Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid actor Charles Dierkop dies aged 87 | 08MVI52 | 2024-02-27 21:08:01
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid actor Charles Dierkop dies aged 87 | 08MVI52 | 2024-02-27 21:08:01
Charles Dierkop, the character actor greatest recognized for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child, has died aged 87.
Dierkop, who played 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 attack and bout of pneumonia.
Dierkop's other main roles have been starring alongside Newman and Redford once more in the caper movie The Sting and within the police procedural Police Lady, featuring Angie Dickinson.
Born in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1936, Dierkop was enlisted within the US army and served in Korea after the Korean Warfare ended.
After being discharged, he enrolled in the American Basis of Dramatic Arts in Philadelphia and pursued a career in Hollywood.
Dierkop's first uncredited position was in Voyage to the Backside of the Sea in 1961 earlier than he was forged alongside Rod Steiger in 1964's The Pawnbroker.
He additionally famously played a gangster within the 1967 mob movie The St Valentine's Day Bloodbath.
Dierkop continued starring in movies until 2016 when he performed Louie in The Midnighters.
On the small display, he had an equally distinguished profession, showing within the TV collection The Man from UNCLE and an episode of Star Trek.
His different TV credit embrace Mission: Unimaginable, Kung Fu and MacGyver.
Dierkop additionally made an look in REM's 1992 music video for his or her 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 Child in 2018, Dierkop stated he was fitted to the a part of an outlaw as a result of his nostril had been broken a number of occasions as a toddler.
'My agent was on a aircraft studying a script and it says, Flat Nostril Curry … I feel I have someone in thoughts' he recalled in an interview with Rob Word.
'So I acquired an interview with [director] George Roy Hill and obtained forged, quite merely.'
Dierkop was married to Joan Addis, whom he met on the American Basis of Dramatic Arts, from 1958 until their divorce in 1974.
The former couple had two youngsters: son Charles Jr, who died in 1990 aged 29, and daughter Lynn.
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