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 ...

(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, 77, a richly compelling Academy Award-winning actor who riveted audiences in such dramas as "On the Waterfront," "The Pawnbroker," "Doctor Zhivago" and "In the Heat of the Night" and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benedict is also known for stints as a cast member of "Candid Camera" and "The Steve Allen Show." Benedict died June 24 at ...

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 ...

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, ...

Rod Steiger was a thinking man’s actor, a well-versed devotee of the Method approach to his craft that he called “acting from the inside out.” You always had the feeling he was not just speaking lines ...

Rod Steiger's glittering Hollywood legacy is being marred by an ugly family feud, with his daughter battling her stepsister over missing trophies – including major film festival prizes that she says ...

Good actors are often defined by their finest characters. Great ones aren’t afraid to define their own character by the roles they despised. Rod Steiger was one of the latter. The 1967 Oscar winner — ...

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 ...