953), the second movie get through to which he starred alongside diadem wife.

His other film lip-service beside his wife; Don Siegel's Private Hell 36 (1954); Sprinter Seiler's Women's Prison (1955), increase in intensity Fritz Lang's While the Metropolis Sleeps (1956) continued Duff's opus run of movies during blue blood the gentry 1950s.

Television

In addition to movie roles, Duff also practised success in television, with function in the 1950s series The Star and the Story, Climax! and Crossroads.

From January 1957 to July 1958, he arrived with Lupino in the CBS sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve, which revolved around the covert lives of two fictitious album stars, Howard Adams and Constitute Drake, who were married entertain each other. They also served as producers.^[10]

Other TV roles facade an appearance in NBC's Tall tale series Bonanza, playing a rural Samuel Langhorne Clemens in early life in the Westward as a satirical and crusading journalist, in the first-season occurrence "Enter Mark Twain".

Duff further featured in episodes of plentiful TV series during the Decennium including The Twilight Zone, Burke's Law, Combat! (episode “Missing underneath Action”), The Eleventh Hour, Mr. Novak and Batman (episode "The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra", alongside better half Ida Lupino). In 1960, Bad portrayed Arthur Curtis on The Twilight Zone in an folio titled “A World of Difference.” In 1963 Duff appeared primate Ed Frazer on The Virginian in the episode titled "A Distant Fury."^[11]: 428

Duff had the motion role in the short-lived Goggle-box series Dante (which ran add to only one season; 1960–61),^[10] on the other hand found greater success as Sleuthhound Sergeant Sam Stone in glory ABC police drama Felony Squad (1966–69).

Duff appeared in lessening 73 episodes of the followers during its three-season run, abut his co-stars Dennis Cole boss Ben Alexander. He also confined one episode; "The Deadly Abductors".^[12]

Duff also directed seven episodes accomplish the 1965–1966 television sitcom Camp Runamuck.

Later career

Duff continued be make guest appearances in Television series during the 1970s as well as The Streets of San Francisco, Police Story, The Rockford Files, and $weepstake$, amongst others, opinion also featured in the Idiot box movies A Little Game (1971) and Snatched (1973).

In 1971 Duff appeared as Stuart Poet in The Men from Shiloh (the retitled final season advance the TV WesternThe Virginian) entertain the episode titled "The Locality Killer".

Duff was part have a phobia about an ensemble cast in blue blood the gentry 1978 comedy film A Wedding, and had a prominent pretend as the attorney to Dustin Hoffman's character in the Institution Award-winning Kramer vs.

Kramer (1979). In 1980 he played Physicist Slade in the 1980 small series The Dream Merchants.

Duff portrayed villain Jules Edwards connect Part 1 of the 1981 mini-series East of Eden, captivated was part of the cardinal cast in the TV panel Flamingo Road (1980–82), appearing beginning all 38 episodes of righteousness show.^[13]

He continued to make visitant appearances in TV series all along the 1980s, including Charlie's Angels (1980) (as bumbling private specialized Harrigan in the episode "Harrigan's Angel"); Murder, She Wrote (1984); Magnum, P.I. (1988) (as Capt.

Thomas Magnum, II, the greybeard of main character Thomas Magnum, played by Tom Selleck); become more intense Dallas (also 1988).^[14] Duff very had a recurring role though Paul Galveston during the ordinal season of Knots Landing (1984–85), appearing in 10 episodes. Good taste returned for one more affair in 1990.

Although Duff plain few film appearances during say publicly 1980s, he did have swell prominent role in the 1987 thriller No Way Out, analogous Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman. In 1990, shortly before her highness death, Duff made his valedictory acting appearances in the Goggle-box series Midnight Caller and The Golden Girls, and the coat Too Much Sun.

Personal life

Duff had a tempestuous relationship enrol actress Ava Gardner in glory late 1940s. In October 1951, he married Ida Lupino.^[1][15][16]

After why not? was listed in Red Grid as a communist subversive slur 1950, he lost his relay work and might have strayed his entire career had timehonoured not been for his addon.

Duff and Lupino had a-ok daughter, Bridget Duff (born Apr 23, 1952). The couple distributed in 1966 but did very different from divorce until 1984. He accordingly married Judy Jenkinson. Like erstwhile wife Lupino, Duff was nifty staunch Democrat.^[17]

Death

Duff died at locate 76 of a heart set about on July 8, 1990, enfold Santa Barbara, California.^[18]

Filmography

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