Charles Durning
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Born | Charles Edward Durning February 28, 1923 Highland Falls, New York, U.S. |
Died | December 24, 2012 New York City, New York, U.S. | (aged 89)
Resting place | Arlington National Cemetery Arlington County, Virginia Section 66, Grave 127[1] 38°52′25″N 77°03′51″W / 38.8737°N 77.0641°W |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1945–2012 |
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Years of service | 1943–1946 |
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Awards | 9 awards, 2 badges, 1 button |
Charles Edward Durning (February 28, 1923 – December 24, 2012) was an American actor, with appearances in over 200 movies, television shows and plays.[3] Durning's best-known roles included The Sting (1973) and Dog Day Afternoon (1975), along with the comedies The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), Tootsie (1982), and To Be or Not to Be (1983).
Early life
Durning was born in Highland Falls, New York, the ninth of ten children. His three brothers and sister, James (Roger) (1915–2000), Clifford (1916–1994), Frances (born 1919) and Gerald (1926–2000), survived to adulthood but five sisters lost their lives to scarlet fever and smallpox as children.[1][4] He was the son of Louise (née Leonard; 1894–1982), a laundress at West Point, and James E. Durning (1883 – c. 1939).[2] His father was an Irish immigrant.[5][6] and his mother was also of Irish descent.[7] Durning was raised Catholic.[8][9]
In 1959, Durning married his first wife, Carole Doughty. They divorced in 1972. A Declaration of Separation was filed in 2010 from his second wife, Mary Ann (Amelio) Durning. He is survived by his three children from his first marriage.
Military service
Charles Durning served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was drafted at age 20 and discharged with the rank of Private First Class on January 30, 1946.[10]
Durning was known for participating in various functions to honor American veterans, including serving as Chairman of the U.S. National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans.[11] He was an honored guest speaker for 17 years at the National Memorial Day Concert televised by PBS every year on the Sunday evening of Memorial Day weekend.
Durning was paid a special tribute at the May 26, 2013 National Memorial Day Concert when Taps was sounded in his honor.
Military awards and decorations
For his valor and the wounds he received during the war, Durning was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart Medals.[12] Additional awards included the Army Good Conduct Medal, the American Campaign Medal and the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with one bronze service star, and the World War II Victory Medal[13] His badges included the Combat Infantryman Badge, Expert Badge with Rifle Bar, and Honorable Service Lapel Pin.[10]
Durning received the French National Order of the Legion of Honor from the French Consul in Los Angeles in April 2008.
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Acting career
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While pursuing an acting career, Durning, a professional ballroom dancer, taught at Fred Astaire Dance Studio in New York City.
Referred to as "the King of Character Actors", Durning began his career in 1951. While working as an usher in a burlesque joint, he was hired to replace a drunken actor on stage. Subsequently, he performed in roughly 50 stock company productions and in various off-Broadway plays, eventually attracting the attention of Joseph Papp, founder of The Public Theater and the New York Shakespeare Festival. Beginning in 1961, he appeared in 35 plays as part of the Shakespeare Festival. "That time in my life was my best time," Durning told Pittsburgh's Post Gazette in 2001. "I had no money at all, and he (Joseph Papp) didn't pay much. You were getting a salary for performance plus a rehearsal salary. We would do three plays in Central Park for the summer. And then you'd do three to six plays every year down on Lafayette Street -- new plays by new writers: Sam Shepard, David Mamet, David Rabe, John Ford Noonan, Jason Miller."
During this period, he segued into television and movies. He made his film debut in 1965, appearing in Harvey Middleman, Fireman. He appeared in John Frankenheimer's I Walk the Line (1970) starring Gregory Peck, and three Brian DePalma movies, Hi, Mom! (1970), credited as Charles Durnham, with Robert DeNiro, Sisters (1973) and The Fury (1978). He also appeared in Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972) with Barbara Hershey and John Lithgow.
Durning's performances in Broadway productions include Drat! The Cat! (1965), Pousse-Café (1966), The Happy Time (1968), Indians (1969), That Championship Season (1972), In the Boom Boom Room (1973), The au Pair Man (1973), Knock Knock (1976), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1990), Inherit the Wind (1996), The Gin Game (1997), and The Best Man (2000).
