Howard Duff

Howard Duff

Date of Birth: 24 Nov 1913

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 49 (Actor)

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    Kramer vs. Kramer
    A just divorced man must learn to care for his son on his own, and then must fight in court to keep custody of him. (imdb)
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    No Way Out
    A coverup and witchhunt occur after a politician accidentally kills his mistress. (imdb)
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    While the City Sleeps
    Death of media magnat Amos Kyne is causing power struggle between his executives. In the meantime New York women become prey of a serial killer... (imdb)
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    A Wedding
    Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony... (imdb)
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    Monster in the Closet
    Monster is a spoof of horror/monster films. 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.S. Army and mass panic. (imdb)
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    The Naked City
    Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, attractive blonde model, is murdered in her apartment and homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty characters who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie... The climax is a very rapid manhunt sequence. All filmed on location. (imdb)
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    The Late Show
    Art Carney is the aging gumshoe helped (or hindered) by ditzy sidekick Lily Tomlin in pursuing a former partner's killer. (MoviesUnlimited.com)
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    The Yellow Mountain
    A formula brawling-buddies western where one goes bad and then returns to the fold. Pete Menlo (Howard Duff) owns some gold claims in Nevada where he is joined by his old friend Andy Martin (Lex Barker.) Crooked mine-owner Bannon (John McIntire) wants to merge their interests so they can create a monoply but is turned down. Pete is interested in "Nevada" Wray (Mala Powers), daughter of mine-owner "Jackpot" Wray (William Demarest), but she has eyes only for Andy... (imdb)
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    Tanganyika
    In 1903 Kenya, tough colonist John Gale is leading a safari to bring in escaped murderer Abel McCracken, who is stirring up the Nukumbi tribe and endangering Gale's holdings. En route, he picks up four survivors of Nukumbi raids: hunter Dan Harder, former teacher Peggy, and two kids. But Dan has hidden motives for coming along; and the Nukumbi are lying in wait. (imdb)
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    Private Hell 36
    Two detectives are investigating a robbery in which $300,000 was taken. Their investigation leads them to the main player and they find the cash, but one of them has meanwhile fallen hard for a woman with expensive tastes, and though he desperately wants to keep her, he knows that a cop's salary isn't going to be enough for her. (imdb)
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    Spaceways
    A small group of closely-guarded British scientists test their first rocket amidst indications of matrimonial strife in the community. After the partial failure of the firing, a couple go missing - have they gone off together or are their murdered bodies circling the earth in the remains of the rocket? (imdb)
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    All My Sons
    A veteran discovers his father cut costs on wartime military equipment. (TCM.com)
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    Boys\
    Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male. (imdb)
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    Woman in Hiding
    Deborah Chandler's rejected suitor, Selden Clark, manages the factory of her father, who dies: did he fall or was he pushed? But charming Clark manages to win her over and marry her. On the honeymoon, Clark's former girl Patricia intervenes and opens Deborah's eyes, alas too late. Now Clark tries to kill Deborah. Believed dead by all but Clark, she flees. But drifter Keith Ramsey recognizes and follows her. Can she trust him? Can he believe her? (imdb)
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    Women\
    A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison. (TCM.com)
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    Johnny Stool Pigeon
    Johnny Evans is an imprisoned crook whose wife died as a result of a vicious narcotics ring. Federal agent Howard Duff works out a deal with Evans, who agrees to help the agent infiltrate the gang. After making connections up and down the West Coast, the gang is brought to heel by the combined efforts of Evans, the agent, and a reformed gun moll. (allmovie.com)
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    Panic in the City
    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. (imdb)
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    Double Negative
    A photographer is now in a mental institution because after he got back from a dangerous assignment in the Middle East he found his wife raped and murdered. His mistress manages to get him released and then asks a private detective to keep an eye on him in case he flips out again. Trouble brews when the dead wife's lover, who knows the truth about how she died, wants some remuneration for his silence. (All Movie Guide)
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    Shakedown
    His camera Was More Deadly Than A Gangster's Gun! (imdb)
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    Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
    How good luck with women and horses pushes Sam Bass toward outlawry. (imdb)
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    Illegal Entry
    A former pilot goes undercover to help break up a smuggling ring. (imdb)
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    Jennifer
    Agnes Langsley gets a job, through Jim Hollis, as caretaker of an old and vacated estate. The owner's cousin, Jennifer, was the last occupant and mysteriously disappeared. Agnes soon begins to believe that Jennifer was murdered and that Jilm, whom she has fallen in love with, is responsible. (imdb)
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    Too Much Sun
    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. (imdb)
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    The Broken Star
