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Rod Steiger was an American actor who had an extensive career in film, television, and stage. He made his stage debut in 1946 with Civic Repertory Theatre's production of the melodrama Curse you, Jack Dalton! .
Rod Steiger was an American actor who had an extensive career in film, television, and stage. He made his stage debut in 1946 with Civic Repertory Theatre's production of the melodrama Curse you, Jack Dalton!.
As the 1980s ended, Steiger landed a role as the buttoned-up New York City Chief of Police in The January Man (1989). Steiger was seriously affected by depression for 8 years. As he returned to the screen in the late 1990s he began creating some of his most memorable roles.
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- Westhampton, New York, USA
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Steiger's stage work continued in 1950, with a minor role as a townperson in a stage production of An Enemy of the People at the Music Box Theatre. His first major role on Broadway came in Clifford Odets 's production of Night Music (1951), where he played A. L. Rosenberger.
- IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967) Director: Norman Jewison. Writer: Stirling Silliphant. Starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Beah Richards.
- THE PAWNBROKER (1964) Director: Sidney Lumet. Writers: Morton S. Fine, David Friedkin. Starring Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Jaime Sánchez.
- ON THE WATERFRONT (1954) Director: Elia Kazan. Writer: Budd Schulberg. Starring Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger, Lee J. Cobb.
- DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965) Director: David Lean. Writer: Robert Bolt, based on the novel by Boris Pasternak. Starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Tom Courtenay.
The only notable biography of Steiger is Tom Hutchinson, Rod Steiger: Memoirs of a Friendship (1998). Interviews are in the Boston Globe (3 Nov. 1991), Back Stage West (6 Aug. 1998), and Esquire (Oct. 1998).
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