In 2002, he performed in the Tony Randall-produced Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht with Al Pacino. He played the role of Jack Jameson in Wendy Wasserstein's final play, Third (2005), with Dianne Wiest at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre.
Durning won the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for his powerful performance in The Westwood Playhouse's 1977 production of David Rabe's Streamers. In 1980, he won critical acclaim for his performance as Norman Thayer, Jr. in Los Angeles's Ahmanson Theater's production of On Golden Pond opposite Julie Harris.
In 1972, director George Roy Hill, impressed by Durning's performance in the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play That Championship Season, offered him a role in The Sting (1973). In the Best Picture-winner, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, Durning won distinction as the crooked cop, Lt. Wm. Snyder, who polices and hustles professional con artists. He doggedly pursues the young grifter, Johnny Hooker (Redford), only to become the griftee in the end. Other film credits include Dog Day Afternoon with Al Pacino; When A Stranger Calls; The Final Countdown; The Hindenburg; Twilight's Last Gleaming with Burt Lancaster; True Confessions with Robert DeNiro. Some television credits include The Connection; Queen of the Stardust Ballroom, the made-for-television musical in which he played the mailman who reaches out to Maureen Stapleton's lonely widow on the dance floor; Attica; PBS's Dancing Bear with Tyne Daly; the PBS production I Would Be Called John as Pope John XXIII; Hallmark Hall of Fame: Casey Stengel, in which Durning played the legendary baseball manager Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel; NBC's mini-series Studs Lonigan with Harry Hamlin and Colleen Dewhurst; The Best Little Girl in the World with Jennifer Jason Leigh. In 1976, he received both an Emmy and a Golden Globe nomination for his performance in the television mini-series Captains and the Kings.
In 1979, he played Doc Hopper, a man who owns a frog leg restaurant and the main antagonist in The Muppet Movie. In Tootsie, he played a suitor to Dustin Hoffman's cross-dressing lead character. The two actors worked together again in a 1985 TV production of Death of a Salesman.
In 1993, he guest starred in the Sean Penn-directed music video "Dance with the One That Brought You" by Shania Twain.
Other film roles include Henry Larson, the benevolent father of Holly Hunter's character in Home for the Holidays (1995) and Waring Hudsucker in The Hudsucker Proxy (1994). He worked with the Coen Brothers again playing "Pappy" O'Daniel, a cynical governor of Mississippi (a character loosely based on the Texas politician and showman W. Lee O'Daniel) in the Coen Brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000).
Prior to appearing in the Burt Reynolds's TV series, Evening Shade, as the town doctor Harlan Eldridge (1990-1994), Durning appeared with Reynolds in five films, beginning with 1979's Starting Over, followed by 1981's Sharky's Machine, 1982's Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, 1985's Stick and 1999's "Hostage Hotel."
On TV, Durning had a recurring role on Everybody Loves Raymond as the Barone family's long-suffering parish priest, Father Hubley. He also played the voice of recurring character Francis Griffin in the animated series Family Guy. He appeared on the FX television series Rescue Me, playing Mike Gavin, the retired firefighter father of Denis Leary's character.
In 2005, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for his portrayal of a Marine veteran in "Call of Silence," an episode in the television series NCIS, first broadcast November 23, 2004. Durning's character turns himself in to authorities, insisting that he must be prosecuted for having murdered his buddy during ferocious combat on Iwo Jima six decades earlier.[14] The real truth of the incident only becomes known for certain when the guilt-stricken veteran goes through a cathartic reliving of the battlefield events.
For his numerous roles on television, he earned nine Emmy Award nominations. He also received Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nominations for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas in 1982 and To Be or Not to Be in 1983. He won a Golden Globe in 1990 for his supporting role in the television miniseries The Kennedys of Massachusetts, having had three previous nominations. That same year, he won a Tony Award for his performance as Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He received two Drama Desk Awards for his performances in That Championship Season and Third.
In 1999, Durning was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame on Broadway. He was honored with the Life Achievement Award at the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Award Ceremony on January 27, 2008. On July 31, 2008 he was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame adjacent to one of his idols, James Cagney.
“There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don’t want anyone to know about,” he told Parade. “There’s terror and repulsion in us, the terrible spot that we don’t talk about. That place that no one knows about — horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.”
The Charles Durning Collection is held at the Academy Film Archive. Along with films he appeared in, his collection consists mainly of films he admired as well as a small collection of family home movies.[15]
Death
Durning died of natural causes at his home in Manhattan on December 24, 2012, aged 89[16][17] and was subsequently buried at Arlington National Cemetery.[18][19] On December 27, 2012, Broadway theaters dimmed their lights to honor him. The New York Times, which commented on Durning's more than 200 credited roles, referred to him and actor Jack Klugman, who died the same day, as "extraordinary actors ennobling the ordinary".[20] The Huffington Post compared the two men, calling them "character actor titans".[21]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1962 | The Password Is Courage | American GI | Uncredited |
1965 | Harvey Middleman, Fireman | Dooley | |
1969 | Stiletto | Cop | Uncredited |
1970 | I Walk the Line | Hunnicutt | |
Hi, Mom! | Superintendent | as Charles Durnham | |
1971 | The Pursuit of Happiness | 2nd Guard | |
1972 | Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues |
Murphy | |
Deadhead Miles | Red Ball Rider | ||
Doomsday Voyage | Jason's First Mate | ||
1973 | Sisters | Joseph Larch | |
The Sting | Lt. Wm. Snyder | ||
1974 | The Front Page | Murphy | |
1975 | Dog Day Afternoon | Det. Sgt. Eugene Moretti | National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture |
The Hindenburg | Capt. Pruss | ||
Breakheart Pass | O'Brien | ||
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom | Alvin "Al" Green | TV movie Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | |
1976 | Harry and Walter Go to New York | Rufus T. Crisp | |
1977 | The Choirboys | Spermwhale Whalen | |
Twilight's Last Gleaming | President David Stevens | ||
1978 | An Enemy of the People | Peter Stockmann | |
The Fury | Dr. Jim McKeever | ||
The Greek Tycoon | Michael Russell | ||
1979 | Starting Over | Michael Potter | |
North Dallas Forty | Coach Johnson | ||
When a Stranger Calls | John Clifford | ||
The Muppet Movie | Doc Hopper | Doc Hopper is a frog legs restaurant owner | |
Tilt | Harold 'The Whale' Remmens | ||
1980 | Die Laughing | Arnold | |
The Final Countdown | Senator Samuel Chapman | ||
Attica | Russell Oswald | TV movie Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | |
1981 | Crisis at Central High | Principal Jess Matthews | TV movie |
Dark Night of the Scarecrow | Otis P. Hazelrigg | TV movie | |
True Confessions | Jack Amsterdam | ||
Sharky's Machine | Friscoe | ||
1982 | The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas | Governor | Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
Tootsie | Leslie 'Les' Nichols | ||
1983 | Two of a Kind | Charlie | |
Scarface | Immigration Officer | Uncredited | |
To Be or Not to Be | Col. Erhardt | Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | |
1984 | Mass Appeal | Monsignor Thomas Burke | |
Hadley's Rebellion | Sam Crawford | ||
Mister Roberts | The Captain | ||
1985 | Stick | Chucky | |
The Man with One Red Shoe | Ross | ||
Stand Alone | Louis Thibadeau | ||
Death of a Salesman | Charley | TV movie Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | |
1986 | Where the River Runs Black | Father O'Reilly | |
Meatballs III: Summer Job | Pete | Uncredited | |
Solarbabies | The Warden | ||
Big Trouble | O'Mara | ||
Tough Guys | Deke Yablonski | ||
1987 | Happy New Year | Charl | |
The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains | Warden Hardy | TV movie Nominated—CableACE Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | |
The Rosary Murders | Father Ted Nabors | ||
1988 | Far North | Bertrum | |
A Tiger's Tale | Charlie Drumm | ||
Case Closed | Detective Les | ||
Cop | Dutch Peltz | ||
1989 | Étoile | Uncle Joshua | |
Brenda Starr | Editor Francis I. Livright | ||
Cat Chaser | Jiggs Scully | ||
Dinner at Eight | Dan Packard | TV movie | |
1990 | Fatal Sky | Colonel Clancy | |
Dick Tracy | Chief Brandon | ||
1991 | V.I. Warshawski | Det. Lt. Bobby Mallory | |
1993 | When A Stranger Calls Back | John Clifford | |
The Music of Chance | Bill Flower | ||
1994 | The Hudsucker Proxy | Waring Hudsucker | |
I.Q. | Louis Bamberger | ||
1995 | The Last Supper | Reverend Gerald Hutchens | |
The Grass Harp | Reverend Buster | ||
Home for the Holidays | Henry Larson | ||
1996 | Spy Hard | The Director | |
Recon | — | ||
Mrs. Santa Claus | Santa Claus | ||
One Fine Day | Lew | ||
The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists |
Archie the Archelon | ||
1997 | The Secret Life of Algernon | Norbie Hess | |
1998 | Jerry and Tom | Vic | |
Shelter | Capt. Robert Landis | ||
Hi-Life | Fatty | ||
Hard Time | Detective Charlie Duffy | ||
2000 | Never Look Back | — | |
Lakeboat | Skippy | ||
O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Pappy O'Daniel | ||
The Last Producer | Syd Wolf | ||
Very Mean Men | Paddy Mulroney | ||
State and Main | Mayor George Bailey | Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cast National Board of Review Award for Best Cast Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast | |
2001 | Turn of Faith | Philly Russo | |
L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve | Stuart Steele | ||
2002 | The Last Man Club | John 'Eagle Eye' Pennell | |
Pride & Loyalty | Dylan Frier | ||
Mother Ghost | George | ||
Mr. St. Nick | King Nicholas XX | ||
2003 | Dead Canaries | Jimmy Kerrigan | |
One Last Ride | Mr. Orlick | ||
2004 | Death and Texas | Marshall Ledger | |
A Boyfriend for Christmas | Santa Claus | ||
2005 | Resurrection: The J.R. Richard Story | Frank McNally | |
River's End | Murray Blythe | ||
Dirty Deeds | Victor Rasdale | ||
The L.A. Riot Spectacular | The Lawyer | ||
Miracle Dogs Too | Captain Pete | ||
2006 | Forget About It | Eddie O'Brien | |
Local Color | Yammi | ||
Jesus, Mary and Joey | Teddy the Bartender | ||
Unbeatable Harold | Harold's Father | ||
Descansos | Innkeeper #2 | ||
The Naked Run | Congressman Davenport | ||
2007 | Chronicle of Purgatory: The Waiter | Frank 'The Handler' Maro | |
Polycarp | Alexander Hathaway | aka Kinky Killers | |
2008 | Deal | Charlie Adler | |
Good Dick | Charlie | ||
The Golden Boys | John Bartlett | ||
The Drum Beats Twice | Satan | ||
iMurders | Dr. Seamus St. Martin | ||
2009 | A Bunch of Amateurs | Charlie Rosenberg | |
Shannon's Rainbow | Floyd |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1972 | Another World | Gil McGowan (#1) | Unknown episodes |
1973 | All in the Family | Detective | Episode: "Gloria the Victim" |
1975–1976 | The Cop and The Kid | Officer Frank Murphy | 13 episodes |
1975 | Barnaby Jones | Don Corcoran | Episode: "The Deadly Conspiracy: Part 2" |
1976 | Captains and the Kings | Ed Healey | 3 episodes Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie |
1981 | Great Performances | McMahon | Episode: "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories" |
1982 | American Playhouse | Retired Man | Episode: "Working" |
1985 | Amazing Stories | Assistant to the Boss | Episode: "Guilt Trip" |
1985 | Tall Tales & Legends | Uncle Doffue | Episode: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
1986 | Amazing Stories | Earl | Episode: "You Gotta Believe Me" |
1990–1994 | Evening Shade | Dr. Harlan Elldridge | 98 episodes Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (1991–92) |
1990 | The Kennedys of Massachusetts | John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald | 3 episodes |
1997 | Orleans | Frank Vitelli | 3 episodes |
1997 | Early Edition | Psychiatrist | Episode: "A Regular Joe" |
1998 | Homicide: Life on the Street | Thomas Finnegan | Episode: "Finnegan's Wake" Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series |
1998 | Cybil | A.J. Sheridan | 2 episodes |
1998–2002 | Everybody Loves Raymond | Father Hubley | 6 episodes |
1998–2000 | The Practice | Stephen Donnell | 2 episodes |
1999–2009 | Family Guy | Francis Griffin | 5 episodes |
1999–2000 | Now and Again | Narrator | 20 episodes |
2000 | The Hoop Life | Wes Connelly | Episode: "The Second Chance" |
2000 | Early Edition | Judge Steven Romick | Episode: "Time" |
2001 | Arli$$ | — | Episode: "Fielding Offers" |
2001 | Citizen Baines | Clifford Connelly | Episode: "Three Days in November" |
2002 | First Monday | Justice Henry Hoskins | 13 episodes |
2003 | Touched by an Angel | Father Madden | Episode: "The Root of All Evil" |
2004–2011 | Rescue Me | Michael Gavin | 27 episodes Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series |
2004 | NCIS | Corporal Ernie Yost | Episode: "Call of Silence" Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series |
2006 | Everwood | Eugene Brown | 2 episodes |
2007 | Monk | Hank Johansen | Episode: "Mr. Monk Goes to the Hospital" |
2010 | No Clean Break | The Wise Man | Unsold TV pilot |
Narrations
- Normandy: The Great Crusade Discovery Channel Director-Christopher Koch - English (1994)
References
- ^ a b c Thomas, Bob (December 24, 2012). "Charles Durning Obituary". Los Angeles: AP via Legacy.com. Retrieved December 26, 2012.
- ^ a b Cf. a Ancestry.com family tree search. The New York Times obituary, published December 26, 2012, writes that Charles' father died when he was 16, placing his death between Feb 28, 1939 to Feb 27, 1940. A more exact reference is needed.
- ^ Schudel, Matt (December 26, 2012) "In real life and on the screen, he played countless roles" The Washington Post, p. B4
- ^ Biography for Charles Durning at IMDb
- ^ CHARLES DURNING; Healing the Wounds of Normandy
- ^ "Sullivan County Democrat: Obituaries for November 7, 2000". Sc-democrat.com. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
- ^ The mother book: a compendium of trivia & grandeur concerning mothers ... - Liz Smith - Google Books. Books.google.ca. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
- ^ "Los Angeles Times: Archives - NO BLEEPS FOR DURNING'S ROLE". Pqasb.pqarchiver.com. March 2, 1981. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
- ^ Michaelson, Judith (September 15, 1987). "Durning Takes On The 'Peasant Pope' For Pbs - Los Angeles Times". Articles.latimes.com. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
- ^ a b National Personnel Records Center (April 18, 2008). "Letter from NPRC to Charles Durning" (Press release). St. Louis, MO. p. 2.
- ^ VA Voluntary Service – National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans
- ^ Staff Sgt. Jon Cupp, MND-B PAO, "Military urban legends versus true tales: real life stories prove more interesting", www.Army.mil, retrieved 16-Sep-2011
- ^ "Speech by Consul General of France Philippe Larrieu". Los Angeles: French Diplomatic Mission to the United States. April 22, 2008. Archived from the original on May 6, 2008. Retrieved December 26, 2012.
- ^ O'Hare, Kate. 'NCIS' Has Durning Hearing Echoes of War. tv.zap2it.com.
- ^ "Charles Durning Collection". Academy Film Archive.
- ^ "Charles Durning". The Daily Telegraph. London. December 26, 2012.
- ^ "Charles Durning, Oscar-nominated king of the character actors, dies at 89 in NYC". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 25, 2012.
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- ^ "Charles Durning (1923 - 2012) - Find A Grave Memorial". Findagrave.com. Retrieved June 23, 2014.
- ^ Genzlinger, Neil (December 26, 2012). "AN APPRAISAL; Remembering Jack Klugman and Charles Durning". The New York Times. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
- ^ "Charles Durning, Jack Klugman Deaths Bring New Appreciation For Character Actor Titans". The Huffington Post. December 25, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
External links
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- Charles Durning at IMDb
- Charles Durning at the Internet Broadway Database
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- Location of Charles Durning's grave at Find A Grave
- McCaslin, John, TownHall.com (cached) "Stars by example" at the Wayback Machine (archived December 31, 2006)
- Hayes, Richard L., Osprey Publishing. "Hollywood Stars at D-Day"
- Soldiers Online – Army.mil. "Concert on Memorial Day"
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