[Argus]

My favorite Steiger performance is as Stanley Hoff, the loathsome studio boss who drives Jack Palance to suicide in THE BIG KNIFE.

[laconic]

Steiger's role of Monsieir Kamarovsky in Doctor Zhivago is still one of the greatest screen performances I've seen. Sharif's comment on Kamarovsky changing with the revolution from tsarist to Boshevik commissar, something on the order of "he seems to be everywhere, friends with everyone and believe in nothing" fits most of the politicians of the western world.