Re: (TV) Slightly[?] On Topic: Richard Widmark / X

[Jay <piazzasanmarco@yahoo.com>]

Secret X? Secret X... Now, that's a name I haven't
heard in a long time...A long time. 

--- Leo Casey <leocasey@comcast.net> wrote:

> Actor Richard Widmark died Monday at 93.
> 
> Widmark was T.V.'s favorite actor (according to Ms.
> SecretX -----who?----she also
> said Tom in his later years thought that he
> resembled the actor.)
> 
> http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0001847/
> 
> 
> "Richard Widmark established himself as an icon of
> American cinema with his debut in
> the 1947 film noir Kiss of Death (1947) in which he
> won a Best Supporting Actor
> Academy Award nomination as the killer "Tommy Udo".
> Kiss of Death (1947) and other
> noir thrillers established Widmark as part of a new
> generation of American movie
> actors who became stars in the post-World War II
> era. With fellow post-War stars Kirk
> Douglas and Robert Mitchum, Widmark brought a new
> kind of character to the screen in
> his character leads and supporting parts: a
> hardboiled type who does not actively
> court the sympathy of the audience (although
> Mitchum's hangdog demeanor marked him as
> the most endearing of the three). Widmark was not
> afraid to play deeply troubled,
> deeply conflicted, or just down right deeply corrupt
> characters. After his debut,
> Widmark would work steadily until he retired at the
> age of 76 in 1990, primarily as a
> character lead. His stardom would peak around the
> time he played the U.S. prosecutor
> in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) as the 1950s segued
> into the 1960s, but he would
> continue to act for another 30 years."
> 
> In the film "Kiss of Death", in probably his most
> famous scene of Widmark's long
> acting career, Widmark's character, Tommy, gleefully
> pushes a wheel chair containing
> an 80-sh year-old frail woman over the edge of a
> flight of stairs to her death. 
> 
> 
> Leo
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