Donald Moffat
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Donald Moffat was a British-American actor with a decades-long career in film and stage in the United States.
Donald Moffat CBS New Season Portrait Gallery 1977
The Thing (1982 film)
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The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster. Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There?, it tells the st
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…Award nominations for both, as well as Painting Churches, for which he received an Obie Award. Moffat also appeared in several feature films, including The Thing (1982), The Right Stuff (1983), and in a rare leading role on film, as a tenuously recovering alcoholic in On the Nickel (1980). Moffat also made guest…
Director John Carpenter in 2001
Writer Bill Lancaster in 1967
Actor Wilford Brimley in 2012. He was cast for his everyman persona which would allow audiences not to notice his absence from the story until the right time.
Principal photography began in August 1981 in Juneau, Alaska.