One of the all-time psychos (well, portrayers thereof; Robert Ryan was another) Richard Widmark, has decided not to take our birthday advice & stick around any longer, but shuffled off this mortal coil Monday. His premier screen exposure in Kiss of Death has been giving people the creeps for 61 yrs., and once he got past the psycho parts he turned out to be a fine all around actor as well. The Bedford Incident
remains a personal favorite of Just Another Blog™, & is well worth a peep in these days of madness & war-mongering. Here's the H'ywd. Reporter poop, w/ footage of the famed wheelchair scene from Kiss of Death. (Asswipes cut it before the giggle, though.)Good job all around Richard. You won't really be missed, as we''ll always have your representations to amuse us.
The Hollywood Reporter mentions one of my favorite Widmark psycho roles, as a racist killer in the often-ignored movie "No Way Out". Excellent stuff.
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ReplyDeleteYeah, that's another of his classics. Really, we can't think of any dogs he was in, though we've not seen 'em all.
re: the new picture: The Duke's toupee is slipping in that photo.
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ReplyDeleteYeah, it is a little low on his forehead, innit? A Donald Trump move.