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| Richard Widmark Biography and Filmography |
 Richard Widmark
Birthday: December 26, 1914
Birth Place: Sunrise, Minnesota, USA
Height: 5' 1"
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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 om the late 1950s. His film career slowed after the 1970s, but he remained active in made-for-TV movies. He starred in his own TV series in 1972, "Madigan" (1972), based on his hit movie of 1968, but only six episodes were produced before the show was canceled. In 1988 The American Movie Classics cable TV channel honored Widmark by airing "The Richard Widmark Film Festival."
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- Unforgettable in his screen debut (in 1947's 'Kiss of Death') as Tommy Udo, a psychopathic mob hit-man, who giggles gleefully even as he sends a wheelchair-bound old woman, portrayed by Mildred Dunnock, tumbling down a long stairway to her demise.
- Richard Widmark's daughter, Anne Heath Widmark, married baseball legend Sandy Koufax on January 1, 1969.
- President of his high school class.
- He was the Friday night host for CBS Radio's "Sears Mystery Theater" (1979).
- Widmark was a voice-over regular on the popular 1930s radio series “Gangbusters” that featured weekly episodes based actual crime incidents. Each program wended with various descriptions of wanted criminals, many of whom were later arrested due to avid listener participation.
- Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 2002.
- His sole Academy Awards nomination was for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Kiss of Death (1947) in 1948. Though he had won the Golden Globe for the role, he lost the Oscar to Edmund Gwenn in Miracle on 34th Street (1947).
- Was honored with a retrospective of his films by the Museum of Modern Art (New York, New York) in May 2001.
- When Kiss of Death (1947) 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 in the picture. The part was small but Widmark made it one of the most indelible performances in the history of cinema. Though he would never be typecast and his career went on for almost 50 years until he retired, Widmark's most vivid role would be as the killer Tommy Udo, who giggled over his victims with tongue poked lewdly through his teeth.
- In September of 1999 at age 84 Widmark married Susan Blanchard, who was Henry Fonda's third wife.
- His daughter with wife Jean, Anne Heath Widmark, married baseball legend Sandy Koufax on January 1, 1969.
- Widmark's most vivid movie scene of his career was as sociopathic villain Tommy Udo in Kiss of Death (1947) in which he is seen pushing a wheelchair-bound old lady (played by Mildred Dunnock) down a flight of stairs to her death.
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