“There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don’t want anyone to know about,” he told Parade. in Los Angeles's Ahmanson Theater's production of "On Golden Pond" opposite Julie Harris. In 1980, he won critical acclaim for his role as Norman Thayer, Jr. Drama Critics Circle Award for his powerful performance in The Westwood Playhouse's 1977 production of David Rabe's "Streamers". His most recent performances in New York City stage productions are "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" (2002) by Bertolt Brecht with Al Pacino and Wendy Wasserstein's final play, "Third" (2005).ĭurning won the L.A. Most recent television roles include the voice of Francis Griffin on Family Guy and Michael Gavin, the retired firefighter father of Denis Leary's character, in the FX television series "Rescue Me".ĭurning's performances in Broadway productions were "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), Gore Vidal's "The Best Man" (2000). He was also known for television performances in, to name a few, "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom", "Captains and the Kings", "Studs Lonigan", "Death of a Salesman", "Evening Shade" and "Everybody Loves Raymond". Some of Durning's other well-known movie performances include Dog Day Afternoon, The Muppet Movie, True Confessions, Tootsie, To Be Or Not To Be, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Home for the Holidays and O Brother, Where Art Thou?. Durning had more than 100 movie and television credits. In the Oscar best picture winner starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, Durning won distinction as the crooked cop, Lt. In 1972, director George Roy Hill, impressed by his performance in the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play "That Championship Season", offered Durning a role in "The Sting" (1973). He also appeared in "Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues" (1972) with Barbara Hershey and John Lithgow. He appeared in John Frankenheimer's "I Walk the Line" (1970) starring Gregory Peck, two Brian De Palma movies, "Hi, Mom!" (1970), credited as Charles Durnham, with Robert De Niro and "Sisters" (1973). He made his film debut in 1965, playing in "Harvey Middleman, Fireman". In slack periods between acting jobs, Durning taught ballroom dancing at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in New York City.Ī bit later, Durning moved into television and movies. 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". We would do three plays in Central Park for the summer. You were getting a salary for performance plus a rehearsal salary. "I had no money at all, and he (Joseph Papp) didn't pay much. "That time in my life was my best time," Durning told Pittsburgh's Post Gazette in 2001. Beginning in 1961, he appeared in 35 plays as part of the New York Shakespeare Festival. He attracted the attention of Joseph Papp. Subsequently, he performed in some 50 stock company productions and in various off-Broadway plays. While working as an usher in a burlesque joint, he was hired to replace a drunken actor onstage. Referred to as "the King of Character Actors", Durning began his career in 1951. He is survived by his three children from his first marriage.Ĭareer Durning in October 1975 He was legally separated from his second wife, Mary Ann (Amelio) Durning, in 2010. He was married to Carole Doughty from 1959 until they divorced in 1972. His mother was also born in Ireland.ĭurning was raised Catholic. His mother, Louise (née Leonard 1894–1982), was a laundress at West Point, and his father, James Durning (1883 – c. His three brothers James (Roger) (1915–2000), Clifford (1916–1994),and Gerald Durning (born 1926), and his sister Frances (born 1919) survived to adulthood, but five sisters lost their lives to scarlet fever and smallpox as children. Michele Durning, Douglas Edward Durning, Jeanine DurningĬharles Edward Durning (FebruDecember 24, 2012) was an American actor.ĭurning was born in Highland Falls, New York on February 28, 1923, the ninth of ten children. Mary Ann (Amelio) Durning ( m. 1974–2010) (legally separated)
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