FrameThrower · Actors · Howard Duff
Howard Duff
2 films · 99 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1948–1987
Born 24 November 1913 · died 8 July 1990
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 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.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 99 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1948–1987
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 99 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Howard takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 55% of their frames are day, 45% natural — the look of the work Howard takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 99 frames from Howard Duff's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.