Richard Widmark

from Sunrise Township, Minnesota, USA

Artwork for Murder on the Orient ExpressImage of Richard Widmark

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.

Timeline

2002Aged 88

  • Poster for The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

    Skip McCoy (archive footage)

2000Aged 86

  • Poster for Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters

    Self

1999Aged 85

  • Poster for Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait

    Self - Actor

  • Poster for Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel

    (Unknown)

1997Aged 83

  • Poster for Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

    Self

1995Aged 81

  • Poster for Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

    Self

1992Aged 78

1991Aged 77

  • Poster for True Colors

    Sen. James Stiles

  • Poster for Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

    Self (archive footage)

1989Aged 75

  • Poster for Cold Sassy Tree

    Enoch Rucker Blakeslee

1988Aged 74

  • Poster for Once Upon a Texas Train

    Capt. Owen Hayes

1987Aged 73

  • Poster for James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for A Gathering of Old Men

    Sheriff Mapes

1986Aged 72

  • Poster for The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

    Self

  • Poster for Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

    Self - Narrator

1985Aged 71

  • Poster for Blackout

    Joe Steiner

1984Aged 70

  • Poster for Against All Odds

    Ben Caxton

1982Aged 68

  • Poster for National Lampoon's Movie Madness

    Stan Nagurski ("Municipalians")

  • Poster for Hanky Panky

    Ransom

  • Poster for Who Dares Wins

    Secretary of State Arthur Currie

1981Aged 67

  • Poster for A Whale for the Killing

    Tom Goodenough

1980Aged 66

  • Poster for All God's Children

    Judge Parke Denison

1979Aged 65

  • Poster for Bear Island

    Otto Gerran

  • Poster for All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman

    Self

1978Aged 64

  • Poster for Coma

    Dr. Harris

  • Poster for The Swarm

    General Slater

1977Aged 63

  • Poster for Twilight's Last Gleaming

    Gen. Martin MacKenzie - Commanding General SA

  • Poster for The Domino Principle

    Tagge

  • Poster for Rollercoaster

    Agent Hoyt

1976Aged 62

  • Poster for To the Devil a Daughter

    John Verney

  • Poster for The Sell Out

    Sam Lucas

1975Aged 61

  • Poster for The Last Day

    Will Spence

1974Aged 60

  • Poster for Murder on the Orient Express

    Mr. Ratchett

1973Aged 59

  • Poster for Brock's Last Case

    Lieutenant Max Brock

1972Aged 58

  • Poster for When the Legends Die

    Red Dillon

1971Aged 57

  • Poster for Directed by John Ford

    (archive footage)

1970Aged 56

  • Poster for The Moonshine War

    Dr. Emmett Taulbee

1969Aged 55

  • Poster for A Talent for Loving

    Major William Patten

  • Poster for Death of a Gunfighter

    Marshal Frank Patch

1968Aged 54

  • Poster for Madigan

    Det. Daniel Madigan

1967Aged 53

  • Poster for The Way West

    Lije Evans

1966Aged 52

  • Poster for Alvarez Kelly

    Col. Tom Rossiter

1965Aged 51

  • Poster for The Bedford Incident

    Captain Eric Finlander, U.S.N.

1964Aged 50

  • Poster for The Long Ships

    Rolfe

  • Poster for Flight from Ashiya

    L:t. Col. Glenn Stevenson

  • Poster for Cheyenne Autumn

    Capt. Thomas Archer

1962Aged 48

1961Aged 47

  • Poster for The Secret Ways

    Michael Reynolds

  • Poster for Two Rode Together

    First Lt. Jim Gary

  • Poster for Judgment at Nuremberg

    Tad Lawson

1960Aged 46

  • Poster for The Alamo

    Jim Bowie

1959Aged 45

  • Poster for The Trap

    Ralph Anderson

  • Poster for Warlock

    Johnny Gannon

1958Aged 44

  • Poster for The Law and Jake Wade

    Clint Hollister

  • Poster for The Tunnel of Love

    August 'Augie' Poole

1957Aged 43

  • Poster for Saint Joan

    The Dauphin, Charles VII

  • Poster for Time Limit

    Col. William Edwards

1956Aged 42

  • Poster for Boy with a Knife

    Narrator

  • Poster for Backlash

    Jim Slater

  • Poster for Run for the Sun

    Michael 'Mike' Latimer

  • Poster for The Last Wagon

    Comanche Todd

1955Aged 41

  • Poster for The Cobweb

    Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver

  • Poster for A Prize of Gold

    Sgt. Joe Lawrence

1954Aged 40

  • Poster for Hell and High Water

    Capt. Adam Jones

  • Poster for Garden of Evil

    Fiske

  • Poster for Broken Lance

    Ben Devereaux

1953Aged 39

  • Poster for Destination Gobi

    Sam McHale

  • Poster for Pickup on South Street

    Skip McCoy

  • Poster for Take the High Ground!

    Sgt. Thorne Ryan

1952Aged 38

  • Poster for Red Skies of Montana

    Cliff Mason

  • Poster for Don't Bother to Knock

    Jed Towers

  • Poster for O. Henry's Full House

    Johnny Kernan (segment "The Clarion Call")

  • Poster for My Pal Gus

    Dave Jennings

1951Aged 37

  • Poster for Halls of Montezuma

    Lt. Carl Anderson

  • Poster for The Frogmen

    Lt. Cmdr. John Lawrence

1950Aged 36

  • Poster for Night and the City

    Harry Fabian

  • Poster for Panic in the Streets

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

  • Poster for No Way Out

    Ray Biddle

1949Aged 35

  • Poster for Down to the Sea in Ships

    Dan Lunceford

  • Poster for Slattery's Hurricane

    Lt. Willard Francis Slattery

1948Aged 34

  • Poster for The Street with No Name

    Alec Stiles

  • Poster for Road House

    Jefferson T. 'Jefty' Robbins

  • Poster for Yellow Sky

    Dude

1947Aged 33

  • Poster for Kiss of Death

    Tommy Udo