Charles Durning

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 211

Gender Male

Birthday February 28, 1923

Day of Death December 24, 2012 (89 years old)

Place of Birth Highland Falls, New York, USA

Also Known As

Charles Edward Durning
Charles Durnham
چارلز دارنینگ

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Charles Durning

Biography

Charles Edward Durning (February 28, 1923 – December 24, 2012) was an American actor. He best-known films include The Sting (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), True Confessions (1981), Tootsie (1982), Dick Tracy (1990) and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor two times: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) and To Be or Not to Be (1983).

Known For

Acting

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as (archive footage)

2021

as Self

2018

as Self (archive footage)

2015

as Santa Claus

2013

as Dylan Frier

2012

2011		The Life Zone as James Wise
2011		The Great Fight as Judge Frier
2011		Naked Run as Congressman Davenport

2010		An Affirmative Act as Man in the White Suit
2010		The Waiter as Frank 'The Handler' Maro
2010		Three Chris's as Kris Kringle

2009		According to Dom as Self
2009		Rescue Me 1 episode as Tommy's Dad
2009		Break as The Wise Man
2009		Amazing Racer as Floyd

2008		The Golden Boys as John Bartlett
2008		A Bunch of Amateurs as Charlie Rosenberg
2008		Local Color as Yammi
2008		Good Dick as Charlie
2008		iMurders as Dr. Seamus St. Martin
2008		Deal as Charlie Adler

2007		Kinky Killers as Alexander Hathaway
2007		Monk 1 episode as Hank Johansen

2006		Forget About It as Eddie O'Brien
2006		Desperation as Tom Billingsley
2006		Everwood 2 episodes as Eugene Brown
2006		Miracle Dogs Too as Captain Pete Weaver
2006		The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon' as Self
2006		Descansos as Inkeeper #2
2006		Unbeatable Harold as Harold's Father
2006		Jesus, Mary and Joey as Teddy

2005		The Art of 'The Sting' as Self
2005		Dirty Deeds as Victor Rasdale
2005		The L.A. Riot Spectacular as The Lawyer
2005		River's End as Murray Blythe

2004		The Autopsy as Self
2004		A Very Married Christmas as Ozzy Larson
2004		A Boyfriend for Christmas as Santa Claus
2004		NCIS 1 episode as Ernie Yost
2004		Rescue Me 30 episodes as Michael Gavin
2004		Dinner for Five 1 episode
2004		Death and Texas as Marshall Ledger
2004		The Drum Beats Twice as Satan

2003		Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
2003		Touched by an Angel 1 episode as Father Thomas Madden

2002		Mr. St. Nick as Nicholas XX
2002		Mother Ghost as George
2002		Turn of Faith as Philly Russo
2002		First Monday 13 episodes as Henry Hoskins

2001		Citizen Baines 1 episode
2001		Bleacher Bums as Scorekeeper
2001		L.A.P.D.: To Protect And To Serve as Stuart Steele
2001		The Judge 2 episodes as Judge Harlan Radovich
2001		The Judge as Judge Harlan Radovich

2000		O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Pappy O'Daniel
2000		State and Main as Mayor George Bailey
2000		The Last Producer as Syd Wolf
2000		Very Mean Men as Paddy Mulroney
2000		Lakeboat as Skippy
2000		Never Look Back as Reverend Hale
2000		A Constant Forge as Self

1999		Hard Time: Hostage Hotel as Det. Charlie Duffy
1999		Now and Again 2 episodes as Narrator (voice; uncredited)
1999		Family Guy 5 episodes as Francis Griffin (voice)
1999		Hard Time: The Premonition as Det. Charlie Duffy
1999		Justice as Moe Ryan

1998		Hard Time as Det. Charlie Duffy
1998		A Chance of Snow as Earl Pulmer
1998		Jerry and Tom as Vic
1998		Hi-Life as Fatty
1998		The Practice 2 episodes as Stephen Donnell
1998		Everybody Loves Raymond 6 episodes as Father Hubley
1998		Homicide: Life on the Street 1 episode
1998		Cybill 1 episode
1998		Shelter as Capt. Robert Landis

1997		Early Edition 2 episodes as Judge Steven Romick
1997		The Secret Life of Algernon as Norbie Hess
1997		Orleans 8 episodes as Frank Vitelli

1996		Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas as Santa Claus
1996		One Fine Day as Lew, Jack's boss
1996		Mrs. Santa Claus as Santa Claus
1996		Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman as Self
1996		The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists as Archie (voice)
1996		The Grass Harp as Reverend Buster
1996		Recon as Chief
1996		Spy Hard as The Director

1995		Home for the Holidays as Henry Larson
1995		The Last Supper as Reverend Gerald Hutchens
1995		A Woman of Independent Means 3 episodes as Andrew Alcott

1994		I.Q. as Louis Bamberger
1994		The American Revolution 6 episodes as Benjamin Franklin
1994		The World of Jim Henson as Doc Hopper (archive footage)
1994		Roommates as Barney
1994		The Hudsucker Proxy as Waring Hudsucker

1993		The Music of Chance as Bill Flower
1993		When a Stranger Calls Back as John Clifford

1992		Performance 1 episode as Charles F. Money
1992		Tales from Hollywood as Charles F. Money
1992		The Water Engine as Tour Guide

1991		The Story Lady as Judge (uncredited)
1991		The Return of Eliot Ness as Roger Finn
1991		V.I. Warshawski as Det. Lt. Bobby Mallory

