Jack Klugman (1922–2012)

[KC9ECI]

RIP Quincy.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/12/24/odd-couple-actor-jack-klugman-dies-at-90/

[KG4CGC]

Aw man! Haven't heard that name in years! RIP Quincy.

[n2ize]

RIP Oscar.

[kb2vxa]

Besides Quincy I remember him from The Odd Couple, and multiple appearances in The Twilight Zone. The sun has set on a great actor, we'll miss him.

[KG4CGC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09zKoHUlhDY&playnext=1&list=PL39060F6012A3 DF8F&feature=results_main

[NA4BH]

Damn, he owed me 10 bucks too. RIP Jack.

[W4GPL]

Also in 12 Angry Men, one of my favorite movies.. RIP.

Quincy was also one of my Grandfather's favorites, so I saw a lot of reruns when staying at their house. :)

[N8YX]

Was one of my late mother's favorites too.

RIP Jack. You entertained a generation rather well.

[K7SGJ]

You finally beat Fats Brown. RIP Jesse.

[N7YA]

We also lost Charles Durning...a WWII vet and great actor.

[KC9ECI]

We also lost Charles Durning...a WWII vet and great actor.

And a total badass. First wave on D-Day, survived a machine gun attack, stabbed by a German, survived the Malmedy Massacre, 3 Purple Hearts,

[N7YA]

Legit old man right there! Its kind of a bummer that more people dont know who im talking about...i mean, come on....Charles Durning! Doc Hopper?

[NQ6U]

And a total badass. First wave on D-Day, survived a machine gun attack, stabbed by a German, survived the Malmedy Massacre, 3 Purple Hearts,

Man, you're not kidding. From the NYT obit:


His combat experiences were harrowing. He was in the first wave of troops to land on Omaha Beach on D-Day and his unit’s lone survivor of a machine-gun ambush. In Belgium he was stabbed in hand-to-hand combat with a German soldier, whom he bludgeoned to death with a rock. Fighting in the Battle of the Bulge, he and the rest of his company were captured and forced to march through a pine forest at Malmedy, the scene of an infamous massacre in which the Germans opened fire on almost 90 prisoners. Mr. Durning was among the few to escape.

By the war’s end he had been awarded a Silver Star for valor and three Purple Hearts, having suffered gunshot and shrapnel wounds as well. He spent months in hospitals and was treated for psychological trauma.

[...]

In [an] interview, he recalled the hand-to-hand combat. “I was crossing a field somewhere in Belgium,” he said. “A German soldier ran toward me carrying a bayonet. He couldn’t have been more than 14 or 15. I didn’t see a soldier. I saw a boy. Even though he was coming at me, I couldn’t shoot.”

They grappled, he recounted later — he was stabbed seven or eight times — until finally he grasped a rock and made it a weapon. After killing the youth, he said, he held him in his arms and wept.

Mr. Durning said the memories never left him, even when performing, even when he became, however briefly, someone else.

[N7YA]

Wow.


Ive read a lot about him, and i really liked him as an actor...but i never read this story. My hats off to him, he has my complete respect as a human being.

[n6hcm]

everything i learn about him just confirms what a hard-ass he was. last night the bbc broadcast a recording of his *recovered* voice after he lost it during cancer surgery. it's hard to argue with this sort of determination.

[N7YA]

:yes:

[suddenseer]

everything i learn about him just confirms what a hard-ass he was. last night the bbc broadcast a recording of his *recovered* voice after he lost it during cancer surgery. it's hard to argue with this sort of determination.Someone should save some of that DNA for future use. I wish I was built that tough.:)

[N7YA]

Or that human. He experienced what few of us do...the horrors of war, the exploration and depth of emotion, and the art. And he lived to a ripe old age despite being stabbed, shot at, cancer, etc...im taking notes.

[K7SGJ]

I think what made him such a grand actor was all of his real life experience, and the emotions he could bring to his character. To me, his acting always seemed effortless and more real than just acting.

[X-Rated]

I guess they always go in threes. Charles Durning counts as two.