Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rod Steiger in 1956 - Getty Rod Steiger, the burly and beloved star born a century ago this week, could have become the greatest ...

Joan Benedict Steiger, who was part of the original stock company for Candid Camera and later became the wife of actor Rod Steiger, died June 24 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Veteran screen actor Rod Steiger, who won an Academy Award for his role as a bigoted small-town police chief opposite Sidney … Veteran screen actor Rod Steiger, who won an Academy Award for his role ...

Rod Steiger, the stocky, intense actor who played Marlon Brando’s hoodlum brother in ”On the Waterfront” and won an Oscar as a redneck Southern police chief in ”In the Heat of the Night,” died on ...

Of all the Method actors who evolved from the Actors Studio, Rod Steiger, who has died aged 77 of pneumonia and kidney failure, was arguably the most intense. The style of performance (which could ...

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, ...