Home / Discover / People

Charles Durning

English
Filmography

Bleeding Hearts

2015
as Santa Claus

Scavenger Killers

2013
as Dylan Frier

Rogue Assassin

2012

The Life Zone

2011
as James Wise

The Great Fight

2011
as Judge Frier

Naked Run

2011
as Congressman Davenport

An Affirmative Act

2010
as Man in the White Suit

The Waiter

2010
as Frank 'The Handler' Maro

Deal

2008
as Charlie Adler

iMurders

2008
as Dr. Seamus St. Martin

Good Dick

2008
as Charlie

A Bunch of Amateurs

2008
as Charlie Rosenberg

The Golden Boys

2008
as John Bartlett

Kinky Killers

2007
as Alexander Hathaway

Jesus, Mary and Joey

2006
as Teddy

Local Color

2006
as Yammi

Desperation

2006
as Tom Billingsley

Descansos

2006
as Inkeeper #2

Unbeatable Harold

2006
as Harold's Father

Miracle Dogs Too

2006
as Captain Pete Weaver

Forget About It

2006
as Eddie O'Brien

The L.A. Riot Spectacular

2005
as The Lawyer

Dirty Deeds

2005
as Victor Rasdale

A Boyfriend for Christmas

2004
as Santa Claus

One Last Ride

2004
as Mr. Orlick

The Autopsy

2004
as Charles Durning

Death and Texas

2004
as Marshall Ledger

Rescue Me

2004
as Michael Gavin

A Very Married Christmas

2004
as Ozzy Larson

Mr. St. Nick

2002
as Nicholas XX

Mother Ghost

2002
as George

Turn of Faith

2002
as Philly Russo

L.A.P.D.: To Protect And To Serve

2001
as Stuart Steele

Very Mean Men

2000
as Paddy Mulroney

The Last Producer

2000
as Syd Wolf

Lakeboat

2000
as Skippy

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

2000
as Menelaus "Pappy" O'Daniel

Never Look Back

2000

State and Main

2000
as Mayor George Bailey

Hard Time: Hostage Hotel

1999
as Det. Charlie Duffy

Hard Time: The Premonition

1999
as Det. Charlie Duffy

Jerry and Tom

1998
as Vic

Hi-Life

1998
as Fatty

Hard Time

1998
as Det. Charlie Duffy

Shelter - 1998

1998
as Capt. Robert Landis

Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas

1997
as Santa Claus

The Secret Life of Algernon

1997
as Norbie Hess

One Fine Day

1996
as Lew

Mrs. Santa Claus

1996
as Santa Claus

Spy Hard

1996
as The Director

The Last Supper

1995
as Reverend Gerald Hutchens

A Woman of Independent Means

1995
as Andrew Alcott

Home for the Holidays

1995
as Henry Larson

The Grass Harp

1995
as Reverend Buster

Leslie's Folly

1994
as Doctor

The Hudsucker Proxy

1994
as Waring Hudsucker

Texan

1994
as Vaughn

Roomates

1994
as Barney

Charlie Sheen's Stunts Spectacular

1994
as Himself - (archive footage)

I.Q.

1994
as Louis Bamberger

The Music of Chance

1993
as Bill Flower

When A Stranger Calls Back

1993
as John Clifford

The Water Engine

1992
as Tour Guide

Tales from Hollywood

1992
as Charles F. Money

V.I. Warshawski

1991
as Det. Lt. Bobby Mallory

Dick Tracy

1990
as Chief Brandon

The Kennedys of Massachusetts

1990
as John 'Honey Fitz' Fitzgerald

Evening Shade

1990
as Dr. Harlan Eldridge

The Butter Battle Book

1989
as Grandfather

It Nearly Wasn't Christmas

1989
as Santa

Brenda Starr

1989
as Editor Francis I. Livright

Ballet

1989
as Uncle Joshua

Cat Chaser

1989
as Jiggs Scully

Cop

1988
as Dutch Peltz

Far North

1988
as Bertrum

Unholy Matrimony

1988
as Reverend Samuel Corey

Case Closed

1988
as Les Kabowski

The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains

1987
as Warden Hardy

Kenny Rogers as The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues

1987
as Senator Henry Colton

Happy New Year

1987
as Charlie

A Tiger's Tale

1987
as Charlie Drumm

The Rosary Murders

1987
as Father Ted Nabors

Tough Guys

1986
as Deke Yablonski

Where the River Runs Black

1986
as Father O'Reilly

Big Trouble

1986
as O'Mara

Solarbabies

1986
as The Warden

Stick

1985
as Chucky

Death of a Salesman

1985
as Charley

The Man with One Red Shoe

1985
as Ross

Stand Alone

1985

Tall Tales and Legends: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

1985
as Uncle Doffue

P.O.P.

