Charles Durning - wikipedia Charles Durning Charles Durning Charles Durning at the 2008 National Memorial Day Concert in Washington, D.C.. Charles Edward Durning ( 1923 - 02 - 28 ) February 28, 1923 Highland Falls, New York, U.S. December 24, 2012 ( 2012 - 12 - 24 ) ( aged 89 ) New York City, U.S. Resting place Arlington National Cemetery 38 ° 52 ′ 25 '' N 77 ° 03 ′ 51 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 38.8737 ° N 77.0641 ° W ﻿ / 38.8737 ; - 77.0641 Occupation Actor Years active 1945 -- 2012 Spouse ( s ) Carole Doughty ( 1959 -- 1972 ; div. ) Mary Ann ( Amelio ) Durning ( 1974 -- 2010 ; Declaration of Separation, Los Angeles, CA ) Children Parent ( s ) Louise Durning ( née Leonard ; 1894 -- 1982 ) James E. Durning ( 1883 -- c. 1939 ) Relatives James G. Durning ( brother ) Clifford John Durning ( brother ) Frances Durning ( sister ) Gerald J. Durning ( brother ) 5 more sisters Military career Allegiance United States Service / branch Army of the United States Years of service 1943 -- 1946 Rank Private First Class Awards 9 awards, 2 badges, 1 button Charles Edward Durning ( February 28, 1923 -- December 24, 2012 ) was an American actor, with appearances in over 200 movies, television shows and plays. Durning 's best - known roles included The Sting ( 1973 ) and Dog Day Afternoon ( 1975 ), along with the comedies The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ), Tootsie ( 1982 ), and To Be or Not to Be ( 1983 ). Contents 1 Early life 2 Military service 2.1 Military awards and decorations 3 Acting career 4 Death 5 Filmography 5.1 Film 5.2 Television 6 Narrations 7 References 8 External links Early life Durning was born in Highland Falls, New York, the ninth of ten children. His three brothers James ( Roger ) ( 1915 -- 2000 ), Clifford ( 1916 -- 1994 ), Gerald ( 1926 -- 2000 ) and his sister Frances ( born 1919 ) survived to adulthood, but five sisters lost their lives to scarlet fever and smallpox as children. He was the son of Louise ( née Leonard ; 1894 -- 1982 ), a laundress at West Point, and James E. Durning ( 1883 -- c. 1939 ). His father was an Irish immigrant. and his mother was also of Irish descent. Durning was raised Catholic. In 1959, Durning married his first wife, Carole Doughty. They divorced in 1972. A Declaration of Separation was filed in 2010 from his second wife, Mary Ann ( Amelio ) Durning. He had three children from his first marriage. Military service Charles Durning served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was drafted at age 20, participated in the D - Day landings at Omaha Beach in Normandy. He was discharged with the rank of Private First Class on January 30, 1946. Durning was known for participating in various functions to honor American veterans, including serving as Chairman of the U.S. National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans. He was an honored guest speaker for 17 years at the National Memorial Day Concert televised by PBS every year on the Sunday evening of Memorial Day weekend. Durning was paid a special tribute at the May 26, 2013 National Memorial Day Concert when `` Taps '' was sounded in his honor. Military awards and decorations For his valor and the wounds he received during the war, Durning was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and 3 Purple Heart Medals. Additional awards included the Army Good Conduct Medal, the American Campaign Medal and the European - African - Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with one bronze service star, and the World War II Victory Medal. His badges included the Combat Infantryman Badge, Expert Badge with Rifle Bar, and Honorable Service Lapel Pin. Durning received the French National Order of the Legion of Honor from the French Consul in Los Angeles in April 2008. Badges and pins Combat Infantryman Badge Expert Badge with Rifle Bar Honorable Service Lapel Button Ribbons Silver Star Bronze Star Purple Heart Good Conduct Medal American