Charles Durning, king of character actors, dies at age 89
December 25, 2012 at 1:57 am in Duluth News Tribune
Charles Durning’s 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.” Continue Reading
I recall standing in a queue to get into Mr Pete’s on W Superior St one Sat night when Durning was in town to shoot Far North and he and Sam Shepherd walked past us. My earliest recollection of him in film was a made for TV movie Studs Lonigan – that was my first thought when I looked at him….
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My wife was a bartender at Fitgers and he came in regularly her fondest recollection was that he always knew her by name when he walked in..
R.I.P. Mr. Durning!
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