Several days after filming began, Widmark complained he had been miscast and tried to leave.

Throughout his illustrious career, Richard Garrick performed along with some of the brightest actors and actresses in stage and film history, including James Arness, Ed Begley, Marlon Brando, Lee J. Cobb, James Dean, Julie Harris, Brian Keith, Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, Victor Mature, Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Patricia Neal, Donald O ' Connor, Maureen O ' Sullivan, Anthony Quinn, Ronald Reagan, Ginger Rogers, Jean Simmons, Richard Todd, Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, John Wayne, Dennis Weaver and Richard Widmark.

It was the first movie location built in Texas, originally constructed for and best known as the setting for The Alamo ( 1960 ), directed by John Wayne and starring Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey and Frankie Avalon.

In 1962, she went to Hollywood and worked with stars such as Charlton Heston, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Richard Widmark, John Wayne, and Yul Brynner.

The cast also includes Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie and Laurence Harvey as William B. Travis, with Frankie Avalon, Chill Wills, Patrick Wayne, Linda Cristal, Joseph Calleia, Ruben Padilla, Richard Boone, Ken Curtis, Hank Worden, and Denver Pyle.

Wayne cast Richard Widmark as James Bowie and Laurence Harvey as William Barrett Travis.

Past winners have included Owen Wister, William S. Hart, Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson, Ken Maynard, Tim McCoy, Harry Carey, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, Rex Allen, John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Richard Widmark, James Stewart, Buck Taylor, Howard R. Lamar, Ben Johnson, Pernell Roberts, Arthur Allan Seidelman, and Tom Selleck.

Actors with whom Stewart worked include Henry Fonda, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Lionel Barrymore, William Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Lee Marvin, Richard Widmark, and Robert Mitchum.

Critic Nick Schager wrote, " It would be no surprise to learn that Richard Widmark was a big ' Batman ' fan, as his star-making screen debut in Kiss of Death as grinning, cackling psychopath Tommy Udo ( for which he received an Academy Award nomination ) seems heavily indebted to the Caped Crusader's arch-nemesis The Joker.

It was directed by John Sturges ( with whom Widmark would also make another western The Law and Jake Wade ), and unfolds in the vein of the psychological Western ( a sub-genre that has yielded many films, e. g. those of Anthony Mann, with whose films this bears comparison ), delivering an unconventional story, written by Borden Chase, of a man's search for his father ( played by character actor John McIntire ) and his final discovery of a man who is willing to kill his own son for gold.

On Two Rode Together he told me to watch out for Dick Widmark because he was a good actor and that he would start stealing if I didn't watch him.

The film noir gets its colorful flavorings from star Richard Widmark playing another psychopathic killer like he did in Kiss of Death ... The film's main purpose is to tell in an entertaining fashion how efficient the FBI is and how dangerous is their work.

During its filming, lead actor Richard Widmark was unhappy with director Robert Totten, and arranged to have him replaced by Don Siegel.

Characters were named after the writer David Goodis, director Don Siegel and actor Richard Widmark — people influential in the genre of film noir. The film's producer, Georges de Beauregard, did not complete payments for rights to the novel, so Westlake took him to court ( after litigation Westlake was given North American distribution rights ).

Inasmuch, as I admired fine actors like Richard Widmark, Victor Mature, Robert Mitchum, and others who had made their early marks in the dark, sordid, and guilt-ridden world of film noir ; here, indeed, was a market for my talents.

In film dubbing Preiss provided the voice for such actors as Lex Barker, Christopher Lee, Anthony Quinn, Claude Rains, Richard Widmark, as well as that of Conrad Veidt as " Major Strasser " in the remastered version of Casablanca.

Richard Widmark was originally intended to play Queeg, but producer Stanley Kramer opted for Humphrey Bogart instead.

Sayre's story was originally purchased as a vehicle for Richard Widmark, who was to play the man on the ledge, with Robert Wagner to play the role of Danny, but was replaced by Jeffrey Hunter.

:" If Pickup on South Street makes any point at all, it's that there is nothing really wrong with pickpockets, even when they are given to violence, as long as they don't play footsie with Communist spies ... Film's assets are partly its photography, which creates an occasional tense atmosphere, and partly the performance of Thelma Ritter, the only halfway convincing figure in an otherwise unconvincing cast ... Widmark is given a chance to repeat on his snarling menace characterization followed by a look-what-love-can-do-to-a-bad-boy act as Widmark's hard-boiled soul melts before Peters ' romancing.

