Richard Widmark

Hi

Nice choice of films. The Garden of Evil especially with a great cast. I watched it on TV a couple of months ago, the first ime I had seen it since the 1950s on the big Cinemascope screen.

Regards

Arthur

Hi Len, I have to agree with you that he was great in Alvarez Kelly. I don't have it on DvD yet but, sometime hopefully in the next few months I will ;-))

Hi

If you go back far enough one of his early films was playing Tommy Udo in Kiss of Death, playing a really homicidal villian.

Regards

Arthur

Arthur, I remember that film well, after murdering someone he came out with a real crazy laugh

Good part for him, I have read at home he was a real dedicated family man

Watched a documentary about him not long ago and he came across as a real decent fella

We lost a golden oldie today. Great actor and another one that cannot be replaced.

Here is the atricle from the Minneapolis paper. He was born in Minnesota.

http://www.startribune.com/ent…ment/movies/17018186.html

RIP Mr. Widmark, you will be sadly missed.

Farewell Dick. yes, another one from Old Hollywood is gone.

RIP

A sad story indeed. I always liked his performance in The Alamo, but to live to be 93, he lived a very long life.

Great Actor who will be sadly missed

Mike

VERY sad, sad news. Widmark was a great actor and kept me entertained for many an hour watching him in such great movies such as: Kiss of Death, Warlock, Garden of Evil, Judgment at Nuremberg, Time Limit, The Last Wagon, Yellow Sky, Pickup on South Street, The Long Ships, The Tunnel of Love, No Way Out, The Street with No Name, Don't Bother to Knock, The Bedford Incident, O. Henry's Full House, The Frogmen, The Way West, Panic in the Streets, Broken Lance, Halls of Montezuma, Cheyenne Autumn, Night and the City, Madigan, How the West Was Won, The Alamo (of course!!!), and many. many more.

A bona fide star and leading man in three decades (40's, 50's, 60's and even into the 70's). Shame he never won an Oscar (why the Academy didn't give him an honorary one before he died is a mystery).

R.I.P. Mr. Widmark, we're all sorry to lose you.

Another classic gone.

ET

I heard this afternoon of the death of Widmark, and wasn't aware that he was 93 years old. Shouldn't be surprise, but it seems when you see the movies he did, he just couldn't be that old, but Duke is 100, and that makes Mr. Widmark 7 years younger which I know that's right.

Sorry to hear about another great one, but he did have a full life and sorry to hear that his illness was long and I know hard.

RIP Richard Widmark.

Cheers Hondo

One of Hollywood legends is gone.
RIP Mr.Widmark.

H.sanada

May he rest in peace.

Mark

we are loosing them like flies this year, while he had a long life his parting causes sweet sadness. may he have happy times where he is heading

cheers smokey

Rip Mr Widmark. His Bebut In Kiss Of Death Became His Kiss Of Life As A Great Actor.

Though he only made one film with Duke ("The Alamo"), and reportedly there was some anamosity on the set, he stood out in the film.
R.I.P. Richard Widmark - we'll continue to enjoy the portrayals you have left us.
Cheers - Jay

That is such a shame, another legend gone, they don't seem to make them the same these days, do they?? I loved him in 'The Alamo' and 'The Way West' (& many others, of course). He left us some good stuff to remember him by!!

Anita & Boz

I always liked Widmark.

Somewhere I read he and Wayne met at a party and didn't like each other. He hired him for The Alamo at the suggestion of John Ford and they didn't get along.