Richard Widmark

Source: www.moreover.com --- 28 days ago
Recently we lost two American actors who embodied widely different styles, and their passing is a reminder that the very presence of an actor can suggest everything about a film. ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 37 days ago
Just this once, I'm going to bite (more like nip) the hand that publishes me, or more accurately, the fingers of those who contribute its content. I was scanning the Huffington Entertainment page several days ago, looking for some interesting perspective on the life and work of actor Richard Widmark, who died last week at age 93. I saw an article on why Kate Hudson shouldn't wear wigs. I spied about three tedious looking pieces on Britney Spears (with one titled "I'm Britney's Neighbor, Bitch!") and a couple on Brad and Angelina's purported marriage. I know entertainment is meant to be light and diverting, but inevitably it also mirrors the tastes and values of our time. Too much of what I observe these days feels like so much noise, signifying nothing- or very little. Am I alone here, or do others feel it too? And Huffington is nowhere near the worst offender in this respect. Just surf your 800 TV channels sometime, and look a bit more closely at what's on (besides "John Adams" and a few other solid series on HBO. Is this where all the good writers went?) Just why does the media business have to promulgate so blatantly what's become a junk-food culture? Why, in the face of rampant over-consumption as well as hazards both environmental and economic, do we remain so mired in sensationalism and the superficial? Certainly the phenomenon of tabloid journalism is nothing new, but in the past, it was relegated to its ...

Source: search.hollywood.com --- 37 days ago
[IMG:L]Actor Richard Widmark , who earned an Oscar nomination playing a psychopath in 1947's film noir Kiss of Death , has died aged 93, a medical official in his home state of Connecticut said on Wednesday. Widmark  was blond and slightly built during his prime and brought an edgy nervousness to ... ...

Source: news.bostonherald.com --- 35 days ago
There was always something classy about Richard Widmark who died today at 93.  For an actor who became famous as sadistic creep Tommy Udo, he of the Joker-style laughter as he pushed a little old lady in a wheelchair down the stairs to her death in “Kiss of Death,” Widmark escaped typecasting early. A familiar presence [...] ...

Source: talk.radiotimes.com --- 34 days ago
I was privileged to meet Richard Widmark in 2002 when he was at the National Film Theatre in London to discuss his work. He was smaller than you ...

Source: www.dvdtimes.co.uk --- 37 days ago
News: In a cruel twist of fate, film noir titans Richard Widmark and Jules Dassin passed away within one week of each other. clydefro offers up a tribute to the star and director of Night and the City. ...

Source: www.thegearpage.net --- 27 days ago
We are losing most of the folks I consider Hollywood Legends...are there many left? Do the ones that are still around still act or are they retired?... ...

Source: www.boxxet.com --- 13 days ago
The next time you channel-flip to Jack Nicholson doing the Joker in Batman, or even to such great vintage Nicholson vehicles as Chinatown and The Last Detail, treat yourself to something a little different afterward and pop in a DVD of ... Original story at The Swamp . View our complete collection of news and blogs, plus related videos, photos and more at Boxxet for Jack Nicholson . ...

Source: www.cinemaretro.com --- 33 days ago
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Source: www.boxxet.com --- 36 days ago
Written by Rob Subsequent films included 1952’s Don’t Bother to Knock, in which he co-starred with Marilyn Monroe, and Cold War submarine drama The Bedford Incident, which he also produced. When not working, he and his second wife lived on a horse ranch in California or on their Connecticut farm. Original story at IndieLondon . Related stories include: More March Mourning... - deathtodeath (Blogspot) , Richard Widmark, Screen, Stage and Movie Actor dies at age 93... - babyboomeradvisorclub (WordPress) , Richard Widmark dies at age 93...silver screen, movie star and actor... - fromtheleftsideofmybrain (WordPress) View all 4 related news and blogs, plus related videos, photos and more at Boxxet for Marilyn Monroe . ...

Source: www.maxoe.com --- 38 days ago
L'un des derniers très grands noms de l'âge d'or hollywoodien, Richard Widmark, est décédé le mercredi 26 mars 2008 à l'âge de 93 ans dans ... ...

Source: moviesfilter.spaces.live.com --- 36 days ago
And just after my tenth (eleventh?) viewing of one of my favorite film noir, that daylight ménage à trois (well, ménage à trois of intimidation, which only makes it more fascinating) -- "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, decent man in real life has left us. Richard Widmark died Monday at the age of 93-years-old .   An actor who stunned audiences (and earned his one and only Oscar nomination) with his film debut as the giggling psychopath Tommy Udo in Henry Hathaway's "Kiss of Death," a character who, in the film's most notorious scene, pushes an old woman in a wheelchair down a flight of stairs, Widmark worked a long career filled with intriguing, daring roles that left a permanent impression on the movie-going public. So much, in fact, that Tommy Udo clubs formed around the country at various colleges, honoring the maniac for not taking any guff from women, men or life itself -- no matter how venal and self destructive he was. But that was part of Widmark's power and subversion -- you enjoyed his lunatics.    But his career wasn't all about hassling little old ladies, he also helped create some of film noir's most immortal characters including, in my mind two ultimate noir anti-hero ico ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 35 days ago
Fans of first-class films took two more hard hits in recent days. It's becoming a sad spring for movie-related deaths. ...

Source: robrem.net --- 37 days ago
Richard Widmark has died. Back in the heady days of youth when I was an aspiring actor, I would occasionally have these talks with my Dad where he expressed his views on the theatrical arts.  He used to say that he thought I might make a good “character actor”, and then he would proceed to [...] ...

Source: www.ghoulpool.us --- 37 days ago
Richard Widmark, the crusty old actor, died in his home at the age of 93 after battling a long illness. He died on March 24, 2008. 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 [...] ...

Source: www.efilmforum.com --- 35 days ago
*PANIC IN THE STREETS *starring Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel. Directed by Elia Kazan. 3 STARS. In honor of the late, great and local (CT.) actor, *Richard Widmark*, I had a group of friends over Friday night and we screened a 16mm print of one of... ...

Source: www.fwicki.com --- 34 days ago
There's nothing like announcing the end of a series to sharpen up its remaining scripts. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 38 days ago
"One will remember that nasty little creep with the wild eyes and high-pitched laugh, neurotic to the core, which Richard Widmark has turned into one of his finest roles" Richard Widmark as Tommy Udo in Kiss of Death. Actor Richard Widmark, who earned an Oscar nomination playing a psychopath in 1947's film noir Kiss of Death, has died aged 93. via Australian Broadcasting Corporation ...

Source: stkarnick.com --- 38 days ago
Hollywood actor Richard Widmark dies at age 93, represented Hollywood's heyday. Richard Widmark , best known for his Academy Award-nominated performance as a giggling, grinning gangster in the 1947 film noir classic Kiss of Death and as an NYPD policeman in the 1970s TV program Madigan , represents a Hollywood long gone and greatly missed, where on-camera performers and others involved in making films saw themselves as professionals, not artists—and succeeded in creating real art much more often than today's more overtly ambitious and politically active generation. Madigan was based on a very good film directed by Donald Siegel, which is well worth seeing . For more on Widmark and his career, see the AP story . ...