![]() 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. Based on the other reviews here, seems like I might benefit from reading the book.Mary Ann (Amelio) Durning ( m. 1974–2010) (legally separated) I watched the movie when it hit the airwaves and walked away from it feeling like they left some vital parts out of the story although I had never read or heard of it as it seemed a bit inconsistent and left me with a lot of questions. I'm thinking parts of the movie were also filmed in New Orleans but I'm not really sure. Patrick Duffy called me "Sarge" the whole week because I'm a veteran :) Very nice fella. Awesome experience! Richard Cox and I discussed the many different dialects for the Southern cultures (he represented a Southern lawyer in the movie) and Michael O'Keefe gave me an autograph but wasn't up for much discussion. I was part of the courtroom audience and sat behind Charles Durning who later danced the tango with me in the hallway during a break. Sometimes, they filmed 2 days in one 8-hour day so it was something of mayhem. I took vacation for a week to be on the set as an extra and had a full change of clothes for each day of the courtroom filming. They were filmed in downtown Phoenix, AZ in the old courthouse across the street from Maricopa County Superior Court where I worked for 5 years. I'm not sure where the movie was filmed except some of the the court room scenes.
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