Profile
Howard Duff
Actor
Male
Born
Nov 24, 1913
Hometown
Bremerton, Washin...
Died
Jul 8, 1990
Death Place
Santa Barbara, Ca...
Other Names
Duff, Howard Green
Howard Green Duff 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… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1913
Birth
Born on November 24, 1913.
TEENAGE
1932
18 Years Old
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.
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THIRTIES
1946
32 Years Old
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.
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1950
36 Years Old
After he was listed in Red Channels as a Communist subversive in 1950, he lost his radio work, and might have lost his entire career if not for his marriage. They had a daughter, Bridget Duff (born April 23, 1952). They separated in 1966 and divorced in 1984.
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FORTIES
1955
41 Years Old
Duff also appeared in an episode of Climax! entitled Escape From Fear in 1955.
1957
43 Years Old
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.
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In 1960 he played the male main character in The Twilight Zone episode "A World of Difference" as Arthur Curtis/Jerry Raigan.
FIFTIES
1964
50 Years Old
In 1964, Duff guest-starred as Harold Baker in the episode Prodigy of NBC's medical drama about psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour, starring Jack Ging and Ralph Bellamy.
1966
52 Years Old
From September 1966 through January 1969, Duff portrayed Detective Sergeant Sam Stone in the ABC police drama Felony Squad with costar Dennis Cole.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1977
63 Years Old
In 1977, he guest starred in the Rockford Files episode, There's One in Every Port; and in 1990, The Golden Girlss The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present.
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