Posted on 12/25/2012 5:16:33 AM PST by KeyLargo
Actor Jack Klugman Dies at Age 90
By KARIN HALPERIN Dec. 24, 2012
Jack Klugman, one of television's most-loved actors, died today at the age of 90. He died peacefully at his home in Northridge, Calif., with his wife, Peggy, by his side, according to an announcement by his attorney.
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And another great actor.
Durning, king of character actors, dies in NYC
Dec 25, 5:39 AM (ET)
By BOB THOMAS
(AP) In this Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008 file photo, in Los Angeles file photo, actor Charles Durning...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Charles Durning grew up in poverty, lost five of his nine siblings to disease, barely lived through D-Day and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge.
His hard life and wartime trauma provided the basis for a prolific 50-year career as a consummate Oscar-nominated character actor, playing everyone from a Nazi colonel to the pope to Dustin Hoffman’s would-be suitor in “Tootsie.”
Durning, who died Monday at age 89 in New York, got his start as an usher at a burlesque theater in Buffalo, N.Y. When one of the comedians showed up too drunk to go on, Durning took his place. He would recall years later that he was hooked as soon as heard the audience laughing.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20121225/DA3CO4LO3.html
Jack Klugman ... RIP
Oscar lives forever...
Wow... didn`t know that about about Durning... D-Day and Battle of the Bulge.. They were simply a different and better breed of man.
Could you imagine any of these candy-assed modern Hollywood liberals going to war? They`d run away screaming in utter terror at the prospect of breaking a nail.
RIP, Mr. Durning...
Wow... didn`t know that about about Durning... D-Day and Battle of the Bulge.. They were simply a different and better breed of man.
Could you imagine any of these candy-assed modern Hollywood liberals going to war? They`d run away screaming in utter terror at the prospect of breaking a nail.
RIP, Mr. Durning...
You are correct sir, a different time and a different breed of MEN!
You don’t have to go to hollywood to find a pansy...Look no further than what passes for “leaders” these days..willie clinton, obama, gore, cheny, boehner, reid...etc.
“...barely lived through D-Day and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge.”
People today do some stupid fear factor type stunt and think they’re somebody, they have “bragging rights”. RIP.
That is the first I had heard about Charles Durning.
I enjoyed his ‘Sidestep’ and have played that youtube video frequently. He captured the essence of politics in that one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJG75FJkjr8
WPIX in NYC ran Star Trek ,I Dream Of Jeanie,and The Odd Couple all in a row in the 70’s and it was required viewing for myself along with my friends while growing up in the Bronx.
We loved the action of Star Trek, everything about Barbara Eden but we especially loved the comic chemistry between Jack Klugman and the late Tony Randal.
Jack Klugman also served in World War II, according to his Wikipedia biography.
Everyone who served in WW II is a hero to me.
I do remember Klugman in "The Twilight Zone". The trumpet one. IMDB says he was in four (4) of them.
Both will be missed.
Amazingly, out of that group, Gore did a stint in Vietnam (albeit as a journalist).
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