Earlier this week the actor Richard Widmark passed away. In my mind, Widmark was one of those actors (along with Dan Duryea, Sterling Hayden, and the pre-City Slickers Jack Palance) who were "actors" rather "than movie stars." They possessed great dramatic range and could carry a movie without dominating it. As a result, Widmark and the others regularly chosen to"star" in films noir and in westerns (most of which, were, by definition, "B" pictures), or were paired with or against bigger "stars" in "A" pictures. Widmark and his ilk were not character actors, but they weren't Humphrey Bogart or John Wayne either. Within this very respectable "niche" Widmark carved out an exceptional career. Widmark appeared in just over 60 movies, among them were:
- Kiss of Death (1947)
- The Street with No Name (1948)
- Road House (1948)
- Night and the City (1950)
- Panic in the Streets (1950)
- No Way Out (1950)
- Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
- Pickup on South Street (1953)
- Two Rode Together (1961)
- Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
- How the West Was Won (1962)
- Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
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