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Donald Moffat

Highest Rated: 92% Rachel, Rachel (1968)

Lowest Rated: 6% A Smile Like Yours (1997)

Birthday: Dec 26, 1930

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Birthplace: Plymouth, Devon, England, UK

A bushy-browed veteran character player of stage and screen since the 1960s, Donald Moffat began stomping the boards during the 50s in his native England, making his West End debut in a 1954 production of "Macbeth." He made his feature debut in Paul Newman's "Rachel, Rachel" (1968), and since the early 80s has become a Hollywood staple, playing older gentlemen in both films and TV. Some of Moffat's craggy parts include "The Right Stuff" (1983), as Lyndon B. Johnson; "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (1988), as the chief surgeon; and "Bonfire of the Vanities" (1990), as Tom Hanks' dad. He was especially touching as a middle-aged businessman who finds he only has a short time to live in the TV miniseries adaptation of Armistead Maupin's San Francisco chronicle, "Tales from the City" (PBS, 1994). Moffat continued working steadily through the '90s, including roles as the president of the United States in the thriller "Clear and Present Danger" (1994) and in Robert Altman's crime comedy "Cookie's Fortune" (1999). He also appeared on "The West Wing" (NBC 1999-2006) as the father of Alison Janney's C.J. Cregg and on Dick Wolf's short-lived "Law & Order: Trial By Jury" (NBC 2005-06) as a judge. Donald Moffat died at his home in Sleepy Hollow, New York on December 20, 2018, following a massive stroke. He was 87.

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Highest rated movies

92% 77% Rachel, Rachel
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92% 54% Winter Kills
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87% 84% The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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86% 66% Cookie's Fortune
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86% 90% 61*
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85% 92% The Thing
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81% 74% Clear and Present Danger Watchlist
77% 51% Class Action
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75% 76% Music Box
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73% 45% The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
86% 90% 61* Ford Frick (Character) - 2001
86% 66% Cookie's Fortune Jack Palmer (Character) - 1999
6% 19% A Smile Like Yours Dr. Felber (Character) $3.3M 1997
20% 61% The Evening Star Hector Scott (Character) $12.7M 1996
No Score Yet 28% Love, Cheat & Steal Frank Harrington (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 91% Is There Life Out There? Grandpa Walter (Character) - 1994
81% 74% Clear and Present Danger President Bennett (Character) $121.5M 1994
10% 42% Trapped in Paradise Clifford Anderson (Character) $5.8M 1994
No Score Yet 58% Columbo: No Time to Die Unknown (Character) - 1992
36% 47% Housesitter George Davis (Character) $58.1M 1992
No Score Yet 33% Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story O'Connell (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Majority Rule Walter Simms (Character) - 1992
77% 51% Class Action Fred Quinn (Character) $23.9M 1991
49% 63% Regarding Henry Charlie Cameron (Character) $41.0M 1991
No Score Yet 70% Babe Ruth Jacob Ruppert (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Great Pretender Owen Milner (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kojak: Flowers for Matty Garrett Fitzsimons (Character) - 1990
15% 26% The Bonfire of the Vanities Mr. McCoy (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet 85% A Son's Promise Paw Paw (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet 85% Kaleidoscope Arthur Patterson (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet 69% Cross of Fire George Oberholtzer (Character) - 1989
75% 76% Music Box Harry Talbot (Character) $5.1M 1989
13% 48% Far North Uncle Dane (Character) $23.7K 1988
87% 84% The Unbearable Lightness of Being Chief Surgeon (Character) $9.3M 1988
No Score Yet 33% Monster in the Closet Gen. Turnbull (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet 60% Desperado Malloy (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet 21% Houston: The Legend of Texas Col. John Allen (Character) - 1986
29% 43% The Best of Times The Colonel (Character) $5.8M 1986
No Score Yet 36% Alamo Bay Wally (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet 33% License to Kill Webster (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Through Naked Eyes Patrolman (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet 58% Who Will Love My Children? Dick Thomas (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion Captain Vesey (Character) - 1982
85% 92% The Thing Garry (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Hugh Auchincloss (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet The White Lions Vreeland (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Long Days of Summer Josef Kaplan (Character) - 1980
58% 39% Popeye The Taxman (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet On the Nickel Sam (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 31% H.E.A.L.T.H. Colonel Cody (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 50% Promises in the Dark Dr. Walter McInerny (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet 17% Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter Wally Ball (Character) - 1979
92% 54% Winter Kills Unknown (Character) $75.6K 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mrs. R's Daughter Frank Randell (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet 80% The Gift of Love William Schuyler (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mary White Sir James Barrie (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Exo-Man Wallace Rogers (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Call of the Wild Simpson (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Snowman Air Traffic Controller (Character) - 1975
50% 39% The Terminal Man Dr. Arthur McPherson (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet 41% Showdown Art Williams (Character) - 1973
73% 45% The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid Manning (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Devil and Miss Sarah Appleton (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The File on Devlin Hywood (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Of Mice and Men Slim (Character) - 1968
92% 77% Rachel, Rachel Niall Cameron (Character) - 1968

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81% 95% The West Wing Talmidge Cregg (Guest Star) 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bull Robert "the Kaiser" Roberts (Character) 2000-2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dr. Quinn Unknown (Guest Star) 1997
No Score Yet 81% Columbo Sheldon Hays (Guest Star) 1992
No Score Yet 71% The Bourne Identity David Abbott (Character) 1988
No Score Yet 89% Murder, She Wrote Tim Carver (Guest Star) 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dallas Unknown (Guest Star) 1982-1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Logan's Run Rem (Character) 1977-1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Little House on the Prairie Nathaniel Mears (Guest Star) 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Waltons Unknown (Guest Star) 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Six Million Dollar Man Dr. Martin Davis (Guest Star) 1975-1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gunsmoke Joseph Graham (Guest Star) 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mannix Don McGrath (Guest Star) 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bonanza Unknown (Guest Star) 1970-1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The High Chaparral Unknown (Guest Star) 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Room 222 Unknown (Guest Star) 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Here Come the Brides Marlowe (Guest Star) 1969