Richard Widmark
Born: 1914-12-26 in Sunrise Township, Minnesota, USA
Died: 2008-03-24
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2002
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller as Skip McCoy (archive footage)
2000
1999
1997
1995
- Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick as Self
1994
- The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
1992
- Lincoln as Ward Hill Lamon (voice)
- John Wayne's 'The Alamo' as Jim Bowie
1991
- True Colors as Sen. James Stiles
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Self (archive footage)
1989
- Cold Sassy Tree as Enoch Rucker Blakeslee
1988
- Once Upon a Texas Train as Capt. Owen Hayes
1987
- Biography as Self - Actor
- A Gathering of Old Men as Sheriff Mapes
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
1986
- The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn as Self
- Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend as Self - Narrator
1985
- Blackout as Joe Steiner
1984
- Against All Odds as Ben Caxton
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- Who Dares Wins as Secretary of State Arthur Currie
- Hanky Panky as Ransom
- National Lampoon's Movie Madness as Stan Nagurski ("Municipalians")
- Yesteryear as Self
1981
- A Whale for the Killing as Tom Goodenough
1980
- All God's Children as Judge Parke Denison
1979
- Bear Island as Otto Gerran
- All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman as Self
- Mr. Horn as Al Sieber
1977
- Rollercoaster as Agent Hoyt
- The Domino Principle as Tagge
- Twilight's Last Gleaming as Gen. Martin MacKenzie - Commanding General SA
1976
- To the Devil a Daughter as John Verney
- The Sell Out as Sam Lucas
1975
- The Last Day as Will Spence
1974
- Murder on the Orient Express as Mr. Ratchett
- The Lives of Benjamin Franklin as Rebel Benjamin Franklin
1973
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- Brock's Last Case as Lieutenant Max Brock
1972
- When the Legends Die as Red Dillon
- Madigan as Dan Madigan
1971
- Directed by John Ford as (archive footage)
- V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
- Vanished as President Paul Roudebush
1970
- The Moonshine War as Dr. Emmett Taulbee
1969
- Death of a Gunfighter as Marshal Frank Patch
- A Talent for Loving as Major William Patten
1968
- Madigan as Det. Daniel Madigan
1967
- The Way West as Lije Evans
1966
- Alvarez Kelly as Col. Tom Rossiter
1965
- The Bedford Incident as Captain Eric Finlander, U.S.N.
1964
- Cheyenne Autumn as Capt. Thomas Archer
- Flight from Ashiya as L:t. Col. Glenn Stevenson
- The Long Ships as Rolfe
1962
- How the West Was Won as Mike King
- Exercise No. One
1961
- Judgment at Nuremberg as Tad Lawson
- The Secret Ways as Michael Reynolds
- Two Rode Together as First Lt. Jim Gary
1960
- The Alamo as Jim Bowie
- Here's Hollywood
1958
- The Law and Jake Wade as Clint Hollister
- The Tunnel of Love as August 'Augie' Poole
1957
- Saint Joan as The Dauphin, Charles VII
- Time Limit as Col. William Edwards
1956
- Backlash as Jim Slater
- The Last Wagon as Comanche Todd
- Run for the Sun as Michael 'Mike' Latimer
- Boy with a Knife as Narrator
1955
- A Prize of Gold as Sgt. Joe Lawrence
- The Cobweb as Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver
1954
- Broken Lance as Ben Devereaux
- Garden of Evil as Fiske
- Hell and High Water as Capt. Adam Jones
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Destination Gobi as Sam McHale
- Pickup on South Street as Skip McCoy
- Take the High Ground! as Sgt. Thorne Ryan
1952
- Don't Bother to Knock as Jed Towers
- O. Henry's Full House as Johnny Kernan (segment "The Clarion Call")
- Red Skies of Montana as Cliff Mason
- My Pal Gus as Dave Jennings
1951
- I Love Lucy as Richard Widmark
- The Frogmen as Lt. Cmdr. John Lawrence
- Halls of Montezuma as Lt. Carl Anderson
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- No Way Out as Ray Biddle
- Panic in the Streets as Lt. Cmdr. Clinton 'Clint' Reed M.D.
- Night and the City as Harry Fabian
1949
- Down to the Sea in Ships as Dan Lunceford
- Slattery's Hurricane as Lt. Willard Francis Slattery
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Yellow Sky as Dude
- Road House as Jefferson T. 'Jefty' Robbins
- The Street with No Name as Alec Stiles
1947
- Kiss of Death as Tommy Udo
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter