Biography: life and films
Richard Widmark was an American actor. He was born in Sunrise Township, Minnesota, USA on 26th December 1914 and died in Roxbury, Connecticut, USA on 24th March 2008, aged 93.His best films as an actor include Jules Dassin's crime-thriller Night and the City (1950), Elia Kazan's Panic in the Streets (1950), Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street (1953), Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and Gene Feldman's Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1987).
Richard Widmark appeared in 65 films and directed 1 film.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Henry Hathaway (4 films), John Ford (3), Edward Dmytryk (3), Stanley Kramer (2), Samuel Fuller (2), Richard Quine (2), John Sturges (2) and Don Siegel (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (34 films), Western (16), Thriller (16), War (7), romance (5), crime-thriller (5), comedy (5), history (4), comedy-drama (3), Horror (2), Documentary (2) and Biography (2).
Our average rating for Richard Widmark over all films is: 3.1
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director
Kiss of Death (1947) [a]
Road House (1948) [a]
The Street with No Name (1948) [a]
Yellow Sky (1948) [a]
Down to the Sea in Ships (1949) [a]
Slattery's Hurricane (1949) [a]
Halls of Montezuma (1950) [a]
No Way Out (1950) [a]
Panic in the Streets (1950) [a]
The Frogmen (1951) [a]
Don't Bother to Knock (1952) [a]
My Pal Gus (1952) [a]
O. Henry's Full House (1952) [a]
Red Skies of Montana (1952) [a]
Destination Gobi (1953) [a]
Pickup on South Street (1953) [a]
Take the High Ground! (1953) [a]
Broken Lance (1954) [a]
Garden of Evil (1954) [a]
Hell and High Water (1954) [a]
A Prize of Gold (1955) [a]
Backlash (1956) [a]
Run for the Sun (1956) [a]
The Last Wagon (1956) [a]
Time Limit (1957) [a]
The Law and Jake Wade (1958) [a]
The Tunnel of Love (1958) [a]
The Trap (1959) [a]
Warlock (1959) [a]
The Alamo (1960) [a]
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) [a]
The Secret Ways (1961) [a,d]
Two Rode Together (1961) [a]
How the West Was Won (1962) [a]
Cheyenne Autumn (1964) [a]
Flight from Ashiya (1964) [a]
The Long Ships (1964) [a]
The Bedford Incident (1965) [a]
Alvarez Kelly (1966) [a]
The Way West (1967) [a]
Madigan (1968) [a]
A Talent for Loving (1969) [a]
Death of a Gunfighter (1969) [a]
The Moonshine War (1970) [a]
Directed by John Ford (1971) [a]
When the Legends Die (1972) [a]
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) [a]
The Sell Out (1976) [a]
To the Devil a Daughter (1976) [a]
Rollercoaster (1977) [a]
The Domino Principle (1977) [a]
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) [a]
Coma (1978) [a]
The Swarm (1978) [a]
Bear Island (1979) [a]
Hanky Panky (1982) [a]
Who Dares Wins (1982) [a]
Against All Odds (1984) [a]
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1987) [a]
Foutaises (1989) [a]
True Colors (1991) [a]
The very best period film dramas
The Golden Age of French cinema
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
