"They recognized him as the Big Lebowski even though they couldn't speak any English. Such was the title character he played in 1998’s “The Big Lebowski.”A 1990s sendup of a 1940s film-noir mystery, "The Big Lebowski" traces a Raymond Chandler-esque plotline, but in place of a hard-bitten investigator, it stars a stoner lay-about played by Jeff Bridges. David Huddleston, a character actor who already had a vast list of credits to his name when — late in his career — he took what was to become his most famous role as the title character in “The Big Lebowski,” has died, said his wife, Sarah Koeppe. Huddleston "had thousands of cookbooks, and he loved reading them because they told him about the history of people and locations," Koeppe said. Huddleston, the father of actor Michael Huddleston, had a passion for performing live.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 04, 2016 22:01 UTC