Richard Widmark Net Worth is
$11 Million

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Richard Widmark established himself as an icon of American cinema along with his debut in the 1947 film noir Kiss of Loss of life (1947) where he earned a Best Helping Actor Academy Prize nomination as the killer “Tommy Udo”. Kiss of Loss of life (1947) and various other noir thrillers set up Widmark within a new era of American film stars who became superstars in the post-World Battle II period. With fellow post-War superstars Kirk Douglas and Robert Mitchum, Widmark brought a fresh kind of personality to the display screen in his personality leads and helping parts: a hardboiled type would you not actively courtroom the sympathy from the viewers. Widmark had not been afraid to try out deeply stressed, deeply conflicted, or simply down correct deeply corrupt heroes. After his debut, Widmark works steadily until he retired at age 76 in 1990, mainly being a character lead. His stardom would top around enough time he performed the U.S. prosecutor in Common sense at Nuremberg (1961) as the 1950s segued in to the 1960s, but he’d continue to work for another 30 years. Richard Weedt Widmark was created in Sunrise Township, Minnesota, to Ethel Mae (Barr) and Carl Henry Widmark. His dad was of Swedish descent and his mom of British and Scottish ancestry. He provides stated that he cherished the films from his boyhood, declaring “I am a movie insect since I used to be 4. My grandmother utilized to consider me”. The teen-aged Widmark continuing to visit the films, and was delighted by Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931). “I believed Boris Karloff was great”, Widmark stated. Although he adored the films and excelled at presenting and public speaking while going to senior high school, Widmark went to Lake Forest University with the thought of learning to be a lawyer. Nevertheless, he received the lead part in a university creation of, fittingly plenty of, the play “Consellor-at-Law”, as well as the performing bug little bit deep. After acquiring his bachelor of arts level in 1936, he remained on at Lake Forest as the Assistant Movie director of Talk and Drama. Nevertheless, he soon give up the work and transferred to NY to be an professional and, by 1938, he was showing up on radio in “Aunt Jenny’s TRUE TO LIFE Tales”. He produced his Broadway debut in 1943 in the play “Kiss and Inform”, and continuing to seem on stage in functions which were light years from the difficult cookies he’d play in his early films. After World War II, he was signed by 20th Century Fox to a seven-year contract. After viewing his screen-test for the function of “Tommy Udo”, 20th Century Fox employer Darryl F. Zanuck insisted the fact that small, blonde Widmark – no one’s notion of a heavy, especially after his stage function – be ensemble simply because the psychopath in Kiss of Loss of life (1947), which have been prepared like a Victor Mature automobile. Despite the fact that the part was little, Widmark stole the picture. 20th Century Fox’s promotion department suggested that exhibitors marketplace the film by focusing on thumbing the tub for his or her fresh anti-hero. “Sell Richard Widmark” suggested the studio’s promotion manual an alert 20th Century Fox delivered to movie theater owners. The manual informed local exhibitors to activate a job-printer to possess “Wished” posters offering Widmark’s face to become published and pasted up. He gained a Golden World and an Oscar nod for the component, which result in an early on bout with typecasting in the studio room. Widmark performed psychotics in the pub without Name (1948) and Street Home (1948), and kept his very own against brand-new Fox superstar Gregory Peck in the William A. Wellman’s Traditional western, Yellow Sky (1948), playing the villain, obviously. When he finally pressured the studio room to allow him play other areas, his appearance being a sailor in Right down to the ocean in Boats (1949) produced headlines: “Lifestyle” magazine’s March 28, 1949 concern highlighted a three-page pass on of the film, headlined, “Widmark the Film Villain Goes Right”. He was well-known, having captured the general public imagination, and prior to the 10 years was out, his hands and footprints had been immortalized in concrete in the courtroom outside Grauman’s Chinese language Theater in Hollywood. The great movie director Elia Kazan cast Widmark in his thriller Stress in the Roads (1950) much less the large – that role visited Jack Palance – but as the physician who tracks straight down Palance, who gets the plague, in tandem with detective Paul Douglas. Widmark was building himself as a genuine existence in the genre that afterwards will be hailed as “film noir”. Having demonstrated he could deal with other jobs, Widmark didn’t timid from playing heavies in quality images. The soon-to-be-blacklisted movie director Jules Dassin cast him in another of his greatest jobs, as the penny-ante hustler “Harry Fabian” in Evening and the town (1950). Occur London, Widmark’s Fabian manages to survive in the jungle from the British demimonde, but is certainly doomed. Widmark was masterful in conveying the desperation from the criminal wanting to control his personal fate but who’s damned, which overall performance also became an icon of film noir. For the reason that same 12 months, he made an appearance in Oscar-winning writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s NO CHANCE Out (1950) like a bigot who instigates a competition riot. As the 1950s progressed, Widmark played in Westerns, army automobiles, and his old stand-by genre, the thriller. He made an appearance with Marilyn Monroe (this time around solid as the psycho) in Don’t Bother to Knock (1952) and produced Pickup on South Road (1953) that same 12 months for movie director Samuel Fuller. His seven-year agreement at Fox was expiring, and Zanuck – who not renew the offer – ensemble him in the Traditional western Broken Lance (1954) within a decidedly helping function, billed beneath not merely Spencer Tracy but also Robert Wagner and Jean Peters. The film was well-respected, and it gained an Oscar nomination for greatest screenplay for leading of Hollywood 10 blacklistee Albert Maltz. Widmark still left