Charles Tyner

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Charles Tyner (born June 8, 1925 in Danville , Virginia - † November 8, 2017 ) was an American actor .

life and career

After serving in World War II and studying acting with Stella Adler , Tyler made his Broadway debut in 1957. Here he appeared in the play Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams . Two years later he starred alongside Paul Newman in Sweet Bird of Youth , another work by Williams on Broadway. Also in 1959, Tyner made his film debut in a small role alongside Sophia Loren and Tab Hunter in Sidney Lumet's drama Something From Woman! . Tyner was mainly a stage actor until the late 1960s, before taking on the role of the sadistic overseer Higgins in the 1967 film The Unyielding . This appearance earned him a long series of supporting roles in numerous Hollywood productions of the 1970s, where he played mostly hardened or villainous characters. He played the bellicose general in the comedy Harold and Maude (1971) and starred in westerns like The Cowboys (1971) and Jeremiah Johnson (1972). In the prisoner comedy The Hardest Mile (1974) he was seen as the murderous adversary of Burt Reynolds .

From the end of the 1970s, Tyner was seen less often in the cinema and mainly took on guest roles in popular television series such as Dallas and Our Little Farm . He also played more theater again. In 2014, after a long period of inactivity, he appeared again in the short film Lucidia alongside Bryce Johnson . He died in November 2017 at the age of 92.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SAG Aftra: In Memoriam. Accessed April 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Tyner, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Danville , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 2017