Donald Moffat Biography

RADA alumnus Donald Moffat made his London stage debut in 1954, playing the First Murderer in MacBeth. On stage, the wiry, angular Moffat excelled in the plays of Ibsen and Moliere; on screen, he has since carved his niche in eccentric, unpredictable roles. He has also sparkled in authoritative characterizations, both bombastic (a tantrum-tossing LBJ in 1981's The Right Stuff, a fascistic Colonel Ruppert in the 1991 TV movie Babe Ruth) and cool-headed (the fictional U.S. president in 1993's A Clear and Present Danger, Kennedy in-law Hugh Auchincloss in the 1982 video presentation Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy). In addition, Moffat has brightened many a Robert Altman production, most prominently as the ubiquitous bike-riding tax collector in Popeye (1980). Donald Moffat's TV-series resumé includes such roles as an immigrant Scandinavian minister in The New Land (1974), a lovable android in Logan's Run (1977), and all-knowing Dr. Marcus Polk on the ABC daytimer One Life to Live. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

• 1. Garry: But I've known Bennings for ten years!
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• 1. Garry: I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!
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• 1. Garry: I'll put this right through your HEAD.
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• 1. Garry: I don't know about Copper. But I give you my word I did not go near that blood... But I guess you'll all feel a little easier, if someone else was in charge.
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• 1. Garry: The generator's gone.
  2. MacReady: Any way we can fix it?
  3. Garry: It's GONE, MacReady.
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• 1. Garry: You reach anybody, yet?
  2. Windows: Reach anybody? We're a thousand miles from nowhere, man. And it's gonna get a hell of a lot worse before it gets any better!
  3. Garry: Well stick to it, Windows. Stick to it.
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• 1. Bennings: Winds are gonna die down a tad over the next couple of hours.
  2. Garry: A TAD?
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• 1. Garry: I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!
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• 1. Garry: This is pure nonsense. It doesn't prove a thing.
  2. MacReady: I thought you'd feel that way, Garry. You were the only one who could've gotten to that blood. We'll do you last.
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• 1. MacReady: I don't know, it's like this: thousands of years ago this spaceship crashes, and this thing, whatever it is, jumps out or crawls out and gets entombed in the ice.
  2. Garry: So, the Norwegians find it, and they dig it out of the ice...
  3. MacReady: That's right, Garry. They dig it up; they cart it back to their base. Somehow it gets thawed; it wakes up, probably not the best of moods, and, I don't know. I wasn't there!
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• 1. Garry: You reach anybody, yet?
  2. Windows: Reach anybody? We're a thousand miles from nowhere, man. And it's gonna get a hell of a lot worse before it gets any better!
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• 1. Garry: The generator's gone.
  2. MacReady: Any way we can we fix it?
  3. Garry: It's 'gone', MacReady.
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• 1. Garry: My god, what was happening to him?
  2. MacReady: If it had any more time, just a few minutes more to finish, it would have looked and sounded and acted just like Bennings!
  3. Garry: I don't know what you're saying.
  4. MacReady: That was one of those things out there, trying to imitate him, Garry. Come on.
  5. Garry: MacReady, I know Bennings, I've known him for ten years. He's my friend.
  6. MacReady: We've gotta burn the rest of him.
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• 1. Garry: I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!
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