Sad...the mayor of Rock Ridge has died

[joeybee12]

David Huddleston, the burly comic actor who specialized in playing blustery characters like the Big Lebowski in the legendary Coen Brothers film, has died. He was 85.

Huddleston, who played another blowhard - Mayor Olsen Johnson, one of the many Johnsons in town - in the Mel Brooks comedy classic Blazing Saddles (1974), died Tuesday of heart and kidney disease in Santa Fe, N.M., his wife Sarah told The Hollywood Reporter.

In The Big Lebowski (1998), inspired by the work of Raymond Chandler, Huddleston played a multimillionaire (or is he?) who shares the last name of the film's protagonist, the hippie Jeff "the Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges). Julianne Moore potrayed his daughter.

His breakthrough role was as a vicious gang leader with a sense of humor in Robert Benton's first film, the Civil War-set Bad Company (1972).

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/david-huddleston-star-blazing-saddles-big-lebowski-dies-224904976.html

A very familiar face along the years...RIP

[Cooley Hurd]

1. In so many great roles, too!

Cross gently, Mr Huddleston.

[LongtimeAZDem]

2. "I'm a gun-toting, redneck son-of-a-bitch"

A small, but great cameo on The West Wing:

[Iggo]

3. "...but not the Irish!"

Dude had some of the best lines in that flick.

David Huddleston, everybody!

[El Supremo]

4. Yes, yes?

[mcar]

5. RIP Mr Mayor

My favorite film.

[amb123]

6. "Aw prairie shit! Everybody!"

God Bless You, David, and Thanks.

[awoke_in_2003]

7. Liked him in every role I saw him in. nt