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Richard Widmark
Age: 93 (passed away Mar. 24th, 2008)
Height: 5' 10"
Birth Place: Sunrise Township, Minnesota, USA
Born: Dec. 26th, 1914
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BIOGRAPHY: Richard Widmark grew up in Princeton, Illinois, and attended Lake Forest (IL) College, where he first began acting. He taught acting at Lake Forest after graduation until 1938, when he made his radio debut in New York in "Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories." Widmark made his Broadway stage debut in 1943 in "Kiss and Tell." He had been rejected as unsuitable for military service because of a perforated eardrum. In 1947, he got his big break, making film history as Tommy Udo in Kiss of Death (1947), beginning a seven-year contract with 20th Century-Fox. His hand and footprints were cast in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in 1949.
After his contract with Fox expired, Widmark went independent. He first appeared on TV as himself in an episode of "I Love Lucy" (1951), and began producing films from the late 1950s. His film career slowed in the 1970s, but he remained active in made-for-TV movies. He starred in his own TV series, "Madigan" (1972), based on his 1968 hit movie, but only six episodes were produced before the show was canceled.
TRIVIA:
- Before he ever became a film actor, Widmark was busy with voice-over work on various radio programs during the 1930s and 1940s.
- He was the Friday night host for CBS Radio's "Sears Mystery Theater" (1979).
- Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 2002.
- His daughter with wife 'Jean Hazlewood' (qv), Anne Heath Widmark, an artist and author, married baseball legend 'Sandy Koufax' (qv) on 1 January 1969.
- In the fall of 2007 he sustained a fractured vertebrae after a fall. He died about six months later of complications.
- In high school he wrote for the school newspaper.
- When _Kiss of Death (1947)_ (qv) was released to theaters in 1947, 20th Century Fox's publicity department encouraged theater owners to "Sell Richard Widmark!" Fox's publicity manual advised theaters to have a local printer make up "Wanted" with Widmark's face on them to advertise the film, in which he made his debut. The part was small, but Widmark made it one of the most indelible performances in the history of cinema.
- When his contract at Fox expired in 1954 after seven years, he deliberately went independent in order to have more artistic control over his films. He formed his own company, Heath Productions.
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