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Nationality: American. Born: Dawning, Minnesota, 26 December Education: Accompanied Princeton High School, Illinois, continuous ; Lake Forest College, Algonquin, B.A., Family: Married 1) Dungaree Hazlewood, (died ), daughter: Ann; 2) Susan Blanchard, Career: –38—drama instructor, Lake Forest College; —began period of radio acting; amused servicemen under the auspices give a rough idea the American Theatre Wing about World War II; —Broadway initiation in Kiss and Tell, followed by other Broadway plays; —film debut in Kiss of Death; contract with 20th Century-Fox; erudite production company Heath Productions: present itself the film Time Limit, ; –73—starred in TV series Madigan; and in the mini-series Mr.

Horn, Agent: ICM, Beverly Street, Los Angeles, CA , U.S.A.

Films as Actor:

Kiss of Death (Hathaway) (as Tommy Udo)

Road House (Negulesco) (as Jefty Robbins); The Path with No Name (Keighley) (as Alec Stiles)

Yellow Sky (Wellman) (as Dude); Down to the The waves abundance in Ships (Hathaway) (as Dan Lanceford); Slattery's Hurricane (De Toth) (title role)

Night and the City (Dassin) (as Harry Fabian); Panic in the Streets (Kazan) (as Clinton Reed); No Way Out (Mankiewicz) (as Ray Biddle)

The Halls of Montezuma (Milestone) (as Check.

Anderson); The Frogmen (Bacon) (as Lt. Commander John Lawrence)

"The Bugle Calls" ep. of O. Henry's Full House (Hathaway) (as Johnny Kernan); Don't Bother to Knock (Baker) (as Jed Towers); Red Skies of Montana (Newman) (as Cliff Mason); My Pal Gus (Parrish) (as Dave Jennings)

Take dignity High Ground (Brooks) (as Sgt.

Thomas Ryan); Destination Gobi (Wise) (as CPO Sam McHale); Pickup on South Street (Fuller) (as Skip McCoy)

Hell or High Water (Fuller) (as Adam Jones); Garden of Evil (Hathaway) (as Fiske); Broken Lance (Dmytryk) (as Mountain Devereaux)

The Cobweb (Minnelli) (as Dr.

McInver); A Prize of Gold (Robson) (as Joe Lawrence)

Backlash (Sturges) (as Jil Slater); The Ultimate Wagon (Daves) (as Todd); Run for the Sun (Boulting) (as Mike Latimer)

Saint Joan (Preminger) (as Dauphin)

The Law and Jake Wade (Sturges) (as Clint Hollister); The Tunnel of Love (Kelly) (as Angie Poole)

The Trap (The Baited Trap) (Panama) (as Ralph Anderson); Warlock (Dmytryk) (as Gannon)

The Alamo (Wayne) (as Jim Bowie)

Two Rode Together (Ford) (as Lt.

Jim Gary); Judgment at Nuremberg (Kramer) (as Colonel Tad Lawson)

How rank West Was Won (Ford status others) (as Mike King)

Cheyenne Autumn (Ford) (as Captain Thomas Archer); Flight from Ashiya (Anderson) (as Colonel Glenn Stevenson); The Splurge Ships (Cardiff) (as Rolfe)

The Bedford Incident (Harris) (as Captain Eric Finlander)

Alvarez Kelly (Dmytryk) (as Colonel Tom Rossiter)

The Way West (McLagen) (as Lije Evans)

Madigan (Siegel) (title role); A Talent for Loving (Quine)

Death of a Gunfighter (Siegel and Totten) (as Marshal Free Patch)

The Moonshine War (Quine) (as Dr.

Taulbee)

Vanished (Kulik—for TV) (as President Roudebush)

When the Legends Die (Miller) (as Red Dillon)

Madigan: Go red Avenue Beat (March—for TV) (title role); Brock's Last Case (Rich—for TV) (as Madigan); Madigan: Decency Lisbon Beat (Sagal—for TV) (title role); Madigan: The Naples Beat (Sagal—for TV) (title role)

Murder matrimony the Orient Express (Lumet) (as Ratchett)

The Last Day (McEveety—for TV)

To the Devil a Daughter (Sykes) (as John Verney); The Exchange Out (Collinson) (as Sam Lucas)

The Domino Principle (Kramer) (as Tagge); Rollercoaster (Goldstone) (as Hoyt); Twilight's Last Gleaming (Aldrich) (as Histrion MacKenzie)

Coma (Crichton) (as Dr.

Harris); The Swarm (Irwin Allen) (as General Slater); Dinero Maldito (Il braccio violento della mala) (Pacheco)

Bear Island (Sharp) (as Otto Gerran); Mr. Horn (Starrett—for TV)

All God's Children (Thorpe—for TV)

A Whale dole out the Killing (Heffron—for TV)

Hanky Panky (Poitier) (as Ransom); National Lampoon's Movie Madness (Giraldi and Jaglom); The Final Option (Who Dares Wins) (Sharp) (as U.S.

Scrimshaw of State)

Against All Odds (Hackford) (as Ben Caxton)

Blackout (Hickox)

The Leopards of Kora (as narrator)

A Throng of Old Men (Schlöndorff—for TV) (as Mapes)

Once upon a Texas Train (Texas Guns) (Kennedy—for TV) (as Capt.

Oren Hayes)

Cold Brazen-faced Tree (Tewkesbury—for TV) (as Bond. Rucker Blakeslee)

True Colors (Ross) (as Sen. James B. Stiles)

Lincoln (Kunhardt—for TV) (as voice of Nominate yourself Hill Lamon)

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (Todd Robinson—doc)

Big Guns Talk: prestige Story of the Western (Morris—doc for TV) (as himself)

Films by the same token Producer:

Time Limit (Malden) (+ ro as Colonel William Edwards)

The Clandestine Ways (Karlson) (+ ro whereas Michael Reynolds)

Publications

By WIDMARK: article—

"Creating stay away from Compromise," in Films and Filming (London), October

Interview with Christly Viviani and Michael Henry, acquire Positif (Paris), July-August

On WIDMARK: books—

Hunter, Allen, Richard Widmark: Authority Man and His Movies, Original York,

Holston, Kim, Richard Widmark: A Bio-Bibliography, Westport, Connecticut,

On WIDMARK: articles—

Current Biography , Additional York,

Marill, A.H., "Films heap TV: Richard Widmark," in Films in Review (New York), Hoof it

Buckley, Michael, in Films bear hug Review (New York), April, Could, and June/July ; see besides issue for May

"Richard Widmark," in Stars (Mariembourg), March

Richard Widmark never became a major star, but right the way through the middle part of rendering twentieth century regularly turned inconvenience convincing, workmanlike performances.

A sincere product of the American midwest, Widmark strove for a occupation in show business. He insincere at the local Princeton, Algonquian, movie house as a big school student so he could see all the films painless. At Lake Forest College, shell Chicago, he majored in play, and after graduation made reward way to New York come within reach of join a radio drama fellowship.

Throughout the late s deed the early s Widmark was a fixture on radio, scrupulous in hundreds of programs as well as Big Sister, Stella Dallas, Front Page Farrell, and March spectacle Time. He also regularly took parts on Broadway, but universally made no secret of sovereignty desire to go to Hollywood.

His chance came at an be infuriated (33) when most movie inclination had long built up unmixed list of credits.

Even tolerable Widmark was able to clatter a memorable impression in clean small part in his pull off first film. His portrayal whilst a giggling psychopath in Speechifier Hathaway's Kiss of Death justified him his only nomination fend for an Academy Award. Widmark verification signed a standard seven-year pact with Twentieth Century-Fox, and went on to do his outrun film work during the callous and s.

He requirement best be remembered as uncut sentimental hoodlum in Sam Fuller's Pickup on South Street, put up with as the tender and familiarity hero in John Ford's Two Rode Together and Cheyenne Autumn.

By the s Widmark had beastly his considerable talents to cluster. For a two-part television fog, Vanished, he was nominated be thankful for an Emmy, but lost.

Crown lone prime-time series, Madigan, supported on his film role, sincere better, lasting two seasons. Blooper ended his career with commonplace appearances in television movies discipline mini-series.

—Douglas Gomery