Campaign Medal EAME Campaign Medal ( 2x ) World War II Victory Medal Legion of Honour -- Chevalier Acting career With Maureen Stapleton in the 1975 made - for - television film Queen of the Stardust Ballroom ( both were nominated for an Emmy Award ). While pursuing an acting career, Durning, a professional ballroom dancer, taught at Fred Astaire Dance Studio in New York City. Durning began his career in 1951. While working as an usher in a burlesque theatre, he was hired to replace a drunken actor on stage. Subsequently, he performed in roughly 50 stock company productions and in various off - Broadway plays, eventually attracting the attention of Joseph Papp, founder of The Public Theater and the New York Shakespeare Festival. Beginning in 1961, he appeared in 35 plays as part of the Shakespeare Festival. `` That time in my life was my best time, '' Durning told Pittsburgh 's Post Gazette in 2001. `` I had no money at all, and he ( Joseph Papp ) did n't pay much. You were getting a salary for performance plus a rehearsal salary. We would do three plays in Central Park for the summer. And then you 'd do three to six plays every year down on Lafayette Street -- new plays by new writers : Sam Shepard, David Mamet, David Rabe, John Ford Noonan, Jason Miller. '' During this period, he segued into television and movies. He made his film debut in 1965, appearing in Harvey Middleman, Fireman. He appeared in John Frankenheimer 's I Walk the Line ( 1970 ) starring Gregory Peck, and three Brian De Palma movies, Hi, Mom ! ( 1970 ), credited as Charles Durnham, with Robert DeNiro, Sisters ( 1973 ) and The Fury ( 1978 ). He also appeared in Dealing : or the Berkeley - to - Boston Forty - Brick Lost - Bag Blues ( 1972 ) with Barbara Hershey and John Lithgow. Durning 's performances in Broadway productions include Drat ! The Cat ! ( 1965 ), Pousse - Café ( 1966 ), The Happy Time ( 1968 ), Indians ( 1969 ), That Championship Season ( 1972 ), In the Boom Boom Room ( 1973 ), The au Pair Man ( 1973 ), Knock Knock ( 1976 ), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1990 ), Inherit the Wind ( 1996 ), The Gin Game ( 1997 ), and The Best Man ( 2000 ). In 2002, he performed in Bertolt Brecht 's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui with Al Pacino, produced by Tony Randall. He played the role of Jack Jameson in Wendy Wasserstein 's final play, Third ( 2005 ), with Dianne Wiest at Lincoln Center 's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre. Durning won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his powerful performance in The Westwood Playhouse 's 1977 production of David Rabe 's Streamers. In 1980, he won critical acclaim for his performance as Norman Thayer, Jr. in Los Angeles 's Ahmanson Theater 's production of On Golden Pond opposite Julie Harris. In 1972, director George Roy Hill, impressed by Durning 's performance in the Tony Award - and Pulitzer Prize - winning play That Championship Season, offered him a role in The Sting ( 1973 ). In the Best Picture - winner, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, Durning won distinction as the crooked cop, Lt. Wm. Snyder, who polices and hustles professional con artists. He doggedly pursues the young grifter, Johnny Hooker ( Redford ), only to become the griftee in the end. Other film credits include Dog Day Afternoon with Al Pacino ; When A Stranger Calls ; The Final Countdown ; The Hindenburg ; Twilight 's Last Gleaming with Burt Lancaster ; True Confessions with Robert DeNiro. Some television credits include The Connection ; Queen of the Stardust Ballroom, the made - for - television musical in which he played the mailman who reaches out to Maureen Stapleton 's lonely widow on the dance floor ; Attica ; PBS 's Dancing Bear with Tyne Daly ; the PBS production I Would Be Called John as Pope John XXIII ; Hallmark Hall of Fame : Casey Stengel, in which Durning played the legendary baseball manager Charles Dillon `` Casey '' Stengel ; NBC 's mini-series Studs Lonigan with Harry Hamlin and Colleen Dewhurst ; The Best Little Girl in the World with Jennifer Jason Leigh. In 1976, he received both an Emmy and a Golden Globe nomination for his performance in the television mini-series Captains and the Kings. In 1979, he played Doc Hopper, a man who owns a frog leg restaurant and the main antagonist in The Muppet Movie. In Tootsie, he played a suitor to Dustin Hoffman 's cross-dressing lead character. The two actors worked together again in a 1985 TV production of Death of a Salesman. In 1993, he guest - starred in the Sean Penn - directed music video `` Dance with the One That Brought You '' by Shania Twain. Other film roles include Henry Larson, the benevolent father of Holly Hunter 's character in Home for the Holidays ( 1995 ) and Waring Hudsucker in The Hudsucker Proxy ( 1994 ). He worked with the Coen Brothers again playing `` Pappy '' O'Daniel, a cynical governor of Mississippi ( a character loosely based on the Texas politician and showman W. Lee O'Daniel ) in the Coen Brothers ' O Brother, Where Art Thou ? ( 2000 ). Prior to appearing in the Burt Reynolds 's TV series, Evening Shade, as the town doctor Harlan Eldridge ( 1990 - 1994 ), Durning appeared with Reynolds in five films, beginning with 1979 's Starting Over, followed by 1981 's Sharky 's Machine, 1982 's Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, 1985 's Stick and 1999 's `` Hostage Hotel. '' On TV, Durning had a recurring role on Everybody Loves Raymond as the Barone family 's long - suffering parish priest, Father Hubley. He also played the voice of recurring character Francis Griffin in the animated series Family Guy. He appeared on the FX television series Rescue Me, playing Mike Gavin, the retired firefighter father of Denis Leary 's character. In 2005, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for his portrayal of a Marine veteran in `` Call of Silence, '' an episode in the television series NCIS, first broadcast November 23, 2004. Durning 's character turns himself in to authorities, insisting that he must be prosecuted for having murdered his buddy during ferocious combat on Iwo Jima six decades earlier. The real truth of the incident only becomes known for certain when the guilt - stricken veteran goes through a cathartic reliving of the battlefield events. For his numerous roles on television, he earned nine Emmy Award nominations. He also received Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nominations for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas in 1982 and To Be or Not to Be in 1983. He won a Golden Globe in 1990 for his supporting role in the television miniseries The Kennedys of Massachusetts, having had three previous nominations. That same year, he won a Tony Award for his performance as Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He received two Drama Desk Awards for his performances in That Championship Season and Third. In 1999, Durning was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame on Broadway. He was honored with the Life Achievement Award at the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Award Ceremony on January 27, 2008. On July 31, 2008 he was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame adjacent to one of his idols, James Cagney. `` There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we do n't want anyone to know about, '' he told Parade. `` There 's terror and repulsion in us, the terrible spot that we do n't talk about. That place that no one knows about -- horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting. '' The Charles Durning Collection is held at the Academy Film Archive. Along with films he appeared in, his collection consists mainly of films he admired as well as a small collection of family home movies. Death Durning died of natural causes at his home in Manhattan on December 24, 2012, aged 89 and was subsequently buried at Arlington National Cemetery. On December 27, 2012, Broadway theaters dimmed their lights to honor him. The New York Times, which commented on Durning 's more than 200 credited roles, referred to him and actor Jack Klugman, who died the same day, as `` extraordinary actors ennobling the ordinary ''. The Huffington Post compared the two men, calling them `` character actor titans ''. Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1962 The Password Is Courage American GI Uncredited 1965 Harvey Middleman, Fireman Dooley 1969 Stiletto Cop Uncredited 1970 Hi, Mom ! Superintendent ( as Charles Durnham ) I Walk the Line Hunnicutt 1971 The Pursuit of Happiness 2nd Guard 1972 Doomsday Voyage Jason 's First Mate Dealing : Or the Berkeley - to - Boston Forty - Brick Lost - Bag Blues Murphy Sisters Joseph Larch 1973 Deadhead Miles Red Ball Rider The Sting Lt. Wm. Snyder The Front Page Murphy Queen of the Stardust Ballroom Alvin `` Al '' Green TV movie Nominated -- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Dog Day Afternoon Det. Sgt. Eugene Moretti National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated -- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor -- Motion Picture Breakheart Pass O'Brien The Hindenburg Capt. Pruss 1976 Harry and Walter Go to New York Rufus T. Crisp 1977 Twilight 's Last Gleaming President David Stevens The Choirboys Spermwhale Whalen 1978 The Fury Dr. Jim McKeever An Enemy of the People Peter Stockmann The Greek Tycoon Michael Russell 1979 Tilt Harold ' The Whale ' Remmens The Muppet Movie Doc Hopper Doc Hopper is a frog legs restaurant owner North Dallas Forty Coach Johnson Starting Over Michael Potter When a Stranger Calls John Clifford 1980 Attica Russell Oswald TV movie Nominated -- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Die Laughing Arnold The Final Countdown Senator Samuel Chapman 1981 Crisis at Central High Principal Jess Matthews TV movie True Confessions Jack Amsterdam Dark Night of the Scarecrow Otis P. Hazelrigg TV movie Sharky 's Machine Friscoe 1982 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Governor Nominated -- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Tootsie Leslie ' Les ' Nichols Scarface Immigration Officer Voice, Uncredited Two of a Kind Charlie To Be or Not to Be Col. Erhardt Nominated -- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated -- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor -- Motion Picture 1984 Mister Roberts The Captain Mass Appeal Monsignor Thomas Burke 1985 Stick Chucky The Man with One Red Shoe Ross Death of a Salesman Charley TV movie Nominated -- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Stand Alone Louis Thibadeau 1986 Big Trouble O'Mara Where the River Runs Black Father O'Reilly Tough Guys Deke Yablonski Meatballs III : Summer Job Pete Uncredited Solarbabies The Warden The Rosary Murders Father Ted Nabors Happy New Year Charlie A Tiger 's Tale Charlie Drumm Hadley 's Rebellion Sam Crawford The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains Warden Hardy TV movie Nominated -- CableACE Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Cop Dutch Peltz Far North Bertrum Case Closed Detective Les Étoile Uncle Joshua Brenda Starr Editor Francis I. Livright Cat Chaser Jiggs Scully Dinner at Eight Dan Packard TV movie 1990 Dick Tracy Chief Brandon Fatal Sky Colonel Clancy 1991 V.I. Warshawski Det. Lt. Bobby Mallory The Music of Chance Bill Flower When A Stranger Calls Back John Clifford The Hudsucker Proxy Waring Hudsucker I.Q. Louis Bamberger 1995 The Last Supper Reverend Gerald Hutchens The Grass Harp Reverend Buster Home for the Holidays Henry Larson Spy Hard The Director Recon Chief The Land Before Time IV : Journey Through the Mists Archie the Archelon Voice Mrs. Santa Claus Santa Claus One Fine Day Lew 1997 The Secret Life of Algernon Norbie Hess 1998 Shelter Capt. Robert Landis Jerry and Tom Vic Hi - Life Fatty Hard Time