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  2. Rod Steiger - Wikipedia

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    Steiger was offered the title role in Patton (1970), but turned it down because he did not want to glorify war. [116] The role was then given to George C. Scott, who won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance. Steiger called this refusal his "dumbest career move", [117] remarking, "I got on my high horse. I thought I was a pacifist."

  3. List of awards and nominations received by Rod Steiger

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    Rod Steiger (April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002) was an American actor, noted for his portrayal of offbeat, often volatile, and crazed characters. Over his distinguished career he received three Academy Award nominations for his performances as Marlon Brando's mobster brother Charley in On the Waterfront (1954), the title character Sol Nazerman in The Pawnbroker (1964), and as police chief Bill ...

  4. Rod Steiger on screen and stage - Wikipedia

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    Steiger in Al Capone (1959) Rod Steiger was an American actor who had an extensive career in film, television, and stage. [1] He made his stage debut in 1946 with Civic Repertory Theatre's production of the melodrama Curse you, Jack Dalton!. [2] He worked onstage in a production of An Enemy of the People at the Music Box Theatre.

  5. Oklahoma! (1955 film) - Wikipedia

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    Eli Wallach and Ernest Borgnine [22] were considered for the role of Jud before Rod Steiger was cast. Robert Russell Bennett expanded his Broadway orchestrations, Jay Blackton conducted, and Agnes de Mille again choreographed. [10] Costume designer Orry-Kelly was hired to oversee the costumes for the film with Ann Roth as his assistant.

  6. Joan Benedict, 'General Hospital' and 'Candid Camera' Actress ...

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    Joan Benedict Steiger has died. ... After Myhers' death in 1992, she reconnected with actor Rod Steiger, whom she'd first met as a teenager, and married in 2000. Steiger died in 2002, and Benedict ...

  7. Joan Benedict: General Hospital and Candid Camera star dies at 96

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    Joan Benedict, known for her roles in Candid Camera and General Hospital, has died. She was 96. ... She then reconnected with Rod Steiger, who she had a brief romance with when she was 19, and ...

  8. The Pawnbroker (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Pawnbroker is a 1964 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Jaime Sánchez and Morgan Freeman in his feature film debut. The screenplay was an adaptation by Morton S. Fine and David Friedkin from the 1961 novel of the same name by Edward Lewis Wallant .

  9. Joan Benedict Steiger - Wikipedia

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    Following Rod Steiger's death in 2002, Benedict Steiger's partner was actor Jeremy Slate, a veteran of over 80 films and television shows dating back to 1959, until his death in 2006. [7] Steiger lived in Malibu, California. [citation needed] She died from complications of a stroke at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, on June 24 ...