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Plus, he has appeared in the role of "Santa Claus" in five different television movies. On par with his multitude of feature film roles, Durning has always been in high demand on television and has guest starred in Everybody Loves Raymond (1996), Monk (2002) and Rescue Me (2004).
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Harlan Elldridge" in the highly popular TV series Evening Shade (1990). Durning continued a regular on screen association with Burt Reynolds appearing in several more feature films together and as "Dr.
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The versatile Durning is equally adept at comedic roles and demonstrated his skills as "Doc Hopper" in The Muppet Movie (1979), a feisty football coach in North Dallas Forty (1979), a highly strung police officer berating maverick cop Burt Reynolds in Sharky's Machine (1981), and a light footed, dancing Governor (alongside Burt Reynolds once more) in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982). Durning was equally entertaining in the Billy Wilder production of The Front Page (1974), he supported screen tough guy Charles Bronson in the suspenseful western Breakheart Pass (1975) and featured as "Spermwhale Whalen" in the story of unorthodox police behavior in The Choirboys (1977). Snyder" hassling street grifter 'Robert Redford' in the multi award winning mega-hit The Sting (1973).
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He scored minor roles over the next decade until he really got noticed by film fans as the sneering, corrupt cop "Lt. Kino Lorber are preparing 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray releases of Ted Kotcheffs North Dallas Forty (1979), starring Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Charles Durning, Dayle.
The stockily built Charles Durning is one of Hollywood's most dependable and sought after supporting actors who first got his start in guest appearances in early 1960's TV shows. In addition to three Purple Heart medals for his wounds, Durning was presented the Silver Star for valor.WWII veteran, dance instructor and diversely talented stage & screen actor are all inclusions on the resume of this perpetually busy US actor who didn't get in front of the cameras until around the time of his fortieth birthday. A few days later he was shot in the hip - he said he carried the bullet in his body thereafter - and after six months of recovery was sent to the Battle of the Bulge.ĭurning, who was wounded twice more, was captured and was one of the few survivors of the Malmedy massacre when German troops opened fire on dozens of American prisoners. force that landed at Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion in June 1944. He had nine siblings and five of his sisters died of smallpox or scarlet fever - three within a two-week period.ĭurning was part of the U.S. He said I couldn’t do anything else but act.”ĭurning grew up in Highland Falls, New York, and was 12 years old when his Irish-born father died of the effects of mustard gas exposure in World War One. “Joe said to me once, ‘If you hadn’t been an actor, you would have been a murderer,’” Durning told the Times. He gained his first substantial acting experience through the New York Shakespeare Festival starting in the early 1960s and won a Tony Award for playing Big Daddy in a 1990 Broadway revival of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”ĭurning did not start amassing film and TV credits until he was almost 40 but went on to appear in more than 100 movies, in addition to scores of TV shows.ĭurning’s first national exposure came playing a crooked policeman who gets conned by Robert Redford in the 1973 movie “The Sting.” He got the role after impressing director George Roy Hill with his work in the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning Broadway play “That Championship Season.” Campbell Funeral Chapel in Manhattan confirmed Durning’s death to Reuters.ĭurning also was an accomplished stage actor and once said he preferred doing plays because of the immediacy they offered. REUTERS/Phil McCartenĭurning, who was nominated for nine Emmys for his television work as well as two Academy Awards, died of natural causes at his New York City home on Monday, his agent told People magazine. Actor Charles Durning is interviewed at a ceremony where he receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood July 31, 2008.
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