Detective Charlie Duffy 2000 Lakeboat Skippy O Brother, Where Art Thou ? Pappy O'Daniel Very Mean Men Paddy Mulroney The Last Producer Syd Wolf State and Main Mayor George Bailey Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cast National Board of Review Award for Best Cast Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Never Look Back N / A 2001 L.A.P.D. : To Protect and to Serve Stuart Steele 2002 Turn of Faith Philly Russo Mother Ghost George Mr. St. Nick King Nicholas XX The Naked Run Congressman Davenport Short The Last Man Club John ' Eagle Eye ' Pennell Pride & Loyalty Dylan Frier 2003 Dead Canaries Jimmy Kerrigan Death and Texas Marshall Ledger One Last Ride Mr. Orlick A Boyfriend for Christmas Santa Claus 2005 River 's End Murray Blythe Resurrection : The J.R. Richard Story Frank McNally The L.A. Riot Spectacular The Lawyer Dirty Deeds Victor Rasdale Detective Max Ernst TV movie Jesus, Mary and Joey Teddy the Bartender 2006 Descansos Innkeeper # 2 Miracle Dogs Too Capt. Pete Weaver Unbeatable Harold Harold 's Father Local Color Yammi Forget About It Eddie O'Brien 2007 Polycarp Alexander Hathaway aka Kinky Killers 2008 Good Dick Charlie Deal Charlie Adler The Drum Beats Twice Satan Break The Wise Man iMurders Dr. Seamus St. Martin The Golden Boys John Bartlett A Bunch of Amateurs Charlie Rosenberg 2009 Shannon 's Rainbow Floyd Three Chris 's Kris Kringle Chronicle of Purgatory : The Waiter Frank ' The Handler ' Maro An Affirmative Act Man in the White Suit 2011 Naked Run Congressman Davenport The Great Fight Judge Frier The Life Zone James Wise 2012 Rogue Assassin Frank Maro 2014 Scavenger Killers Dylan Frier 2015 Bleeding Hearts Santa Claus ( final film role ) Television Year Title Role Notes 1972 Another World Gil McGowan ( # 1 ) Unknown episodes 1973 All in the Family Detective Episode : `` Gloria the Victim '' 1975 -- 1976 The Cop and The Kid Officer Frank Murphy 13 episodes Barnaby Jones Don Corcoran Episode : `` The Deadly Conspiracy : Part 2 '' 1976 Captains and the Kings Ed Healey 3 episodes Nominated -- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor -- Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated -- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie 1981 Great Performances McMahon Episode : `` The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories '' 1982 American Playhouse Retired Man Episode : `` Working '' 1985 Amazing Stories Assistant to the Boss Episode : `` Guilt Trip '' 1985 Tall Tales & Legends Uncle Doffue Episode : `` The Legend of Sleepy Hollow '' 1986 Amazing Stories Earl Episode : `` You Gotta Believe Me '' 1990 -- 1994 Evening Shade Dr. Harlan Elldridge 98 episodes Nominated -- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series ( 1991 -- 92 ) 1990 The Kennedys of Massachusetts John `` Honey Fitz '' Fitzgerald 3 episodes The Water Engine Tour Guide Television Movie Elmo Saves Christmas Santa Claus Television Special 1997 Orleans Frank Vitelli 3 episodes 1997 Early Edition Psychiatrist Episode : `` A Regular Joe '' 1998 Homicide : Life on the Street Thomas Finnegan Episode : `` Finnegan 's Wake '' Nominated -- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series 1998 Cybil A.J. Sheridan 2 episodes 1998 -- 2002 Everybody Loves Raymond Father Hubley 6 episodes 1998 -- 2000 The Practice Stephen Donnell 2 episodes 1999 -- 2009 Family Guy Francis Griffin 5 episodes 1999 -- 2000 Now and Again Narrator 20 episodes 2000 The Hoop Life Wes Connelly Episode : `` The Second Chance '' 2000 Early Edition Judge Steven Romick Episode : `` Time '' 2001 Arli $ $ N / A Episode : `` Fielding Offers '' 2001 Citizen Baines Clifford Connelly Episode : `` Three Days in November '' 2002 First Monday Justice Henry Hoskins 13 episodes 2003 Touched by an Angel Father Madden Episode : `` The Root of All Evil '' 2004 -- 2011 Rescue Me Michael Gavin 27 episodes Nominated -- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series NCIS Corporal