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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Richard Widmark, who made an indelible screen debut in 1947 as a giggling sadistic killer and later brought a sense of urban cynicism and unpredictability to ...

'You're Nick Bianco, aren't you? You're a big man. I'm Tommy Udo. Imagine me on this cheap rap - big man like me, picked up just for shoving a guy's ears off his head. Traffic ticket stuff." These ...

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 ...

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

Here's the first column for 2002. Hard to believe, no? We're two years into the 21st century but few things have actually improved. Movies and popular recordings are worse than ever. (Let's not even ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...