Norwich Duff

Norwich Duff is an actor who played a Rebel officer in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.

Duff's career began in TV with a guest appearance in a 1976 episode of science-fiction TV series Space: 1999. He also appeared other series like Second Veredict and, in 1977, Secret Army.

After that, he made a second guest appeared in a different TV series, Lillie, on 1978. This was a series where many Star Wars actors made guest appearances, being among them Garrick Hagon, William Hootkins, Richard LeParmentier and Michael Sheard.

On that same year, Duff also made his first, though brief, appearance in a movie for cinema: Richard Donner's Superman, another movie usual in Star Wars users curricula. He was credited as Norwick Duff, but he is easily recognized as the newscaster.

He finished the 1970s with a TV movie, Charlie Muffin (1979).

Then, Duff appeared in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back in the role of one of the Rebel officers. The Star Wars Customizable Card Game provided a name for his character, Trey Callum. However, Duff is only credited as "Rebel officer" alongside Norman Chancer, Ray Hasset, Brigitte Kahn and Burnell Tucker.

Duff would not return to the Star Wars saga for further installments (Apparently, Callum died during the first stages of the Battle of Hoth). Instead, he went to act as a guest actor in series (The Littlest Hobo on 1981 and twice on Street Legal on 1988 and 1991 as a different character each time), TV movies (Tony Wharmby's The Seven Dials Mystery, 1982), mainstream movies (Roger Vadim's The Hot Touch, 1982) and mini-series (Evergreen, 1985, with Armand Assante). He managed to get a slight appearance on 1988 as a paramedic for Kenneth Johnson's sequel Short Circuit 2.

He got a guest apparance on TV series My Secret Identity on 1991, and then acted as a teacher on the movie On My Own (1992).

His last known role was as McClinton on Sandor Stern's TV movie Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story, adaptation of Bembenek's book.