Actor
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 films noir, 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 surv ...

Known For
Acting
2002 -- The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller | Skip McCoy (archive footage)
2000 -- Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters | Self
1999 -- Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel |
1999 -- Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait | Self - Actor
1997 -- Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western | Self
1995 -- American Cinema | Narrator
1995 -- Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick | Self
1992 -- Lincoln | Ward Hill Lamon (voice)
1992 -- John Wayne's 'The Alamo' | Jim Bowie
1991 -- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | Self (archive footage)
1991 -- True Colors | Sen. James Stiles
1989 -- Cold Sassy Tree | Enoch Rucker Blakeslee
1988 -- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self (archive footage)
1988 -- Once Upon a Texas Train | Capt. Owen Hayes
1987 -- A Gathering of Old Men | Sheriff Mapes
1986 -- Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend | Self - Narrator
1986 -- The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn | Self
1985 -- Blackout | Joe Steiner
1984 -- Against All Odds | Ben Caxton
1982 -- Who Dares Wins | Secretary of State Arthur Currie
1982 -- Hanky Panky | Ransom
1982 -- National Lampoon's Movie Madness | Stan Nagurski ("Municipalians")
1981 -- A Whale for the Killing | Tom Goodenough
1980 -- All God's Children | Judge Parke Denison
1979 -- Bear Island | Otto Gerran
1979 -- Mr. Horn | Al Sieber
1978 -- The Swarm | Gen. Thaddeus Slater
1978 -- Coma | Dr. Harris
1977 -- Rollercoaster | Agent Hoyt
1977 -- The Domino Principle | Tagge
1977 -- Twilight's Last Gleaming | Gen. Martin MacKenzie - Commanding General SA
1976 -- The Sell Out | Sam Lucas
1976 -- To the Devil a Daughter | John Verney
1975 -- The Last Day | Will Spence
1974 -- Murder on the Orient Express | Mr. Ratchett
1973 -- Brock's Last Case | Lieutenant Max Brock
1972 -- When the Legends Die | Red Dillon
1971 -- Directed by John Ford | (archive footage)
1970 -- The Moonshine War | Dr. Emmett Taulbee
1969 -- Death of a Gunfighter | Marshal Frank Patch
1969 -- A Talent for Loving | Major William Patten
1968 -- Madigan | Det. Daniel Madigan
1967 -- The Way West | Lije Evans
1966 -- Alvarez Kelly | Col. Tom Rossiter
1965 -- The Bedford Incident | Captain Eric Finlander, U.S.N.
1964 -- Cheyenne Autumn | Capt. Thomas Archer
1964 -- The Long Ships | Rolfe
1964 -- Flight from Ashiya | L:t. Col. Glenn Stevenson
1962 -- How the West Was Won | Mike King
1962 -- Exercise No. One |
1961 -- Judgment at Nuremberg | Tad Lawson
1961 -- Two Rode Together | First Lt. Jim Gary
1961 -- The Secret Ways | Michael Reynolds
1960 -- The Alamo | Jim Bowie
1959 -- Warlock | Johnny Gannon
1959 -- The Trap | Ralph Anderson
1958 -- The Tunnel of Love | August 'Augie' Poole
1958 -- The Law and Jake Wade | Clint Hollister
1957 -- Time Limit | Col. William Edwards
1957 -- Saint Joan | The Dauphin, Charles VII
1956 -- The Last Wagon | Comanche Todd
1956 -- Run for the Sun | Michael 'Mike' Latimer
1956 -- Backlash | Jim Slater
1956 -- Boy with a Knife | Narrator
1955 -- A Prize of Gold | Sgt. Joe Lawrence
1955 -- The Cobweb | Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver
1954 -- Broken Lance | Ben Devereaux
1954 -- Garden of Evil | Fiske
1954 -- Hell and High Water | Capt. Adam Jones
1953 -- Take the High Ground! | Sgt. Thorne Ryan
1953 -- Pickup on South Street | Skip McCoy
1953 -- Destination Gobi | Sam McHale
1952 -- My Pal Gus | Dave Jennings
1952 -- O. Henry's Full House | Johnny Kernan (segment "The Clarion Call")
1952 -- Don't Bother to Knock | Jed Towers
1952 -- Red Skies of Montana | Cliff Mason
1951 -- The Frogmen | Lt. Cmdr. John Lawrence
1951 -- Halls of Montezuma | Lt. Carl Anderson
1950 -- No Way Out | Ray Biddle
1950 -- Panic in the Streets | Lt. Cmdr. Clinton 'Clint' Reed M.D.
1950 -- Night and the City | Harry Fabian
1949 -- Slattery's Hurricane | Lt. Willard Francis Slattery
1949 -- Down to the Sea in Ships | Dan Lunceford
1948 -- Yellow Sky | Dude
1948 -- Road House | Jefferson T. 'Jefty' Robbins
1948 -- The Street with No Name | Alec Stiles
1947 -- Kiss of Death | Tommy Udo
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