Reuters Actor Charles Durning (C) is presented with a framed replica by Hollywood Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Leron Gubler (R) as actor Joe Montegna (L), actress Lee Purcell (2nd L) and Durning's daughter Anita Gregory (2nd R) look on at a ceremony where Durning receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood July 31, 2008.
Actress Angie Dickinson (L) greets actor Charles Durning at a ceremony where Durning receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood JReuters Actor Burt Reynolds (L) hugs Charles Durning after he accepted the Lifetime Achievement award at the 14th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles in 2008. "They're going to carry me out, if I go," he told the AP in 2008. "I'll go downstairs to get the mail, and when I come back I'll say, 'Any calls for me?''ĭurning always said he would keep going until the end. "If I'm not in a part, I drive my wife crazy," he said in a 1997 interview. “I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director," he told the Associated Press at the time. He said he was always grateful for any acting offers. He was recognized for his role as a corrupt governor in “The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas” (1982), starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton, and as an incompetent Nazi officer in Mel Brooks' 1983 remake of “To Be or Not to Be.”ĭurning was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2008. “"I was born looking older - and I've been aging since I was a teenager."ĭurning’s work led to two Oscar nominations.
“I was born a character actor,” Durning told USA Today. Over his prolific career that spanned 50 years in film, television and Broadway, Durning appeared in such memorable movies as “Tootsie,” “Dog Day Afternoon,” “The Hudsucker Proxy” and “Dick Tracy.” Charles Durning, the character actor who was nominated for an Oscar for his supporting role in “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” died Monday of natural causes in New York City.
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