    A deputy marshal is ordered to investigate the killing of a Mexican ranch hand by a fellow deputy, who claims self-defense. Using turn of the century forensic science and dogged determination, the deputy breaks down his partner's alibi and discovers that the lawman had killed the rancher for eight thousand dollars in gold that had been hidden in the Mexican's home. Now he must arrest his friend before the Mexican's gunslinging friends can kill him before he's tried for the crime. (imdb)
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    Blackjack Ketchum, Desperado
    While doing a good deed, the title hero has to shoot a man in self defense, and go into hiding. His peace is interrupted when a cattle baron rides into his territory, and decides to settle there. When no locals want to sell, Jared Tetlow turns to murdering the locals with his hired gun Dee Havalik, and starting a range war. Blackjack finds he has to kill the Tetlow gang off one by one, to restore peace in this movie sharing nothing in common with its real-name historical outlaw. (imdb)
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    Flame of the Islands
    The story of a café singer who buys a gambling casino and the men who fall in love with her. (imdb)
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    The Dream Merchants
    Fictionalized behind-the-scenes machinations of early Hollywood movie-making. (imdb)
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    In Search of America
    A college dropout convinces his family to re-examine its goals and gets them to leave it all for a cross-country odyssey in a 1928 Greyhound bus. (imdb)
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    The Lady from Texas
    An eccentric Civil War widow is accused of being insane. (imdb)
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    A Little Game
    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. (imdb)
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    Models, Inc.
    A young woman gets involved in a racket in which beautiful young models marry for money. (imdb)
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    Snatched
    Snatched (1973) - TV Movie
    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.
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    Know Your Enemy - Japan
    An American wartime propaganda film about the history of Japan from the 16th century to the 1930's.
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    Ski Lift to Death
    A sports promoter tries to match-make 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 hit-man sent to kill him.
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    The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
    During the latter stages of the Civil War, the men in a Southern town leave to fight. Which leaves only the women to take care of the town, which won't be easy since half of the women are the wives of the men who left and the other half are the prostitutes whom the men see on the side. Now the madam has brought her recently graduated niece to town to take care of things.
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    Sierra Stranger
    After pennyless miner Jess Collins saves Sonny Grover from two men he calls claim jumpers, he heads fo the town of Colton. There Grover's brother grub stakes him and he waits for his claim to be recorded. But except for the brother he finds everyone against him including the two alleged claim jumpers who now say he is the partner of the claim jumper Sonny. Eventually he learns everyone except the brother knows Sonny was no good and he finds himself on the wrong side. (imdb)
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    Roar of the Crowd
    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. He persuades her to marry him on the promise that he will quit after racing once in the Indaanapolis 500. (imdb)
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    Red Canyon
    A young girl set out to tame a wild horse so she can enter him in a race. (imdb)
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    Spy Hunt
    Roger Quain, who escorts two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, agrees to help a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, by hiding a microfilm in the collar of one of the animals. But, while in the Swiss Alps, the train is derailed, the panthers escape and three enemy agents hunt down the animals, Catherine and Roger. Will they escape them? (imdb)
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    Le sette folgori di Assur
    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 peasant girl Mirra. Meanwhile, the treacherous and ruthlessly ambitious General Arbace plots against both siblings. (imdb)
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    The Twilight Zone
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    The Felony Squad
    Twenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western metropolis. The tough as nails desk Sergeant is the father of young Briggs, and helps the force deal with tribulations and the unexpected that come with being on the police force.
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    Combat!
    Combat! (1962) - TV Series
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    The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
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    Bonanza
    Bonanza (1959) - TV Series
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    Police Story
    Police Story (1973) - TV Series
    Classic anthology series that details the personal lives of the men and women of the Los Angeles Police Department. The stories ranged from highly dramatic to extremely funny. There were no real regulars, but Don Meredith and Tony LoBianco were often seen throughout the show's run as Detectives Bert Jameson and Tony Calabrese.
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    Brute Force
    At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and leading prisoners, the least contented prisoner is tough, single-minded Joe Collins. Most of all, Joe hates chief guard Captain Munsey, a petty dictator who glories in absolute power. After one infraction too many, Joe and his cell-mates are put on the dreaded drain pipe detail; prompting an escape scheme that has every chance of turning into a bloodbath. (imdb)
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    Kung Fu
    Kung Fu (1972) - TV Series
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    Steel Town
    Steve Kostain (Lund), nephew of the owner, begins working at a steel mill to learn the business from the bottom up. He rooms with a steel working family, the McNamaras, and falls for the daughter, "Red" (Sheridan), who is already involved with another steelworker, Jim (Duff.) Although he is at first has a hard time with his co-workers, he eventually wins them over, and also wins the girl.
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