Rod Steiger
from the film trailer for The Unholy Wife (1957)
Birth name	Rodney Stephen Steiger
Born	April 14, 1925 Westhampton, New York, USA
Died	July 9, 2002 (aged 77) Los Angeles, California, USA
Spouse(s)	Sally Gracie (1952-1958) Claire Bloom (1959-1969) Sherry Nelson (1973-1979) Paula Ellis (1986-1997) Joan Benedict (2000-2002)
Awards Academy Awards Best Actor 1968 In the Heat of the Night BAFTA Awards Best Actor in a Leading Role 1968 In the Heat of the Night 1967 The Pawnbroker Golden Globe Awards Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama 1968 In the Heat of the Night

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Biography

Early life

Steiger was born Rodney Stephen Steiger in Westhampton, New York to Lorraine (née Driver) and Frederick Steiger,^[1][2] of French, Scottish, and German descent.^[3][4] Steiger was raised in the Lutheran religion.^[3][5] He never knew his father, a vaudevillian who had been part of a travelling song-and-dance team with Steiger's mother (who subsequently left showbusiness).^[4] Steiger grew up with his alcoholic mother before running away from home at age sixteen to join the United States Navy during World War II, where he saw combat on destroyers in the Pacific.^[6] After the war, he returned to New Jersey and joined a drama group before studying drama full-time under Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan at The Actor's Studio. Westhampton is a hamlet (and census-designated place) located in Suffolk County, New York. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... “Scot” redirects here. ... The Lutheran movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity by the original definition. ... Vaudeville is a style of theater, also known as variety, which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ... USN redirects here. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... USS McFaul underway in the Atlantic Ocean. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area  Ranked 47th  - Total 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²)  - Width 70 miles (110 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 14. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Lee Strasberg (November 17, 1901 – February 17, 1982) was an American director, actor, producer, and acting teacher. ... Elia Kazan, (Greek: Ηλίας Καζάν, IPA: ), (September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was a Greek-American film and theatre director, film and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and cofounder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947. ... The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors located in the Old Labor Stage at 432 West 44th Street in New York City. ...

Career

Steiger appeared in over 100 motion pictures. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of Sheriff Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night (1967) opposite Sidney Poitier. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for On the Waterfront (1954), in which he played Marlon Brando's character's brother. The most famous scene in the film is when Brando's Terry Malloy tells his brother that he "coulda been a contender". He was nominated again, this time for Best Actor, for the gritty The Pawnbroker (1965), a Sidney Lumet film in which Steiger portrays an emotionally withdrawn Holocaust survivor living in New York City. Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 film, based on the John Ball novel published in 1965 of the same name, which tells the story of a Northern Black police detective who becomes involved in a murder investigation in a racist small town in Mississippi. ... Lauren steiger, born in 1992 at Royal Womens hospital started acting and modelling at the age of 2 and is now currently 15 working in Milan on the catwalks. ... Sir Sidney Poitier KBE, (IPA pronunciation: ) (born February 20, 1927), is an Academy Award-winning Bahamian American actor, film director, and activist. ... On the Waterfront is an Oscar-winning American 1954 film about mob violence and corruption among longshoremen, and it has become a standard of its kind. ... See also: 1953 in film 1954 1955 in film 1950s in film years in film film Events May 12 - The Marx Brothers Zeppo Marx divorces wife Marion Benda. ... Marlon Brando, Jr. ... The Pawnbroker is a novel by Edward Lewis Wallant which tells the story of a concentration camp survivor who suffers flashbacks of his past Nazi imprisonment as he tries to cope with his daily life. ... // Events Top grossing films North America Mary Poppins The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews Goldfinger My Fair Lady Whats New Pussycat? Shenandoah The Sandpiper Father Goose Academy Awards Best Picture: The Sound of Music - Argyle, Twentieth Century-Fox Best Actor: Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou Best Actress: Julie Christie... Portrait of Sidney Lumet, May 7, 1939. ... For other uses, see Holocaust (disambiguation) and Shoah (disambiguation). ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

He played Jud Fry in the film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!, in which he did his own singing. One of his favorite roles was as the rapacious aristocrat Komarovsky in Doctor Zhivago (1965). Steiger, the only American in the cast of that film, was initially apprehensive about working with such great British actors as Ralph Richardson and Alec Guinness, and was afraid that he would stick out. However, his fears proved unfounded, as he won much acclaim for his role in this film. He also befriended fellow actor Tom Courtenay on this film; the two remained friends until Steiger's death.^[7] Rodgers (left) and Hammerstein (right), with Irving Berlin (middle) and Helen Tamiris, watching auditions at the St. ... The 1943 musical play Oklahoma!, written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II (see Rodgers and Hammerstein), was adapted into an Academy Award–winning musical film in 1955, starring Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones (in her film debut), Rod Steiger, Gloria Grahame and Eddie Albert. ... Doctor Zhivago (Russian: Доктор Живаго) is a 1965 film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak. ... Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 – 10 October 1983) was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, did their best to make the transition to film. ... Sir Alec Guinness CH, CBE, KBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning British actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation. ... Tom Courtenay (pronounced Courtney) (born February 25, 1937) is a British actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of critically-acclaimed films including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), Billy Liar (1963) and Dr. Zhivago (1965). ...

He appeared in memorable roles: in The Big Knife as an overly aggressive movie studio boss who berates movie star Jack Palance; as Al Capone in Al Capone (1959); as the unforgettable Mr. Joyboy in The Loved One; a theatre actor-serial killer in No Way to Treat a Lady; and a tragically repressed gay military officer in The Sergeant. The Big Knife is a movie released in 1955. ... Jack Palance, (born Volodymyr Palanyuk (Ukr: Володимир Паланюк))on February 18, 1919, in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, USA), is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ... Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), popularly known as Al Capone, was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to the smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and 1930s. ... The Loved One is a 1965 film based on The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (1948) a short satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles. ...

Steiger in 1978

He also played well known figures such as Napoleon Bonaparte in Waterloo (1970); Benito Mussolini in The Last Four Days (1974) and again in Lion in the Desert (1981); W.C. Fields in W.C. Fields and Me (1976); Pontius Pilate in Franco Zeffirelli's TV miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977); and mob boss Sam Giancana in the TV miniseries Sinatra (1992). He appeared in several Italian films including both Francesco Rosi's Hands Over the City (1963) and Lucky Luciano (1974), and also Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dynamite (1971). In France, he starred in Claude Chabrol's Innocents with Dirty Hands opposite Romy Schneider. Image File history File links Rod Steiger This is a copyrighted promotional photo with a known source. ... Image File history File links Rod Steiger This is a copyrighted promotional photo with a known source. ... Bonaparte as general Napoleon Bonaparte ( 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a general of the French Revolution and was the ruler of France as First Consul (Premier Consul) of the French Republic from November 11, 1799 to May 18, 1804, then as Emperor of the French (Empereur des... Waterloo was a Soviet-Italian film of 1970, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. ... Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (July 29, 1883 – April 28, 1945) was the prime minister of Italy from 1922 until 1943, when he was overthrown. ... W. C. Fields (January 29, 1880 - December 25, 1946) was an American comedian and actor. ... Ecce Homo (Behold the Man!), Antonio Ciseris depiction of Pontius Pilate presenting a scourged Jesus to the people of Jerusalem. ... Franco Zeffirelli (born Gianfranco Corsi on February 12, 1923), is an Italian film director. ... A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Sam Momo Giancana ((born Salvatore Guingano) June 15, 1908 — June 19, 1975) was a famous and powerful mafioso and boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1956-66. ... Francesco Rosi (born November 15, 1922 in Naples) is an Italian film director. ... Hands Over the City (Italian: Le mani sulla città) is a 1963 film directed by Francesco Rosi. ... Sergio Leone (January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989) was an Italian film director. ... A Fistful of Dynamite is a 1971 film by Sergio Leone (original Italian title: Giù la testa; also known as Duck, You Sucker and Once Upon a Time … The Revolution). ... Claude Chabrol (French IPA: ) (born June 24, 1930, Paris) is a French film director and has become well-known since his first film, Le Beau Serge (1958) for his chilling tales of murder, including Le Boucher (1970). ... Romy Schneider (September 23, 1938 – May 29, 1982) was a German-Austrian actress. ...

