Richard Widmark
Acting • Born 1914-12-26 – Died 2008-03-24
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.
Filmography
104 credits
Judgment at Nuremberg
Movie • 1961
Tad Lawson
Rollercoaster
Movie • 1977
Agent Hoyt
Murder on the Orient Express
Movie • 1974
Mr. Ratchett
Madigan
Movie • 1968
Det. Daniel Madigan
Yellow Sky
Movie • 1948
Dude
The Alamo
Movie • 1960
Jim Bowie
Road House
Movie • 1948
Jefferson T. 'Jefty' Robbins
Coma
Movie • 1978
Dr. Harris
Kiss of Death
Movie • 1947
Tommy Udo
Against All Odds
Movie • 1984
Ben Caxton
Hell and High Water
Movie • 1954
Capt. Adam Jones
Don't Bother to Knock
Movie • 1952
Jed Towers
How the West Was Won
Movie • 1962
Mike King
The Domino Principle
Movie • 1977
Tagge
Hanky Panky
Movie • 1982
Ransom
Panic in the Streets
Movie • 1950
Lt. Cmdr. Clinton 'Clint' Reed M.D.
Two Rode Together
Movie • 1961
First Lt. Jim Gary
Pickup on South Street
Movie • 1953
Skip McCoy
Slattery's Hurricane
Movie • 1949
Lt. Willard Francis Slattery
Exercise No. One
Movie • 1962
To the Devil a Daughter
Movie • 1976
John Verney
No Way Out
Movie • 1950
Ray Biddle
Cheyenne Autumn
Movie • 1964
Capt. Thomas Archer
Garden of Evil
Movie • 1954
Fiske
Broken Lance
Movie • 1954
Ben Devereaux
Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel
Movie • 1999
The Street with No Name
Movie • 1948
Alec Stiles
The Way West
Movie • 1967
Lije Evans
Alvarez Kelly
Movie • 1966
Col. Tom Rossiter
Warlock
Movie • 1959
Johnny Gannon
The Secret Ways
Movie • 1961
Michael Reynolds
Backlash
Movie • 1956
Jim Slater
The Long Ships
Movie • 1964
Rolfe
The Law and Jake Wade
Movie • 1958
Clint Hollister
The Frogmen
Movie • 1951
Lt. Cmdr. John Lawrence
The Last Wagon
Movie • 1956
Comanche Todd
The Tunnel of Love
Movie • 1958
August 'Augie' Poole
Bear Island
Movie • 1979
Otto Gerran
Halls of Montezuma
Movie • 1951
Lt. Carl Anderson
Time Limit
Movie • 1957
Col. William Edwards
Run for the Sun
Movie • 1956
Michael 'Mike' Latimer
The Swarm
Movie • 1978
Gen. Thaddeus Slater
The Bedford Incident
Movie • 1965
Captain Eric Finlander, U.S.N.
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Movie • 1997
Self
Night and the City
Movie • 1950
Harry Fabian
Who Dares Wins
Movie • 1982
Secretary of State Arthur Currie
The Trap
Movie • 1959
Ralph Anderson
Death of a Gunfighter
Movie • 1969
Marshal Frank Patch
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Movie • 1977
Gen. Martin MacKenzie - Commanding General SA
The Cobweb
Movie • 1955
Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver
A Gathering of Old Men
Movie • 1987
Sheriff Mapes
Take the High Ground!
Movie • 1953
Sgt. Thorne Ryan
My Pal Gus
Movie • 1952
Dave Jennings
The Sell Out
Movie • 1976
Sam Lucas
The Moonshine War
Movie • 1970
Dr. Emmett Taulbee
Saint Joan
Movie • 1957
The Dauphin, Charles VII
Destination Gobi
Movie • 1953
Sam McHale
Red Skies of Montana
Movie • 1952
Cliff Mason
Flight from Ashiya
Movie • 1964
L:t. Col. Glenn Stevenson
A Prize of Gold
Movie • 1955
Sgt. Joe Lawrence
Down to the Sea in Ships
Movie • 1949
Dan Lunceford
Richard Widmark: Strength of Characters
Movie • 2000
Self
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Movie • 1986
Self - Narrator
Blackout
Movie • 1985
Joe Steiner
When the Legends Die
Movie • 1972
Red Dillon
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Movie • 2002
Skip McCoy (archive footage)
A Whale for the Killing
Movie • 1981
Tom Goodenough
Directed by John Ford
Movie • 1971
(archive footage)
The Last Day
Movie • 1975
Will Spence
Cold Sassy Tree
Movie • 1989
Enoch Rucker Blakeslee
O. Henry's Full House
Movie • 1952
Johnny Kernan (segment "The Clarion Call")
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
Movie • 1982
Stan Nagurski ("Municipalians")
Lincoln
Movie • 1992
Ward Hill Lamon (voice)
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
Movie • 1995
Self
Once Upon a Texas Train
Movie • 1988
Capt. Owen Hayes
Brock's Last Case
Movie • 1973
Lieutenant Max Brock
A Talent for Loving
Movie • 1969
Major William Patten
Boy with a Knife
Movie • 1956
Narrator
Mr. Horn
Movie • 1979
Al Sieber
True Colors
Movie • 1991
Sen. James Stiles
All God's Children
Movie • 1980
Judge Parke Denison
Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait
Movie • 1999
Self - Actor
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Movie • 1986
Self
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie • 1987
Self (archive footage)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Movie • 1991
Self (archive footage)
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
Movie • 1992
Jim Bowie
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
Movie • 1979
Self
I Love Lucy
TV • 1951
Richard Widmark
Vanished
TV • 1971
President Paul Roudebush
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV • 1973
Self
Here's Hollywood
TV • 1960
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The West of the Imagination
TV
Madigan
TV • 1972
Dan Madigan
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
TV • 1974
Rebel Benjamin Franklin
V.I.P. Schaukel
TV • 1971
Self
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self
Yesteryear
TV • 1982
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Presenter
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Biography
TV • 1987
Self - Actor
The World of Hammer
TV • 1994
Self (archive footage)