Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid actor Charles Dierkop dies aged 87 | 53VC205 | 2024-02-29 21:08:01
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid actor Charles Dierkop dies aged 87 | 53VC205 | 2024-02-29 21:08:01
Charles Dierkop, the character actor greatest recognized for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, has died aged 87.
Dierkop, who performed outlaw George 'Flat Nose' Curry within the Paul Newman and Robert Redford basic Western movie, died on Sunday (February 25) at Sherman Oaks Hospital in LA.
His daughter Lynn advised The Hollywood Reporter he died after a current heart assault and bout of pneumonia.
Dierkop's other major roles have been starring alongside Newman and Redford again in the caper film The Sting and within the police procedural Police Lady, that includes Angie Dickinson.
Born in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1936, Dierkop was enlisted within the US army and served in Korea after the Korean Struggle ended.
After being discharged, he enrolled in the American Foundation of Dramatic Arts in Philadelphia and pursued a profession in Hollywood.
Dierkop's first uncredited position was in Voyage to the Backside of the Sea in 1961 before he was forged alongside Rod Steiger in 1964's& The Pawnbroker.
He additionally famously played a gangster in the 1967 mob movie& The St Valentine's Day Massacre.
Dierkop continued starring in films until 2016 when he played Louie in The Midnighters.
On the small display, he had an equally distinguished career, appearing in the TV collection The Man from UNCLE and an episode of Star Trek.
His different TV credits embrace Mission: Inconceivable, Kung Fu and MacGyver.
Dierkop additionally made an appearance in& REM's 1992 music video for their Man on the Moon hit. He was seen in the promo sitting in a pub.
Speaking about being forged in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 2018, Dierkop stated he was fitted to the a part of an outlaw as a result of his nose had been damaged several occasions as a toddler.
'My agent was on a aircraft reading a script and it says, Flat Nose Curry … I feel I've somebody in mind' he recalled& in an interview with Rob Word.
'So I received an interview with [director] George Roy Hill and received forged, quite merely.'
Dierkop was married to Joan Addis, whom he met on the American Foundation of Dramatic Arts, from 1958 till their divorce in 1974.
The previous couple had two youngsters: son Charles Jr, who died in 1990 aged 29, and daughter Lynn.
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