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  Richard Widmark - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Richard Widmark established himself as an icon of American cinema with his debut in the 1947 film noir "Kiss of Death" (1947) in which he won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination as the killer Tommy Udo.
Widmark was masterful in conveying the desperation of the criminal seeking to control his own fate but who is damned, and this performance also became an icon of film noir.
Widmark was married for 55 years to playwright Jean Hazlewood, from 1942 until her death in 1997 (they had one child, Anne, who was born in 1945).
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  Biography for Richard Widmark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Richard Widmark established himself as an icon of American cinema with his debut in the 1947 film noir "Kiss of Death" (1947) in which he won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination as the killer Tommy Udo.
Widmark was married for 55 years to playwright Jean Hazlewood, from 1942 until her death in 1997 (they had one child, Anne, who was born in 1945).
Widmark's most vivid movie scene of his career was as sociopathic villain Tommy Udo in Kiss of Death (1947) in which he is seen pushing a wheelchair-bound old lady (played by Mildred Dunnock) down a flight of stairs to her death.
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 Richard Widmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Widmark (born December 26, 1914 in Sunrise, Minnesota) is an Academy Award-nominated American film actor.
Widmark was married to his first wife, Jean Hazlewood, from April 5, 1942, until her death on March 2, 1997.
Maximilian Schell and Widmark in Judgment at Nuremberg
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 Richard Widmark Bio - Richard Widmark Biography - Richard Widmark Stories
Widmark joked that he was the only actor to ever leave behind a house with a swimming pool in order to come to Hollywood.
Widmark starred in the 1972 TV series Madigan based on his 1968 movie of the same name but only six episodes were produced and aired before the cancellation axe fell.
Widmark (about Marilyn Monroe): She couldn't act her way out of a paper bag but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it was.
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 Richard Widmark - Biography - Moviefone
Widmark's first stage appearance was in Long Island summer stock; in 1943, he starred in the Broadway production of Kiss and Tell, and was subsequently top billed in four other New York shows.
After his Fox contract ended in 1954, Widmark freelanced in such films as The Cobweb (1955) and Saint Joan (1957), the latter representing one of the few times that the actor was uncomfortably miscast (as the childish Dauphin).
Richard Widmark was married for 55 years to Jean Hazelwood, a former actress and occasional screenwriter who wrote the script for her husband's 1961 film The Secret Ways (1961).
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 Honorary Academy Awards Nomination : Richard Widmark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Richard Widmark's contribution to peoples enjoyment of the cinema is enormous and staggering.His ability to play characters that everyone can identify with shows his commitment to his craft.This actor,who for versatility,individualism and integrity knows few equals,deserves to be recognised.
Richard Widmark is a great actor -- IS...while that tense can still be present, let the Academy do what it has so many times failed to do: honour an outstanding actor for the indelible screen images that he or she has brought to life.
Richard Widmark was born in 1914 so it would be a tragedy if his great work, particularly in film noir were to continue to be passed over for a lifetime achievement award.
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 Brian W. Fairbanks - Writer/Film/Actor Profile: Richard Widmark
Dissatisfied by the woman’s response, the thug rips the cord from a nearby lamp, ties the woman into the chair, then pushes her down a flight of stairs, maniacally cackling as she plunges to the bottom of the staircase and to the floor.
Widmark’s reformation began in earnest in 1951’s The Halls of Montezuma, wherein he was cast as Lt. Anderson of the U.S. Marines.
Widmark ended his tenure at Fox with two 1954 westerns: Garden of Evil benefited from the presence of Gary Cooper and Susan Hayward, as well as a thrilling Bernard Herrmann score, while Broken Lance cast Widmark as the most acrimonious member of a dysfunctional family headed by Spencer Tracy.
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 Prisma: Richard Widmark
Richard Widmark wird als Sohn des Handelsvertreters Carl Widmark und seiner Frau Ethel Mae in Sunrise/Minnesota geboren.
Widmark, zu dessen Freunden der Romancier Sinclair Lewis gehört, promoviert in politischen Wissenschaften.
Widmark ist jedoch nie nur Schauspieler und Produzent, er engagierte sich vor allem in den Endsechziger Jahren politisch.
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 Richard Widmark
Proving he did not need to play evil to hold the screen, Widmark was excellent as the doctor battling bubonic plague in Panic in the Streets with Jack Palance, as the heroic Marine in Halls of Montezuma with Palance again, and as the prosecutor in Stanley Kramer’s Judgment at Nuremberg.
A longtime liberal and equal rights advocate, Widmark says the only reason he was not fllisted in the 1950s is because he was "never a joiner", so he had no memberships to disavow.
Baseball great Sandy Koufax was Widmark's son-in-law for the decade the Dodger was married to Widmark's daughter, Anne.
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 Amazon.com: Richard Widmark: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts): Books: Kim Holston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
As the only book devoted exclusively to Richard Widmark, this work will be a valuable resource to film fans and scholars, an important reference for courses on motion picture history and the development of the film industry, and a significant addition to university and public libraries.
Richard Widmark was born in Sunrise, Minnesota on December 26, 1914.
Richard Widmark was smack dab in the middle of that, but never a blip is heard.
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 The Biography Channel - Richard Widmark Biography
American actor Richard Widmark was born the son of a travelling salesman, in Minnesota.
Founding his own Heath Productions in 1957, Widmark spent the next decade dividing his time between films such as 'The Alamo' (1960) and John Ford’s 'Cheyenne Autumn', which paid the bills, and thoughtful fare such as 'Judgement at Nuremberg' and 'Madigan'.
Widmark became so popular, so fast, that it was only two years later that he had his handprints cast in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/387:0/Richard_Widmark.htm   (385 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Madigan (Widescreen): DVD: Don Siegel,Richard Widmark,Henry Fonda,Inger Stevens,Harry Guardino,James ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Richard Widmark plays a hardbitten New York cop who must redeem himself after losing his gun to a psychotic thug (a plot somewhat reminiscent of Kurosawa's Stray Dog).
Siegel put everything he had into Widmark's scenes and embraced a dramatic arc that encompassed Madigan's story, but the unifying element of the movie remained Fonda's character, whose story was as central to the finished film as Widmark's.
Richard Dougherty's THE COMMISSIONER, upon which MADIGAN, is based was one of the first works of fiction to accurately portray cops problems away from the station house.
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 Richard Widmark - MovieActors.com
Richard Widmark was born on December 26, 1914 in Sunrise, Minnesota.
In 2002 Richard Widmark was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.
In 1949 Richard Widmark's hand and footprints were cast in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
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 Richard Widmark
Widmark donned a military uniform a half dozen times in the fifties and was equally comfortable in Western dust covered buckskin garb.
Widmark's Jim Bowie is one tough man with a knife and though diminutive, bi enough to share compete for screen dominance with John Wayne.
Widmark's star was on decline by the seventies.
www.filmsondisc.com /posterarchive/richard_widmark/richard_widmark.htm   (852 words)

  
 Richard Widmark - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
Richard Widmark was a popular 20th century actor.
When approached by Julian Bashir and Miles O'Brien about "The Alamo", Vic Fontaine recalled Richard Widmark having a role in the film.
The reference to Widmark was the only indirect reference made to Bowie throughout all of the collective Alamo references made on DS9.
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 Richard Widmark — www.greenwood.com
Though never considered in the same star category as Burt Lancaster or Gregory Peck, his era, Widmark nonetheless established himself as a dependable and popular leading man in westerns, dramas, adventures, gangster and war films, and by 1984, he had appeared in 62 full-length films.
Respecting Widmark's reputation for privacy, Holston has focused on the public aspect of the actor's career, tracing the abundance of interesting on-screen events that have made up his life.
As the only book devoted exclusively to Richard Widmark, this work will be a valuable resource to film fans and scholars, an important reference for courses on motion picture history and the development of the film industry, and a significant addition to university and public libraries.
www.greenwood.com /catalog/HRW/.aspx   (283 words)

  
 Richard Widmark Biography - Biography.com
After a turbulent childood, lightened by his frequent trips to the movies, Widmark became an accomplished high school scholar, a college football star, and eventually a teacher of speech and drama at Lake Forest College in Illinois.
Widmark won the role and soon became a busy player in broadcasting and on the Broadway stage.
Although Donald Widmark was freed at the war's end, his failing health over the next decade would be the most agonizing tragedy in Richard's life.
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 Amazon.ca: The Law and Jake Wade: Video: John Sturges,Robert Taylor,Richard Widmark,Patricia Owens,Robert ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Richard Widmark and Robert Taylor are compelling as former partners now on opposite sides of the law.