In 1957, the play was adapted for film by Graham Greene, directed by Otto Preminger, with Jean Seberg as Joan of Arc, Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, and John Gielgud.

* On January 12, 1948, Widmark, Victor Mature and Coleen Gray reprised their screen roles for a Lux Radio Theatre broadcast.

Mature and Widmark also reprised their screen roles for three broadcasts on The Screen Guild Theater, the first of which aired on October 28, 1948.

* Tristan da Cunha is the site of a top-secret nuclear disarmament conference in Fletcher Knebel's 1968 political thriller Vanished which was adapted into a 1971 two-part NBC made-for-TV movie starring Richard Widmark.

Rollercoaster, in which Fonda appeared with Richard Widmark and a young Helen Hunt.

One of the earlier films that encompasses all these features was the 1956 adventure film The Last Wagon in which Richard Widmark played a white man raised by Comanches and persecuted by whites, with Felicia Farr and Susan Kohner playing young women forced into leadership roles.

She was cast opposite Richard Widmark and Veronica Lake in Slattery's Hurricane ( 1949 ), which she perceived as a step down from the level she had reached with A Letter to Three Wives, even though it did well at the box office.

Aside from her co-starring role opposite Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier in the groundbreaking No Way Out ( 1950 ), directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, which she later called " the only good picture ever made ," her later films were rarely noteworthy, and her appearances were increasingly sporadic.

Writers Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton wrote, " From Henry Hathaway's Kiss of Death ( 1947 ), one will remember that nasty little creep with the wild eyes and high-pitched laugh, neurotic to the core, which Richard Widmark has turned into one of his finest roles.

Fuller followed this with Pickup on South Street ( 1953 ), a film noir starring Richard Widmark, which became one of his best-known films.

He had more luck with Night and the City which was published in 1938 and has been filmed twice, most notably with Richard Widmark in 1950 and then in 1992 with Robert De Niro in the lead role ( this version transposed the setting from London to New York ).

The film tells the story of Clinton Reed, an officer of the U. S. Public Health Service ( played by Richard Widmark ) and a police captain ( Paul Douglas ) who have only a day or two in which to prevent an epidemic of pneumonic plague after Reed determines a waterfront homicide victim is an index case.

" In fact, the relationship was so respectful that Widmark felt compelled to apologize after each take in which he mistreated Poitier, both verbally and physically.

The reality of Widmark was a thousand miles from the characters he played.

Day co-starred with Richard Widmark and Gig Young in the romantic comedy film, The Tunnel of Love in 1958.

* 1914 – Richard Widmark, American actor ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Richard Widmark, American actor ( b. 1914 )

In 1947, he directed the courtroom drama Boomerang !, and in 1950 he directed Panic in the Streets, starring Richard Widmark, in a thriller shot on the streets of New Orleans.

He performed again with Widmark, Olivia de Havilland, Fred MacMurray, and José Ferrer in the killer bee action film The Swarm.

But he made it clear that Widmark, rather than either director, had effectively been in charge the entire time.

It was written by Abby Mann, directed by Stanley Kramer, and starred Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, William Shatner and Montgomery Clift.

Shown in court by prosecuting attorney Colonel Tad Lawson ( Richard Widmark ), the footage of huge piles of naked corpses laid out in rows and bulldozed into large pits was exceptionally gruesome for a mainstream film of its day.

* Richard Widmark as Col. Tad Lawson

* Richard Widmark, American actor, was born in Sunrise Township.

( 1953 ), starring Richard Widmark and Karl Malden.

She played Mike in the 1948 Western film Yellow Sky with Gregory Peck and Richard Widmark.

His role in The Bedford Incident was that of a young ensign who becomes so rattled by the needling of his Captain ( Richard Widmark ) that he accidentally fires an ASROC at a Soviet submarine, thus ( we are given to understand ) starting World War III.

Richard Widmark played the American military prosecutor and Maximilian Schell as the defense attorney.

Players like Richard Widmark, Everett Sloane, Burgess Meredith, Agnes Moorehead, Ken Lynch, Anne Seymour, and Santos Ortega also found fame or notability in film or television.

The film stars Richard Widmark, Holly Hunter and Lou Gossett Jr. and concerns racial discrimination in 1970s Louisiana.

Following the cancellation of The Farmer's Daughter in 1966, Stevens appeared in several movies: A Guide for the Married Man ( 1967 ) with Walter Matthau, Hang ' Em High with Clint Eastwood, 5 Card Stud with Dean Martin, and Madigan with Henry Fonda and Richard Widmark, all in 1968.