Richard Widmark

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her films have included Dune (1984). In 2002, Widmark was inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. She continued to be a leading television actress throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, appearing in series such as Edward the Seventh (as Lillie Langtry, a role she reprised in Lillie (1978)), Madame Bovary and Parnell and the Englishwoman, in which she played Kitty O'Shea. Other starring roles were in Night and the City, Panic in the Streets, No Way Out, Halls of Montezuma, Destination Gobi, Pickup on South Street, Take the High Ground!, The Cobweb, Backlash, Run for the Sun, The Last Wagon, Warlock, The Alamo, The Secret Ways, Two Rode Together, Judgment at Nuremberg, How the West Was Won, The Long Ships, Cheyenne Autumn, The Bedford Incident, When the Legends Die, Murder on the Orient Express, Coma and Madigan (he also starred in the television series which was based on the latter movie). Her performance as Lady Macbeth in Roman Polanski's controversial 1971 film of Macbeth gained her notoriety. In the intervening two years, he had appeared in Slattery's Hurricane, Down to the Sea in Ships, Yellow Sky, Road House and The Street with No Name. While becoming an increasingly well known face on screen, she enjoyed a successful stage career, playing many leading roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Widmark became so popular so fast that it was only two years later that he had his handprints cast in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater. She also presented children's television programmes. Widmark's character in this film was the inspiration for the song, "The Ballad of Tommy Udo" by the band Kaleidoscope. In 1967 she played Estella in a television adaptation of Great Expectations. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the performance. Francesca Annis began acting professionally in her teens, and made her film debut in the 1950s. Widmark first appeared in movies in 1947's Kiss of Death (in which he giggles as he pushes a wheelchair-bound old woman down a flight of stairs), which started his seven year contract with 20th Century Fox. Francesca Annis (born May 14, 1944) is an English actress, particularly well known for her film and television appearances, most recently the BBC Television series Wives and Daughters and Deceit.

He was unable to join the military during World War II because of a perforated eardrum. He appeared on Broadway in 1943 in Kiss and Tell. He taught acting at the college after graduation, before debuting on radio in 1938 in Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories. He grew up in Princeton, Illinois and attended Lake Forest College, where he studied acting.

Richard Widmark (born December 26, 1914 in Sunrise, Minnesota) is an American film actor.