The film is still terrific entertainment, particularly in its second half, with the tensions within bad guy Richard Widmark's crew threatening violence; a fierce Indian raid, with the best-ever use of arrows in a Western, seeming to swoop down from a great distance at the viewer; and the long, mythical shoot-out.
The film's characters and themes develop predictably - Taylor, who wants to rejoin civilisation by working as a lawman and marrying the daughter of a rich capitalist, must exorcise his violent, blood-stained past - and there are the usual homoerotic and Oedipal complications.
www.amazon.ca /Law-Jake-Wade-John-Sturges/dp/6302604931   (850 words)

  
 Richard Widmark
Widmark stars here as a traumatized fire jumper (they put out forest fires) who is constantly ridiculed by hothead Jeffrey Hunter since Widmark was possibly responsible for Hunter's dad dying in a fire.
Gary Cooper and Richard Widmark star as two gold hunters who are hired by the alluring Susan Hayward to venture into the dangerous Mexican jungle to rescue her trapped husband (Hugh Marlowe).
Richard Widmark stars as an ex navy flyer who thinks back on his life and the two women in his life (Linda Darnell and Veronica Lake) while flying into the eye of a hurricane.
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 Richard Widmark at Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Widmark later played the disinterested hero of Sam Fuller's striking, ambiguous Cold War thriller, "Pickup on South Street" (1953), and was superb in the title role of Don Siegel's New York cop tale "Madigan" (1968).
Blond, maturely handsome and athletic, Widmark displayed an early nervous quality that smoothed down somewhat to a flinty, sturdily heroic appearance evidenced as early as "Down to the Sea in Ships" (1949) and "Panic in the Streets" (1950).
Widmark's stardom began to ebb in the early 70s, but he still kept busy with prominent screen roles in all-star fare including "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974) and "Rollercoaster" (1977) and with parts in "Coma" (1978) and "Against All Odds" (1984).
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 Richard Widmark
Richard Widmark nació en Sunrise, Minnesota el 26 de diciembre de 1914.
Pero este Widmark, más humano y menos agresivo no conectó tanto con el público, que ya se había hecho a la idea de poseer a la encarnación del mal.
Richard Widmark es un actor que, sin alcanzar la gloria de las estrellas hollywoodienses, siempre ha sido respetado por el público y la crítica, gracias a una carrera constante y regular que le ha permitido seguir trabajando cuando otros más grandes ya habían sido olvidados.
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 A Tribute to Richard Widmark
Widmark was born the day after Christmas in 1914 in Minnesota, and grew up in Princeton, Illinois.
In 1955 Widmark made his TV debut in The Lucy Show, and later appeared in the TV series Madigan in 1972, which was inspired by the 1968 feature film of the same name.
Richard Widmark's always strong and unique presence, whether as hero or villain, will be missed on film, but we are happy to wish him a belated 90th birthday and offer this four-part tribute article in his honor.
www.classicmovies.org /articles/widmark1.htm   (557 words)

  
 Richard Widmark : Oldies.com
Richard Widmark (The Alamo) gives "one of the finest performances" (Los Angeles Examiner) as a wanted man unexpectedly freed in Indian country in this "first-rate historical Western!" (The Hollywood Reporter) Adopted by the Comanche.
Richard Widmark leads an all-star cast of leathernecks - including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb, into battle on a heavily-fortified enemy island.
A beautiful babysitter (Marilyn Monroe) begins an affair with one of the guests (Richard Widmark) in the hotel where she is a live-in babysitter.
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 Richard Widmark - Films as actor:, Films as producer:
Richard Widmark never became a major star, but through the middle part of the twentieth century regularly turned in convincing, workmanlike performances.
Even so Widmark was able to make a memorable impression in a small part in his very first film.
Widmark then signed a standard seven-year contract with Twentieth Century-Fox, and went on to do his best film work during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Richard Widmark fans should all go to "Worst Oscar Snubs" and "Why Richard Widmark has not won an honorary Oscar" and vote.
Then there's Widmark and Poitier: first in "No Way Out" (wow, Widmark was so intense in that one), and about 10 years later in "The Long Boats." It's a pairing I've always liked.
I loved Richard Widmark in the I love Lucy Show when Ricky and her went to Hollywood and she had wanted to come and meet him and Ricky said no, so she and Ethel went on some tour of the stars homes and they climbed over the wall of Richard Widmark's home.
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