Among his best known roles in his later years was as the priest who gets pestered by flies in The Amityville Horror (1979); the Latin American crime lord in The Specialist (1994) opposite Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone; and as an aggressive gung-ho general in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!. On television, he appeared in miniseries Jackie Collins' Hollywood Wives (1985), Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City (1993) and a 1995 Columbo TV movie. Among his final feature film roles was as the judge in the Denzel Washington prison drama The Hurricane (1999). The film reunited him with director Norman Jewison, who directed him in In the Heat of the Night, for which Steiger won his Oscar, and the 1978 Stallone film F.I.S.T. The Amityville Horror is a best-selling book by the author Jay Anson which was published in September 1977. ... The Specialist was a 1994 drama, action film from Warner Brothers Pictures. ... Sylvester Stallone (born July 6, 1946) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. ... Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning American actress, producer, and former fashion model. ... Timothy Tim William Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated American film director, writer and designer. ... Mars Attacks! is a comedy and science fiction film by Tim Burton based on the popular card series Mars Attacks. ... Hollywood Wives was an American primetime television mini-series about a group of very wealthy, attractive, snobbish women who are caught up in the low life and high society of Hollywood. ... Armistead Jones Maupin Jr. ... 1st US edition cover of the first book in the Tales of the City series This article is about the novel series; see also Tales of the City (novel) and Tales of the City (miniseries) Tales of the City is a series of six books, originally serialized in the San... Columbo is an American crime fiction TV series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. ... Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. ... The Hurricane, a 1999 film starring Denzel Washington, purports to be the true story of boxer Rubin Hurricane Carter, whose conviction for triple murder was overturned after he had spent almost 20 years in prison. ... Norman Frederick Jewison, CC, BA, LL.D (born July 21, 1926) is a Canadian film director, producer, and actor. ... F.I.S.T. is a 1978 movie directed by Norman Jewison and starring Sylvester Stallone. ...

Steiger also starred in the film version of Kurt Vonnegut's play Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971). In 1969, he appeared in the film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man with his then-wife Claire Bloom. He was offered the title role in Patton but turned it down because he did not want to glorify war. The role was then given to George C. Scott, who won the Oscar. Steiger called this refusal his "dumbest career move". He also tried out for The Godfather. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ... Happy Birthday, Wanda June is the 1971 film adaptation of the play by the same name by Kurt Vonnegut. ... Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American literary, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer best known for The Martian Chronicles, a 1950 book which has been described both as a short story collection and a novel, and his 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451. ... The Illustrated Man is a 1951 book of eighteen science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury that explores the nature of humankind. ... Claire Bloom (born Patricia Claire Blume on February 15, 1931) is a British film and stage actress. ... Patton is a 1970 epic biographical film which tells the story of General George S. Pattons commands during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, and Karl Michael Vogler. ... George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 - September 22, 1999) was a stage and film actor, director, and producer. ... The Godfather is a 1972 crime film based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, with screenplay by Puzo and Coppola. ...

Steiger has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. A band plays on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ... ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ...

Personal life

Steiger had five wives, the late actress Sally Gracie (married 1952-divorced 1958), actress Claire Bloom (married 1959-divorced 1969), Sherry Nelson (married 1973-divorced 1979), Paula Ellis (married 1986-divorced 1997) and actress Joan Benedict (married 2000-his death 2002). He had a daughter, opera singer Anna Steiger (born in 1965), from his marriage to Bloom, and a son by his marriage to Ellis. He had a love affair with Diana Dors when they met during the filming of The Unholy Wife. Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Claire Bloom (born Patricia Claire Blume on February 15, 1931) is a British film and stage actress. ... Anna Steiger (born February 13, 1966 in Los Angeles, USA) is a British opera singer. ... Diana Dors (October 23, 1931 – May 4, 1984) was a British actress and sex symbol. ... Movie poster for The Unholy Wife The Unholy Wife is a color 1957 drama film written and directed by John Farrow. ...

