Vale: Richard Widmark

Hollywood actor Richard Widmark has died aged 93.

In addition to his many movie roles he starred in the TV series Madigan as a loner detective.

A quiet, inordinately shy man, Widmark often portrayed killers, cops and Western gunslingers. But he said he hated guns.

Widmark appeared in 20 Fox films from 1957 to 1964. Among them: The Street With No Name, Road House, Yellow Sky, Down to the Sea in Ships, Slattery’s Hurricane, Panic in the Streets, No Way Out, The Halls of Montezuma, The Frogmen, Red Skies of Montana, My Pal Gus and the Samuel Fuller film noir Pickup on South Street.

After leaving Fox, Widmark’s career continued to flourish. He starred (as Jim Bowie) with John Wayne in The Alamo, with James Stewart in John Ford’s Two Rode Together, as the US prosecutor in Judgment at Nuremberg, and with Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas in The Way West. He also played the Dauphin in St Joan, and had roles in How the West Was Won, Death of a Gunfighter, Murder on the Orient Express, Midas Run and Coma.

In later years, Widmark appeared sparingly in films and TV.

Widmark’s wife, Susan Blanchard, said he died at his home in Connecticut on Monday.
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