[KeyLargo]

And another great actor.

Durning, king of character actors, dies in NYC

Dec 25, 5:39 AM (ET)

By BOB THOMAS

(AP) In this Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008 file photo, in Los Angeles file photo, actor Charles Durning...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Charles Durning grew up in poverty, lost five of his nine siblings to disease, barely lived through D-Day and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge.

His hard life and wartime trauma provided the basis for a prolific 50-year career as a consummate Oscar-nominated character actor, playing everyone from a Nazi colonel to the pope to Dustin Hoffman’s would-be suitor in “Tootsie.”

Durning, who died Monday at age 89 in New York, got his start as an usher at a burlesque theater in Buffalo, N.Y. When one of the comedians showed up too drunk to go on, Durning took his place. He would recall years later that he was hooked as soon as heard the audience laughing.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20121225/DA3CO4LO3.html

[ScottinVA]

Jack Klugman ... RIP
Oscar lives forever...

[oh8eleven]

Jack Klugman, one of television's most-loved actors ...
Have tried to watch The Odd Couple re-runs on MeTV, but after seeing a few they're pretty much all the same and a little boring.
But back in the day, it was one of my favorite shows and I'd rather watch every episode over and over again instead of the absolute trash that today's television has become.

[Le Chien Rouge]

WPIX in NYC ran Star Trek ,I Dream Of Jeanie,and The Odd Couple all in a row in the 70’s and it was required viewing for myself along with my friends while growing up in the Bronx.

We loved the action of Star Trek, everything about Barbara Eden but we especially loved the comic chemistry between Jack Klugman and the late Tony Randal.

[bgill]

Both will be missed.