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79%

Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow

PG-13, 1 hr. 49 min.

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Charlie Hunnam, Diego Klattenhoff

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Celebrities » Charles Durning

Charles Durning

Total Box Office:: $50.9M
Highest Rated:: 100% Death of a Salesman (1985)
Lowest Rated:: 0% Solarbabies (1986)

Birthday:: Feb 28
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 --…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

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MOVIES

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
83%	Sisters	Joseph Larch	--	2013
	Naked Run	Actor	--	2011
	An Affirmative Act	Actor	--	2011
	Three Chris's	Actor	--	2009
	Shannon's Rainbow	Actor	--	2009
	iMurders	Actor	--	2009
	According to Dom	Actor	--	2009
	Unbeatable Harold	Actor	--	2009
	Break	Actor	--	2009
	A Bunch of Amateurs	Actor	--	2008
28%	Chatham (The Golden Boys)	John Bartlett	--	2008
	Mister Roberts	Actor	--	2008
3%	Deal	Charlie Adler	--	2008
	The Drum Beats Twice	Actor	--	2008
	Polycarp (Kinky Killers)	Alexander Hathaway	--	2007
51%	Good Dick	Charlie	--	2007
	The Waiter	Actor	--	2007
36%	Local Color	Actor	--	2006
	Unbeatable Harold	Harold's Father	--	2006
	Stephen King's Desperation	Actor	--	2006
	Miracle Dogs Too	Actor	--	2006
	Forget About It	Eddie O'Brien	--	2006
	River's End	Actor	--	2005
8%	Dirty Deeds	Victor Rasdale	--	2005
	Steve Martini's The Judge	Actor	--	2005
29%	L.A. Riot Spectacular	Steve Lerman	--	2005
75%	Death & Texas	Marshall Ledger	--	2004
	A Very Married Christmas	Actor	--	2004
	One Last Ride	Orlick	--	2004
	A Boyfriend for Christmas	Santa Claus	--	2004
	Final Hit	Actor	--	2002
	Bleacher Bums	Actor	--	2002
	Mr. St. Nick	Nicholas XXX (Santa Claus)	--	2002
	Mother Ghost	Actor	--	2002
	Pride & Loyalty	Actor	--	2002
	L.A.P.D.: To Protect and Serve	Actor	--	2001
	The Judge	Judge Harlan Radovich	--	2001
	Turn of Faith	Actor	--	2001
77%	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Pappy O'Daniel	$45.2M	2000
	The Final Hit	Syd Wolf	--	2000
83%	Lakeboat	Skippy	--	2000
86%	State and Main	Mayor George Bailey	$5.8M	2000
	Hard Time: The Premonition	Actor	--	1999
	Not for Ourselves Alone - The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony	Actor	--	1999
	Hard Time: Hostage Hotel	Det. Charlie Duffy	--	1999
	Hard Time	Det. Charlie Duffy	--	1998
75%	Jerry and Tom	Vic	--	1998
	The Voyage of La Amistad: A Quest for Freedom	Actor	--	1998
	A Chance of Snow	Earl Pulmer	--	1998
	Justice (Backlash)	Actor	--	1998
83%	Hi-Life	Fatty	--	1998
	Shelter	Actor	--	1997
	Elmo Saves Christmas	Actor	--	1996
47%	One Fine Day	Lew	--	1996
8%	Spy Hard	The Director	--	1996
65%	The Last Supper	Rev. Gerald Hutchens	--	1996
	Mrs. Santa Claus	Santa	--	1996
	The Land Before Time IV - Journey Through the Mists	Archie	--	1996
50%	The Grass Harp	Reverand	--	1995
63%	Home for the Holidays	Henry Larson	--	1995
56%	The Hudsucker Proxy	Director Waring Hudsucker	--	1994
43%	I.Q.	Louis Bamberger	--	1994
100%	The Music of Chance	Bill Flowers	--	1993
	When a Stranger Calls Back	Actor	--	1993
	Water Engine	Tour Guide	--	1992
18%	V.I. Warshawski	Lt. Mallory	--	1991
	Story Lady	Judge (uncredited)	--	1991
	The Return Of Eliot Ness	Roger Finn	--	1991
40%	Cat Chaser	Jiggs Scully	--	1990
64%	Dick Tracy	Chief Brandon	--	1990
	Project: Alien	Colonel Clancy	--	1990
	Dinner At Eight	Dan Packard	--	1989
