Rod Steiger
Alongside Marlon Brando and James Dean, Rod Steiger helped redefine film acting in America after World War II. The brooding actor found success as the lovelorn butcher "Marty" (1953) on live television, but lost the film role to Ernest Borgnine. In the ensuing years, Steiger racked up a résumé of incendiary film appearances, as Brando's gangster brother in "On the Waterfront" (1954), as a prairie psychopath in "Oklahoma!" (1955), and as an embittered Civil War veteran who goes native in "Run of the Arrow" (1957). Lured to Europe for roles of greater depth than those Hollywood offered, Steiger returned stateside to play Sidney Lumet's "The Pawnbroker" (1964) and won an Academy Award as a bigoted Southern lawman who comes to respect black colleague Sidney Poitier in "In the Heat of the Night" (1967). Steiger maintained a steady workload over the years, playing priests, judges, army generals, presidents, doctors and mobsters on cinema and television screens, at home and abroad. At the time of his death in 2002, Steiger was honored as a fascinating personality, an uncompromising artist whose love of craft inspired generations of cinematic angry young men.
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Rod Steiger
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Breakout: Prisoner of War Escapes |
Unknown (Character), Director |
- | 2004 |
33% |
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Poolhall Junkies | Nick (Character) | $562.1K | 2002 |
No Score Yet |
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A Month of Sundays | Charley McCabe (Character) | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet |
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The Hollywood Sign | Floyd Benson (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet |
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The Flying Dutchman | Ben (Character) | - | 2001 |
33% | No Score Yet | The Last Producer | Sheri Ganse (Character) | - | 2000 |
70% |
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Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season | Doc Wallace (Character) | $40.4K | 1999 |
30% |
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Crazy in Alabama | Judge Louis Mead (Character) | $2.0M | 1999 |
83% |
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The Hurricane | Judge H. Lee Sarokin (Character) | $50.7M | 1999 |
11% |
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End of Days | Father Kovak (Character) | $66.9M | 1999 |
30% |
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Modern Vampires | Dr. Frederick Van Helsing (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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Kingdom of Shadows | Narrator | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Body and Soul | Johnny Ticotin (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Legacy | Sadler (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Animals and the Tollkeeper | Fontina (Character) | - | 1998 |
33% |
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Incognito | Milton A. Donovan (Character) | - | 1997 |
73% |
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Shiloh | Doc Wallace (Character) | $1.0M | 1997 |
38% |
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Truth or Consequences, N.M. | Tony Vago (Character) | $54.2K | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cypress Edge | Woodrow McCammon (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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The Kid | Harry Sloan (Character) | - | 1997 |
14% |
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Carpool | Mr. Hammerman (Character) | $3.3M | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dalva | John Wesley Northridge II (Character) | - | 1996 |
55% |
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Mars Attacks! | General Decker (Character) | $37.8M | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Commish: Redemption |
Oskar Rothman/ |
- | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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Out There | Col. Buck Gunner (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story | Anthony Comstock (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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In Pursuit of Honor | Col. Owen Stuart (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Livers Ain't Cheap | Victor (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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Captain Nuke and the Bomberboys | The President (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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Tom Clancy's 'Op Center' | Unknown (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Columbo: Strange Bedfellows | Vincenzo Fortelli (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Tattoo | Gen. Frank Zane (Character) | - | 1994 |
10% |
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The Specialist | Joe Leon (Character) | $55.2M | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Seven Sundays | Benjamin (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet |
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The Neighbor | Dr. Myron Hatch (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Neighbour | Dr. Myron Hatch (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet |
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Sinatra | Salvatore "Sam" "Momo" Giancana (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Final Contract | Frank Argento (Character) | - | 1992 |
56% |
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe | Rev. Willin (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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Guilty as Charged | Kallin (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas | Gordon Kahl (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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Men of Respect | Charlie D'Amico (Character) | $119.8K | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Passion and Paradise | Sir Harry Oakes (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | That Summer of White Roses | Martin (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tennessee Nights | Judge Prescott (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet |
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American Gothic | Pa (Character) | - | 1988 |
28% |
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The January Man | Mayor Eamon Flynn (Character) | $4.3M | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge | Silas Slaten (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet |
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Feel the Heat | Jason Hannibal (Character) | - | 1987 |
44% |
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The Kindred | Dr. Phillip Lloyd (Character) | $603.0K | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
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Sword of Gideon | Mordechai Samuels (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Glory Boys | Professor David Sokarev (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet |
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The Naked Face | Lieutenant McGreary (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole | Robert E. Peary (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Magic Mountain | Mynheer Peperkorn (Character) | - | 1982 |
75% |
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The Chosen | Reb Saunders (Character) | - | 1981 |
75% |
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Lion of the Desert | Benito Mussolini (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Klondike Fever | Soapy Smith (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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Cattle Annie and Little Britches | Tilghman (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lucky Star | Colonel Gluck (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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Love and Bullets | Joe Bomposa (Character) | - | 1979 |
31% |
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The Amityville Horror | Father Delaney (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wolf Lake | Charlie (Character) | - | 1978 |
67% |
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F.I.S.T. | Senator Madison (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet |
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Breakthrough | Gen. Webster (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Honor Guard | Charlie (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Portrait of a Hitman | Max Andreotti (Character) | - | 1977 |
67% |
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W.C. Fields and Me | W.C. Fields (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
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Dirty Hands | Louis Wormser (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet |
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Hennessy | Niall Hennessy (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet |
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Lucky Luciano | Gene Giannini (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet |
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The Last Four Days | Benito Mussolini (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet |
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Lolly Madonna XXX | Laban Feather (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Heroes | Guenther von Lutz (Character) | - | 1972 |
92% |
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A Fistful of Dynamite | Juan Miranda (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet |
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Happy Birthday, Wanda June | Harold Ryan (Character) | - | 1971 |
30% |
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Waterloo | Napoleon Bonaparte (Character) | - | 1970 |
40% |
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The Illustrated Man | Carl (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Three Into Two Won't Go | Steve Howard (Character) | - | 1969 |
20% |
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The Sergeant | MSgt. Albert Callan (Character) | - | 1968 |
89% |
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No Way to Treat a Lady | Christopher Gill (Character) | - | 1968 |
95% |
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In the Heat of the Night | Bill Gillespie (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Movie Maker | Unknown (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Girl and the General | The General (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet |
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Time of Indifference | Leo (Character) | - | 1966 |
47% |
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The Loved One | Mr. Joyboy (Character) | - | 1965 |
82% |
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Doctor Zhivago | Victor Komarovsky (Character) | $87.1K | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Man Named John | L'intermediario (Character) | - | 1965 |
87% |
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The Pawnbroker | Sol Nazerman (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet |
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Convicts Four | 'Tiptoes' (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet |
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13 West Street | Detective Sergeant Koleski (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet |
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Hands Over the City | Edoardo Nottola (Character) | - | 1962 |
84% |
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The Longest Day | Destroyer Commander (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The World in My Pocket | Frank Morgan (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet |
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The Mark | Dr. Edmund McNally (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet |
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Seven Thieves | Paul Mason (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet |
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Al Capone | Al Capone (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet |
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Cry Terror | Paul Hoplin (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet |
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Across the Bridge | Carl Schaffner (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet |
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Run of the Arrow | Pvt. O'Meara (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet |
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The Unholy Wife | Paul Hochen (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet |
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Back From Eternity | Vasquel (Character) | - | 1956 |
100% |
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Jubal | "Pinky" Pinkum (Character) | - | 1956 |
100% |
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The Harder They Fall | Nick Benko (Character) | - | 1956 |
91% |
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The Big Knife | Stanley Shriner Hoff (Character) | - | 1955 |
87% |
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Oklahoma! | Jud Fry (Character) | - | 1955 |
100% |
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell | Maj. Allan Guillion (Character) | - | 1955 |
99% |
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On the Waterfront | Charley (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
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Teresa | Frank (Character) | - | 1951 |
TV
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85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Captain Tenille (Guest Voice) | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Commish |
Oskar Rothman/ |
1996 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Columbo | Vincenzo Fortelli (Guest Star) | 1995 |
85% | 83% | The Critic | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sinatra | Unknown (Character) | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hollywood Wives | Oliver Easterne (Character) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Route 66 | Justin Lezama (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Charles Dirkson (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Saul Bevins (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Screen Directors Playhouse | Unknown (Character) | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Suspense | Unknown (Character) | 1952-1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Philco Television Playhouse | Marty Pilletti (Character) | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of Tomorrow | Unknown (Character) | 1952-1953 |