{"id":1526,"date":"2008-03-27T01:52:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T00:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/27\/richard-widmark-has-died-aged-94\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T04:52:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T03:52:42","slug":"richard-widmark-has-died-aged-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/03\/27\/richard-widmark-has-died-aged-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Widmark has died aged 93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001847\/\" title=\"Richard Widmark\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/richard-widmark.jpg\" title=\"Richard Widmark\" alt=\"Richard Widmark\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001847\/\"><strong>Richard Widmark<\/strong><\/a> has passed away at the age of 93.<\/p>\n<p>BBC News <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/7315340.stm\">report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hollywood star Richard Widmark has died at the age of 93 after a long illness, his wife has announced.<\/p>\n<p>The prolific actor, who often portrayed killers and gunslingers, made a memorable big-screen debut in 1947 as a giggling psychopath in Kiss of Death.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to star in such 50s classics as Night and the City, Pickup on South Street and the western Broken Lance.<\/p>\n<p>The craggy-faced actor died at his home in Connecticut on Monday, according to his wife Susan Blanchard. <!-- E SF --><\/p>\n<p>His last film role came in the 1991 thriller True Colors, although he made occasional appearances afterwards in TV documentaries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although not a huge star, he was memorable in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kiss_of_Death_%281947_movie%29\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Kiss of Death (1947 movie)\">Kiss of Death<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Panic_in_the_Streets_%28film%29\" title=\"Panic in the Streets (film)\">Panic in the Streets<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Night_and_the_City\" title=\"Night and the City\">Night and the City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1960s perhaps his most notable role was in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Judgment_at_Nuremberg\" title=\"Judgment at Nuremberg\">Judgment at Nuremberg<\/a>, whilst in the 1970s he was effective as the villian in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coma_(film)\">Coma<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001847\/\">Richard Widmark<\/a> at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/7315340.stm\">BBC News obituary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Richard Widmark has passed away at the age of 93. BBC News report: Hollywood star Richard Widmark has died at the age of 93 after a long illness, his wife has announced. The prolific actor, who often portrayed killers and gunslingers, made a memorable big-screen debut in 1947 as a giggling psychopath in Kiss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}