Rest in Peace

Richard Widmark (1914-2008) was one of the greatest movie stars in the history of the business. He was a dominant presence in noirs, westerns and war flicks. Though he was from the "look em in the eye and tell them the truth" school of acting, he could also play a freakshow with the best of them. Though his heyday was ended when television encroached on and swallowed both the crime and western genres, he made some cool HBO movies in some time in the `80's where he played an old dective. He could still bring it. God bless him, he was a great on.