Biography
An actor and director on the New York stage, Warren B. Duff turned to screenwriting when he entered films in 1931. Long entrenched at Warner Bros., Duff wrote or co-wrote screenplays for such contractees as
Dick Powell,
Bette Davis and
Warren William; he also contributed extensively to the output of
James Cagney, working on the scripts of Cagney's
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938),
Each Dawn I Die (1939) and
The Oklahoma Kid (1939). He worked at Paramount from 1940 through 1943, then moved next door to RKO, where he became the producer of such films as
Experiment Perilous (1944),
Lady Luck (1946) and
Out of the Past (1947). Active into the TV era, Warren B. Duff was co-producer of the 1959
Ray Milland detective series
Markham. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide