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Donald Moffat, 87, a Top Actor Who Thrived in Second Billings, Dies
NYT ^ | 12/20/2018 | Robert D. McFadden

Posted on 12/21/2018 7:54:50 AM PST by Borges

Donald Moffat, the character actor who nailed Falstaff’s paradoxes at the New York Shakespeare Festival, a grizzled Larry Slade in Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh” on Broadway and a sinister president in the film “Clear and Present Danger,” died on Thursday in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. He was 87.

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Moving to America as a 26-year-old actor was the realization of a dream for Mr. Moffat, his daughter Lynn recalled in a telephone interview.

“One reason he was anxious to leave England was the class system,” she said. “He hated it. And he loved Americans.

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To: LeonardFMason

” Garry: I know you gentlemen have been through a lot. And when you find the time I’d rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS F**KING COUCH!!!”


21 posted on 12/21/2018 10:26:52 AM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Riley

The best line of the WHOLE scene!


22 posted on 12/21/2018 10:31:21 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: Riley

Favorite line in whole movie! Entire scene was teed up for that one line.


23 posted on 12/21/2018 10:36:08 AM PST by Hayzo
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To: rjsimmon

True - but Heather Menzies was hawt!


24 posted on 12/21/2018 10:39:25 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Sans-Culotte

“Cartoonish”? Or “Nailed it”?


25 posted on 12/21/2018 10:52:05 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Hayzo
Favorite line in whole movie!

Closely followed by "I dunno what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is."

26 posted on 12/21/2018 11:02:28 AM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Vermont Lt
I guess I had him confused with James Cromwell.

You are not the only one.

I saw Moffat in lots of movies and would never have guessed he was British.

RIP.

27 posted on 12/21/2018 11:04:48 AM PST by x
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To: Borges

Enjoyed his work. RIP.


28 posted on 12/21/2018 11:55:29 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: rjsimmon

“One reason he was anxious to leave England was the class system,” she said. “He hated it. And he loved Americans.”

This is what the dems/socialists want. Conservatives as second class citizens.


29 posted on 12/21/2018 3:45:53 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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