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Charles Durning

Highest Rated:
100% Death of a Salesman (1985)
Lowest Rated:
0% Solarbabies (1986)
Birthday:
Feb 28, 1923
Birthplace:
Highland Falls, New York, USA
Bio:
Before he became an actor, Charles Durning, the son of an Army man, continued in his father's footsteps with valor and distinction, earning a silver star and purple heart in World War II. Durning held down several "joe jobs" -- iron worker, elevator operator, cabbie, waiter, and dance instructor --…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 100%
Number of Movies: 134
Box Office Since 2001: $50.9M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2011 Naked Run
  • Actor
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2011 An Affirmative Act
  • Actor
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2009 Three Chris's
  • Actor
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2009 iMurders
  • Actor
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2009 According to Dom
  • Actor
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2009 Unbeatable Harold
  • Actor
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2009 Break
  • Actor
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2008 A Bunch of Amateurs
  • Actor
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2008 28% Chatham (The Golden Boys)
  • John Bartlett
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2008 Mister Roberts
  • Actor
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2008 3% Deal
  • Charlie Adler
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2008 The Drum Beats Twice
  • Actor
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2007 Polycarp (Kinky Killers)
  • Alexander Hathaway
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2007 51% Good Dick
  • Charlie
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2007 The Waiter
  • Actor
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2006 Forget About It
  • Eddie O'Brien
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2006 36% Local Color
  • Actor
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2006 Unbeatable Harold
  • Harold's Father
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2006 Stephen King's Desperation
  • Actor
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2006 Miracle Dogs Too
  • Actor
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2005 River's End
  • Actor
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2005 8% Dirty Deeds
  • Victor Rasdale
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2005 Steve Martini's The Judge
  • Actor
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2005 29% L.A. Riot Spectacular
  • Steve Lerman
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2004 A Boyfriend for Christmas
  • Santa Claus
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2004 75% Death & Texas
  • Marshall Ledger
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2004 One Last Ride
  • Orlick
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2002 Pride & Loyalty
  • Actor
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2002 Final Hit
  • Actor
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2002 Bleacher Bums
  • Actor
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2002 Mr. St. Nick
  • Nicholas XXX (Santa Claus)
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2002 Mother Ghost
  • Actor
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2001 L.A.P.D.: To Protect and Serve
  • Actor
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2001 The Judge
  • Judge Harlan Radovich
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2001 Turn of Faith
  • Actor
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2000 83% Lakeboat
  • Skippy
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2000 86% State and Main
  • Mayor George Bailey
$5.8M
2000 77% O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  • Pappy O'Daniel
$45.2M
2000 The Final Hit
  • Syd Wolf
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1999 Hard Time: The Premonition
  • Actor
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1999 Not for Ourselves Alone - The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
  • Actor
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1999 Hard Time: Hostage Hotel
  • Det. Charlie Duffy
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1998 83% Hi-Life
  • Fatty
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1998 Hard Time
  • Det. Charlie Duffy
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1998 75% Jerry and Tom
  • Vic
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1998 The Voyage of La Amistad: A Quest for Freedom
  • Actor
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1998 A Chance of Snow
  • Earl Pulmer
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1998 Justice (Backlash)
  • Actor
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1997 Shelter
  • Actor
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1996 Mrs. Santa Claus
  • Santa
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1996 The Land Before Time IV - Journey Through the Mists
  • Archie
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1996 Elmo Saves Christmas
  • Actor
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1996 47% One Fine Day
  • Lew
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1996 6% Spy Hard
  • The Director
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1996 65% The Last Supper
  • Rev. Gerald Hutchens
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1995 50% The Grass Harp
  • Reverand
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1995 63% Home for the Holidays
  • Henry Larson
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1994 43% I.Q.
