Biography for
Tyler MacDuff More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

12 September 1925, Hollywood, California, USA

Date of Death

23 December 2007, Pasadena, California, USA (heart failure)

Birth Name

Tyler Glenn Duff Jr.

Spouse

Beverlie Mae Anderson

(1953 - 1961) (divorced) 3 children

Trivia

Father of film producers Dana MacDuff and Brandon MacDuff.

Added "Mac" to his name so he wouldn't be confused with Howard Duff.

The only person to say both "Who was that masked man?" and "That was the Lone Ranger!"

Joined the U.S. Navy in 1943, and drove an LCVP Landing Craft in the first wave of the invasion of Saipan and Guam, 1944, and was with Gen. Douglas MacArthur when he "returned" to the Phillipines in 1945.

Graduated from the famed Pasadena Playhouse in 1952.

Named his son Dana MacDuff after Dana Andrews, with whom he did theater at the Pasadena Playhouse.

He was the dialog director for "Perry Mason" (1957) and "Ironside" (1967).

Personal Quotes

Actors are like oysters...open for all the world to see,and all our nerves exposed, and then someone comes along and sticks a fork in us...

Where Are They Now

(September 2005) Park Marino Rest Home Pasadena, California