Richard Widmark

Known for ActingBorn 1914-12-26Died 2008-03-24Sunrise Township, Minnesota, USA

Richard Widmark (December 26, 1914 – March 24, 2008) was an American actor of films, stage, radio and television. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as the villainous Tommy Udo in his debut film, Kiss of Death. Early in his career Widmark specialized in similar villainous or anti-hero roles in film noirs, but he later branched out into more heroic leading and support roles in westerns, mainstream dramas and horror films, among others. At his death, Widmark was the earliest surviving Oscar nominee in the Supporting Actor category, and one of only two left from the 1940s (the other having been James Whitmore). For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Widmark has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6800 Hollywood Boulevard. In 2002, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.Read more

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The Lives of Benjamin Franklin

John Wayne's 'The Alamo'

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

V.I.P. Schaukel

Judgment at Nuremberg

I Love Lucy

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

Lincoln

My Pal Gus

Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel

Night and the City

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

Pickup on South Street

Murder on the Orient Express

A Whale for the Killing

Mr. Horn

Time Limit

The World of Hammer

Directed by John Ford

Down to the Sea in Ships

The Alamo

The Bedford Incident

The Oscars

Champs-Elysées

How the West Was Won

Kiss of Death

Biography

What's My Line?

Coma

The Trap

Cold Sassy Tree

Golden Globe Awards

Yellow Sky

O. Henry's Full House

Madigan

Panic in the Streets

No Way Out

Warlock

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Cheyenne Autumn

All God's Children

The Ed Sullivan Show

Twilight's Last Gleaming

The Last Day

Don't Bother to Knock

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller