VIDEO: Richard Widmark, who earned a best supporting actor Oscar nomination for his first movie role in the 1947 gangster film "Kiss of Death," has died after a long illness. He was 93. By Duane Byrge ...

Richard Widmark, who created a villain in his first movie role who was so repellent and frightening that the actor became a star overnight, died Monday at his home in Roxbury, Conn. He was 93. His ...

Richard Widmark, who became a star in his 1947 debut as a memorable movie villain, has died at 93 at his home in Roxbury, Conn., his family said. American cinema would never have been the same without ...

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 ...

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Richard Widmark, who created a villain in his first movie role who was so repellent and frightening that the actor became a star overnight, died Monday at his home in Roxbury, Conn. He was 93. His ...

ROXBURY, Conn., March 26 (UPI) -- Richard Widmark, who became a star in his 1947 debut as a memorable movie villain, has died at 93 at his home in Roxbury, Conn., his family said. Widmark -- who was ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — Richard Widmark, who made a sensational film debut in 1947 as the giggling psychotic killer in “Kiss of Death” and became a Hollywood leading man in “Broken Lance,” “Two Rode ...

Richard Widmark, whose movie debut as a giggling killer made him an overnight star, giving rise to an enduring Hollywood career playing a gallery of nasty hoodlums and flawed heroes, died Monday at ...

Richard Widmark, who made a sensational film debut as the giggling killer in "Kiss of Death" and became a leading man in "Broken Lance," "Two Rode Together" and 40 other films, died at his home in ...