  • Louis Bamberger
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1994 56% The Hudsucker Proxy
  • Director
  • Waring Hudsucker
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1993 100% The Music of Chance
  • Bill Flowers
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1993 When a Stranger Calls Back
  • Actor
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1992 Water Engine
  • Tour Guide
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1991 The Return Of Eliot Ness
  • Roger Finn
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1991 18% V.I. Warshawski
  • Lt. Mallory
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1991 Story Lady
  • Judge (uncredited)
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1990 40% Cat Chaser
  • Jiggs Scully
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1990 65% Dick Tracy
  • Chief Brandon
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1990 Project: Alien
  • Colonel Clancy
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1989 Brenda Starr
  • Editor Francis I. Livright
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1989 Dinner At Eight
  • Dan Packard
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1989 It Nearly Wasn't Christmas, (The Nearly Wasn't Christmas)
  • Santa
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1989 Dr. Seuss - The Butter Battle Book
  • Actor
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1988 17% Far North
  • Bertrum
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1988 Étoile (Ballet)
  • Uncle Joshua
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1988 Unholy Matrimony
  • Samuel Corey
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1987 Kenny Rogers as The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues
  • Sen. Henry Colton
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1987 81% Cop
  • Dutch Pelz
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1987 Happy New Year
  • Charlie
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1987 A Tiger's Tale
  • Charlie Drumm
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1987 The Rosary Murders
  • Father Ted Nabors
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1987 The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (Unchained)
  • Warden Hardy
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1986 0% Solarbabies
  • The Warden
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1986 Where The River Runs Black
  • Father O'Reilly
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1986 62% Tough Guys
  • Deke Yablonski
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1985 Private Conversations: On the Set of 'Death of a Salesman'
  • Actor
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1985 Stand Alone
  • Louis Thibadeau
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1985 46% The Man with One Red Shoe
  • Ross
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1985 Big Trouble
  • O'Mara
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1985 33% Stick
  • Chucky
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1985 100% Death of a Salesman
  • Charley
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1984 Hadley's Rebellion
  • Sam Crawford
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1984 Mass Appeal
  • Monsignor Burke
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1983 63% To Be or Not to Be
  • Col. Erhardt
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1983 20% Two of a Kind
  • Charlie
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1982 Working
  • Actor
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1982 88% Tootsie
  • Les
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1982 56% The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
  • Governor
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1981 93% Sharky's Machine
  • Friscoe
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1981 Best Little Girl in the World
  • Frank Powell
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1981 40% Dark Night of the Scarecrow
  • Otis P. Hazelrigg
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1981 73% True Confessions
  • Jack Amsterdam
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1981 The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
  • Actor
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1980 Die Laughing
  • Arnold
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1980 40% The Final Countdown
  • Senator Chapman
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1980 Attica
  • Russell Oswald
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1980 Crisis at Central High
  • Actor
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1979 One Of The Missing
  • Actor
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1979 40% When a Stranger Calls
  • John Clifford
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1979 Starting Over
  • Michael "Mickey" Potter
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1979 85% North Dallas Forty
  • Coach Johnson
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1979 90% The Muppet Movie
  • Doc Hopper
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1978 Tilt
  • Harold "The Whale" Remmens
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1978 77% The Fury
  • Dr. Jim McKeever
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1978 An Enemy of the People (Danger Plante Earth)
  • Peter Stockmann
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1978 Special Olympics
  • Actor
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1978 Greek Tycoon
  • Michael Russell
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1977 88% Twilight's Last Gleaming
  • President David Stevens
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1977 60% The Choirboys
  • Whalen
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1976 Captains and the Kings
  • Ed Healey
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1976 57% Harry and Walter Go to New York
  • Rufus T. Crisp
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1976 71% Breakheart Pass
  • Frank O'Brien
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1975 97% Dog Day Afternoon
  • N.Y. Detective Moretti
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1975 40% The Hindenburg
  • Capt. Pruss
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1975 80% Queen of the Stardust Ballroom
  • Actor
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1974 73% The Front Page
  • Murphy
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1973 91% The Sting
  • Lt. William Snyder
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1973 83% Sisters
  • Joseph Larch
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1973 Connection
  • Actor
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1972 Doomsday Voyage
  • Actor
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1972 Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
  • Murphy
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1972 Deadhead Miles
  • Red Ball Rider
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1971 Pursuit of Happiness
  • 2nd Guard
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1970 I Walk the Line
  • Hunnicutt
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1969 Stiletto
  • Actor
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Quotes from Charles Durning's Characters

    1. Les: The only reason you're still living is because I never kissed you.
    From Tootsie. Submitted by Raj G (3 months ago)
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