His breakthrough role came as a Civil War-era gang leader in Robert Benton’s 'Bad Company.' By Ryan Parker, Mike Barnes David Huddleston, the burly comic actor who specialized in playing blustery ...

Huddleston starred in Mel Brooks' 1974 comedy hit "Blazing Saddles" and the 1985 family film "Santa Claus: The Movie." David Huddleston, a character actor with more than 140 credits, died Tuesday at ...

If you love satirical black comedies trying to reclaim narratives, Blazing Saddles (1974) is a great find. Helmed by Mel Brooks, it is an inspiring post-modernist political satire on how racism was ...

The Emmy-nominated character actor starred in classics such as The Big Lebowski and Blazing Saddles. His career spanned more than 50 years in... The Big Lebowski is gone. No confusion here, The Dude ...

David Huddleston, a burly, cantankerous and prolific character actor who had the title role opposite Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski, Joel and Ethan Coen s 1998 mistaken-identity noir comedy, died ...

It was “too dirty” for John Wayne to accept a part. Too “disgusting and vulgar” for Ted Ashley, the chairman of Warner Brothers, who threatened to “bury” the film. But director Mel Brooks stuck to his ...