Widmark earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor for his role in the 1947 thriller "Kiss of Death." He played Tommy Udo, who delighted in pushing an old lady in a wheelchair down a ...

If you enjoyed Heath Ledger's turn as the Joker in "The Dark Knight," you'll dig Richard Widmark's Tommy Udo, a man equally dedicated to chaos. Seething, barely able to sit still, knifing informants ...

After a career in radio drama and theater, Widmark moved to films as Tommy Udo, who delighted in pushing an old lady in a wheelchair to her death down a flight of stairs in the 1947 thriller “Kiss of ...

I only met Richard Widmark once, and briefly, a third of a century ago, but I’m not going to forget him. I was in London, working with the director John Schhlesinger on a novel and screenplay of mine, ...

Hollywood delights in honoring its own. The American Film Institute, for instance, hands out a lifetime achievement award annually, celebrating the career of one of Tinseltown’s living legends. The ...

Richard Widmark, who died at the age of ninety-three, was a different breed of actor. Unusually articulate (see this interview with him, from the British Film Institute) and unusually normal (see Kent ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Actor Richard Widmark, who earned an Oscar nomination playing a psychopath in 1947's film noir "Kiss of Death," has died aged 93, a medical official in his home state of Connecticut ...