Fox for the life span of the freelance, developing his own firm, “Heath Productions”. He made an appearance in even more Westerns, journeys and sociable dramas, and forced himself as an acting professional by firmly taking the thankless part of “The Dauphin” in Otto Preminger’s version of George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan (1957), a notorious flop that didn’t provide anyone any honors, neither Preminger, his leading woman Jean Seberg or Widmark. In 1960, he was showing up in another notorious creation, John Wayne’s ode to suicidal patriotism, The Alamo (1960), using the individually liberal Widmark playing “Jim Bowie” to get the very-conservative Wayne’s “Davy Crockett”. Along with personality professional Chill Wills, Widmark probably was a very important thing in the film. In 1961, Widmark acquitted himself quite nicely as the prosecutor in producer-director Stanley Kramer’s Wisdom at Nuremberg (1961), appearing using the Oscar-nominated Spencer Tracy as well as the Oscar-winning Maximilian Schell, aswell much like superstar Burt Lancaster and operating genius Montgomery Clift as well as the renowned ‘Judy Garland’ (the last mentioned two winning Oscar nods for his or her small assignments). Despite getting showcased with all of this thespian-firepower, Widmark’s personality became the axis which the theatre turned. Just a little later on, Widmark made an appearance in two Westerns aimed by the fantastic John Ford, with co-star Wayne Stewart in Two Rode Jointly (1961) so that as the top superstar in Ford’s apologia for Indian genocide, Cheyenne Fall (1964). On Two Rode Jointly (1961), Ford feuded with Jimmy Stewart over his hat. Stewart insisted on putting on the same hat he previously for ten years of highly effective Westerns that acquired made him among the best box office celebrities from the 1950s. Both he and Widmark had been hard-of-hearing (aswell as balding and looking for help through the make-up department’s wig-makers), therefore Ford would sit down himself a long way away from their website while directing moments and then provide them with directions within a hardly audible tone of voice. When neither among the celebrities could hear their movie director, Ford theatrically announced to his team, that after over 40 years available, he was decreased to directing two deaf toupees. It had been testimony towards the stature of both Stewart and Widmark as celebrities that was so far as Ford’s baiting proceeded to go, as the fantastic director could possibly be extraordinarily cruel. Widmark continued to co-star in A-pictures through the 1960s. He capped from the 10 years with one of is own finest shows, as the amoral law enforcement detective in Don Siegel’s gritty cop melodrama Madigan (1968). Viewing “Madigan”, you can discover Widmark’s characters being a development in the advancement of what would end up being the past due 1960s nihilistic anti-hero, such as for example those embodied by Clint Eastwood in Siegel’s afterwards Dirty Harry (1971). Im the 1970s, he continuing to create his tag in films and, from 1971, in tv. In films, he appeared mainly in supporting functions, albeit in extremely billed style, in such movies as Sidney Lumet’s Murder for the Orient Express (1974), Robert Aldrich’s Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977), and Stanley Kramer’s The Domino Rule (1977). He also returned as much, playing the villainous doctor in Coma (1978). In 1971, searching for better jobs, he considered television, starring as the Leader from the U.S. in it films Vanished (1971). His overall performance in the part brought Widmark an Emmy nomination. He resurrected the type of “Madigan” for NBC, in six 90-minute shows that appeared within the rotation of “NBC Wednesday Secret Film” for the Fall 1972 time of year. Widmark was wedded for 55 years to playwright Jean Hazlewood, from 1942 until her loss of life in 1997 (that they had one young child, Anne, who was simply delivered in 1945). He resided quietly and avoided the press, stating in 1971, “I believe a performer must do his function and shut up”. “LA Occasions” critic Kevin Thomas believed that Widmark must have received an Oscar nomination for his submit When the Legends Die (1972), playing a previous rodeo celebrity tutoring ‘Frederic Forrest’. It really is surprising to believe that Kiss of Loss of life (1947) represented his sole Oscar nomination, but using the rise from the respect for film noir about enough time his profession began tapering off in 70s, he begun to end up being reevaluated while an acting professional. Unlike Bogart, who didn’t live to find out his status flourish after his loss of life, prior to he retired, Widmark became a cult physique.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Richard Widmark
Date Of Birth	December 26, 1914
Died	March 24, 2008, Roxbury, Connecticut, United States
Height	1.78 m
Profession	Film producer, Actor
Education	Lake Forest College
Nationality	American
Spouse	Susan Blanchard (m. 1999–2008), Jean Hazlewood (m. 1942–1997)
Children	Anne Koufax
Parents	Carl H. Widmark, Ethel Mae Widmark
Awards	Golden Globe Award for Best New Star of the Year – Actor
Nominations	Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role
Movies	Kiss of Death, Pickup on South Street, Night and the City, Two Rode Together, Panic in the Streets, The Last Wagon, The Alamo, Judgment at Nuremberg, No Way Out, Yellow Sky, Cheyenne Autumn, Don't Bother to Knock, Broken Lance, The Bedford Incident, Run for the Sun, Madigan, Warlock, How the West Was Won, Road House, The Law and Jake Wade, The Street with No Name, The Way West, The Cobweb, Murder on the Orient Express, Garden of Evil, Halls of Montezuma, The Swarm, The Long Ships, Alvarez Kelly, Twilight's Last Gleaming, Death of a Gunfighter, Down to the Sea in Ships, The Frogmen, Hell and High Water, Destination Gobi, Saint Joan, Once Upon a Texas Train, Take the High Ground!, O. Henry's Full House, A Gathering of Old Men, Against All Odds, To the Devil a Daughter, When the Legends Die, Slattery's Hurricane, Red Skies of Montana, The Secret Ways, Flight from Ashiya, True Colors, The Tunnel of Love, Who Dares Wins, National Lampoon's Movie Madness
TV Shows	Madigan, Benjamin Franklin, The West of the Imagination