With more than 100 films to his credit, Rod Steiger made his first movie appearance in 1951 and never looked back, working constantly as both a lead and character actor until his death in 2002.Born April 14, 1925, in Westhampton, N.Y., Steiger was raised in a home with an absentee father and an alcoholic mother -- an environment he fled at age 16 to join the Navy during World War II. After the war, he studied acting under the GI Bill at The Actor's Studio in New York, and by the late 1940s, he was appearing in live TV plays as well as on Broadway.
It was his performance opposite Marlon Brando in 1954's On the Waterfront, however, that would ignite his career and earn him his first Oscar nomination. He went on to win an Oscar for his portrayal of Sheriff Gillespie in 1967's In the Heat of the Night. Other important movies for Steiger include Oklahoma!, The Pawnbroker and Doctor Zhivago.
AddDuck, You SuckerWhile on the lam in Mexico, Irish Republican Army demolition expert John Malloy (James Coburn) hooks up with Juan Miranda (Rod Steiger), a crass, stogie-chomping bandit with designs on the Mesa Verde Bank. Reluctant partners with differing agendas, they find themselves caught up in the turmoil of... Read More
Add AllThe Golden Age of TelevisionCulled from the archives of "Playhouse 90," "Kraft Theater" and other popular television anthology series from the 1950s, these superb live teleplays feature some of America's biggest stars and directors early in their careers. The luminaries include Rod Serling, John Frankenheimer, Paul Newman,... Read More
AddWaterlooShortly after he is forced to abdicate the emperorship and retire to Elba, Napoleon (Rod Steiger) roars back to the front in defiance of King Louis XVIII (Orson Welles). Wellington (Christopher Plummer) readies an international coalition to battle the dictator at Waterloo. Despite its notoriety as a... Read More
AddThe PawnbrokerNominated for the 1965 Academy Awards and winner of Best Actor honors at both the 1964 Berlin International Film Festival and the 1965 BAFTAs, Rod Steiger plays Sol Nazerman, a Jewish pawnbroker and Holocaust survivor embittered and broken by his experience. Sol has become increasingly removed from... Read More
AddHands Over the CityWinner of the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion award in 1963, this exposé on the political corruption that led to the devastation of Naples's civilian landscape stars Rod Steiger as a shady real estate developer. A searing work of social commentary, Francesco Rosi's realistic film unveils the... Read More
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