Kim Morgan: Richard Widmark: 1914-2008
And just after my tenth (eleventh?) viewing of one of my favorite film noir's, that daylight ménage à trois (or rather, ménage à trois by way of intimidation, which only makes the picture all the more fascinating and kinky) -- Road House --just when I was really wrapping my head around my obsession with both the movie and that hot blonde laughing lunatic of menace and twisted sex appeal, he ups and leaves me. One of motion pictures greatest actors, an icon of film noir and an intelligent, dec
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(Reuters) - Actor Richard Widmark, who starred in such films as "Kiss of Death" and "Panic in the Streets," has died at 93, an official in his home state of Connecticut said on Wednesday.
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It has been reported that Hollywood star Richard Widmark has died at the age of 93 after a long illness. Richard’s wife, Susan Blanchard, said that Richard died at his home in Roxbury on Monday. According to The Associated Press Susan would not provide details of his illness and said funeral arrangements are private. She said that “It was a big shock, but he was 93”. Richard was born in Minnesota in 1914, and began his career in radio and theatre before playing cackling killer Tommy Udo
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Famed actor Richard Widmark dead. I don’t think I’ve seen a single movie he’s starred in but he is one they’re saying, 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, Conn. He was 93. His death was announced Wednesday morning by his wife, Susan Blanchard. She said that Mr. Widmark had fractured a vertebra in recent months and that his conditioned had worsened. As Tommy Udo, a giggl
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He outlived his peers, ALL of them. And you measure the man by the characters he played, Richard Widmark probably did it out of meanness. He died Monday in his Connecticut home. He was 93. The Bedford Incident, The Alamo, Panic in the Streets, Coma, Against All Odds, even when he was a good guy, he could be scary. The Role that made him was his very first screen appearance, as the thug Udo, inKiss of Death (1947). Here's why.
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And just after my tenth (eleventh?) viewing of one of my favorite film noir's, that daylight ménage à trois (or rather, ménage à trois by way of intimidation, which only makes the picture all the more fascinating and kinky) -- Road House --just when I was really wrapping my head around my obsession with both the movie and that hot blonde laughing lunatic of menace and twisted sex appeal, he ups and leaves me. One of motion pictures greatest actors, an icon of film noir and an intelligent, dec read
(Reuters) - Actor Richard Widmark, who starred in such films as "Kiss of Death" and "Panic in the Streets," has died at 93, an official in his home state of Connecticut said on Wednesday. read
It has been reported that Hollywood star Richard Widmark has died at the age of 93 after a long illness. Richard’s wife, Susan Blanchard, said that Richard died at his home in Roxbury on Monday. According to The Associated Press Susan would not provide details of his illness and said funeral arrangements are private. She said that “It was a big shock, but he was 93”. Richard was born in Minnesota in 1914, and began his career in radio and theatre before playing cackling killer Tommy Udo read
Famed actor Richard Widmark dead. I don’t think I’ve seen a single movie he’s starred in but he is one they’re saying, 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, Conn. He was 93. His death was announced Wednesday morning by his wife, Susan Blanchard. She said that Mr. Widmark had fractured a vertebra in recent months and that his conditioned had worsened. As Tommy Udo, a giggl read
He outlived his peers, ALL of them. And you measure the man by the characters he played, Richard Widmark probably did it out of meanness. He died Monday in his Connecticut home. He was 93. The Bedford Incident, The Alamo, Panic in the Streets, Coma, Against All Odds, even when he was a good guy, he could be scary. The Role that made him was his very first screen appearance, as the thug Udo, inKiss of Death (1947). Here's why. read
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