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Rod Steiger was an American actor who had an extensive career in film, television, and stage. He made his stage debut in 1946 with Civic Repertory Theatre's production of the melodrama Curse you, Jack Dalton! .
Steiger's stage work continued in 1950, with a minor role as a townperson in a stage production of An Enemy of the People at the Music Box Theatre. His first major role on Broadway came in Clifford Odets 's production of Night Music (1951), where he played A. L. Rosenberger.
In 1966, he starred in the BBC Play of the Month (1965) episode "Death of a Salesman" as Willy Loman in the TV version of his stage play "Death of a Salesman," but in 1967, he landed what many consider his greatest role: Sheriff Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night (1967), opposite Sidney Poitier. Steiger deservedly took home the Best ...
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In fact, Steiger and Poitier were close friends off-screen. At a time when racial tensions in the South still ran very high, Steiger later recalled, the actors making the film had reason to fear reprisals.
- IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967) Director: Norman Jewison. Writer: Stirling Silliphant. Starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Beah Richards.
- THE PAWNBROKER (1964) Director: Sidney Lumet. Writers: Morton S. Fine, David Friedkin. Starring Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Jaime Sánchez.
- ON THE WATERFRONT (1954) Director: Elia Kazan. Writer: Budd Schulberg. Starring Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger, Lee J. Cobb.
- DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965) Director: David Lean. Writer: Robert Bolt, based on the novel by Boris Pasternak. Starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Tom Courtenay.
Nov 4, 2019 · Rod Steiger, one of the American screen's most distinctive non-star actors, who won an Oscar for his role as a curmudgeonly Southern sheriff in the 1967 film In the Heat of the Night, died this...
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