In which film did Rod Steiger play a sheriff to win the 1967 Best Actor Oscar?
"and ended the decade playing a disturbed priest in "" The Amityville Horror"" (1979). By the 1980s, heart problems and depression took its toll on Steiger's career, and he found it difficult to find employment, agreeing to appear in low-budget B movies. One of his final roles was as judge H. Lee Sarokin in the prison drama ""The Hurricane"" (1999), which reunited him with ""In the Heat of the Night"" director Norman Jewison. Steiger was married five times, and had a daughter, opera singer Anna Steiger, and a son, Michael Steiger. He died of pneumonia and kidney failure as a"
"of the Night"" (1967) won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Steiger, who was lauded for his performance as a Mississippi police chief who learns to respect an African-American officer (Poitier) as they search for a killer. The following year, he played a serial killer of many guises in ""No Way to Treat a Lady"". During the 1970s, Steiger increasingly turned to European productions in his search for more demanding roles. He portrayed Napoleon Bonaparte in ""Waterloo"" (1970), a Mexican bandit in Sergio Leone's ""Duck, You Sucker!"" (1971), Benito Mussolini in ""Last Days of Mussolini"" (1975),"
"during the Vietnam War. As a young man, future Hollywood actor and recipient of the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor, Rodney Steven Steiger, served on ""Taussig"" as a ""plank owner"" from the time of her commissioning until May 1, 1945. Steiger advanced from seaman first class to torpedoman third class during his time on the ship. Steiger later commented: ""I loved the Navy. I was stupid enough to think I was being heroic"". His experiences during the war haunted him for the rest of his life, particularly the loss of Americans during the Battle of Iwo Jima, as well"
"(1967) which won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Steiger was born in Westhampton, New York, the son of a vaudevillian. He had a difficult childhood, with an alcoholic mother from whom he ran away at the age of 16. After serving in the South Pacific Theater during World War II, he began his acting career with television roles in 1947, and went on to garner critical acclaim for his portrayal of the main character in the teleplay ""Marty"" (1953). He made his stage debut in 1946, in a production of ""Curse you, Jack Dalton!"" at the Civic Repertory"
"crime drama set in a racially divided Southern town and starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, while Jewison was nominated for Best Director. As a follow-up he directed and produced another film with McQueen, using innovative multiple screen images in the crime caper ""The Thomas Crown Affair"" (1968). From that point Jewison produced all feature films he directed, often with associate Patrick Palmer, and he also acted as producer for films directed by others, beginning with his former film editor Hal Ashby's directoral debut ""The Landlord"" (1970). After the completion of the"
"the crime drama ""On the Waterfront"" (1954), which earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination, and subsequent appearance in Fred Zinnemann's musical ""Oklahoma!"". Steiger played a crooked promoter who hires a sports journalist in the Mark Robson-directed film noir ""The Harder They Fall"" (1956). In the 1957 British thriller ""Across the Bridge"", he portrayed a German con-artist on the run in Mexico. The following year, he played a psychopathic criminal in Andrew L. Stone's thriller ""Cry Terror!"". He played gangster Al Capone in the 1959 Richard Wilson-directed biopic of same name, and was cast in the role"
"to the Production Code that would prove fatal within three years."" The Code was abolished, in favor of a voluntary ratings system, in 1968. Steiger received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – Drama, the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 14th Berlin International Film Festival, an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and received the British Film Academy BAFTA award for best foreign actor in a leading role. The film score was composed, arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones, and the soundtrack album was released on the Mercury label in 1965. Allmusic's Stephen Cook"
"him since the film. I do resent him saying he's just a hooker, and that actors are whores"". Steiger also responded unfavorably when he learned that Kazan had been awarded an honorary Oscar by the Academy in 1999. In a 1999 interview with ""BBC News"", Steiger said he probably would not have done ""On the Waterfront"" if he had known at the time that Kazan provided the House Un-American Activities Committee with names of performers suspected of being Communists. Steiger played Jud Fry in the film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ""Oklahoma!"" (1955), in which he performed his"
"Theatre of Newark, and subsequently appeared in productions such as ""An Enemy of the People"" (1950), Clifford Odets's ""Night Music"" (1951), ""Seagulls Over Sorrento"" (1952) and ""Rashomon"" (1959). Steiger made his film debut in Fred Zinnemann's ""Teresa"" in 1951, and subsequently appeared in films such as ""The Big Knife"" (1955), ""Oklahoma!"" (1955), ""Across the Bridge"" (1957) and ""Al Capone"" (1959). After Steiger's performance in ""The Pawnbroker"" in 1964, in which he played an embittered Jewish Holocaust survivor working as a pawnbroker in New York City, he portrayed an opportunistic Russian politician in David Lean's ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1965). ""In the Heat"
"Norman Jewison's mystery drama ""In the Heat of the Night"" (1967). He played a serial killer in the black comedy thriller ""No Way to Treat a Lady"" (1968), and ended the decade with the box-office flop ""Three into Two Won't Go"" (1969). During the 1970s, Steiger starred in foreign productions and independent films in search of more demanding roles. His roles during the period include ""Waterloo"" (1970), ""Duck, You Sucker!"" (1971), ""Last Days of Mussolini"" (1975), ""W.C. Fields and Me"" (1976), ""F.I.S.T."" (1978) and ""The Amityville Horror"" (1979). After suffering a heart attack in 1979 and undergoing surgery, his poor"
"of Respect"", an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play ""Macbeth"". Steiger's role in the crticially-panned thriller opposite Sylvester Stallone ""The Specialist"" (1993) earned him a nomination for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor. Steiger appeared in both ""Shiloh"" (1995) and , three years later. He reunited with Jewison on the biopic ""The Hurricane"" in 1999, in which he portrayed judge H. Lee Sarokin. He was one of the leads in the drama film ""The Last Producer"" (2000), before starring in his final film, the drama thriller ""Poolhall Junkies"" (2002). Rod Steiger on screen and stage Rod Steiger was an"
"had originally been intended for Martin Ritt, who later became a director. ""Marty"" is the story of a lonely and homely butcher from the Bronx in search of love. The play was a critical success that increased Steiger's public exposure; Tom Stempel noted that he brought ""striking intensity to his performance as Marty, particularly in giving us Marty's pain"". As Steiger refused to sign a seven-year studio contract, he was replaced with Ernest Borgnine in the film ""Marty"" (1955), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, as well as the Best Actor Oscar for Borgnine. 1953 proved to be"
"their chances in life together, emerge as the only members of the gang to come out ahead. Seven Thieves Seven Thieves is a 1960 20th Century Fox film noir crime drama motion picture shot in CinemaScope. It stars Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joan Collins and Eli Wallach. Directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Sydney Boehm, it was adapted for the screen by Sydney Boehm, based on the novel ""The Lions At The Kill"" by Max Catto. Technical advisor was Candy Barr, who, as choreographer, taught dance routines to Collins. ""Seven Thieves"" received an Academy Award nomination for Best"
"Steiger's breakthrough year; he garnered Sylvania Awards for ""Marty"" and four other best performances of the year—as Vishinsky and Rudolf Hess in two episodes of ""You Are There"", as gangster Dutch Schultz in a thriller, and as a radar operator in ""My Brother's Keeper"". For his role as Charley ""the Gent"", the brother of Marlon Brando's character in Elia Kazan's ""On the Waterfront"" (1954), Steiger was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Film writer Leo Braudy wrote that the ""incessantly repeated images of its taxicab confrontation between Brando and Rod Steiger have made the film iconic"". The"
"Following the success of ""Al Capone"", Steiger played sophisticated thief Paul Mason, who masterminds a caper to steal $4 million in French francs from the underground vault of the casino of Monte Carlo, in the Henry Hathaway heist film ""Seven Thieves"" (1960). Bosley Crowther of ""The New York Times"" gave a positive review of the film, praising the ""nerve-rackingly delicate plot"" and the ""most elaborate roles"" of Steiger and his co-star, Edward G. Robinson. The following year, he took the part of a prison psychiatrist who tries to cure the psychological demons of Stuart Whitman's character in ""The Mark"". Steiger's"
"Sea"", season 2, episode ""The Peacemaker"". With payment for his work on television, as well as a handful of film acting jobs, he was able to relocate to California and to make his subsequent films independent of any studio, as ""Shadows"" had been. The films in which he acted with this intention include Don Siegel's ""The Killers"" (1964), the motorcycle gang movie ""Devil's Angels"" (1967), ""The Dirty Dozen"" (1967), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Roman Polanski's ""Rosemary's Baby"" (1968), and ""The Fury"" (1978). Cassavetes portrayed the murderer in a 1972 episode of"
"million dollars and lost that suit too. Al Capone (film) Al Capone is a 1959 biographical crime drama film directed by Richard Wilson, written by Malvin Wald and Henry F. Greenberg, and released by Allied Artists. It starred Rod Steiger as Al Capone. Steiger reportedly refused the producers' first offer to star in this film because he thought the initial screenplay inappropriately romanticized Capone and criminality. In an interview Steiger said, ""I turned the picture down three times."" According to TCM, he agreed to play the role only after the producers agreed to rewrite. The finished film was noted for"
"acclaimed for his performance, which garnered him the prize for Best Actor at the Berlin International Film Festival and his second Best Actor nomination at the Oscars. Steiger was so certain that he had produced an Oscar-winning performance that he was shocked when he lost to Lee Marvin. In 1965, Steiger played an effeminate embalmer in Tony Richardson's comedy ""The Loved One"", about the funeral business in Los Angeles, based on the 1948 short satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh. His curly-haired appearance in the film was modeled on a bust of Apollo he once saw while meeting Richardson. Steiger offended"
"The Pawnbroker (film) The Pawnbroker is a 1964 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Jaime Sánchez and Morgan Freeman in his feature film debut. The screenplay was an adaptation by Morton S. Fine and David Friedkin from the novel of the same name by Edward Lewis Wallant. The film was the first produced entirely in the United States to deal with the Holocaust from the viewpoint of a survivor. It earned international acclaim for Steiger, launching his career as an A-list actor. It was among the first American films to feature nudity"
"Circle. In 1968, Steiger played a serial killer opposite George Segal in Jack Smight's black comedy thriller ""No Way to Treat a Lady"". During the course of the film, he adopts various disguises, including those of a priest, a policeman, a plumber, and a hairdresser, to avoid being identified, and to put his victims at ease, before strangling them and painting a pair of lips on their foreheads with garish red lipstick. The film and Steiger's performance were critically acclaimed, with Vincent Canby of ""The New York Times"" highlighting Steiger's ""beautifully uninhibited performance as a hammy"", and a writer for"
"""Time Out"" describing him as ""brilliant as a sort of Boston strangler, son of a great actress who has left her boy with a mother fixation"". Later in 1968, Steiger played a repressed gay non-commissioned officer opposite John Phillip Law in John Flynn's ""The Sergeant"" for Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, which earned him the David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actor. Despite the award win, film critic Pauline Kael of ""The New Yorker"" was particularly critical of the casting of Steiger as a homosexual and felt that he was ""totally outside his range"", to which Steiger concurred that he was"
"the Best Actor Oscar for ""Save the Tiger"" (1973), becoming the first actor to achieve this rare double (the only other actors to have done so are Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Spacey, and Denzel Washington). He was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film ""Missing"" in 1982, and for his roles in ""Some Like It Hot"" (1959), ""The Apartment"" (1960), ""Days of Wine and Roses"" (1962), ""The China Syndrome"" (1979), for which he was also awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, and ""Tribute"" (1980). He won another"
"won the Best Actor Oscar for ""From Here to Eternity"" instead of him. It is said that he felt he was given the award as consolation for not having previously won it for ""Sunset Boulevard"". In addition, Wilder was nominated for the Best Director Oscar, and Strauss for Best Supporting Actor. Stalag 17 Stalag 17 is a 1953 comedy-drama war film which tells the story of a group of American airmen held in a German World War II prisoner of war camp, who come to suspect that one of their number is an informant. The film was adapted by Billy"
"direct. He optioned Dennis Murphy’s novel ""The Sergeant"" and hired Flynn to direct. The movie starred Rod Steiger. His next movie, ""The Jerusalem File"" was shot in Israel. It did not perform particularly well at the box office but ""The Outfit"" did. This was an adaptation of the novel by Donald Westlake starring Robert Duvall. The filmmaker achieved a dedicated cult following with the gritty revenge thriller, ""Rolling Thunder"" starring William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones. In a 1994 interview with Jon Stewart, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino cited ""Rolling Thunder"" as an influence and Flynn among his favorite directors. The film"
"and they start to develop a connection, but this is quickly cut short when the posse arrives. Stranger on the Run Stranger on the Run is a 1967 American made-for-television western drama film directed by Don Siegel and starring Henry Fonda, Anne Baxter and Michael Parks. In some countries it premiered in cinemas. Former inmate and alcoholic Ben Chamberlain (Fonda) comes to a town inquiring about a woman. When she is found dead, Sheriff McKay (Parks), at the suggestion of his friend Hotchkiss (Dan Duryea), organises a human hunting party, incorrectly thinking that Chamberlain is the culprit. Chamberlain must cross"
