Rod Steiger
Gender: Male
Born: 14th April 1925
Died: 9th July 2002
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Tales of Tomorrow, Jesus of Nazareth, Hollywood Wives
Movies: A Fistful of Dynamite, Across the Bridge, American Gothic, End of Days, Hands Over the City, In the Heat of the Night, Lion of the Desert, On the Waterfront, Poolhall Junkies, Seven Thieves, The Amityville Horror, The Harder They Fall, The Hurricane, The January Man, The Pawnbroker, Truth or Consequences, N.M., Convicts 4, Incognito, Mars Attacks!, The Mark, F.I.S.T, Waterloo, The Longest Day, The Specialist, Happy Birthday, Wanda June, The Big Knife, The Girl and the General, The Unholy Wife, The Loved One, Doctor Zhivago, Breakthrough, Back from Eternity, Klondike Fever, Shiloh, Love and Bullets, In Pursuit of Honor, Sword of Gideon, Legacy, The Neighbor, A Month of Sundays, Guilty as Charged, Catch the Heat, Innocents with Dirty Hands, A Man Named John, The Lucky Star, Carpool, Run of the Arrow, Oklahoma, Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story, Jubal, Modern Vampires, Men of Respect, Three Into Two Won't Go, Lucky Luciano, Portrait of a Hitman, No Way to Treat a Lady, That Summer of White Roses, Lolly-Madonna XXX, The Illustrated Man, Cattle Annie and Little Britches, The Sergeant, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, The Last Tatoo, Cry Terror!, Body and Soul, The Kid, Cypress Edge, Dalva, Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season, The Last Producer, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, Passion and Paradise, Frozen in Fear, The Naked Face, Hennessy, The Chosen, The Hollywood Sign, Wolf Lake, Last Days of Mussolini, Tennessee Nights, Innocents with Dirty Hands, Crazy in Alabama, Ray Bradbury: An American Icon, Breakout: Prisoner of War Escapes
Rodney Stephen "Rod" Steiger (April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002) was an Academy Award-winning American actor known for his performances in such films as On the Waterfront, The Big Knife, Oklahoma!, The Harder They Fall, Across the Bridge, The Pawnbroker, Doctor Zhivago, In the Heat of the Night, and Waterloo as well as the television programs Marty and Jesus of Nazareth.
Steiger was born in Westhampton, New York, the son of Lorraine (née Driver) and Frederick Steiger, of French, Scottish, and German descent. Steiger was raised as a Lutheran. He never knew his father, a vaudevillian who had been part of a traveling song-and-dance team with Steiger's mother (who subsequently left show business). Steiger grew up with his alcoholic mother before running away from home at age sixteen to join the United States Navy during World War II, where he saw action on destroyers in the Pacific.
Steiger appeared in over 100 motion pictures. He began his acting career in theatre and on live television in the early 1950s. On May 24, 1953, an episode of Goodyear Television Playhouse jump-started his career. The episode was the story of Marty written by Paddy Chayefsky. Marty is the story of a lonely
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