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Charles Durning

CharlesDurningMay2008.jpg
Durning at the 2008 National Memorial Day Concert in Washington, D.C.

Born
Charles Edward Durning


(1923-02-28)February 28, 1923
Highland Falls, New York, U.S.

Died December 24, 2012(2012-12-24) (aged 89)
Manhattan, New York City, U.S.

Resting place
Arlington National Cemetery
38°52′25″N 77°03′51″W / 38.8737°N 77.0641°W / 38.8737; -77.0641
Occupation Actor
Years active 1945–2012
Spouse(s)

  • Carole Doughty
    (m. 1959; div. 1972)

  • Mary Ann Amelio
    (m. 1974; sep. 2010)

Children Michele Durning, Douglas E. Durning, Jeanine Durning
Military career
Allegiance
United States United States
Service/branch
Flag of the United States Army.gif Army of the United States Emblem of the United States Department of the Army.svg
Years of service 1943–1946
Rank
US Army WWII PFC.svg Private First Class
Awards
Silver Star
Bronze Star
Purple Heart
WWII campaign, good conduct and service medals


Charles Edward Durning (February 28, 1923 – December 24, 2012) was an American actor, with appearances in over 200 movies, television shows and plays.[1] Durning's best-known films include The Sting (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Tootsie (1982), Dick Tracy (1990) and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for both The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) and To Be or Not to Be (1983). Prior to his acting career, Durning was a WWII soldier decorated for valor in combat.




Contents






  • 1 Early life


  • 2 Military service


    • 2.1 Military awards and decorations




  • 3 Acting career


  • 4 Death


  • 5 Personal life


  • 6 Filmography


    • 6.1 Film


    • 6.2 Television




  • 7 Narrations


  • 8 References


  • 9 External links





Early life


Durning was born in Highland Falls, New York. 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,[3][4] and his mother was also of Irish descent.[5] Durning was raised Catholic.[6][7] Durning was the ninth of ten children. His three brothers James (Roger) (1915–2000), Clifford (1916–1994), Gerald (1926–2000) and his sister Frances (1918–2006) survived to adulthood, but five sisters died from scarlet fever and smallpox as children.[8]



Military service


Durning served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was drafted at age 20 and participated in the Normandy invasion. He was discharged with the rank of Private First Class on January 30, 1946.[9]


Durning participated in various functions to honor American veterans, including serving as Chairman of the U.S. National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans.[10] 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 three Purple Heart Medals.[11] Additional awards included the Army Good Conduct Medal, the American Campaign Medal and the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with Arrowhead device and two bronze service stars, and the World War II Victory Medal.[12] His badges included the Combat Infantryman Badge, Expert Badge with Rifle Bar, and Honorable Service Lapel Pin.[9]


Durning received the French National Order of the Legion of Honor from the French Consul in Los Angeles in April 2008.
















Badges and pins

Combat Infantry Badge.svg

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Combat Infantryman Badge

Expert Badge with Rifle Bar

Honorable Service Lapel Button







Ribbons


















 

 


Bronze oak leaf cluster

Bronze oak leaf cluster









Arrowhead

Bronze star

Bronze star

























Silver Star

Bronze Star

Purple Heart

Good Conduct Medal

American Campaign Medal

EAME Campaign Medal (2x)

World War II Victory Medal

Legion of Honour – Chevalier




Acting career




With Maureen Stapleton in the 1975 made-for-television film Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (each was nominated for an Emmy Award)


While pursuing an acting career, Durning, a professional ballroom dancer, taught at Fred Astaire Dance Studio in New York City.


Durning began his career in 1951. While working as an usher in a burlesque theatre, 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 De Palma movies: Hi, Mom! (1970), credited as Charles Durnham, with Robert De Niro, 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 Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui with Al Pacino, produced by Tony Randall. 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 Los Angeles 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 De Niro and Robert Duvall. 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.[13] 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.[14]



Death


Durning died of natural causes at his home in Manhattan on December 24, 2012, aged 89[15][16] and was subsequently buried at Arlington National Cemetery.[8][17]


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".[18] The Huffington Post compared the two men, calling them "character actor titans".[19]



Personal life


Durning married his first wife, Carole Doughty, in 1959. They had three children together before divorcing in 1972. Durning married his second wife, Mary Ann Amelio, in 1974. His second marriage was virtually over, with the two filing an official Declaration of Separation in 2010.



