
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, July 10, 1990                   TAG: 9007100478
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
DATELINE: HOLLYWOOD                                LENGTH: Short

ACTOR HOWARD DUFF DIES OF HEART ATTACK

Howard Duff - whose resonant, cynical growl was the radio voice of detec- Duff tive Sam Spade in the 1940s and whose virile, well-traveled features became known later to two generations of filmgoers and TV viewers - died Monday.

Duff, recently on television as Sheriff Titus Semple on "Flamingo Road" and Sen. Henry Harrison O'Dell on "Dallas," was stricken late Sunday at his Santa Barbara, Calif., home. He was taken to St. Francis Hospital and pronounced dead there. He was believed to be 76.

With former wife Ida Lupino, Duff became a favorite on the Hollywood scene, appearing opposite her in a short-lived TV situation comedy series in 1956-57 titled "Mr. Adams and Eve."

His nearly two-dozen movies included "Kramer vs. Kramer," "The Naked City," "The Late Show," "While the City Sleeps" and "A Wedding."

And he was a frequent guest on such TV shows as "The Golden Girls," "Midnight Caller" and "Knot's Landing."

by CNB