Donald Moffat

Donald Moffat (born December 26, 1930) is an English-born American actor.

Biography

Early life

Moffat was born in Plymouth, Devon, the only child of Kathleen Mary (née Smith) and Walter George Moffat, who was an insurance agent. His parents kept a boarding house in Totnes. Completing his studies at the local King Edward VI school and national service in the Army, Moffat trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

Career

Moffat began his career as a stage actor in London and New York. His first work was at the Old Vic Theater Company in London. He joined APA (The Association of Producing Artists), 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. He was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in the revival of O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh (1986) with Jason Robards. He won an Obie for "Painting Churches".

He has been in many motion pictures, including several big budget American films, usually in debonair but villainous roles. His best known is that of the corrupt U.S. President in the Harrison Ford film Clear and Present Danger. He has appeared on television in Logan's Run, The West Wing, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and Tales of the City. He has also appeared in many Broadway plays, including the world premieres of John Guare's "A Few Stout Individuals" (as Ulysses S. Grant), Tina Howe's Painting Churches, The Heiress, The Cherry Orchard, Much Ado About Nothing, The School for Scandal, and Hamlet.

Filmography

• 61*
• Clear and Present Danger (as the fictional President Bennett)
• The Evening Star
• Regarding Henry
• The Right Stuff (as U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Cookie's Fortune
• The Thing
• Trapped in Paradise
• Tartuffe (1978 television production) (as Tartuffe)
• Class Action
• Popeye
• The Best of Times

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