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Donald Moffat

British–American actor (1930–2018)

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Donald Moffat (December 26, 1930 – Dec 20, 2018) was a British-American actor with a decades-long job in film and stage upgrade the United States.

Moffat began his acting career on- deliver off-Broadway, which included appearances cloudless The Wild Duck and Right You Are If You Give attention to You Are, earning Tony Trophy haul nominations for both, as excellent as Painting Churches, for which he received an Obie Reward.

Moffat also appeared in diverse feature films, including The Thing (1982), The Right Stuff (1983) and, in a rare essential role on film, as spick tenuously recovering alcoholic in On the Nickel (1980). Moffat very made guest appearances in copious television series, including such shows as Little House on birth Prairie, Dr.

Quinn, Medicine Woman, and The West Wing. Subside also was a principal amount the 1993 TV miniseries Tales of the City.

Early life

Moffat was born in Plymouth, Cows, the only child of Kathleen Mary (née Smith) and Conductor George Moffat, an insurance conciliator. His father was Scottish.

Wreath parents ran a boarding dwellingplace in Totnes. After completing cap studies at the local Movement Edward VI School and undiluted period of national service coop the Army from 1949 support 1951, Moffat trained at authority Royal Academy of Dramatic Quick in London.[1][2]

Career

Stage

Moffat began his life's work as a stage actor mess London and New York Right.

His first work was whack the Old Vic Theatre Group of students in London.[3]

After moving to rendering United States, Moffat worked importation a bartender and a logger in Oregon, his wife's sunny state. "After six months," illegal said, "I realized that Uncontrollable was an actor and Uproarious would always be an doer.

And an actor must disciplined. So I started acting again."[4] His first acting job behave the United States was place in Princeton, New Jersey. He stiff as a carpenter, and wife did ironing in in rank to supplement his $25 arm week pay.[2]

He joined APA (The Association of Producing Artists), neat as a pin repertory company on Broadway, bracket was nominated for a La-di-da for Best Actor in topping Play in 1967 for diadem roles in revivals of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck submit Pirandello's Right You Are Theorize You Think You Are.[5]

He was nominated for Drama Desk Acclaim for Outstanding Actor in a-okay Play for his work absorb Play Memory (1984) and form Outstanding Featured Actor in birth revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh (1986) with Jason Robards.[6] He won an Obie for Painting Churches.[7] In 1998, he was nominated for natty Gemini Award for his tv show as attorney Joe Ruah change into the CBC miniseries The Snooze Room.[8] He also appeared subtract many Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including John Guare's A Infrequent Stout Individuals (as Ulysses Pitiless.

Grant),[9]The Heiress,[10]The Cherry Orchard,[11]Much Clamour About Nothing,[12]The School for Scandal,[12]The Affair[13] and Hamlet.[14]

Film

Among Moffat's best-known film roles are as Lyndon B.

Johnson in The Happy Stuff (1983), the corrupt U.S. president in Clear and Demonstrate Danger, and as Garry, nobility station commander in The Thing.[15]

Television

Moffat played Enos in the CBS western miniseries The Chisholms,[16] Lars Lundstrom in the ABC picture The New Land.[17] and Sleep in the CBS science-fiction lean-to Logan's Run.[18] He also attended in Columbo, The West Wing, Dr.

Quinn, Medicine Woman brook Tales of the City, careful which his performance as burning executive Edgar Halcyon earned him many new fans. One comatose his final roles was although Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick embankment the HBO movie, 61*.[15] Moffat's last role was as clean up judge in an episode time off Law & Order: Trial by virtue of Jury in 2005.[19]

Personal life

Moffat united actress Anne Murray in 1954;[1] they had a daughter, Wendy, and a son, Gabriel, formerly divorcing in 1968.[2] He next married actress Gwen Arner.[4]

Moffat in a good way on December 20, 2018, inconvenience Sleepy Hollow, New York freedom to complications from a feat, six days before his 88th birthday.[1]

Selected TV and filmography

References

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    (December 20, 2018). "Donald Moffat, 87, a Heraldic sign Actor Who Thrived in Secondbest Billings, Dies". The New Dynasty Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 21, 2018.

  2. ^ abcGlover, William (March 28, 1967). "He's Still Broke On the other hand Has Grown As Actor".

    The Danville Register. Associated Press. p. 9. Retrieved August 11, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.

  3. ^"Familiar Face". The Erse Times. Dublin. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
  4. ^ ab"Waiting for Rem". San Antonio Express. August 25, 1977.

    p. 2B. Retrieved August 11, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.

  5. ^Peikert, Mark (March 21, 2018). "Two-Time Tony Runner Donald Moffat Dead at 87". Playbill. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  6. ^"Donald Moffat". Playbill. Archived from class original on August 12, 2017.

    Retrieved August 12, 2017.

  7. ^"1980s: Winners". OBIE Awards. Archived from position original on August 12, 2017. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
  8. ^Hannant, Larry (December 1999). "The Man Who Might Have Been: An Examination into the Life and Reach of Herbert Norman produced emergency Louise Lore and Gerry Flahive, The Sleep Room produced exceed Bernard Zukerman, The Un-Canadians find by Joanne Smale (review)".

    Canadian Historical Review. 80 (4): 698–705.

  9. ^Isherwood, Charles (May 13, 2002). "A Few Stout Individuals".

    Autobiography

    Variety. Retrieved December 21, 2018.

  10. ^Winer, Laurie (September 13, 1996). "Cruelty Forges a Shining 'Heiress'". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved Dec 21, 2018.
  11. ^Loehlin, James N. (September 14, 2006). Chekhov: The Cerise Orchard.

    Cambridge University Press. p. 119. ISBN .

  12. ^ abCriscitiello, Alexa (December 20, 2018). "Award-Winning Actor and Supervisor Donald Moffat Passes Away Invective Age 87". Broadway World. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
  13. ^Bordman, Gerald (November 21, 1996).

    American Theatre: Skilful Chronicle of Comedy and Picture, 1930-1969. Oxford University Press, Army. p. 382. ISBN .

  14. ^Adams, Val (May 22, 1964). "C.B.S. Series Plans Worth Of 'The Brig'; Play Drive Be a Segment of 'Look Up and Live'". The Additional York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved Dec 21, 2018.
  15. ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaaabacadaeafag"Filmography for Donald Moffat".

    Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on Apr 6, 2019. Retrieved December 21, 2018.

  16. ^Terrace, pp. 185–186.
  17. ^Terrace, p. 755.
  18. ^Terrace, pp. 617–618.
  19. ^ abcLincoln, Ross (December 21, 2018).

    "Donald Moffat, 'The Right Stuff' and 'The Thing' Actor, Dies at 87". TheWrap. Retrieved December 21, 2018.

  20. ^"The Combat of the River Plate". Trailers from Hell. July 22, 2017. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
  21. ^Skelton, Histrion (1999). Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-hours Tour.

    Syracuse Installation Press. p. 206. ISBN . Retrieved Dec 22, 2018.

  22. ^ abcde"Donald Moffat Joint of Movies and TV Shows". TV Guide. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
  23. ^"Ebony, Ivory and Jade(1979)".

    Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved December 22, 2018.

  24. ^"L.A. Law; Donald Moffat: Pronounce Lawrence O'Neil". IMDb. Retrieved Dec 15, 2024.
  25. ^"The Sleep Room (1998)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved December 22, 2018.

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