1990		Project Alien as Colonel Clancy
1990		The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson as Self
1990		Evening Shade 100 episodes as Harlan Elldridge
1990		Dick Tracy as Chief Brandon
1990		The Kennedys of Massachusetts 3 episodes as John F. Fitzgerald
1990		Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge as Self (archive footage)

1989		Dinner at Eight as Dan Packard
1989		It Nearly Wasn't Christmas as Santa
1989		The Butter Battle Book as Grandfather (voice)
1989		Prime Target as Earl Mulcahaney
1989		Cat Chaser as Jiggs Scully
1989		Brenda Starr as Editor Francis I. Livright
1989		Etoile as Uncle Joshua

1988		Far North as Bertrum
1988		Unholy Matrimony as Reverend Samuel Corey
1988		Case Closed as Les Kabowski
1988		A Tiger's Tale as Charlie Drumm
1988		Cop as Dutch Peltz

1987		The Gambler: The Legend Continues as Senator Henry Colton
1987		The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains as Warden Hardy
1987		I Would Be Called John: Pope John XXIII as Pope John XXIII
1987		The Rosary Murders as Father Ted Nabors
1987		Happy New Year as Charlie

1986		Solarbabies as The Warden
1986		Amazing Stories 1 episode as Earl
1986		Tough Guys as Deke Yablonski
1986		Where the River Runs Black as Father O'Reilly
1986		Big Trouble as O'Mara
1986		The American Film Institute Salute to ... 1 episode as Self

1985		Amazing Stories 1 episode as Assistant to the Boss
1985		Tall Tales & Legends 1 episode as Uncle Doffue
1985		The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as Uncle Doffue
1985		Stand Alone as Louis Thibadeau
1985		Death of a Salesman as Charley
1985		The Man with One Red Shoe as Ross
1985		The Comedy Factory 1 episode as Harry Deegan
1985		Stick as Chucky
1985		Eye to Eye 6 episodes
1985		Night of 100 Stars II as Self

1984		Mass Appeal as Monsignor Thomas Burke
1984		P.O.P. as P. Oliver Pendergast
1984		Mister Roberts as The Captain

1983		To Be or Not to Be as Col. Erhardt
1983		Two of a Kind as Charlie
1983		Scarface as Immigration Officer (voice) (uncredited)
1983		Hadley's Rebellion as Sam Crawford

1982		Tootsie as Les Nichols
1982		The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas as Governor of Texas
1982		Playhouse 1 episode as McMahon
1982		The Man Who Married a French Wife and Other Stories as McMahon
1982		Working as Retired Man

1981		Sharky's Machine as Lt. Friscoe
1981		Dark Night of the Scarecrow as Otis P. Hazelrigg
1981		True Confessions as Jack Amsterdam
1981		Great Performances 1 episode as McMahon
1981		The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories as McMahon
1981		The Best Little Girl in the World as Frank Powell
1981		Hallmark Hall of Fame 1 episode as Casey Stengel
1981		Casey Stengel as Casey Stengel
1981		Crisis at Central High as Jess Matthews

1980		A Perfect Match as Bill Larson
1980		Die Laughing as Arnold
1980		Attica as Commissioner Russell Oswald
1980		The Final Countdown as Senator Samuel Chapman

1979		Starting Over as Michael "Mickey" Potter
1979		When a Stranger Calls as John Clifford
1979		North Dallas Forty as Coach Johnson
1979		The Muppet Movie as Doc Hopper
1979		The Muppets Go Hollywood as Self
1979		Tilt as Harold 'The Whale' Remmens
1979		Studs Lonigan 3 episodes as Paddy Lonigan

1978		The Greek Tycoon as Michael Russell
1978		An Enemy of the People as Peter Stockmann
1978		The Fury as Dr. Jim McKeever
1978		Special Olympics as Carl Gallitzin

1977		The Choirboys as Spermwhale Whalen
1977		Twilight's Last Gleaming as President David T. Stevens

1976		Captains and the Kings 8 episodes as Ed Healey
1976		Harry and Walter Go to New York as Rufus T. Crisp
1976		Dinah! 1 episode as Self

1975		The Hindenburg as Captain Pruss
1975		Hallmark Hall of Fame 1 episode as Stephen Douglas
1975		Breakheart Pass as Frank O'Brien
1975		The Cop and the Kid 13 episodes as Officer Frank Murphy
1975		Hawaii Five-O 1 episode as Havens
1975		Baretta 1 episode
1975		Dog Day Afternoon as Moretti
1975		Cannon 1 episode
1975		Switch as Lt. Phil Beckman
1975		Queen of the Stardust Ballroom as Al Green
1975		The Trial of Chaplain Jensen as Budd Rogers

1974

as Murphy

1973		The Sting as Lt. Wm. Snyder
1973		Rx for the Defense as District Attorney Horn
1973		Sisters as Joseph Larch
1973		All in the Family 1 episode as Detective
1973		The Connection as Frank Devlin

1972		Deadhead Miles as Truck Driver in Cafe
1972		Look Homeward, Angel as Will Pentland
1972		Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues as Murphy
1972		Doomsday Voyage as Jason's First Mate

1971

as 2nd Guard

1970		I Walk the Line as Wylie Hunnicutt
1970		Hi, Mom! as Superintendent
1970		The High Chaparral 1 episode as Hewitt
1970		Sticky My Fingers ... Fleet My Feet as Football Player

1969

as Cop (uncredited)

1965		Harvey Middleman, Fireman as Dooley
1965		Another World 1547 episodes

1963

1 episode as Juror #11

1962

as American Solider (uncredited)

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