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RIP

Two Greats

RIP, guys.

That's a damn shame....

To be honest, I thought Klugman had died years ago...

The Odd Couple series that he did with Tony Randall was one of the funniest and best made series in the history of television. They really had fantastic chemistry.

The last thing I saw Durning in was an excellent NCIS episode a few years ago...he played a WW II Medal Of Honor winner who wanted to turn himself in for killing a fellow marine on Iwo Jima during the war. He was nominated for an Emmy for that role.

I kept tabs on Klugman he did some great Twilight Zones He apparently also did the most.

http://video.adultswim.com/space-ghost- ... -show.html
fixed link to that of entire show not first two minutes

RIP Oscar. You made TV worth watching.

I kept tabs on Klugman he did some great Twilight Zones He apparently also did the most.

Yes he did some great ones, but unless I'm mistaken and I'm missing one, (which I might be, I'm doing this from memory) he was in 3...Burgess Meredith was in 4....

Klugman was in the one where he played a down and out trumpet player who kills himself, and the one with Johnathan Winters, (my personal favorite) where he plays a pool shark who plays another pool shark who has returned from the dead, and a third one where he plays an astronaut who lands on a planet where he and the rest of his crew don't realize they are dead till the end of the episode.... (Interesting when you think about it, that all of those episodes involve his character dealing with death)

Burgess Meredith played in the classic episode about the guy who loves to read and survives a nuclear holocaust only to have his reading glasses break, another where he plays a political prisoner on trial in a futuristic fascist society, a third where he plays a wimpy little guy who some visiting aliens give super strength, and a fourth, (my favorite Meredith episode) where he plays the Devil....

(That's some serious Twilight Zone geeking I've got going on there.... )

Evidently Harry Carey jr. is now dead also...

You forgot "In Praise of Pip" He and Merideth tied.

I'm not sure if everyone is aware of Charles Durning's military career...

From Wikipedia-

Military service

Durning served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Drafted at age 21, he was first assigned as a rifleman with the 398th Infantry Regiment, and later served overseas with the 3rd Army Support troops and the 386th Anti-aircraft Artillery (AAA) Battalion.

Durning participated in the Normandy Invasion of France on D-Day, June 6, 1944, and was among the first troops to land at Omaha Beach. In Episode S03E09 of the program Dinner for Five, which also included Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise and Charles Nelson Reilly, Reynolds spoke about Durning's service career for him, as Durning did not like to talk about it much. Reynolds revealed that Durning was in a group of gliders who overshot their landing zone and that he had to fight alone all the way back to the beach. Reynolds also stated that his own father was there fighting about 15 yards away and that Durning was probably the most decorated veteran (then) still alive from World War II.[10] Some sources state that he was with the 1st Infantry Division at the time,[11] but it is unclear if he served as a rifleman or as a member of one of the division's artillery battalions.

Durning was wounded by a German “S” Mine on June 15, 1944 at La Mare des Mares, Normandy. He was transported to the 24th Evacuation Hospital and by June 17 he was in England at the 217th General Hospital. He was severely wounded by shrapnel in the left and right thighs, the right hand, the frontal head region, and the anterior left chest wall. Durning recovered quickly and was determined to be fit for duty on December 6, 1944. He arrived back at the front in time to take part in the Battle of the Bulge, the German counter-offensive through the Ardennes Forest of Belgium and Luxembourg in December 1944.[12][13] Subsequently, Durning was at one point captured by the Germans and reportedly narrowly escaped a massacre of prisoners.[14] (Whether this was the famed Malmedy massacre is a matter of dispute, since no official record of Durning's name associated with the massacre has been found, and Durning himself did not publicly claim to have been there.)

After being wounded again, this time in the chest, Durning was returned to the United States. He remained in Army hospitals until being discharged with the rank of Private First Class on January 30, 1946.

Durning was known for participating in various functions to honor American veterans. He was the chairman one year of the U.S. National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans.[15] He was an honored guest speaker at the National Memorial Day Concert for many years, televised by PBS every year on the Sunday evening of Memorial Day weekend.

For his valor and the wounds he received during the war, Durning was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and three Purple Heart medals.[16] Additional awards include the World War II Victory Medal.[17]

In April 2008 Durning received the National Order of the Legion of Honor from the French consul in Los Angeles, awarded to those who served with distinction in France. During the ceremony, Durning spoke about his wartime experiences.[18]

Thanks for that post Joe; I didn't know all the details...

Quite a guy....

I liked Klugman in Quincy, M.E.

Crackpot wrote:I kept tabs on Klugman he did some great Twilight Zones He apparently also did the most.

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