[NormsRevenge]

NYT thread earlier

Richard Widmark, Actor, Dies at 93 ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991915/posts

[NormsRevenge]

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001847/bio

snips form his Bio at IMDB.com

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born on Boxing Day (the Day After Christmas) in 1914 in Sunrise, Minnesota..

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rejected as unsuitable for military service because of a perforated eardrum.

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Widmark was married for 55 years to playwright Jean Hazlewood, from 1942 until her death in 1997 (they had one child, Anne, who was born in 1945). He lived quietly and avoided the press, saying in 1971, “I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.”

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Quite a career
and a family man
to boot.

RIP Richard Widmark

[meandog]

best movie:

[Lancey Howard]

A truly great actor.

RIP

[longhorn too]

I really liked Richard Widmark, he was a wonderful actor and there are not many of his caliber left. Kirk Douglas is one of the remaining great actors.

[meandog]

Judgement at Nuremberg a classic...he played the prosecutor, I believe. RIP Mattigan, you were a great and versatile actor....at your best in a cowboy hat or with a cop's badge.

[stylecouncilor]

ping

[Dr. Scarpetta]

"I know I've made kind of a half-assed career out of violence, but I abhor violence," he remarked in a 1976 Associated Press interview. "I am an ardent supporter of gun control. It seems incredible to me that we are the only civilized nation that does not put some effective control on guns."

I always liked him, but here's another actor subjecting us to violent films, and he says he's against guns and violence.

[Lions Gate]

Wrong as he could possibly be on gun control.

MORE GUNS = LESS CRIME