HOWARD DUFF BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
 
Howard Duff was born on November 24th, 1913 in Bremerton, Washington with the middle name Green.  He attended Roosevelt High School and excelled in basketball.  He also first developed an interest in acting while in high school and would participate in a number of school plays.  After high school, he went on to study drama and then took a brief break from pursuing a career in the industry to serve his country joining the Army.   
 
After completing his military service, he first became involved in the entertainment industry working on the radio on the show, "Sam Spade" (1946-1950).  Soon he began adding to his resume stage, film and television roles.
 
His career lasted over four decades and began with working on a number of Universal Pictures films such as, "Brute Force" (1947).  He soon began also making television appearances on such series as, "The Naked City" (1947) and "All My Sons" (1948).
 
He began to add to his resume a decent number of successful films, majority of them being westerns.  Some of his film credits included, "Red Canyon" (1949), "Spy Hunt" (1950), "Woman in Hiding" (1950), "The Lady from Texas" (1951), "Spaceways" (1953), "Tanganyika" (1954), "The Yellow Mountain" (1954), "Blackjack Ketchum Desperado" (1956), "The Broken Star" (1956) and "Sierra Stranger" (1957).
 
As his career progressed, he did not slow down and continued to work in the film industry taking on more successful roles in films such as, 'Women's Prison" (1955), "Flame of the Islands" (1956) and "While the City Sleeps" (1956). 
 
When film roles began to become less available to him, he turned his focus on television acting working on such series as, "Lux Video Theatre", "Mr. Adams and Eve", "Felony Squad", "Bonanza", "Twilight Zone", "Burke's Law", "Combat!", "Simon & Simon", "Island Sons", "Knots Landing", "Midnight Caller", "The Golden Girls" and his final role was in 1990 in the film, "Too Much Son".
 
Howard Duff married twice, first to actress and director, Ida Lupino in 1966 and after a fifteen year highly publicized marriage and one child, they separated and were officially divorced by 1984.  He then married his second wife, Judy Jenkinson and they remained married until he passed away at the age of seventy six from a heart attack on July 8th, 1990 in Santa Barbara, California.  

Filmography

1990   Too Much Sun

1990   The Golden Girls 

1990   Midnight Caller 

1984-1990  Knots Landing 

1989   Settle the Score

1989   The Ed Begley Jr. Show 

1989   Island Son

1988   Simon & Simon 

1988   War and Remembrance 

1988   Magnum, P.I. 

1988   Dallas 

1987   Werewolf 

1987   No Way Out 

1985-1987  Scarecrow and Mrs. King 

1987   Roses Are for the Rich

1986   Monster in the Closet 

1985   Love on the Run 

1984-1985  Hotel 

1985   Detective in the House 

1984   Murder, She Wrote 

1983   This Girl for Hire 

1983   St. Elsewhere 

1982   The Love Boat 

1982   The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch 

1980-1982  Flamingo Road

1981   East of Eden 

1980   Oh, God! Book II 

1980   The Dream Merchants

1980   Charlie's Angels

1980   Valentine Magic on Love Island 

1979-1980  Young Maverick

1980   Double Negative

1979   Kramer vs. Kramer 

1979   Lou Grant 

1978   Battered 

1978   A Wedding 

1978   Ski Lift to Death 

1978   Actor 

1978   The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries

1978   Fantasy Island 

1978   Switch

1977   Lanigan's Rabbi 

1973-1977  Police Story 

1977   In the Glitter Palace

1977   The Late Show 

1977   The Rockford Files 

1976   The Streets of San Francisco 

1976   The Quest

1976   Ellery Queen 

1976   Matt Helm

1975   Marcus Welby, M.D. 

1975   Medical Story 

1974   McMillan & Wife 

1974   Kung Fu 

1973   Shaft 

1973   Faraday and Company 

1973   Mannix 

1973   Search 

1973   Mod Squad 

1973   Snatched 

1972   The Heist 

1972   Medical Center 

1972   Rod Serling's Night Gallery 

1971   Alias Smith and Jones 

1971   A Little Game

1971   In Search of America

1963-1971  The Virginian 

1970   The Name of the Game 

1970   The Immortal 

1969   D.A.: Murder One 

1969   The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

1967-1969  Insight

1969   Judd for the Defense 

1966-1969  Felony Squad 

1968   Panic in the City 

1966-1968  Batman

1966   I Spy

1965   Mr. Novak 

1965   The Rogues 

1964   Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

1963-1964  Burke's Law

1964   The Eleventh Hour

1964   Calhoun: County Agent 

1963   Arrest and Trial

1963   Sam Benedict 

1962   The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962   War Gods of Babylon

1962   Combat!

1962   Boys' Night Out

1962   Bus Stop

1960-1961  Dante

1960   Twilight Zone 

1959   Alcoa Theatre 

1959   Bonanza 

1959   The George Burns Show

1958   Teenage Idol

1957-1958  Mr. Adams and Eve

1957   Sierra Stranger

1956   Studio 57

1955-1956  Climax! 

1956   Chevron Hall of Stars 

1956   Celebrity Playhouse 

1956   While the City Sleeps 

1953-1956  The Ford Television Theatre 

1956   The Broken Star 

1956   Blackjack Ketchum, Desperado 

1956   Lux Video Theatre 

1956   Front Row Center 

1955-1956  The Star and the Story 

1956   Crossroads 

1956   Flame of the Islands

1955   Science Fiction Theatre

1955   Women's Prison 

1954   Schlitz Playhouse 

1954   The Yellow Mountain 

1954   The Whistler

1954   Private Hell 36

1954   Tanganyika 

1953   Jennifer 

1953   Spaceways 

1953   Roar of the Crowd 

1952   Models Inc. 

1952   Steel Town

1951   The Lady from Texas 

1950   Shakedown

1950   Spy Hunt

1950   Woman in Hiding

1949   Johnny Stool Pigeon 

1949   Calamity Jane and Sam Bass

1949   Illegal Entry

1949   Red Canyon

1949   The Life of Riley 

1948   All My Sons 

1948   The Naked City 

1947   Brute Force