Donald Moffat was a British-American actor with a decades-long career in film and stage in the United States.
14 Facts About Donald Moffat
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Donald Moffat appeared in several feature films, including The Thing, The Right Stuff and, in a rare leading role on film, as a tenuously recovering alcoholic in On the Nickel.
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Donald Moffat made guest appearances in numerous television series, including such shows as Little House on the Prairie, Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman, and The West Wing.
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Donald Moffat was a principal in the 1993 TV miniseries Tales of the City.
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Donald Moffat was born on December 26,1930, in Plymouth, Devon, the only child of Kathleen Mary and Walter George Donald Moffat, an insurance agent.
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Donald Moffat began his career as a stage actor in London and New York City.
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Donald Moffat worked as a carpenter, and his wife did ironing in order to supplement his $25 per week pay.
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Donald Moffat joined APA, a repertory company on Broadway, and was nominated for a Tony for Best Actor in a Play in 1967 for his roles in revivals of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck and Pirandello's Right You Are If You Think You Are.
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Donald Moffat was nominated for Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Actor in a Play for his work in Play Memory and for Outstanding Featured Actor in the revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh with Jason Robards.
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Donald Moffat appeared in many Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including John Guare's A Few Stout Individuals, The Heiress, The Cherry Orchard, Much Ado About Nothing, The School for Scandal, The Affair and Hamlet.
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Donald Moffat played Enos in the CBS western miniseries The Chisholms, Lars Lundstrom in the ABC drama The New Land.
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Donald Moffat appeared in Columbo, The West Wing, Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman and Tales of the City, in which his performance as dying executive Edgar Halcyon earned him many new fans.
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Donald Moffat married actress Anne Murray in 1954; they had a daughter, Wendy, and a son, Gabriel, before divorcing in 1968.
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Donald Moffat died on December 20,2018, in Sleepy Hollow, New York due to complications from a stroke, six days before his 88th birthday.