Richard Widmark
Highest Rated: 100% Yellow Sky (1948)
Lowest Rated: 0% National Lampoon's Movie Madness (1981)
Birthday: Dec 26, 1914
Birthplace: Sunrise, Minnesota, USA
Tough, mean, devious and smart; all words that could be used to describe the sort of characters Richard Widmark was identified with. From his earliest roles, Widmark became an archetype, typically playing hoods, thugs, tough-minded cops or determined, flawed authority figures. Over the span of 50 years and 75 movies, he built a career of playing men capable of casual cruelty and offhand violence. Even the more positive roles he played tended towards a high-strung, neurotic intensity that became a trademark. Off-screen, though, the real Widmark was in complete contrast to the roles he excelled at.
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Richard Widmark
Filmography
Movies
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44% |
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True Colors | Sen. Stiles (Character) | $304.5K | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cold Sassy Tree | Enoch Rucker Blakeslee (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet |
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Once Upon a Texas Train | Captain Owen Hayes (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Texas Guns | Captain Owen Hayes (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder on the Bayou | Sheriff Mapes (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
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A Gathering of Old Men | Sheriff Mapes (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
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Blackout | Joe Steiner (Character) | - | 1985 |
64% |
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Against All Odds | Ben Caxton (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
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The Final Option | Secretary of State Arthur Currie (Character) | - | 1982 |
45% |
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Hanky Panky | Ransom (Character) | - | 1982 |
0% |
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National Lampoon's Movie Madness | Stan Nagurski (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet |
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A Whale for the Killing | Tom Goodenough (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | All God's Children | Judge Parke Denison (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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Mr. Horn | Al Sieber (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet |
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Bear Island | Otto Gerran (Character) | - | 1979 |
9% |
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The Swarm | Gen. Slater (Character) | - | 1978 |
81% |
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Coma | Dr. Harris (Character) | - | 1978 |
80% |
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Twilight's Last Gleaming | Gen. Martin MacKenzie (Character) | - | 1977 |
14% |
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The Domino Principle | Tagge (Character) | - | 1977 |
53% |
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Rollercoaster | Agent Hoyt (Character) | - | 1977 |
45% |
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To the Devil a Daughter | John Verney (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
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The Sellout | Sam Lucas (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Day | Will Spence (Character) | - | 1975 |
89% |
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Murder on the Orient Express |
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- | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lives of Ben Franklin: The King's Rebel | Benjamin Franklin (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Brock's Last Case | Lieutenant Max Brock (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet |
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When the Legends Die | Red Dillon (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet |
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The Moonshine War | Dr. Emmett Taulbee (Character) | - | 1970 |
83% |
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Death of a Gunfighter | Marshal Frank Patch (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Talent for Loving | Major Patten (Character) | - | 1969 |
77% |
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Madigan | Det. Daniel Madigan (Character) | - | 1968 |
29% |
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The Way West | Lije Evans (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet |
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Alvarez Kelly | Col. Tom Rossiter (Character) | - | 1966 |
86% |
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The Bedford Incident | Captain Eric Finlander U.S.N. (Character) | - | 1965 |
60% |
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Cheyenne Autumn | Capt. Thomas Archer (Character) | - | 1964 |
54% |
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The Long Ships | Rolfe (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet |
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Flight From Ashiya | Lt. Col. Glenn Stevenson (Character) | - | 1964 |
88% |
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How the West Was Won | Mike King (Character) | - | 1962 |
93% |
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Judgment at Nuremberg | Colonel Tad Lawson (Character) | - | 1961 |
86% |
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Two Rode Together | First Lt. Jim Gary (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Secret Ways |
Michael Reynolds (Character), Producer |
- | 1961 |
55% |
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The Alamo | Jim Bowie (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Trap | Ralph Anderson (Character) | - | 1959 |
80% |
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Warlock | Johnny Gannon (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet |
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The Law and Jake Wade | Clint Hollister (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet |
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The Tunnel of Love | August "Augie" Poole (Character) | - | 1958 |
25% |
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Saint Joan | The Dauphin, Charles VII (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet |
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Time Limit |
Col. William Edwards (Character), Producer |
- | 1957 |
No Score Yet |
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Backlash | Jim Slater (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet |
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The Last Wagon | Comanche Todd (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet |
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Run for the Sun | Michael `'Mike'` Latimer (Character) | - | 1956 |
75% |
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The Cobweb | Dr. Stewart "Mac" McIver (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Prize of Gold | Sergeant Joe Lawrence (Character) | - | 1955 |
86% |
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Garden of Evil | Fiske (Character) | - | 1954 |
80% |
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Hell and High Water | Capt. Adam Jones (Character) | - | 1954 |
86% |
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Broken Lance | Ben Devereaux (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
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Take the High Ground | Sgt. Thorne Ryan (Character) | - | 1953 |
93% |
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Pickup on South Street | Skip McCoy (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet |
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Destination Gobi | CPO Samuel T. McHale (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Pal Gus | Dave Jennings (Character) | - | 1952 |
100% |
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Don't Bother to Knock | Jed Towers (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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Red Skies of Montana | Cliff Mason (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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The Frogmen | Lt. Cmdr. John Lawrence (Character) | - | 1951 |
86% |
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No Way Out | Ray Biddle (Character) | - | 1950 |
97% |
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Panic in the Streets | Lt. Cmdr. Clinton 'Clint' Reed M.D (Character) | - | 1950 |
88% |
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Halls of Montezuma | Lt. Anderson (Character) | - | 1950 |
83% |
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Night and the City | Harry Fabian (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet |
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Down to the Sea in Ships | First Mate Dan Lunceford (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet |
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Slattery's Hurricane | Lt. Willard Francis Slattery (Character) | - | 1949 |
86% |
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Road House | Jefferson T. "Jefty" Robbins (Character) | - | 1948 |
100% |
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Yellow Sky | Dude (Character) | - | 1948 |
100% |
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The Street With No Name | Alec Stiles (Character) | - | 1948 |
89% |
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Kiss of Death | Tommy Udo (Character) | - | 1947 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Madigan | Unknown (Character) | 1972-1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vanished | Unknown (Character) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | 97% | I Love Lucy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1954 |