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Widmark and Poitier became good friends and worked in a number of films together in later years. In The Last Wagon (1956) Gig Young, Widmark and Doris Day in The Tunnel of Love (1958) Widmark played heroic roles in films, including Down to the Sea in Ships, Slattery's Hurricane (both 1949), and Elia Kazan's Panic in the Streets (1950).
Apr 4, 2017 · In the latter film, he plays a deranged racist who hurls epithets at co-star Sidney Poitier’s character. After every offending scene, the kind, left-leaning Widmark would apologize profusely to the young black actor. (The two became lifelong friends, and would collaborate twice more).
Jan 8, 2022 · Richard Widmark and Poitier became good friends. In 1990, Poitier went to New York to present Richard Widmark, the first Hollywood star to welcome him into his home, with a career...
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Feb 20, 2008 · Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier made three movies together. No Way Out (1950) was their first, and was Sidney Poitier's feature film debut. Widmark plays a baddie named Biddle who's twin dies early on when they are brought in to the hospital where Poitier's Brooks is - Doctor Brooks.
Richard Widmark salutes legendary Actor Sidney Poitier at the 20th AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute To Sidney Poitier (1992). CONNECT WITH AFI:http://fa...
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Mar 7, 2009 · Widmark and Poitier became close friends and subsequently worked together on The Long Ships (1964) and The Bedford Incident (1965), a serious version of Dr Strangelove.
Jan 7, 2022 · Although neither the Widmark character nor his white friends are depicted sympathetically, viewers can see them, too, as wounded victims of an unfair society.
