[laconic]

He was like Joseph Cotten, who also died last year. Could play any role, an incredible and believable range of characters (Cotten played a serial killer, a reporter in Citizen Kane who calls Hearst on the carpet and loses his job for it, and the “good guy” in the Third Man who ultimately helps get rid of the evil friend). Similarly, Widmark could play a leering lunatic (Tommy Udo), heroic battler (Bowie) and a righteous prosecuror (Judgment at Nuremberg).

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

I liked Joseph Cotten in Gaslight.

[Borges]

Joseph Cotten died 14 years ago.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

It’s hard to compare the great ones. There was a small group of them 5 or 6 in the 50’s and early 60’s that I’m growing to appreciate more and more.

I still watch them whenever I get a chance.

RIP Richard Whidmark

[headstamp 2]

The Third Man with Cotton is a masterpiece.

Simply loved the setting in post-war Europe. Film Nuar style. The pall over everything. The zither music in the background.

Like a Bergman Film.

[maine-iac7]

He was like Joseph Cotten, who also died last year.

Oh yes! Another of my all time favorites - Could play good buy/bad guy equally well.

Loved him in "Portrait of Jenny" with Jennifer Jones and "Love Letters" - also with Jennifer Jones (script adapted by Ayn RAnd) -

However, I believe he died in 1994 - at 88