After undergoing triple heart bypass surgery in 1976, Steiger fell into a serious depression for eight years. He died in Los Angeles of pneumonia and complications from surgery for a (presumably malignant) gall bladder tumor at the age of 77. He is interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills, in Los Angeles, California. A coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) or heart bypass is a surgical procedure performed in patients with coronary artery disease (see atherosclerosis) for the relief of angina and possible improved heart muscle function. ... “Sad” redirects here. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Pneumonia is an illness of the lungs and respiratory system in which the alveoli (microscopic air-filled sacs of the lung responsible for absorbing oxygen from the atmosphere) become inflamed and flooded with fluid. ... The gallbladder (or cholecyst) is a pear-shaped organ that stores bile (or gall) until the body needs it for digestion. ... Tumor or tumour literally means swelling, and is sometimes still used with that meaning. ...

Linkability

According to research at the University of Virginia, using the Internet Movie Database as a guide, Steiger was the most well-linked actor in Hollywood history, if one can link two actors if they have ever appeared in a movie together.^[8] The average "Steiger number" of a movie actor, meaning the number of links it takes to get from that actor to Steiger, is 2.679. By contrast, the average "Bacon number", the number of links it takes to reach Kevin Bacon, whose linkability is much more famous, is 2.955. Steiger, incidentally has a Bacon number of 2. See: Small world phenomenon. The University of Virginia (also called U.Va. ... The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ... ... The Bacon number of an actor or actress is the number of degrees of separation (see Six degrees of separation) they have from actor Kevin Bacon, as defined by the game known as Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. ... Kevin Norwood Bacon[1] (born July 8, 1958) is an American film and theater actor who has starred in Footloose, Animal House, Stir of Echoes, Wild Things, JFK, and Apollo 13, among many others. ... The small world phenomenon (also known as the small world effect) is the hypothesis that everyone in the world can be reached through a short chain of social acquaintances. ...

Filmography

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Robinson, Rod Steiger, and Joan Collins. ... A wee squeeze ... The Longest Day is a 3-hour-long 1962 war film with a very large cast, based on the 1959 book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, about D-Day, the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, during World War II. // The movie was adapted by Romain Gary, James... Hands Over the City (Italian: Le mani sulla città) is a 1963 film directed by Francesco Rosi. ... The Pawnbroker is a novel by Edward Lewis Wallant which tells the story of a concentration camp survivor who suffers flashbacks of his past Nazi imprisonment as he tries to cope with his daily life. ... The Loved One is a 1965 film based on The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (1948) a short satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles. ... Doctor Zhivago (Russian: Доктор Живаго) is a 1965 film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak. ... In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 film, based on the John Ball novel published in 1965 of the same name, which tells the story of a Northern Black police detective who becomes involved in a murder investigation in a racist small town in Mississippi. ... The Girl and the General (original title:La Ragazza e il Generale) is a 1967 anti-war Italian comedy film, starred by Rod Steiger and Virna Lisi and produced by Carlo Ponti. ... Waterloo was a Soviet-Italian film of 1970, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. ... A Fistful of Dynamite is a 1971 film by Sergio Leone (original Italian title: Giù la testa; also known as Duck, You Sucker and Once Upon a Time … The Revolution). ... Happy Birthday, Wanda June is the 1971 film adaptation of the play by the same name by Kurt Vonnegut. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Picture of Robert Powell playing Jesus of Nazareth. ... F.I.S.T. is a 1978 movie directed by Norman Jewison and starring Sylvester Stallone. ... The Amityville Horror was a 1979 film based on the book of the same name by Jay Anson. ... Lion of the Desert is a 1981 historical film depicting real events, starring Anthony Quinn as Libyan tribal leader Omar Mukhtar fighting Mussolinis army during World War II. It was directed by Moustapha Akkad. ... The Naked Face is the first book written by popular novelist, Sidney Sheldon. ... Sword of Gideon is a 1986 film about Mossad agents hunting down terrorists associated with the 1972 Munich Massacre. ... A list of films produced in Argentina by year in the 1980s in the List of Argentine films // In 1982 the Falklands War meant film production was lower than usual. ... American Gothic is a 1988 slasher film written by Burt Wetanson and Michael Vines and directed by John Hough. ... The January Man is a 1989 film, directed by Pat OConnor. ... 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External links

• Rod Steiger at the Internet Movie Database