	It Nearly Wasn't Christmas, (The Nearly Wasn't Christmas)	Santa	--	1989
	Dr. Seuss - The Butter Battle Book	Actor	--	1989
	Brenda Starr	Editor Francis I. Livright	--	1989
	�toile (Ballet)	Uncle Joshua	--	1988
	Unholy Matrimony	Samuel Corey	--	1988
17%	Far North	Bertrum	--	1988
	Kenny Rogers as The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues	Sen. Henry Colton	--	1987
81%	Cop	Dutch Pelz	--	1987
	Happy New Year	Charlie	--	1987
	A Tiger's Tale	Charlie Drumm	--	1987
	The Rosary Murders	Father Ted Nabors	--	1987
	The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (Unchained)	Warden Hardy	--	1987
	Where The River Runs Black	Father O'Reilly	--	1986
62%	Tough Guys	Deke Yablonski	--	1986
0%	Solarbabies	The Warden	--	1986
	Private Conversations: On the Set of 'Death of a Salesman'	Actor	--	1985
	Stand Alone	Louis Thibadeau	--	1985
46%	The Man with One Red Shoe	Ross	--	1985
	Big Trouble	O'Mara	--	1985
33%	Stick	Chucky	--	1985
100%	Death of a Salesman	Charley	--	1985
	Hadley's Rebellion	Sam Crawford	--	1984
	Mass Appeal	Monsignor Burke	--	1984
63%	To Be or Not to Be	Col. Erhardt	--	1983
20%	Two of a Kind	Charlie	--	1983
88%	Tootsie	Les	--	1982
56%	The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas	Governor	--	1982
	Working	Actor	--	1982
	Best Little Girl in the World	Frank Powell	--	1981
40%	Dark Night of the Scarecrow	Otis P. Hazelrigg	--	1981
73%	True Confessions	Jack Amsterdam	--	1981
	The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories	Actor	--	1981
93%	Sharky's Machine	Friscoe	--	1981
	Attica	Russell Oswald	--	1980
	Crisis at Central High	Actor	--	1980
	Die Laughing	Arnold	--	1980
40%	The Final Countdown	Senator Chapman	--	1980
	One Of The Missing	Actor	--	1979
40%	When a Stranger Calls	John Clifford	--	1979
	Starting Over	Michael "Mickey" Potter	--	1979
85%	North Dallas Forty	Coach Johnson	--	1979
89%	The Muppet Movie	Doc Hopper	--	1979
	An Enemy of the People (Danger Plante Earth)	Peter Stockmann	--	1978
	Special Olympics	Actor	--	1978
	Greek Tycoon	Michael Russell	--	1978
	Tilt	Harold "The Whale" Remmens	--	1978
78%	The Fury	Dr. Jim McKeever	--	1978
88%	Twilight's Last Gleaming	President David Stevens	--	1977
60%	The Choirboys	Whalen	--	1977
	Captains and the Kings	Ed Healey	--	1976
57%	Harry and Walter Go to New York	Rufus T. Crisp	--	1976
71%	Breakheart Pass	Frank O'Brien	--	1976
97%	Dog Day Afternoon	N.Y. Detective Moretti	--	1975
40%	The Hindenburg	Capt. Pruss	--	1975
80%	Queen of the Stardust Ballroom	Actor	--	1975
73%	The Front Page	Murphy	--	1974
92%	The Sting	Lt. William Snyder	--	1973
	Connection	Actor	--	1973
	Doomsday Voyage	Actor	--	1972
	Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues	Murphy	--	1972
	Deadhead Miles	Red Ball Rider	--	1972
	Pursuit of Happiness	2nd Guard	--	1971
	I Walk the Line	Hunnicutt	--	1970
	Stiletto	Actor	--	1969

Movies | TV series

TV SERIES

Rating	Title	Credit		Year
	NCIS	Ernie Yost		2003-2014
80%	Rescue Me	John Gavin Sr. John Gavin, Sr. Johnny Gavin Sr. Johnny Gavin, Sr. Michael Gavin Tommy's Dad Tommy's father		2004-2011

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1. Pappy O'Daniel: Thank God, your mama died givin' birth. If she'd have seen you, she'd have died of shame.
From O Brother, Where Art Thou?. Submitted by Alyssa B (3 months ago)

1. Sonny: Kiss me. Kiss me on the lips.
2. N.Y. Detective Moretti: What for?!
3. Sonny: When I'm getting fucked I like to be kissed.
From Dog Day Afternoon. Submitted by Dave M (15 months ago)