Award-winning American actor Charles Durning has appeared in over 100 films including in Tootsie, Dog Day Afternoon, To Be or Not To Be, The Sting and O Brother, Where Art Thou?CNN: Charles Durning Gets Hollywood Star (August 1, 2008)

• 2008: Received Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2008: Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
• 1991: Won Tony Award for Best Actor-Play as Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• 1991: Won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor as John 'Honey Fitz' Fitzgerald in The Kennedys of Massachusetts
• 1983: Academy Award Best Supporting Actor Nomination as Col. Erhardt in To Be or Not to Be
• 1982: Academy Award Best Supporting Actor Nomination as Governor in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

• Charles Durning joined the U.S. Army when he was 17 years old. On June 6, 1944, Durning was one of the first wave of soldiers who landed on Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion. He was seriously wounded in late June 1944. Taken prisoner during the Battle of the Bulge, Durning was one of a handful of survivors of the attack on American POWs at Malmedy, Belgium. Durning was honored with three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star and in 2008 he received France's highest honor, the National Order of the Legion of Honor.LA Observed: France Honors Charles Durning (April 22, 2008)