Widmark earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor for his role in the 1947 thriller "Kiss of Death." He played Tommy Udo, who delighted in pushing an old lady in a wheelchair down a ...

Richard Widmark was an American actor of films, stage, radio and television. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as the villainous Tommy Udo in his debut film, Kiss of Death. Early in ...

If you enjoyed Heath Ledger's turn as the Joker in "The Dark Knight," you'll dig Richard Widmark's Tommy Udo, a man equally dedicated to chaos. Seething, barely able to sit still, knifing informants ...

I only met Richard Widmark once, and briefly, a third of a century ago, but I’m not going to forget him. I was in London, working with the director John Schhlesinger on a novel and screenplay of mine, ...

After a career in radio drama and theater, Widmark moved to films as Tommy Udo, who delighted in pushing an old lady in a wheelchair to her death down a flight of stairs in the 1947 thriller “Kiss of ...

Hollywood delights in honoring its own. The American Film Institute, for instance, hands out a lifetime achievement award annually, celebrating the career of one of Tinseltown’s living legends. The ...

Richard Widmark, who died at the age of ninety-three, was a different breed of actor. Unusually articulate (see this interview with him, from the British Film Institute) and unusually normal (see Kent ...