Doubtfully blacklisted: Howard Duff



If you have to be blacklisted, be blacklisted like Howard Duff. Basically, during his blacklisting, he was never out of work.  In 1950, Red Channel’s accused Duff of being an active member of the Hollywood Communist party. From 1950 through 1959, he made 18 films and one television film and 18 television shows. Between 1946 and 1949, he made eight films and was uncredited in one of them. In the entire decade of the 1960s, he made three films, had voice-over work in a fourth and made two TV movies.  The 1950s, when he was supposed to have been blacklisted, were actually the highlight of his career.




1950
Woman in Hiding
Panther's Moon
Shakedown
Spy Hunt
The adventures of Sam Spade (Radio program)
Screen Guile Theater (Radio program)
The Ed Wynn Show (TV Series)


1951
The Lady from Texas
Charlie Wild, Private Detective (TV Series)

1952
Steel Town
Models Inc.

1953
Roar of the Crowd
Spaceways
Jennifer
The Ford Television Theatre (TV Series)
The Whistler (TV Series)


1954
Tanganyika
Private Hell 36
The Yellow Mountain
Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series)
The Ed Sullivan Show  (TV)
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Stars on Parade (Documentary short)


1955
Women's Prison
Climax! (TV Series)
Celebrity Playhouse (TV Series)
Lux Video Theatre (TV Series)
The Star and the Story (TV Series)

1956
Flame of the Islands
Blackjack Ketchum, Desperado
While the City Sleeps
The Broken Star
Studio 57 (TV Series)
Chevron Hall of Stars (TV Series)
Crossroads (TV Series)
Science Fiction Theatre (TV Series)
I love mystery. Unsold TV plot
Climax! (TV Series)

1957
Sierra Stranger
1957-1958 Mr. Adams and Eve (TV Series)
Target (TV Series)
The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series)
I've Got a Secret (TV Series)


1958
Teenage Idol (TV movie)
Teenage Idol (Producer credit)
Mr. Adams and Eve (TV series, producer credit)
The Linkletter Show (TV Series)
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (TV Series)

1959
 The Twilight Zone (TV Series)
Alcoa Theatre (TV Series)
Bonanza (TV Series)
The George Burns Show (TV Series)
The Juke Box Jury (TV Series)
The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (TV Series)
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (TV Series)