Nice vintage 8x10-inch black and white portrait, boldly signed and inscribed in black felt-tip pen, probably in the early 1980s. In good condition. Warm, lovable, sometimes downright silly character actor Charles Durning was nominated for two Academy Awards, for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1983) and Mel Brooks' To Be or Not to Be (1984). He was elsewhere unforgettable, in a mixed bag of dramatic and comedic roles, in films like The Sting (1973), The Front Page (1974), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), The Hindenburg (1975), An Enemy of the People (1978), The Greek Tycoon (1978), The Muppet Movie (1979), Tootsie (1982), Scarface (1983), Mass Appeal (1984), Tough Guys (1986), Dick Tracy (1990), One Fine Day (1996), and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000).

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