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Charles Durning

Charles Durning

American actor (1923-2012)
February 28, 1923 (December 24, 2012)
U.S. 2006. Fantasy by Mick Garris with Ron Perlman, Tom Skerritt, Annabeth Gish. Tourists trapped in an old Nevada mining town enter into a battle with the sheriff who is possessed by an evil spirit.
Runtime: 131 min.
U.S. 2004. Sentimental comedy by Kevin Connor with Kelli Williams, Patrick Muldoon, Charles Durning. A lawyer worried that she will never find true love sees the boy she was secretly in love with as a teenager re-enter her life.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 2002. Fantasy comedy by Craig Zisk with Kelsey Grammer, Charles Durning, Katherine Helmond. Santa decides to pass the torch to his son who leads a hectic life in Miami.
U.S. 2001. Court drama by Mick Garris with Chris Noth, Edward James Olmos, Lolita Davidovich. A judge accused of murder is defended by an attorney with whom he has crossed swords many times.
Runtime: 120 min.

L.A.P.D.: Protéger et servir

V.O.: L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve
U.S. 2001. Crime drama by Ed Anders with Marc Singer, Charles Durning, Michael Madsen. A young Los Angeles police officer discovers that some of his colleagues are doing business with gangsters.
U.S. 2000. Dramatic comedy by Joe Mantegna with Tony Mamet, Robert Forster, Charles Durning. A literature student takes a summer job on a Great Lakes freighter.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1999. Crime drama by Hal Needham with Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Keith Carradine. An ex-policeman is called in to rescue his former partner and the family of a politician taken hostage by a Vietnam War veteran.
U.S. 1998. Drama by Tony Bill with JoBeth Williams, Michael Ontkean, Charles Durning. Stuck in an airport because of a snowstorm, a couple on the verge of divorce reconcile.
Runtime: 91 min.
U.S. 1998. Thriller by Jack Ersgard with JoBeth Williams, Charles Durning, James Belushi. A lawyer becomes the target of a drug lord's killers.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 1998. Mores comedy by Roger Hedden with Eric Stoltz, Charles Durning, Peter Riegert. To pay off a gambling debt, a New York actor pulls off a scheme that turns the lives of several people upside down in one night.
Runtime: 82 min.
Can. 1997. Dramatic comedy by Charles Jarrott with John Cullum, Carrie-Anne Moss, Charles Durning.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1993. Crime drama by Fred Walton with Jill Schoelen, Carol Kane, Charles Durning. Five years after surviving an attack by two murderers, a college student is terrorized again by one of them.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 1992. Drama by Steven Schachter with Charles Durning, Patti LuPone, William H. Macy. In 1930s Chicago, a young inventor gets into trouble with a crooked financier.
U.S. 1989. Biography by Lamont Johnson with William Petersen, Annette O'Toole, Charles Durning. Saga of the Kennedy family, one of whose members will become president of the United States.
U.S. 1989. Comedy by Ron Lagomarsino with Lauren Bacall, Charles Durning, Ellen Greene. The trials and tribulations of the guests at a society function.
Runtime: 113 min.
U.S. 1989. Tale by Burt Brinckerhoff with Charles Durning, Risa Schiffman, Bruce Vilanch. Disappointed by the behaviour of humans, Santa Claus goes on strike, but he regains confidence when he meets a runaway girl.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1989. Crime drama by Abel Ferrara with Peter Weller, Kelly McGillis, Charles Durning. The owner of a motel in Florida becomes romantically involved with the wife of a millionaire.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1988. Crime drama by Jerrold Freedman with Charles Durning, Michael O'Keefe, Patrick Duffy. Two individuals who planned a woman
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 1988. Psychological drama by Sam Shepard with Jessica Lange, Charles Durning, Tess Harper. After an accident, a farmer asks his daughter who has come all the way from New York to avenge him by killing his horse.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1988. Police comedy by Dick Lowry with Charles Durning, Byron Allen, Marc Alaimo. Two police officers are chasing a killer who was involved in a major diamond robbery several years earlier.
Runtime: 93 min.
U.S. 1987. Biography by Daniel Mann with Val Kilmer, Charles Durning, Kyra Sedgwick. Sentenced in 1921 to ten years in a Georgia chain gang for an attempted robbery, a man escapes and takes refuge in Chicago.
Runtime: 113 min.
U.S. 1987. Crime drama by Fred Walton with Donald Sutherland, Charles Durning, Belinda Bauer. Although bound by the secrecy of the confession, a priest tries to prevent a serial killer from claiming more victims.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 1987. Sentimental comedy by Peter Douglas with C. Thomas Howell, Ann-Margret, Kelly Preston. A teenager, working to become a veterinarian, falls in love with his girlfriend's divorced mother.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 1987. Crime drama by James B. Harris with James Woods, Charles Durning, Lesley Ann Warren. A police officer insists on linking the murder of a prostitute to a series of other murders.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1986. Adventures by Christopher Cain with Alessandro Rabelo, Charles Durning, Ajay Naidu. In the Amazon, an orphan seeks revenge on a politician he recognized as one of his mother's murderers.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1986. Comedy by Jeff Kanew with Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Charles Durning. After thirty years in prison, two old men decide to attack a train.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 1985. Crime drama by Alan Beattie with Charles Durning, Pam Grier, James Keach. A World War II veteran who witnessed a shooting becomes the target of the killers.
