The Transition of Hollywood Star Richard Widmark on March 2008
Hollywood star Richard Widmark has died at good age of 93 at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. Widmark was born Dec. 26, 1914, in Sunrise, Minn. Richard Widmark was a prolific and versatile film actor. His first movie in his way to stardom was his 1948film thriller "Kiss of Death". Widmark portrayed a string of killers, cops and cowboy gun slinger on films. Richard Widmark became a Hollywood leading man in films like Judgment at Nuremberg, Broken Lance, Two Rode Together, The Street With No Name, Road House, and some 70 other films. In 1952 he starred opposite Marilyn Monroe in the movie "Don't Bother to Knock". One of his movies "Halls of Montezuma" (1950) 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 U.S. prosecutor in "Judgment at Nuremberg," and with Robert Mitchum and Kirk Dou...