Donald Moffat
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Birthplace:
Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
RADA alumnus Donald Moffat made his London stage debut in 1954, playing the First Murderer in MacBeth. On stage, the wiry, angular Moffat excelled in the plays of Ibsen and Moliere; on screen, he has since carved his niche in eccentric, unpredictable roles. He has also sparkled in authoritative characterizations, both bombastic (a tantrum-tossing LBJ in 1981's The Right Stuff, a fascistic Colonel Ruppert in the 1991 TV movie Babe Ruth) and cool-headed (the fictional U.S. president in 1993's A Clear and Present Danger, Kennedy in-law Hugh Auchincloss in the 1982 video presentation Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy). In addition, Moffat has brightened many a Robert Altman production, most prominently as the ubiquitous bike-riding tax collector in Popeye (1980). Donald Moffat's TV-series resumé includes such roles as an immigrant Scandinavian minister in The New Land (1974), a lovable android in Logan's Run (1977), and all-knowing Dr. Marcus Polk on the ABC daytimer One Life to Live.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Forget-Me-Not-Lane |
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— | 2003 |
85% | 61* |
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— | 2001 |
86% | Cookie's Fortune |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | The Sleep Room |
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— | 1998 |
6% | A Smile Like Yours |
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— | 1997 |
22% | The Evening Star |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Is There Life out There? |
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— | 1994 |
80% | Clear and Present Danger |
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— | 1994 |
5% | Trapped in Paradise |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Love, Cheat & Steal |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story |
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— | 1992 |
40% | Housesitter |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Columbo: No Time to Die |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Majority Rule |
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— | 1992 |
43% | Regarding Henry |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | When the Time Comes |
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— | 1991 |
76% | Class Action |
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— | 1991 |
16% | The Bonfire of the Vanities |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Kaleidoscope |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | A Son's Promise |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Cross of Fire |
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— | 1989 |
72% | Music Box |
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— | 1989 |
13% | Far North |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | The Bourne Identity |
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— | 1988 |
85% | The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Necessary Parties |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Desperado |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Monster in the Closet |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Gone to Texas |
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— | 1986 |
31% | The Best of Times |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Alamo Bay |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | License to Kill |
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— | 1984 |
96% | The Right Stuff |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Through Naked Eyes |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Who Will Love My Children? |
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— | 1983 |
85% | The Thing |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy |
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— | 1981 |
63% | Popeye |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Health |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | The Long Days of Summer |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | On the Nickel |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Promises in the Dark |
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— | 1979 |
88% | Winter Kills |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Mrs. R's Daughter |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | The Gift of Love |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Tartuffe |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Mary White |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Call of the Wild |
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— | 1976 |
44% | Earthquake |
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— | 1974 |
53% | The Terminal Man |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | A Touch of the Poet |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | Showdown |
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— | 1973 |
73% | The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | The Trial of the Catonsville Nine |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | R.P.M. |
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— | 1970 |
86% | Rachel, Rachel |
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— | 1968 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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75% |
The West Wing
1999-2006
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No Score Yet |
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
1993-1998
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100% |
Tales of the City
1993
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No Score Yet |
Columbo
1968-2003
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No Score Yet |
American Playhouse
1982-1996
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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No Score Yet |
Dallas
1978-1991
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No Score Yet |
Little House on the Prairie
1974-1983
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No Score Yet |
Logan's Run
1977-1978
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No Score Yet |
The Waltons
1972-1981
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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No Score Yet |
Ironside
1967-1975
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No Score Yet |
Mission: Impossible
1966-1973
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No Score Yet |
Bonanza
1959-1973
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No Score Yet |
The High Chaparral
1967-1971
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78% |
More Tales Of The City
1998
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Quotes from Donald Moffat's Characters
Garry: | This is pure nonsense. It doesn't prove a thing. |
MacReady: | I thought you'd feel that way, Garry. You were the only one that could've gotten to that blood. We'll do you last. |
Jack Palmer: | He died alright about four years later in Alabama, in a button factory accident. |
Emma Duvall: | A button factory? |
Camille Orcutt: | Seems the hole poker machine broke loose and fell on him. He had 273 holes in him before they could get it off. |
Garry: | This is pure nonsense. Doesn't prove a thing. |
MacReady: | I thought you'd feel that way, Garry. You were the only one who could've gotten to that blood. We'll do you last. |
Garry: | I know you gentlemen have been through a lot. And when you find the time I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!!! |
Garry: | I know you gentlemen have been through a lot. And when you find the time I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH! |
Garry: | But I've known Bennings for ten years! |
Garry: | I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH! |
Garry: | I'll put this right through your HEAD. |
Garry: | I don't know about Copper...But I give you my word I did not go near that blood.....But I guess you'll all feel a little easier...If someone else was in charge. |
Garry: | I don't know about Copper. But I give you my word I did not go near that blood... But I guess you'll all feel a little easier, if someone else was in charge. |
Garry: | The generator's gone. |
MacReady: | Any way we can fix it? |
Garry: | It's GONE, MacReady. |
Garry: | You reach anybody, yet? |
Windows: | Reach anybody? We're a thousand miles from nowhere, man. And it's gonna get a hell of a lot worse before it gets any better! |
Garry: | Well stick to it, Windows. Stick to it. |
Bennings: | Winds are gonna die down a tad over the next couple of hours. |
Garry: | A TAD? |
Garry: | I know you gentlemen have been through a lot. But when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS F*CKING COUCH! |
Garry: | I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH! |
Garry: | This is pure nonsense. It doesn't prove a thing. |
MacReady: | I thought you'd feel that way, Garry. You were the only one who could've gotten to that blood. We'll do you last. |
MacReady: | I don't know...it's like this: thousands of years ago this spaceship crashes, and this thing, whatever it is, jumps out or crawls out and gets entombed in the ice. |
MacReady: | I don't know, it's like this: thousands of years ago this spaceship crashes, and this thing, whatever it is, jumps out or crawls out and gets entombed in the ice. |
Garry: | So, the Norwegians find it, and they dig it out of the ice... |
MacReady: | That's right, Garry. They dig it up; they cart it back to their base. Somehow it gets thawed; it wakes up, probably not the best of moods, and...I don't know. I wasn't there! |
MacReady: | That's right, Garry. They dig it up; they cart it back to their base. Somehow it gets thawed; it wakes up, probably not the best of moods, and, I don't know. I wasn't there! |
Garry: | You reach anybody, yet? |
Windows: | Reach anybody? We're a thousand miles from nowhere, man. And it's gonna get a hell of a lot worse before it gets any better! |
Garry: | The generator's gone. |
MacReady: | Any way we can we fix it? |
Garry: | It's "gone", MacReady. |
Garry: | It's 'gone', MacReady. |
Garry: | My god, what was happening to him? |
MacReady: | If it had any more time, just a few minutes more to finish, it would have looked and sounded and acted just like Bennings! |
Garry: | I don't know what you're saying. |
MacReady: | That was one of those things out there, trying to imitate him, Garry. Come on. |
Garry: | MacReady, I know Bennings, I've known him for ten years. He's my friend. |
MacReady: | We've gotta burn the rest of him. |
Garry: | I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH! |