Richard Widmark 1914 – 2008 (RIP)

Actor Richard Widmark, an Oscar nominee for his iconic debut performance in the 1947 film noir “Kiss of Death,” died Monday at home in Roxbury, Conn. He was 93. Widmark also starred in such screen classics as “Night in the City,” “Panic in the Streets,” “Judgment at Nuremberg” and “How the West Was Won.”

His death was announced Wednesday morning by his wife, Susan Blanchard. She said that Mr. Widmark had fractured a vertebra in recent months and that his conditioned had worsened.

His mobsters were drenched in evil but in reality, the screen’s most vicious psychopath was a mild-mannered former teacher who had married his college sweetheart, the actress Jean Hazelwood, and who told a reporter 48 years later that he had never been unfaithful and had never even flirted with women because, he said, “I happen to like my wife a lot.”

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