(TV) Slightly[?] On Topic: Richard Widmark / X

["Leo Casey" <leocasey@comcast.net>]

Actor Richard Widmark died Monday at 93.

Widmark was T.V.'s favorite actor (according to Ms. SecretX -----who?----she also
said Tom in his later years thought that he resembled the actor.)

http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0001847/


"Richard Widmark established himself as an icon of American cinema with his debut in
the 1947 film noir Kiss of Death (1947) in which he won a Best Supporting Actor
Academy Award nomination as the killer "Tommy Udo". Kiss of Death (1947) and other
noir thrillers established Widmark as part of a new generation of American movie
actors who became stars in the post-World War II era. With fellow post-War stars Kirk
Douglas and Robert Mitchum, Widmark brought a new kind of character to the screen in
his character leads and supporting parts: a hardboiled type who does not actively
court the sympathy of the audience (although Mitchum's hangdog demeanor marked him as
the most endearing of the three). Widmark was not afraid to play deeply troubled,
deeply conflicted, or just down right deeply corrupt characters. After his debut,
Widmark would work steadily until he retired at the age of 76 in 1990, primarily as a
character lead. His stardom would peak around the time he played the U.S. prosecutor
in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) as the 1950s segued into the 1960s, but he would
continue to act for another 30 years."

In the film "Kiss of Death", in probably his most famous scene of Widmark's long
acting career, Widmark's character, Tommy, gleefully pushes a wheel chair containing
an 80-sh year-old frail woman over the edge of a flight of stairs to her death. 


Leo
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