{"id":25588,"date":"2012-12-25T10:18:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T15:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=25588"},"modified":"2012-12-25T10:18:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T15:18:07","slug":"charles-durning-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/25\/charles-durning-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Durning, 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/charles-durning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-25589\" alt=\"charles-durning\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/charles-durning-300x222.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/charles-durning-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/charles-durning-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/charles-durning.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Charles Durning, the twice Oscar-nominated character actor who appeared in over 200 roles in television and film, died yesterday at his home in Manhatttan. He was 89.<\/p>\n<p>The breadth of Durning&#8217;s career is fairly wide. In the span of six decades he played characters that ranged from a Nazi to the Pope and included a variety of detectives, judges, doctors and military men. Some of his most notable roles were in <strong>The Sting<\/strong> (1973), <strong>Dog Day Afternoon <\/strong>(1975), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, <strong>The Muppet Movie<\/strong> (1979), <strong>Tootsie<\/strong> (1982) and his two collaborations with the Coen Brothers &#8211; <strong>The Hudsucker Proxy<\/strong> (1984) and <strong>Oh Brother Where Art Though? <\/strong>(2000).<\/p>\n<p>Durning&#8217;s first Academy Award nomination came in 1982 for his portrayal of the comically corrupt governor in the musical <strong>The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas<\/strong>. A portly man, Durning surprised critics with his skill and dexterity as a dancer in the film&#8217;s musical set pieces. (Durning had previously been an instructor at a dance academy.) His second Oscar nom came for playing a bumbling Nazi officer in Mel Brooks&#8217; remake of Ernst Lubitsch&#8217;s <strong>To Be Or Not To Be<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The twice Oscar-nominated character actor died yesterday.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/25\/charles-durning-89\/\" title=\"Charles Durning, 89\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[5932],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-obituary-news","8":"tag-charles-durning"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25588"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=25588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}