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Richard Widmark

Known For: Acting
Born: December 26, 1914
Place of Birth: Sunrise Township, Minnesota, USA
Died: March 24, 2008

Richard Widmark

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, Ok…

Filmography

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

2002 · Skip McCoy (archive footage)

Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters

2000 · Self

Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel

1999

Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait

1999 · Self - Actor

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

1997 · Self

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

1995 · Self

The World of Hammer

1994 · Self (archive footage)

Lincoln

1992 · Ward Hill Lamon (voice)

John Wayne's 'The Alamo'

John Wayne's 'The Alamo'

1992 · Jim Bowie

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

1991 · Self (archive footage)

True Colors

1991 · Sen. James Stiles

Cold Sassy Tree

1989 · Enoch Rucker Blakeslee

Once Upon a Texas Train

1988 · Capt. Owen Hayes

A Gathering of Old Men

1987 · Sheriff Mapes

Biography

1987 · Self - Actor

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

1987 · Self (archive footage)

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

1986 · Self - Narrator

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

1986 · Self

Blackout

1985 · Joe Steiner

Against All Odds

1984 · Ben Caxton

Who Dares Wins

1982 · Secretary of State Arthur Currie

Yesteryear

1982 · Self

Hanky Panky

1982 · Ransom

National Lampoon's Movie Madness

1982 · Stan Nagurski ("Municipalians")

Champs-Elysées

1982 · Self

A Whale for the Killing

1981 · Tom Goodenough

All God's Children

1980 · Judge Parke Denison

All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman

1979 · Self

Bear Island

1979 · Otto Gerran

Mr. Horn

1979 · Al Sieber

Mr. Horn

1979 · Al Sieber

The Swarm

1978 · Gen. Thaddeus Slater

Coma

1978 · Dr. Harris

Rollercoaster

1977 · Agent Hoyt

The Domino Principle

1977 · Tagge

Twilight's Last Gleaming

1977 · Gen. Martin MacKenzie - Commanding General SA

The Sell Out

1976 · Sam Lucas

To the Devil a Daughter

1976 · John Verney

The Last Day

1975 · Will Spence

Murder on the Orient Express

1974 · Mr. Ratchett

The Lives of Benjamin Franklin

1974 · Rebel Benjamin Franklin

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

1973 · Self

Brock's Last Case

1973 · Lieutenant Max Brock

When the Legends Die

1972 · Red Dillon

Madigan

1972 · Dan Madigan

Directed by John Ford

1971 · (archive footage)

V.I.P. Schaukel

V.I.P. Schaukel

1971 · Self

Vanished

1971 · President Paul Roudebush

The Moonshine War

1970 · Dr. Emmett Taulbee

Death of a Gunfighter

1969 · Marshal Frank Patch

A Talent for Loving

1969 · Major William Patten

Madigan

1968 · Det. Daniel Madigan

The Way West

1967 · Lije Evans

Alvarez Kelly

1966 · Col. Tom Rossiter

The Bedford Incident

1965 · Captain Eric Finlander, U.S.N., Producer

Cheyenne Autumn

1964 · Capt. Thomas Archer

The Long Ships

1964 · Rolfe

Flight from Ashiya

1964 · L:t. Col. Glenn Stevenson

How the West Was Won

1962 · Mike King

Exercise No. One

Exercise No. One

1962

Judgment at Nuremberg

1961 · Tad Lawson

Two Rode Together

1961 · First Lt. Jim Gary

The Secret Ways

1961 · Michael Reynolds, Producer

The Alamo

1960 · Jim Bowie

Here's Hollywood

1960

Warlock

1959 · Johnny Gannon

The Trap

1959 · Ralph Anderson

The Tunnel of Love

1958 · August 'Augie' Poole

The Law and Jake Wade

1958 · Clint Hollister

Time Limit

1957 · Col. William Edwards, Producer

Saint Joan

1957 · The Dauphin, Charles VII

The Last Wagon

1956 · Comanche Todd

Run for the Sun

1956 · Michael 'Mike' Latimer

Backlash

1956 · Jim Slater

Boy with a Knife

1956 · Narrator

A Prize of Gold

1955 · Sgt. Joe Lawrence

The Cobweb

1955 · Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver

Broken Lance

1954 · Ben Devereaux

Garden of Evil

1954 · Fiske

Hell and High Water

1954 · Capt. Adam Jones

Take the High Ground!

1953 · Sgt. Thorne Ryan

Pickup on South Street

1953 · Skip McCoy

Destination Gobi

1953 · Sam McHale

The Oscars

1953 · Self

My Pal Gus

1952 · Dave Jennings

O. Henry's Full House

1952 · Johnny Kernan (segment "The Clarion Call")

Don't Bother to Knock

1952 · Jed Towers

Red Skies of Montana

1952 · Cliff Mason

I Love Lucy

1951 · Richard Widmark

The Frogmen

1951 · Lt. Cmdr. John Lawrence

Halls of Montezuma

1951 · Lt. Carl Anderson

No Way Out

1950 · Ray Biddle

Panic in the Streets

1950 · Lt. Cmdr. Clinton 'Clint' Reed M.D.

Night and the City

1950 · Harry Fabian

What's My Line?

1950 · Self

Slattery's Hurricane

1949 · Lt. Willard Francis Slattery

Down to the Sea in Ships

1949 · Dan Lunceford

Yellow Sky

1948 · Dude

Road House

1948 · Jefferson T. 'Jefty' Robbins

The Street with No Name

1948 · Alec Stiles

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948 · Self

Kiss of Death

1947 · Tommy Udo

Golden Globe Awards

1944 · Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee

The West of the Imagination

The West of the Imagination

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