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FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008, file photo from Los Angeles, actor Charles Durning accepts the life achievement award at the 14th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Durning, the two-time Oscar nominee who was dubbed the king of the character actors for his skill in playing everything from a Nazi colonel to the pope, died Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, at his home in New York City. He was 89. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
FILE - In this Thursday, July 31, 2008, file photo, actor Charles Durning smiles during ceremonies honoring him with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Durning, the two-time Oscar nominee who was dubbed the king of the character actors for his skill in playing everything from a Nazi colonel to the pope, died Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, at his home in New York City. He was 89. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2001, file photo, actors Charles Durning, left, James Garner, center, and James Karen rehearse on the set of "First Monday" at the Sunset Gower Studios in Los Angeles. Durning, the two-time Oscar nominee who was dubbed the king of the character actors for his skill in playing everything from a Nazi colonel to the pope, died Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, at his home in New York City. He was 89. (AP Photo/Lucy Nicholson)
FILE - In this Saturday, March 3, 1984, file photo, from left, actors Charles Durning, Eliott Gould and Screen Actors Guild President Ed Asner take a break before the filming of the 50th Anniversary Special celebrating the guild in Santa Monica, Calif. Durning, the two-time Oscar nominee who was dubbed the king of the character actors for his skill in playing everything from a Nazi colonel to the pope, died Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, at his home in New York City. He was 89. (AP Photo/Heung Shing Liu)
FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008, file photo, actor Charles Durning accepts the life achievement award from presenter Burt Reynolds, left, at the 14th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles. Durning, the two-time Oscar nominee who was dubbed the king of the character actors for his skill in playing everything from a Nazi colonel to the pope, died Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, at his home in New York City. He was 89. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
In this Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008, photo, Charles Durning holds his life achievement award at the 14th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles. Durning, the two-time Oscar nominee who was dubbed the king of the character actors for his skill in playing everything from a Nazi colonel to the pope, died Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, at his home in New York City. He was 89. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Charles Durning grew up in poverty, lost five of his nine siblings to disease, barely lived through D-Day and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge. His hard life and wartime trauma provided the basis for a prolific 50-year career as a consummate …