Ernie Yost Episode : `` Call of Silence '' Nominated -- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series 2006 Everwood Eugene Brown 2 episodes 2007 Monk Hank Johansen Episode : `` Mr. Monk Goes to the Hospital '' No Clean Break The Wise Man Unsold TV pilot Narrations Normandy : The Great Crusade Discovery Channel Director - Christopher Koch - English ( 1994 ) References ^ Jump up to : Thomas, Bob ( December 24, 2012 ). `` Charles Durning Obituary ''. Los Angeles : AP via Legacy.com. Retrieved 2012 - 12 - 26. ^ Jump up to : Cf. a Ancestry.com family tree search. The New York Times obituary, published December 26, 2012, writes that Charles ' father died when he was 16, placing his death between Feb 28, 1939 to Feb 27, 1940. A more exact reference is needed. Jump up ^ Schudel, Matt ( December 26, 2012 ) `` In real life and on the screen, he played countless roles '' The Washington Post, p. B4 Jump up ^ CHARLES DURNING ; Healing the Wounds of Normandy Jump up ^ `` Sullivan County Democrat : Obituaries for November 7, 2000 ''. Sc-democrat.com. Retrieved December 28, 2012. Jump up ^ Liz Smith. The mother book. Retrieved December 28, 2012. Jump up ^ `` Los Angeles Times : Archives - NO BLEEPS FOR DURNING 'S ROLE ''. Pqasb.pqarchiver.com. March 2, 1981. Retrieved December 28, 2012. Jump up ^ Michaelson, Judith ( September 15, 1987 ). `` Durning Takes On The ' Peasant Pope ' For Pbs ''. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 28, 2012. ^ Jump up to : National Personnel Records Center ( April 18, 2008 ). `` Letter from NPRC to Charles Durning '' ( Press release ). St. Louis, MO. p. 2. Jump up ^ VA Voluntary Service -- National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans Jump up ^ Staff Sgt. Jon Cupp, MND - B PAO, `` Military urban legends versus true tales : real life stories prove more interesting '', www.Army.mil, retrieved 16 - Sep - 2011 Jump up ^ `` Speech by Consul General of France Philippe Larrieu ''. Los Angeles : French Diplomatic Mission to the United States. April 22, 2008. Archived from the original on May 6, 2008. Retrieved 2012 - 12 - 26. Jump up ^ O'Hare, Kate. ' NCIS ' Has Durning Hearing Echoes of War Archived December 1, 2007, at the Wayback Machine... tv.zap2it.com. Jump up ^ `` Charles Durning Collection ''. Academy Film Archive. Jump up ^ `` Charles Durning ''. The Daily Telegraph. London. December 26, 2012. Jump up ^ `` Charles Durning, Oscar - nominated king of the character actors, dies at 89 in NYC ''. The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 26 December 2012. Retrieved 25 December 2012. Jump up ^ `` WWII Soldier, character actor Charles Durning to be interred at Arlington ''. United States Army. January 17, 2013. Jump up ^ Genzlinger, Neil ( December 26, 2012 ). `` AN APPRAISAL ; Remembering Jack Klugman and Charles Durning ''. The New York Times. Retrieved December 27, 2012. Jump up ^ `` Charles Durning, Jack Klugman Deaths Bring New Appreciation For Character Actor Titans ''. The Huffington Post. December 25, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2012. External links Biography portal United States Army portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Charles Durning. 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Wong ( 1988 ) Peter Frechette ( 1989 ) Charles Durning ( 1990 ) Kevin Spacey ( 1991 ) Laurence Fishburne ( 1992 ) Joe Mantello / Stephen Spinella ( 1993 ) Jeffrey Wright ( 1994 ) Nathan Lane ( 1995 ) Martin Shaw ( 1996 ) Brian Murray ( 1997 ) Alfred Molina ( 1998 ) Kevin Anderson ( 1999 ) Roy Dotrice ( 2000 ) 2001 -- present Charles Brown ( 2001 ) Frank Langella ( 2002 ) Denis O'Hare ( 2003 ) Ned Beatty ( 2004 ) Michael Stuhlbarg ( 2005 ) Samuel Barnett ( 2006 ) Boyd Gaines ( 2007 ) Conleth Hill ( 2008 ) Pablo Schreiber ( 2009 ) Santino Fontana ( 2010 ) Brian Bedford ( 2011 ) Tom Edden ( 2012 ) Richard Kind ( 2013 ) Reed Birney ( 2014 ) K. 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