"Al Capone (film) Al Capone is a 1959 biographical crime drama film directed by Richard Wilson, written by Malvin Wald and Henry F. Greenberg, and released by Allied Artists. It starred Rod Steiger as Al Capone. Steiger reportedly refused the producers' first offer to star in this film because he thought the initial screenplay inappropriately romanticized Capone and criminality. In an interview Steiger said, ""I turned the picture down three times."" According to TCM, he agreed to play the role only after the producers agreed to rewrite. The finished film was noted for its deglamorized portrayal of the subject. Chicago,"
"preparation into a performance"" as Steiger. Hutchinson revealed that Steiger often suffered from panic during filming and that fear of failure haunted him throughout his life, but fear also provided him with a source of strength in his acting. Rod Steiger Rodney Stephen Steiger (April 14, 1925July 9, 2002) was an American actor, noted for his portrayal of offbeat, often volatile and crazed characters. Cited as ""one of Hollywood's most charismatic and dynamic stars"", he is closely associated with the art of method acting, embodying the characters he played, which at times led to clashes with directors and co-stars. He"
"to have been the finest actors he had ever worked with, remarking in 1995, ""He's so good he made me dig into bags I never knew I had."" A. D. Murphy of ""Variety"" described Steiger's performance as ""outstanding"", writing: ""Steiger's transformation from a diehard Dixie bigot to a man who learns to respect Poitier stands out in smooth comparison to the wandering solution of the murder."" Steiger won a plethora of other awards, including a BAFTA, a Golden Globe, a Laurel Award and awards for Best Actor from the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics"
"and spiritual scars Steiger's character lives with, including his lost capacity to feel pleasure. Steiger, who has made nearly 80 films, said during a TV interview that the film was his favorite as an actor. ""Serpico"" (1973) was the first of four ""seminal"" films he made in the 1970s that marked him as ""one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation."" It was the story of power and betrayal in the New York City police force, with an idealistic policeman battling impossible odds. As Lumet was a child during the Depression, he grew up poor in New York City and"
"film of the same name. Steiger was particularly keen on demonstrating the showiness of Capone, speaking thunderously, slinging a camel-hair coat over his shoulders and wearing his hat at a jaunty angle. The film, noted for its deglamorized portrayal of the subject, earned Steiger a Laurel Award for Best Male Dramatic Performance nomination. Though Hutchinson, author of ""Rod Steiger: Memoirs of a friendship"", perceived Steiger's portrayal of Capone to be more of a caricature, George Anastasia and Glen Macnow, authors of the book ""The Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies"", described it as one of the best screen portrayals of Capone."
"bicycles to go to Bernadette's and recover the suitcase of jewelry once and for all. Oscar (1967 film) Oscar is a French comedy of errors directed by Édouard Molinaro and starring Louis de Funès. In the movie, Louis de Funès plays an industrialist named Bertrand Barnier who discovers over the course of a single day that his daughter is pregnant, he has been robbed by an employee, and various other calamities have befallen his household and his business. An English-language version of the movie was made in 1991, by John Landis, under the same name and starring Sylvester Stallone. Christian"
"that is not the right word, with enthusiasm, the acting of Rod Steiger in the role of Napoleon in Waterloo,"" while literary critic Daniel S. Burt describes Steiger's Napoleon as an ""unusual interpretation"", finding him less convincing than Plummer's Wellington. In 1971, Steiger played a chauvinistic big game hunter, explorer and war hero opposite Susannah York in Mark Robson's ""Happy Birthday, Wanda June"", before agreeing to star alongside James Coburn as Mexican bandit Juan Miranda in Sergio Leone's ""Duck, You Sucker!"", which was alternatively titled ""A Fistful of Dynamite"". Leone was initially dissatisfied with his performance in that he played"
"just goes to show that crime does not pay."" In 1957-1958, the American Broadcasting Company aired the series ""Scotland Yard"", originally made as a series of British theatrical film shorts, hosted by Edgar Lustgarten and starring Russell Napier. (Film)<br> Stryker of the Yard Stryker of the Yard (also known as Stryker of Scotland Yard and Scotland Yard Cases ) is a 1953 British crime film directed by Arthur Crabtree and starring Clifford Evans, Susan Stephen, Jack Watling and Eliot Makeham. A second cinema film, ""Companions in Crime"" followed in 1954. In 1957, these films and others aired as a 15-episode"