![]() ![]() Other film credits include Dog Day Afternoon with Al Pacino When A Stranger Calls The Final Countdown The Hindenburg Twilight's Last Gleaming with Burt Lancaster True Confessions with Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall. He doggedly pursues the young grifter, Johnny Hooker (Redford), only to become the griftee in the end. ![]() Snyder, who polices and hustles professional con artists. In the Best Picture-winner, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, Durning won distinction as the crooked cop, Lt. In 1976, he received both an Emmy and a Golden Globe nomination for his performance in the television mini-series Captains and the Kings.In 1972, Director George Roy Hill, impressed by Durning's performance in the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play That Championship Season, offered him a role in The Sting (1973). Some television credits include The Connection Queen of the Stardust Ballroom, the made-for-television musical in which he played the mailman who reaches out to Maureen Stapleton's lonely widow on the dance floor Attica PBS's Dancing Bear with Tyne Daly the PBS production I Would Be Called John as Pope John XXIII Hallmark Hall of Fame: Casey Stengel, in which Durning played the legendary baseball manager Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel NBC's mini-series Studs Lonigan with Harry Hamlin and Colleen Dewhurst The Best Little Girl in the World with Jennifer Jason Leigh. In 1972, Director George Roy Hill, impressed by Durning's performance in the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play That Championship Season, offered him a role in The Sting (1973). Plus, he has appeared in the role of "Santa Claus" in five different television movies. On par with his multitude of feature film roles, Durning has always been in high demand on television and has guest starred in Everybody Loves Raymond (1996), Monk (2002) and Rescue Me (2004). Harlan Elldridge" in the highly popular TV series Evening Shade (1990). Durning continued a regular on screen association with Burt Reynolds appearing in several more feature films together and as "Dr. ![]() Durning was equally entertaining in the Billy Wilder production of The Front Page (1974), he supported screen tough guy Charles Bronson in the suspenseful western Breakheart Pass (1975) and featured as "Spermwhale Whalen" in the story of unorthodox police behavior in The Choirboys (1977).The versatile Durning is equally adept at comedic roles and demonstrated his skills as "Doc Hopper" in The Muppet Movie (1979), a feisty football coach in North Dallas Forty (1979), a highly strung police officer berating maverick cop Burt Reynolds in Sharky's Machine (1981), and a light footed, dancing Governor (alongside Burt Reynolds once more) in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982). Snyder" hassling street grifter 'Robert Redford' in the multi award winning mega-hit The Sting (1973). He scored minor roles over the next decade until he really got noticed by film fans as the sneering, corrupt cop "Lt. Durning first got his start in guest appearances in early 1960's TV shows. His father was an Irish immigrant and his mother was of Irish descent. The stockily built Charles Durning was one of Hollywood's most dependable and sought after supporting actors.Durning was born in Highland Falls, New York, to Louise Marie (Leonard), a laundress, and James Gerald Durning. WWII veteran, dance instructor and diversely talented stage & screen actor were all inclusions on the resume of this perpetually busy US actor who didn't get in front of the cameras until around the time of his fortieth birthday. Charles Durning was born on Februin Highland Falls, New York, United States, is Actor, Soundtrack, Miscellaneous Crew.
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