1984
as P Oliver Pendergast

Mass Appeal

1984
as Monsignor Thomas Burke

Two of a Kind

1983
as Charlie

To Be or Not to Be

1983
as Col. Erhardt

Hadley's Rebellion

1983
as Sam Crawford

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

1982
as Governor

Tootsie

1982
as Les Nichols

The Best Little Girl in the World

1981
as Frank Powell

Sharky's Machine

1981
as Lt. Friscoe

Dark Night of the Scarecrow

1981
as Otis P. Hazelrigg

True Confessions

1981
as Jack Amsterdam

Crisis at Central High

1981
as Jess Matthews

The Final Countdown

1980
as Senator Samuel Chapman

Attica

1980
as Commisioner Russel Oswald

Die Laughing

1980

Tilt

1979
as Harold 'The Whale' Remmens

The Muppet Movie

1979
as Doc Hopper

When a Stranger Calls

1979
as John Clifford

Studs Lonigan

1979
as Paddy Lonigan

Starting Over

1979
as Michael "Mickey" Potter

North Dallas Forty

1979
as Coach Johnson

The Fury

1978
as Dr. Jim McKeever

Special Olympics

1978
as Carl Gallitzin

An Enemy of the People

1978
as Peter Stockmann

Twilight's Last Gleaming

1977
as President David T. Stevens

The Choirboys

1977
as Spermwhale Whalen

Harry and Walter Go to New York

1976
as Rufus T. Crisp

The Hindenburg

1975
as Captain Pruss

Dog Day Afternoon

1975
as Det. Sgt. Eugene Moretti

Queen of the Stardust Ballroom

1975
as Al Green

The Trial of Chaplain Jensen

1975
as Budd Rogers

Breakheart Pass

1975
as O'Brien

The Front Page

1974
as Murphy

The Sting

1973
as Lt. Wm. Snyder

Sisters

1973
as Joseph Larch

Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues

1972
as Murphy

Deadhead Miles

1972
as Truck Driver in Cafe

Doomsday Voyage

1972
as Jason's First Mate

The Pursuit of Happiness

1971
as 2nd Guard

Hi, Mom!

1970
as Superintendent

I Walk the Line

1970
as Hunnicutt

Stiletto

1969
as Cop

Harvey Middleman, Fireman

1965
as Dooley

The Password Is Courage

1962

Sticky My Fingers... Fleet My Feet

as Football Player

Guest Star

Episode Family Guy
Peter's Two Dads 		2007
Episode Family Guy
The Father, The Son, and The Holy Fonz 		2005
Episode NCIS
Call of Silence 		2004
Episode Rescue Me
Kansas 		2004
Episode Citizen Baines
Three Days In November 		2001
Episode Family Guy
Mr. Saturday Knight 		2001
Episode The Practice
Death Penalties 		2000
Episode Family Guy
Holy Crap 		1999
Episode The Practice
Passing Go 		1998
Episode Cybill
Bakersfield 		1998
Episode Cybill
Daddy 		1998
Episode Homicide: Life on the Street
Finnegan's Wake 		1998
Episode Early Edition
A Regular Joe 		1997
Episode Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
Episode 1 		1996
Episode The Untouchables
The Return of Eliot Ness 		1991
Episode Dolly
113 		1988
Episode Amazing Stories (1985)
You Gotta Believe Me 		1986
Episode Tall Tales and Legends
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 		1985
Episode Amazing Stories (1985)
Guilt Trip 		1985
Episode Cannon
The Deadly Conspiracy (1) 		1975
Episode Hawaii Five-O
Retire In Sunny Hawaii -- Forever 		1975
Episode Barnaby Jones
The Deadly Conspiracy (Part 2) 		1975
Episode Baretta
Set-Up City 		1975
Episode All in the Family
Gloria the Victim 		1973
Episode East Side/West Side
Go Fight City Hall 		1963