Filmography



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Year
Title
Role
Notes
1962

The Password Is Courage
American GI
Uncredited
1965

Harvey Middleman, Fireman
Dooley

1969

Stiletto
Cop
Uncredited
1970

Hi, Mom!
Superintendent
(as Charles Durnham)

I Walk the Line
Hunnicutt

1971

The Pursuit of Happiness
2nd Guard

1972

Doomsday Voyage
Jason's First Mate


Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston
Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues

Murphy


Sisters
Joseph Larch

1973

Deadhead Miles
Red Ball Rider


The Sting
Lt. Wm. Snyder

1974

The Front Page
Murphy

1975

Queen of the Stardust Ballroom
Alvin "Al" Green
TV Movie
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie

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

Breakheart Pass
O'Brien


The Hindenburg
Capt. Pruss

1976

Harry and Walter Go to New York
Rufus T. Crisp

1977

Twilight's Last Gleaming
President David Stevens


The Choirboys
Spermwhale Whalen

1978

The Fury
Dr. Jim McKeever


An Enemy of the People
Peter Stockmann


The Greek Tycoon
Michael Russell

1979

Tilt
Harold 'The Whale' Remmens


The Muppet Movie
Doc Hopper
Doc Hopper is a frog legs restaurant owner

North Dallas Forty
Coach Johnson


Starting Over
Michael Potter


When a Stranger Calls
John Clifford

1980

Attica
Russell Oswald
TV Movie
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie

Die Laughing
Arnold


The Final Countdown
Senator Samuel Chapman

1981

Crisis at Central High
Principal Jess Matthews
TV Movie

True Confessions
Jack Amsterdam


Dark Night of the Scarecrow
Otis P. Hazelrigg
TV Movie

Sharky's Machine
Friscoe

1982

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Governor
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Tootsie
Leslie 'Les' Nichols

1983

Scarface
Immigration Officer
Voice, Uncredited

Two of a Kind
Charlie


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

Mister Roberts
The Captain


Mass Appeal
Monsignor Thomas Burke

1985

Stick
Chucky


The Man with One Red Shoe
Ross


Death of a Salesman
Charley
TV Movie
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie

Stand Alone
Louis Thibadeau

1986

Big Trouble
O'Mara


Where the River Runs Black
Father O'Reilly


Tough Guys
Deke Yablonski


Meatballs III: Summer Job
Pete
Uncredited

Solarbabies
The Warden

1987

The Rosary Murders
Father Ted Nabors


Happy New Year
Charlie


A Tiger's Tale
Charlie Drumm


Hadley's Rebellion
Sam Crawford


The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains
Warden Hardy
TV Movie
Nominated—CableACE Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
1988

Cop
Dutch Peltz


Far North
Bertrum


Case Closed
Detective Les

1989

Étoile
Uncle Joshua


Brenda Starr
Editor Francis I. Livright


Cat Chaser
Jiggs Scully


Dinner at Eight
Dan Packard
TV Movie
1990

Dick Tracy
Chief Brandon


Fatal Sky
Colonel Clancy

1991

V.I. Warshawski
Det. Lt. Bobby Mallory

1993

The Music of Chance
Bill Flower


When A Stranger Calls Back
John Clifford

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
Chief


The Land Before Time IV:
Journey Through the Mists

Archie the Archelon
Voice

Mrs. Santa Claus
Santa Claus


One Fine Day
Lew

1997

The Secret Life of Algernon
Norbie Hess

1998

Shelter
Capt. Robert Landis


Jerry and Tom
Vic


Hi-Life
Fatty


Hard Time
Detective Charlie Duffy

2000

Lakeboat
Skippy


O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Pappy O'Daniel


Very Mean Men
Paddy Mulroney


The Last Producer
Syd Wolf


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

Never Look Back
N/A

2001

L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve
Stuart Steele

2002

Turn of Faith
Philly Russo


Mother Ghost
George


Mr. St. Nick
King Nicholas XX


The Naked Run
Congressman Davenport
Short

The Last Man Club
John 'Eagle Eye' Pennell


Pride & Loyalty
Dylan Frier

2003

Dead Canaries
Jimmy Kerrigan

2004

Death and Texas
Marshall Ledger


One Last Ride
Mr. Orlick


A Boyfriend for Christmas
Santa Claus

2005

River's End
Murray Blythe


Resurrection: The J.R. Richard Story
Frank McNally


The L.A. Riot Spectacular
The Lawyer


Dirty Deeds
Victor Rasdale


Detective
Max Ernst
TV Movie

Jesus, Mary and Joey
Teddy the Bartender

2006

Descansos
Innkeeper #2


Miracle Dogs Too
Capt. Pete Weaver


Unbeatable Harold
Harold's Father


Local Color
Yammi


Forget About It
Eddie O'Brien

2007

Polycarp
Alexander Hathaway
aka Kinky Killers
2008

Good Dick
Charlie


Deal
Charlie Adler


The Drum Beats Twice

Satan


Break
The Wise Man


iMurders
Dr. Seamus St. Martin


The Golden Boys
John Bartlett


A Bunch of Amateurs
Charlie Rosenberg

2009

Shannon's Rainbow
Floyd

2010

Three Chris's
Kris Kringle


Chronicle of Purgatory: The Waiter
Frank 'The Handler' Maro


An Affirmative Act
Man in the White Suit

2011

Naked Run
Congressman Davenport


The Great Fight
Judge Frier


The Life Zone
James Wise

2012

Rogue Assassin
Frank Maro

2014

Scavenger Killers
Dylan Frier

2015

Bleeding Hearts
Santa Claus
(final film role)


Television















































































































































































































Year
Title
Role
Notes
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
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
1992

The Water Engine
Tour Guide
Television movie
1996

Elmo Saves Christmas
Santa Claus
Television special
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$$
N/A
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





  1. ^ Schudel, Matt (December 26, 2012) "In real life and on the screen, he played countless roles" The Washington Post, p. B4


  2. ^ 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.


  3. ^ CHARLES DURNING; Healing the Wounds of Normandy


  4. ^ "Sullivan County Democrat: Obituaries for November 7, 2000". Sc-democrat.com. Retrieved December 28, 2012..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  5. ^ Liz Smith. The mother book. Retrieved December 28, 2012.


  6. ^ "Los Angeles Times: Archives - NO BLEEPS FOR DURNING'S ROLE". Pqasb.pqarchiver.com. March 2, 1981. Retrieved December 28, 2012.


  7. ^ Michaelson, Judith (September 15, 1987). "Durning Takes On The 'Peasant Pope' For Pbs". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 28, 2012.


  8. ^ ab Thomas, Bob (December 24, 2012). "Charles Durning Obituary". Los Angeles: AP via Legacy.com. Retrieved 2012-12-26.


  9. ^ ab National Personnel Records Center (April 18, 2008). "Letter from NPRC to Charles Durning" (Press release). St. Louis, MO. p. 2.


  10. ^ "VA Voluntary Service – National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans". Archived from the original on August 19, 2006. Retrieved August 27, 2006.


  11. ^ 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


  12. ^ "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 2012-12-26.


  13. ^ O'Hare, Kate. 'NCIS' Has Durning Hearing Echoes of War Archived December 1, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.. tv.zap2it.com.


  14. ^ "Charles Durning Collection". Academy Film Archive.


  15. ^ "Charles Durning". The Daily Telegraph. London. December 26, 2012.


  16. ^ "Charles Durning, Oscar-nominated king of the character actors, dies at 89 in NYC". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 26 December 2012. Retrieved 25 December 2012.


  17. ^ "WWII Soldier, character actor Charles Durning to be interred at Arlington". United States Army. January 17, 2013.


  18. ^ Genzlinger, Neil (December 26, 2012). "AN APPRAISAL; Remembering Jack Klugman and Charles Durning". The New York Times. Retrieved December 27, 2012.


  19. ^ "Charles Durning, Jack Klugman Deaths Bring New Appreciation For Character Actor Titans". The Huffington Post. December 25, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2012.




External links









  • Charles Durning on IMDb


  • Charles Durning at the TCM Movie Database


  • Charles Durning at the Internet Broadway Database Edit this at Wikidata


  • Charles Durning at the Internet Off-Broadway Database


  • Charles Durning at Find a Grave


  • "McCaslin, John, TownHall.com (cached) "Stars by example"". Retrieved April 6, 2017.
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  • Hayes, Richard L., Osprey Publishing. "Hollywood Stars at D-Day"

  • Soldiers Online – Army.mil. "Concert on Memorial Day"










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