Donald Moffat, Star of ‘The Thing’, Passes Away at 87
Veteran actor Donald Moffat, who’s long and distinguished Hollywood career spanned six decades, passed away on Thursday, December 2oth. According to his daughter Lynn, the star of stage and screen suffered complications from a stroke at his home in Sleepy Hollow, NY. He was 87.
Moffat was born in the England in 1930, and moved to the United States in 1956 prepared to taking his acting career to the next level. He found success on Broadway, having been nominated for two Tony Awards. The highlight of his Hollywood career would be portraying Lyndon B. Johnson in 1983’s The Right Stuff, along with recurring roles in the TV series Logan’s Run and Dallas. His IMDB credits include 121 acknowledged roles, spanning an incredible 49 years. He retired from acting in 2005, with his final role being that of a judge on the hit series Law & Order: Trial by Jury.
