Charles Durning Over the Years: The 90sDurning had reached his mid-sixties by the 1990s, but his pro
Charles Durning Over the Years: The 90sDurning had reached his mid-sixties by the 1990s, but his productivity continued at the same breathless pace. He won a Golden Globe in 1990 for his supporting role in the TV miniseries “The Kennedys of Massachusetts,” having had three previous nominations. That same year, he won a Tony Award for his performance as Big Daddy in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and further acclaim opposite George C. Scott in the 1996 revival of “Inherit the Wind.” He was relegated mainly to character parts on film and television like Chief Brandon in Warren Beatty’s colorful epic “Dick Tracy” (1990); the president of Hudsucker Industries, whose cartoonish suicide sets the screwball plot of “The Hudsucker Proxy” (1994) in motion. He was in Jodie Foster’s dysfunctional family comedy/drama “Home for the Holidays” (1995), the absurd comedy “Spy Hard” (1996) and “Jerry and Tom” (1998). He was a series regular or recurring character on no less than four shows during the decade, including “Cybill,” as Cybill Shepherd’s father; the short-lived “Orleans,” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” as the Barone’s long-suffering parish priest; and most notably “Evening Shade,” for which he earned two Emmy nominations as slow-witted town doctor Harlan Elleridge. Durning also picked up Emmy nominations for a 1998 guest appearance on “Homicide: Life on the Street.” -- source link
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