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	<title>The HeldenFiles Online &#187; Richard Widmark</title>
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		<title>Richard Widmark, R.I.P.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
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That&#039;s Widmark in the middle, in his landmark &#034;Kiss of Death&#034;
The veteran actor was 93. An obit is here. List of credits here.
While &#034;Kiss of Death&#034; was the movie that put him on the map (with his big scene below), I think of him more in his later years, especially when he played guys who [...]]]></description>
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That&#039;s Widmark in the middle, in his landmark &#034;Kiss of Death&#034;</p>
<p>The veteran actor was 93. An obit is <a href="http://news.aol.com/entertainment/story/_a/actor-richard-widmark-dies-at-93/n20080326133409990007">here</a>. List of credits <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001847/">here</a>.</p>
<p>While &#034;Kiss of Death&#034; was the movie that put him on the map (with his big scene below), I think of him more in his later years, especially when he played guys who conveyed some moral ambiguity. Even if Widmark was playing someone good, you knew he wasn&#039;t playing someone perfect. And you had to wonder if those imperfections meant that, by movie&#039;s end, he would turn out to be bad. In other words, Widmark was always an interesting actor to watch &#8212; bringing a certain intelligence to his characters whether it was on the page or not.</p>
<p>I like Ephraim Katz&#039;s summary: &#034;He has typically played tough, purposeful, hard-to-bend loners&#034; &#8212; although there could also be a charm to Widmark that suggested he didn&#039;t have to be alone. Women could be drawn to him; it was just a matter of whether he let them close or not. Same thing with acting, I think. Although he&#039;s quoted in the interview as growing tired of acting, and it&#039;s not clear exactly how long he was ill, he was certainly solid in later efforts like &#034;Cold Sassy Tree.&#034; He probably could have kept going for a bit if he had chosen to. But he still left behind a more than passable resume.</p>
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