Rod Steiger, the burly and beloved star born a century ago this week, could have become the greatest film actor of all time. Or at least, like his character’s brother in On the Waterfront, he coulda ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Rod Steiger brought out the best in his co-stars, so much so that frequent collaborator Norman Jewison tried to fit the stocky actor into all his movies. ``I always tried to put him ...

Rod Steiger, an Oscar-winning actor whose chameleon-like ability to inhabit diverse characters placed him firmly among a generation of acclaimed postwar performers, died Tuesday at age 77. Steiger, ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on Aug. 3, 1967. This story was written by Wanda Hale.) It’s a pleasure, all too rare, to watch two splendid actors pitted against each other with equal force ...

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 week ...

Benedict is also known for stints as a cast member of "Candid Camera" and "The Steve Allen Show." Born July 21, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, Benedict first performed at just 7 years old, onstage at the ...

Oscar-winning actor Rod Steiger, who portrayed sinners like Al Capone and saints like Pope John XXIII in a career spanning more than five decades, died yesterday at age 77. Steiger died at a Los ...

The Oscar award-winning actor had starred alongside 50s heartthrob Marlon Brando in the film On The Waterfront; Rod Steiger played a pivotal part in The Pawnbroker, and A Fistful of Dynamite, leaving ...

Forget the rumors–Rod Steiger says he and Elizabeth Taylor are just close friends, dismissing tabloid reports of something more. “They tried to make it a big romance,” Steiger told the syndicated ...

LOS ANGELES, July 9 (UPI) -- Academy Award-winning actor Rod Steiger died Tuesday of pneumonia and kidney failure. He was 77. Steiger, who starred in more than 100 feature films and TV movies, ...

Rod Steiger, one of the finest character actors of the past 50 years and an Academy Award winner in 1967 for his depiction of the bigoted Southern sheriff in “In the Heat of the Night,” died Tuesday ...