Posted on 12/21/2018 7:54:50 AM PST by Borges
Donald Moffat, the character actor who nailed Falstaffs paradoxes at the New York Shakespeare Festival, a grizzled Larry Slade in Eugene ONeills 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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” 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!!!”
The best line of the WHOLE scene!
Favorite line in whole movie! Entire scene was teed up for that one line.
True - but Heather Menzies was hawt!
“Cartoonish”? Or “Nailed it”?
Closely followed by "I dunno what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is."
You are not the only one.
I saw Moffat in lots of movies and would never have guessed he was British.
RIP.
Enjoyed his work. RIP.
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.
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