Widmark’s wife, Susan Blanchard, says the actor died at his home in Connecticut on Monday. After a career in radio drama and theater, Widmark moved to films as Tommy Udo, who delighted in pushing an old lady in a wheelchair to her death down a...

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Richard Widmark, whose movie debut as a giggling killer made him an overnight star, giving rise to an enduring Hollywood career playing a gallery of nasty hoodlums and flawed heroes, died Monday at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. He was 93. His...
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 death was announced Wednesday by his wife,...
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - 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 long illness....