Runtime: 94 mi
U.S. 1985. Police comedy by Stan Dragoti with Tom Hanks, Dabney Coleman, Lori Singer. A young musician, mistaken for a super secret agent, is under constant surveillance.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1985. Police comedy by John Cassavetes with Alan Arkin, Peter Falk, Beverly d'Angelo. An insurance agent gets caught up in a dubious plot to pocket money for his sons' education.
Runtime: 93 min.
U.S. 1984. Drama by Glenn Jordan with Jack Lemmon, Zeljko Ivanek, Charles Durning. The pastor of a middle-class parish in Los Angeles finds his pastoral work challenged by the arrival of an ardent and absolute seminarian.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 1984. Drama by Fred Walton with Griffin O'Neal, William Devane, Charles Durning. A teenager who moves from Georgia to California seeks to overcome his problems by taking up wrestling.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1983. Comedy by Alan Johnson with Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Tim Matheson. During the war, a troupe of Polish actors manages to mystify the Germans.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1982. Sentimental comedy by Sydney Pollack with Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr. An unemployed actor decides to disguise himself as a woman to apply for a role in a TV show.
Runtime: 116 min.
U.S. 1981. Fantasy by Frank de Felitta with Charles Durning, Larry Drake, Robert F. Lyons. The murderers of a simple-minded face death under strange circumstances.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1981. Psychological drama by Sam O'Steen with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Eva Marie Saint, Charles Durning.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1981. Crime drama by Ulu Grosbard with Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro, Charles Durning. In the late 1940s, two brothers, one a police officer and the other a priest, find their lives turned upside down by a murder case.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1981. Social drama by Lamont Johnson with Joanne Woodward, Charles Durning, Calvin Levels.
Runtime: 125 min.
U.S. 1980. Social drama by Marvin J. Chomsky with Henry Darrow, Charles Durning, Joel Fabiani.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 1979. Crime drama by Fred Walton with Charles Durning, Tony Beckley, Carol Kane.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 1979. Mores drama by James Goldstone with Harry Hamlin, Colleen Dewhurst, Charles Durning.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1978. Dramatic comedy by Rudy Durand with Brooke Shields, Ken Marshall, Charles Durning.
Runtime: 111 min.
U.S. 1978. Psychological drama by Lee Philips with Charles Durning, Irene Tedrow, George Parey.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1978. Psychological drama by Lee Philips with Charles Durning, Irene Tedrow, George Parey.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1977. Dramatic comedy by Robert Aldrich with Charles Durning, Perry King, Don Stroud. Off-duty distractions for a group of police officers have tragic consequences.
Runtime: 119 min.
All. 1977. Drama by Robert Aldrich with Burt Lancaster, Charles Durning, Richard Widmark. A former general seizes a nuclear missile launch base and blackmails the U.S. government.
Runtime: 144 min.
U.S. 1976. Social drama by George Schaefer with Steve McQueen (I), Charles Durning, Bibi Andersson. Having discovered a source of pollution in the city's water, a doctor is rejected by his fellow citizens who fear that the news will get out.
U.S. 1975. Drama by Robert Day with James Franciscus, Joanna Miles, Charles Durning. A military chaplain is accused of misconduct by the wives of officers on the base where he is assigned.
Runtime: 73 min.
U.S. 1975. Crime drama by Robert Day with Robert Wagner, Eddie Albert, Charles Durning. With the help of a con man, a former police officer sets a trap for a dishonest colleague.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1975. Crime drama by Sidney Lumet with Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning. Surrounded by police in a bank, two second-hand thieves use the employees as hostages.
Runtime: 129 min.
U.S. 1973. Crime drama by Tom Gries with Charles Durning, Ronny Cox, Zohra Lampert. A former journalist acts as an intermediary between jewel thieves and an insurance company.
U.S. 1973. Sentimental drama by Sam O'Steen with Maureen Stapleton, Charles Durning, Michael Brandon. A widow in her fifties has a romantic affair with a married man she met in a dance hall.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1973. Police comedy by George Roy Hill with Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw. Two crooks set up a clever hoax to get revenge on a mob boss.
Runtime: 129 min.
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U.S. 1972. Thriller by Brian De Palma with Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Bill Finley. A journalist who witnessed a murder tries to prove the veracity of her account, despite the disappearance of the corpse.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1972. Crime drama by Jack Smight with Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Marlene Warfield. A police officer searches for a young Black thief who a racketeer has vowed to kill.
Runtime: 75 min.

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