Richard Widmark

...also benefits from American involvement. This includes director Dassin, who made the film while in blacklist exile, and star Richard Widmark, who gives one of his trademark performances as a desperate, feckless loser who is always looking for...

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...also against it. Folsom knows he has a can't-miss subject in the renegade Gallo. Crazy Joe fashioned himself after sinister Richard Widmark in "Kiss of Death,'' talked existentialism with the beatniks in the Village, and became a cause...

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...Airport in extreme northeastern Missouri. Towns the size of Green City (pop. 688 in 2000) usually do not have airports, but Richard Widmark owned a cattle ranch in the area during the 1950s and 1960s. Widmark contributed funds to the...

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...(above, with Streep) as her angry son - doing some of his best work. (PG-13; runs through Sept. 3) Encore on Comcast) Richard Widmark in one of his best film noir roles, a glib, jumpy tout on the run from the London underworld in the most...

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...first stage role in an all-black production of Lysistrata. His first film was 1950's No Way Out, in which he starred alongside Richard Widmark. In later years, Poitier directed films like Stir Crazy and Ghost Dad But his big...

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Richard Widmark, actor, dies at 93 Richard Widmark, who created a villain in his first movie role who was so repellent and frightening that the actor became a star overnight, died Monday at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut He was 93.

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...crumpling under police fire in crime pictures. Richard Widmark, who died at 93 on Monday, was another. Richard Widmark in his film debut in Kiss of Death. Mr. Widmark, center, with Harry Guardino in Madigan. Richard Widmark, as a...

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Richard Widmark, a self-effacing actor who played cackling maniacs, dedicated public servants and maverick leading men with equal distinction during a five-decade career in film and television, died March 24 at his home in Roxbury, Conn. He...

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...nomination. "One will remember that nasty little creep with the wild eyes and high-pitched laugh, neurotic to the core, which Richard Widmark has turned into one of his finest roles," Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton wrote in "A Panorama...

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...of the Biographical Dictionary of Film, discusses Widmark's career in film. Hollywood Veteran Richard Widmark Dies at 93 Richard Widmark, shown here in the early 1980s, was a fixture on film for nearly 50 years. Hulton Archive/Getty...

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