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
Wow... didn`t know that about about Durning... D-Day and Battle of the Bulge.. They were simply a different and better breed of man.
Could you imagine any of these candy-assed modern Hollywood liberals going to war? They`d run away screaming in utter terror at the prospect of breaking a nail.
RIP, Mr. Durning...
“...barely lived through D-Day and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge.”
People today do some stupid fear factor type stunt and think they’re somebody, they have “bragging rights”. RIP.
That is the first I had heard about Charles Durning.
I enjoyed his ‘Sidestep’ and have played that youtube video frequently. He captured the essence of politics in that one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJG75FJkjr8