Actor Richard Widmark passes away
2008-03-28 16:25:05 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Entertainment News)Hartford, Connecticut (A P): CNN reported that Richard Widmark died at the age of 93 after long illness at his Roxbury home on Monday. “It was a big shock, but he was 93,” said Susan Blanchard, his wife.
Widmark made his film debut in ‘Kiss of Death’ as a giggling killer for which he also won the Academy Award nomination as a supporting actor, and became a popular Hollywood person through films like ‘Two rode together’, ‘Broken lance’ and 40 other films. Widmark was a shy and a quiet man, and often portrayed cops, killers and western guns lingers, but in real life, he hated guns. “I know I’ve made kind of a half-assed career out of violence, but I abhor violence,” he said in an Associated Press interview in 1976. “I am an ardent supporter of gun control. It seems incredible to me that we are the only civilized nation that does not put some effective control on guns.”
He was seen in 20 Fox films from the year 1947 to 1954, among which are ‘Road House,’ ‘The street with no name,’ ‘yellow sky,’ ‘slattery’s hurricane,’ ‘Red skies of Montana,’ ‘No way out,’ ‘the halls of Montezume,’ and ‘Panic in the streets.’and became an immediate star.
Born in Sunrise, Minn, on December 26, 1914, he recalled in one of his interviews that “Like most small-town boys, I had the urge to get to the big city and make a name for myself,” “I was a movie nut from the age of 3, but I don’t recall having any interest in acting”.
In later period, he sparingly appeared on the screen, explaining to the Parade Magazine in the year 1987 that “I’ve discovered in my dotage that I now find the whole moviemaking process irritating. I don’t have the patience anymore. I’ve got a few more years to live, and I don’t want to spend them sitting around a movie set for 12 hours to do two minutes of film.”
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