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
Loved him as an actor. Great “Bowie” in John Wayne’s “The Alamo.”
Hard working, vastly under-rated Character Actor.
Loved to hate him as Tommy Udo in ‘Kiss Of Death’.
Superb as the Tin Can, ‘Bedford’’s CO opposite Sidney Poitier in ‘The Bedford Incident’.
Made small films like ‘The Frogmen’, ‘Destination: Gobi’, ‘Panic In The Streets’ and ‘Hell And High Water’ much more memorable.
Owned the role of “Madigan’ on the screen and television.
Mr. Widmark will be sorely missed.
Jack.