Durning was my favorite character actor, bar none. I would ordinarily rather have carnal knowledge of a dog with scarlet fever than go to a Broadway show, but I did to see him in a revival of "Inherit the Wind" (he was great). My favorite of his movie roles was as Jack Amsterdam in "True Confessions," the most uderappreciated great film of the Eighties.
I always thought Charles Durning was brilliantly funny as the deadpan priest in Everybody Loves Raymond. I thought it was a real coup for the show to get an actor of Durning's talent to play that role.
