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Occupation
  
Film producer

Name
  
Warren Duff

Role
  
Film writer


Born
  
May 17, 1904 (
1904-05-17
)
United States

Died
  
August 5, 1973, Los Angeles, California, United States

Nominations
  
Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay

Movies
  
Angels with Dirty Faces, Out of the Past, Experiment Perilous, Each Dawn I Die, Chicago Deadline

Similar People
  
Sol Polito, Daniel Mainwaring, Samuel Bischoff, Pat O'Brien, Roy Webb

Warren Duff (May 17, 1904 – August 5, 1973) was a film and television writer and producer.

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As a writer, Duff wrote for films including, Fashions of 1934, Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Experiment Perilous (1944), Step Lively (1944), Chicago Deadline (1949) and Appointment with Danger (1951).

He worked on television programs including The Rogues (1965), The Invaders, (1967) and Mannix (1967).

Duff, the producer of the film noir classic Out of the Past (1947), was once an actor and director on the New York City stage before turning to screenwriting when he entered the film business in 1931.

Accolades

Nomination

  • Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Edgar, Best Motion Picture, for Chicago Deadline (1949); shared with: Tiffany Thayer; 1950.
  • Selected filmography

  • Stage Struck (1936)
  • The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)
  • References

    Warren B. Duff Wikipedia