Developed an interest in Acting at the age of 28 when, while working as an usher, he was called onstage to replace a drunken Actor. Durning said he was hooked when he first heard the audience laugh.
[from an interview in 2008] They're going to carry me out, if I go.
Burly and tough but genial characters
King of Character Actors
Pisces
Charles Edward Durning
Highland Falls, New York, USA
(age 89)
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA