Claire Bloom - Biography - IMDb Claire Bloom Jump to: Overview (3) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (3) | Trivia (19) | Personal Quotes (2) Overview (3) 5' 3" (1.6 m) Mini Bio (1) Age has not taken the flower off this Bloom. The well-known and respected stage, screen and television actress Claire Bloom, originally named Patricia Claire Blume, continues to be in demand as a septuagenarian actress and looks as beautiful as ever. She was born Patricia Claire Bloom on February 15, 1931 in Finchley, North London, to Elizabeth (Grew) and Edward Max Blume, who worked in sales. Her parents were both from Jewish families (from Belarus). Educated at Badminton School in Bristol and Fern Hill Manor in New Milton, Claire expressed early interest in the arts and was stage trained as an adolescent at the Guildhall School, under the guidance of Eileen Thorndike, and then the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Marking her professional debut on the BBC radio, she subsequently took her first curtain call with the Oxford Repertory Theatre in 1946 in the production of "It Depends What You Mean". She then received early critical accolades for her Shakespearean ingénues in "King John", "The Winter's Tale" and, notably, her Ophelia in "Hamlet" at age 17 at Stratford-on-Avon opposite alternating Hamlets Paul Scofield and Robert Helpmann . By 1949 Claire was making her West End debut with "The Lady's Not For Burning" with the up-and-coming stage actor Richard Burton . A most becoming and beguiling dark-haired actress whose photogenic, slightly pinched beauty was accented by an effortless elegance and poise, Claire's inauspicious film debut came with a prime role in the British courtroom film drama The Blind Goddess (1948). It was her second film, when Charles Chaplin himself selected her specifically to be his young leading lady in the classic sentimental drama Limelight (1952), that propelled her to stardom.

Her bravura turn as a young suicide-bent ballerina saved from despair by an aging music hall clown (Chaplin) was exquisitely touching and sparked an enviable but surprisingly sporadic career in films. Despite the sudden film attention, Claire continued her formidable presence on the Shakespearean stage. Joining the Old Vic Company for the 1952-1953 and 1953-1954 seasons, she appeared as Helena, Viola, Juliet, Jessica, Miranda, Virgilia, Cordelia and (again) Ophelia in a highly successful tenure. Touring Canada and the United States as Juliet, she made her Broadway bow in the star-crossed lover role in 1956, also playing the Queen in "Richard II". A strong presence on both the London and New York stages over the years, other powerful performances came with "The Trojan Women", "Vivat! Vivat! Regina!", "Hedda Gabler", "A Doll's House" and "A Streetcar Named Desire".

Much later in life she performed in a superb one-woman show entitled "These Are Women: A Portrait of Shakespeare's Heroines" that included monologues from several of her acclaimed stage performances. Claire's stylish and regal presence was simply ideal for mature period films and she appeared opposite a roster of Hollywood most talented leading men as such, including Laurence Olivier in the title role of Richard III (1955); Richard Burton and Fredric March in Alexander the Great (1956); Yul Brynner in The Brothers Karamazov (1958) and Brynner and Charlton Heston in the DeMille epic The Buccaneer (1958) in which she had a rare dressed-down role as a spirited pirate girl. On the more contemporary scene she appeared with Burton in two classic film dramas: the stark "kitchen sink" British stage piece Look Back in Anger (1959) and the Cold War espionage thriller The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965).

In addition she courted tinges of controversy playing a housewife gone bonkers in the offbeat sudser The Chapman Report (1962) and a lesbian in the supernatural chiller The Haunting (1963). Claire met first husband Rod Steiger while performing with him on stage in 1959's "Rashomon". They married that year and had daughter Anna in 1960 who grew up to become a well-regarded opera singer. Claire and Rod appeared in two lesser films together, The Illustrated Man (1969) and Three Into Two Won't Go (1969), both released the same year they divorced after 10 tumultuous years. As with other maturing actress during the 1970s, Claire looked toward classy film roles in TV-movies for sustenance and found among them Backstairs at the White House (1979), as First Lady Edith Wilson, and Brideshead Revisited (1981), in which she was nominated for an Emmy.

Also lauded were the epic miniseries Ellis Island (1984); a remake of Terence Rattigan 's Separate Tables (1983), and Philip Roth 's acclaimed adaptations of American Playhouse: The Ghost Writer (1984) and Shadowlands (1985), the latter earning her a British Television Award. Speaking of Roth, Claire married the writer (her third) in 1990 after a brief second marriage to producer Hillard Elkins (1969-1972). The union with Roth lasted five years. Claire appeared in several Shakespearean teleplays over the decades while also portraying a choice selection of historical royals including Czarina Alexandra and Katherine of Aragon. One of her most recent appearances on TV was the miniseries version of The Ten Commandments (2006). On daytime drama, she delightfully played matriarch and murderess Orlena Grimaldi on the daytime drama As the World Turns (1956) in 1993. She left the role in 1995 and was replaced. Claire wrote two memoirs.

The first was the more career-oriented "Limelight and After: The Education of an Actress", released in 1982 Her more controversial second book focused on her personal life: "Leaving a Doll's House: A Memoir", published in 1996. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net Spouse (3) Daughter, opera singer Anna Steiger , by her ex-husband, actor Rod Steiger . She won rave reviews for her performances as Blanche Du Bois ("A Streetcar Named Desire") in London, Nora ("A Doll's House") on Broadway, and Madame Ranevskaya ("The Cherry Orchard") at Boston's prestigious American Repertory Theatre. An Associate Member of RADA. Was nominated for Broadway's 1999 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for "Electra." Her second book, "Leaving a Doll's House: A Memoir" was published in 1996, and went into greater details about her personal life; she discussed not only her failed marriages, to the dismay of a disgruntled Philip Roth , but her romantic relationships with Richard Burton and Laurence Olivier .

According to Richard Burton 's biography "And God Created Burton" he was responsible for taking Bloom's virginity in 1949 when they began an affair days after the actor's wedding to Sybil Williams ; the affair carried on intermittently until 1957. She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama. Release of her book, "Limelight and After: The Education of an Actress". [1982] Starring in "Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks" with Billy Zane on the West End in London. [March 2006] London SW6, England: Actress [June 2013] Filming a major cameo in The Doctor Who Christmas special [April 2009] Currently appearing in "Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks" at the Theatre Royal Haymarket London from 29th November 2006 - 27 February 2007. [November 2006] Release of her book, "Leaving a Doll's House: A Memoir".

[1996] Her parents were both from Ashkenazi Jewish families (from Russia and Latvia). Her family's original surname was "Blumenthal". She played Laurence Olivier 's wife in both Richard III (1955) and Clash of the Titans (1981). Won the prestigious London Evening Standard Best Actress Award for her stage performance as Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams' 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. Although she played Derek Jacobi 's mother in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980), she is only seven years his senior. BIOGRAPHY: Rod Steiger Lifetime twitter BIOGRAPHY Rodney Stephen Steiger was born to Lorraine and Frederick Steiger, of French, Scottish and German descent. He never knew his father, a vaudevillian who had been part of a travelling song-and-dance team with Steiger's mother, who subsequently left show business. Steiger grew up with his mother, who suffered with alcoholism, before running away from home at the age of sixteen to join the US Navy during World War II.

After the war he returned to New Jersey and joined a drama group, before studying drama full-time under Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan at The Actor's Studio. It wasn’t until the early 1950s that he won his first film roles. His first major one was in 'Teresa' (1951), with his first lead role coming in the television version of 'Marty' (1953) (TV). Steiger's breakthrough role came in 1954 with the classic 'On the Waterfront' (1954), where he most memorably shared the backseat of a cab with screen brother Marlon Brando, who played washed-up ex-boxer Terry. The performance earned him an Academy nomination for Best Supporting Actor. After 'On the Waterfront', Steiger made his presence felt as a movie tycoon in Robert Aldrich's Hollywood tale 'The Big Knife' (1955); a scheming attorney in Otto Preminger's 'The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell' (1955); and villain Jud in Fred Zinnemann's adaptation of the Broadway musical 'Oklahoma!' (1955).

Further underlining his effusive talent and his intense screen style, Steiger co-starred with Humphrey Bogart in Bogart's final film, 'The Harder They Fall' (1956); played an Irish-accented ex-soldier in 'Run of the Arrow' (1957); played a psychopath in 'Cry Terror!' (1958); and raged as mobster 'Al Capone' (1959). However, Steiger’s career defining moment came in 1967, when he won an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of Sheriff Bill Gillespie in 'In The Heat of the Night' (1967) opposite Sidney Poitier. The Norman Jewison-directed film, based on a John Ball novel, tells the story of a black police detective who becomes involved in a murder investigation in a racist small town in Mississippi.

The multi-talented actor also played well-known historical figures such as Napoleon Bonaparte in 'Waterloo' (1970); Benito Mussolini in 'The Last Four Days' (1974) and again in 'Lion in the Desert' (1981); W.C. Fields in 'W.C. Fields and Me' (1976); Pontius Pilate in Franco Zeffirelli's TV miniseries 'Jesus of Nazareth' (1977); and mob boss Sam Giancana in the TV miniseries 'Sinatra' (1992). Among his better known roles in later years was as the priest who is attacked by flies in 'The Amityville Horror' (1979); a latino crime boss in 'The Specialist' (1994) opposite Sylvester Stallone; and as an aggressive Army general in the Tim Burton comedy 'Mars Attacks!' (1996). In 1976 Steiger had a triple heart bypass, which sent the actor into a sustained spell of depression lasting almost eight years. He eventually died in Los Angeles at the age of 77, of pneumonia and complications from the surgery.

The Oscar-winning actor was married five times; to the actress Sally Gracie between 1952 and 1958; actress Claire Bloom between 1959 and 1969; Sherry Nelson between 1973 and 1979; Paula Ellis for eleven years between 1986 and 1997; and finally to actress Joan Benedict from 2000 until his death. He had a daughter, the opera singer Anna Steiger from his marriage to Bloom, and a son by his marriage to Ellis. Rod Steiger Rod Steiger Род Стайгер, Rodney Stephen Steiger Categories: Set cemetery Person 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.

Early life 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. Career 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 homely butcher from the Bronx in search of love. Refusing to sign a seven-year studio contract, Steiger later turned down the role in the film version in 1955.

Signing a studio contract at that time would have restricted the range of roles Steiger could subsequently have played and determined the image he portrayed on screen; those were two things Steiger objected to throughout his career. He won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Chief of Police Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night (1967) opposite Sidney Poitier. He was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for On the Waterfront (1954), in which he played Marlon Brando's character's brother. He was nominated again, this time for Best Actor, for the gritty The Pawnbroker (1965), a Sidney Lumet film in which Steiger portrays an emotionally withdrawn Holocaust survivor living in New York City. He played Jud Fry in the film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!, in which he did his own singing. One of his favorite roles was as Komarovsky in Doctor Zhivago (1965). Steiger, one of only two Americans in the cast of that film, was initially apprehensive about working with such great British actors as Ralph Richardson and Alec Guinness and was afraid that his performance would not blend with theirs, but he won acclaim for this role.

He also befriended fellow actor Tom Courtenay on this film. He also appeared in The Big Knife as an unduly aggressive film studio boss who berates film star Jack Palance; as Al Capone in Al Capone (1959); as Mr. Joyboy in The Loved One; as the serial killer in No Way to Treat a Lady; as a repressed gay NCO in The Sergeant (1968); and as Rabbi Saunders in The Chosen (1981). He also played well-known figures such as Napoleon Bonaparte in Waterloo (1970); Benito Mussolini in The Last Four Days (1974) and again in Lion of the Desert (1981); W. C. Fields in W. C. Fields and Me (1976); Pontius Pilate in Franco Zeffirelli's TV miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977); U.S. Marshal Bill Tilghman in Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981), and mob boss Sam Giancana in the TV miniseries, Sinatra (1992).

Steiger appeared in several Italian films, including Hands Over the City (1963) and Lucky Luciano (1974) (both Francesco Rosi's), and also Sergio Leone's Duck, You Sucker! (1971) starring James Coburn. In France, he starred in Claude Chabrol's Innocents with Dirty Hands opposite Romy Schneider. In his later years he appeared in The Amityville Horror (1979); The Specialist (1994), and Mars Attacks!. On television, he appeared in the miniseries Jackie Collins' Hollywood Wives (1985), Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City (1993), and a 1995 Columbo television film, Strange Bedfellows. Among his final roles was the judge in the prison drama, The Hurricane (1999). The film reunited him with director Norman Jewison, who had directed him in In the Heat of the Night. His last film was Poolhall Junkies (2002). Steiger also starred in the film version of Kurt Vonnegut's play Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971).

In 1969, he appeared in the film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man with his then-wife, Claire Bloom. He was offered the title role in Patton, but turned it down because he did not want to glorify war. The role was then given to George C. Scott, who won a Best Actor Oscar. Steiger called this refusal his "dumbest career move". Personal life and death Steiger was married five times: he married actress Sally Gracie (1952–1958), actress Claire Bloom (1959–1969), Sherry Nelson (1973–1979), Paula Ellis (1986–1997) and actress Joan Benedict Steiger (married 2000 until his death). He had a daughter, opera singer Anna Steiger (born in 1960) by Bloom, and a son, Michael Steiger (born in 1993), from his marriage to Ellis. Steiger died of pneumonia and complications from surgery for a gall bladder tumor on July 9, 2002 in Los Angeles and was buried in Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery.

The film Saving Shiloh, released in 2006, was dedicated to his memory. Source: wikipedia.org Rod Steiger and Sally Gracie Relationship Details | ShagTree Photo Credits Rod Steiger dating history. Rod Steiger Girlfriend, Wife "Rod Steiger relationship list. Rod Steiger dating history, ... Rod Steiger and Sally Gracie. ... Rod. Middle Name. Stephen." - source Sally Gracie - IMDb "... 1920 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA as Sally Gracie Keppe. ... She was married to Charles Kebbe and Rod Steiger. She died on August 13, 2001 in New York City, ..." - source Rod Steiger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Rodney Stephen "Rod" Steiger (April 14, ... Steiger was married five times: he married actress Sally Gracie (1952–1958), actress Claire Bloom (1959–1969) ..." - source Sally Gracie - Biography - IMDb "Sally Gracie was born on December 31, 1920 in Little Rock, ... She was married to Charles Kebbe and Rod Steiger.

She died on August 13, 2001 in New York City, ..." - source Rod Steiger - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Rod Steiger. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search. ... He was married to Sally Gracie from 1952 until they divorced in 1958." - source Obituary: Rod Steiger | Film | The Guardian "Of all the Method actors who evolved from the Actors Studio and its tentacles, Rod Steiger, ... Sally Gracie, married in 1951, Claire Bloom 1959, ..." - source Stage and TV Actress Sally Gracie is Dead at 80 - Playbill.com "Sally Gracie, a film, TV and theatre actress once married to actor Rod Steiger, died Aug. 13 at the age of 80 in her Manhattan home, the New York Times reported ..." - source Rod Steiger Dating History, Rod Steiger Relationship List ... "Historical look at Rod Steiger relationships, ... Sally Gracie. 1952 - 1958 ...

When they decided to end their affair Rod broke Diana`s heart by marrying Claire Blomm ..." - source Rod Steiger - 必应网典 "Rodney Stephen "Rod" Steiger (April 14, ... Steiger was married five times: he married actress Sally Gracie (1952–1958), actress Claire Bloom (1959–1969), ..." - source Rod Steiger (Actor) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News "Rod Steiger (1925 - 2002) was a famous actor. Find out his latest pics, videos, news, family, ... Romance.

Check out the latest love interests for Rod Steiger." - source Rod Steiger - Biography - IMDb Rod Steiger Biography Showing all 57 items Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (5) | Trade Mark (2) | Trivia (28) | Personal Quotes (14) | Salary (3) Overview (4) 5' 10" (1.78 m) Mini Bio (1) Rodney Stephen Steiger was born in Westhampton, New York, to Augusta Amelia (Driver) and Frederick Jacob Steiger, both vaudevillians. He was of German and Austrian ancestry. After his parents' divorce, Steiger was raised by his mother in Newark, New Jersey. He dropped out of Westside High school at age 16 and joined the Navy. He saw action in the Pacific on a destroyer. Steiger returned to New Jersey after the war and worked for the VA. He was part of an amateur acting group, and then joined the Actors' Studio using his GI Bill benefits. Steiger received his first film roles in the early 1950s.

His first major one was in Teresa (1951), but his first lead role was in the TV version of The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse: Marty (1953). The movie version, however, had Ernest Borgnine in the lead and won him an Academy Award. Steiger's breakthrough role came in 1954, with the classic On the Waterfront (1954). Since then he has been a presence on the screen as everything from a popular leading man to a little-known character actor. Steiger made a name for himself in many different types of roles, from a crooked promoter in The Harder They Fall (1956) to the title character in Al Capone (1959). He was one of dozens of stars in the epic World War II film The Longest Day (1962). In 1964, he received his second Oscar nomination for The Pawnbroker (1964). The next couple of years he was at the height of his powers.

In 1965, he starred in the dark comedy The Loved One (1965), and in David Lean 's epic Doctor Zhivago (1965). In 1966, he starred in the BBC Play of the Month (1965) episode "Death of a Salesman" as Willy Loman in the TV version of his stage play "Death of a Salesman," but in 1967, he landed what many consider his greatest role: Sheriff Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night (1967), opposite Sidney Poitier . Steiger deservedly took home the Best Actor Oscar for his work in that film. He took another controversial role as a man with many tattoos in The Illustrated Man (1969) and as a serial killer in the classic No Way to Treat a Lady (1968). After that, he seemed to have withdrawn from high-profile movies and became more selective in the roles he chose. He turned down the lead in Patton (1970) and also in The Godfather (1972).

Among his more notable roles in the 1970s are Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971), Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973), as Benito Mussolini in The Last 4 Days (1974), Portrait of a Hitman (1979), Jesus of Nazareth (1977), F.I.S.T. (1978) and The Amityville Horror (1979). He starred in the critically acclaimed The Chosen (1981) with Robby Benson and Maximilian Schell , perhaps the highlight of his 1980s movie career. Steiger increasingly moved away from the big Hollywood pictures, instead taking roles in foreign productions and independent movies. 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. He was the doctor in the independently-made movie Shiloh (1996), about an abused dog.

He was the crazed, kill-'em-all army general in Mars Attacks! (1996) who always called his enemies peace-mongers. He took a small part as a Supreme Court judge in The Hurricane (1999) and as a preacher in the badly produced film End of Days (1999). He was still active in films moving into the new millennium. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Scott Adams (msa0510@mail.ecu.edu) and kenn_honeyman Spouse (5) His chunky frame and serious-looking face Full-bodied, somewhat bombastic acting style Trivia (28) He was offered the title role in Patton (1970) but refused the role, saying, "I'm not going to glorify war." The role was then given to George C. Scott , who won the Oscar for the role. Steiger calls this refusal his "dumbest career move". He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on April 10, 1997. He had a daughter with Claire Bloom , and a son with Paula Ellis.

Received the Gift of Life Award after tirelessly speaking out against the social stigma against mental disease, from which he suffered for many years. His daughter, Anna Steiger , is an opera singer. He had an operatic voice; however, he had no ear for keeping in the same key, rendering his singing voice almost useless. He had always said that the favorite of all his films was The Pawnbroker (1964). Enjoyed playing historical figures. Is listed as the Centre of the Hollywood Universe by the University of Virginia's Oracle of Kevin Bacon . He can be linked to any other movie actor in the classic Kevin Bacon -game style in an average of 2.651 steps. Served in the United States Navy in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Steiger, who originated the role of Marty in the eponymous television production The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse: Marty (1953), said that he turned down the role in the 1955 movie production as the Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions contract would have bound him for years.

Harold Hecht and Burt Lancaster , on their part, said that they did not want to cast Steiger as they felt the public would not go for the same actor that they had seen for free on television. He told Robert Osborne during an interview on Turner Classic Movies that when he was in the United States Navy during World War II, he used to sing when it was his turn to stand watch on-board ship. The ship's captain, overhearing him one night, put a stop to his impromptu performances. After he played Jud Fry in Oklahoma! (1955), producer David O. Selznick wanted to sign him to a long-term contract and possibly star him in the lead of his proposed remake of Ernest Hemingway 's "A Farewell to Arms" opposite David O. Selznick 's wife, Jennifer Jones . "But I told him that I must have the right to choose my own mistakes", Steiger told his biographer, Tom Hutchinson. "His face fell - he couldn't believe anyone would refuse him. Neither could my agents!".

Most of the solo shots of Steiger during the famous taxicab scene in On the Waterfront (1954) were done after Marlon Brando had left for the day. Brando had it in his contract that he could finish shooting before the normal quitting time so that he could make his daily session with his psychiatrist. Steiger was deeply hurt and annoyed at Brando's rudeness and lack of courtesy to a fellow actor, as it was customary, in a two-shot, for an actor in close-up to be fed his lines by the other actor or for the other actor to just be there so the first actor would have him him or her to play to. Steiger used his negative emotions to enhance his performance, and though he paid tribute to Brando as a great actor, he personally loathed him thereafter. Director Elia Kazan stood in for Brando in the back of the cab so Steiger would have someone to emote to. Shortly before his death, Steiger had undergone surgery for a (presumably malignant) gall bladder tumor.

Campaigned vigorously for a role in The Godfather (1972), which began shooting in early 1971, three years after Steiger had reached the top of his craft, receiving the Academy Award for Best Actor his role as Sheriff Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night (1967). Surprisingly, the role Steiger wanted was not the title role of Don Vito Corleone (eventually played by his On the Waterfront (1954) co-star Marlon Brando ), but the role of Michael Corleone, the Don's youngest son. Paramount executives found his desire to be bizarre as he was much too old for the role and turned him down without even a screen-test. Won the role of Viktor Komarovsky in Doctor Zhivago (1965) only after two other actors turned the role down.

After a month went by with Marlon Brando failing to respond to director David Lean 's written inquiry into whether he wanted to play Komarovsky, Lean offered the role to James Mason , who was a generation older than Brando, because he did not want an actor who would overpower the character Yuri Zhivago (specifically, to show Zhivago up as a lover of Lara, who would be played by the young Julie Christie , which the charismatic Brando might have done, shifting the sympathy of the audience). Mason initially accepted the role, but eventually dropped out and Steiger was given the role. He was honored with being chosen as one of AFI's 50 stars of the second half of the 20th century. 1976: Fell into a deep depression after undergoing triple heart bypass surgery. Was not the first choice to play the role of Sheriff Bill Gillespie in the 1967 Best Picture Academy Award-winner In the Heat of the Night (1967), for which Steiger won the Best Actor Oscar. The role was first offered to George C. Scott , who accepted, according to producer Walter Mirisch 's memoir "I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History".

Scott backed out when his wife Colleen Dewhurst wanted him to direct her in a play on Broadway. Ironically, Steiger later turned down the lead in Patton (1970) that went to Scott, which brought him his own Best Actor Oscar. Member of Handgun Control Inc. He studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village, New York City. His last televised appearance was on Jon Favreau 's Dinner for Five (2001), the episode aired April 29, 2002, Steiger passed away in July. He was the first person to win the best actor BAFTA two years in a row and the Oscar in the second year (For The Pawnbroker (1964) and In the Heat of the Night (1967)). The second one was Colin Firth in A Single Man (2009) and The King's Speech (2010). Had appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: On the Waterfront (1954) and In the Heat of the Night (1967). When polled by the AFI Steiger named "The Good Earth" as his favorite film.

His paternal grandfather, Frederick Steiger, was German, and his paternal grandmother, Anna A. Libschick, was Austrian. Rod's maternal grandparents, Frank Driver and Amelia Fesler, were of German origin. His third wife, Sherry Nelson, was a former ballerina, before becoming Rod's secretary. Her marriage to him was her second. Personal Quotes (14) [on success] Successful people have control over the time in their life. A shoemaker who owns his own shop gets up one morning and says, "I'm not opening." That's a successful guy. [on Hollywood] A community of lonely people searching for even the most basic kind of stimulation in their otherwise mundane lives. Method acting is anything that gets you involved personally in the part, so that you can communicate in human terms with an audience. Despite all the obstacles, the American actor has changed the acting world. My career has been 65% virgin and 35% whore. I've refused roles many times because I'd have to lose my integrity, my dreams of doing something worthwhile with regard to character. That's the virgin part of me.

I tell young actors today to join the Merchant Marines for a year, and I tell young women to volunteer in a hospital emergency ward if they can. You get to see different people, cultures, dress - it's a marvelous education for an actor. [on acting] It sounds pompous but it's the nearest thing I can do to being God. I'm trying to create human beings and so does He. The first thing that you should do when you win an Oscar is thank God. The second thing you should do is forget it. You get the Oscar and you get better scripts, better actors and better directors to work for and of course your salary goes up until you make your first mistake and then you have to start from the beginning again. When old actors come up to me and say, "I don't know if I should do this role. It might be bad for my image", I say, "That's tough that you only have one image. My heart bleeds for you!". We are supposed to create raw people, explore life and communicate at the highest level; be it pain, joy or what have you. That's what I believe. I guess you could say it does become a philosophy, a way of life.

I'm ambivalent about Patton (1970). I'm kind of a half-assed pacifist and I must tell you, you know, your philosophy is as strong as your feelings on a particular day. If you're feeling good and you've accomplished something, you can back your philosophies to the hilt. And I don't know what happened, but I decided I'm not going to glorify this thing. I wasn't going to glorify war... I was a schmuck, because if I did Patton half as good as Mr. Scott [ George C. Scott ], I might have walked into The Godfather (1972). So that was a big mistake. When you lose your curiosity, you're dead. I don't care if you live to be 117. You're dead. [on Marlon Brando ] He was in a unique position. He could have done anything. But he didn't choose to. [on winning the Best Actor Oscar for In the Heat of the Night (1967)] I wanted to win it. It's important. It gives you greater latitude in the business and that means bigger and better parts. And I need that. I'm only 42.

Paul Newman is 43, [ Marlon Brando ] is 43, but I look like their father. I like watching Charles Chaplin, Harry Baur, Spencer Tracy, Paul Muni. I like to watch any good actor. When I'm depressed, I'll look around for a bad film, like the old films with chariot races and pulling down the temples and that. I find them very relaxing, like reading a comic book. Salary (3) Rod Steiger Biography | Fandango Rod Steiger Biography Apr 14, 1925 Birth Place: West Hampton, NY Biography A renowned character actor who never liked that label, Rod Steiger left his mark on 1950s and '60s Hollywood with forceful performances in such critical favorites as On the Waterfront (1954) and The Pawnbroker (1964), culminating in an Oscar for In the Heat of the Night (1967). Despite myriad health problems and less sterling job offers from the 1970s onward, Steiger never stopped acting before he passed away in 2002.

Born on Long Island, Steiger was raised in New Jersey by his mother after his parents divorced. Dropping out of high school at 16, Steiger enlisted in the Navy in 1941, serving on a destroyer in the World War II South Pacific. Returning to New Jersey after his 1945 discharge, Steiger worked at the Veterans Administration and joined a civil service theater group where one of the female members urged him to make acting his career. Along with using his G.I. Bill to study at several New York schools, including the Actors Studio, Steiger began landing roles in live TV plays in 1947. Over the next five years, Steiger honed his formidable Method skills in 250-plus live TV productions, as well as on Broadway. Though he appeared in the movie Teresa (1951), Steiger didn't fully make the transition to film until his award-winning performance as the lonely title character in the 1953 TV production of Paddy Chayefsky's Marty, which helped him nab a part in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront.

As Charley Malloy, Steiger most memorably shared the backseat of a cab with screen brother Marlon Brando as Brando's ex-boxer Terry laid the blame for his one-way trip to Palookaville on his corrupt older sibling. Though Kazan had guided Steiger to his first Oscar nomination, Steiger later condemned the Academy's controversial decision to award Kazan an honorary Oscar in 1999. After On the Waterfront, Steiger made his presence felt as a movie tycoon in his erstwhile TV director Robert Aldrich's Hollywood tale The Big Knife (1955), a scheming attorney in Otto Preminger's The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955), and the villain in Fred Zinnemann's adaptation of Oklahoma! (1955). Further underlining his effusive talent and his intense (if occasionally overwrought) screen style, Steiger co-starred with Humphrey Bogart in Bogart's final film, The Harder They Fall (1956); survived Samuel Fuller-style Western sadism as an Irish-accented ex-soldier in Run of the Arrow (1957); played a psychopath in Cry Terror!

(1958); and raged as Al Capone (1959) (Steiger's Capone was later credited as the inadvertent model for Robert De Niro's performance in The Untouchables). Steiger still occasionally acted on-stage, including Orson Welles' unusual adaptation of Moby Dick in 1962. Nevertheless, Steiger concentrated mostly on movies, with his career taking on an international flavor after he married his second wife and Broadway co-star, Claire Bloom, in 1959. After appearing in the low-key British drama The Mark (1961), Steiger joined the impressive Hollywood all-star cast re-staging of D-Day in the war epic The Longest Day (1962). He returned to films after his 1962 theater hiatus as a dishonest politico in the Italian film Le Mani Sulla Città (1963). Steiger's forays into Italian movies preceded two of the best years of his career.

In Sidney Lumet's groundbreaking independent drama The Pawnbroker, Steiger's powerful performance as a Holocaust survivor running a Harlem pawnshop earned the Berlin Film Festival's Best Actor prize in 1964 and garnered raves upon the film's 1965 U.S. release. That same year, Steiger also gleefully played the asexual embalmer Mr. Joyboy in Tony Richardson's outrageous comedy The Loved One (1965) and had a small part in David Lean's blockbuster romance Doctor Zhivago (1965). After his banner year resulted in a much-desired Best Actor Oscar nomination for The Pawnbroker, Steiger lost to Lee Marvin. The outcome was different for his next American film, the acclaimed racially charged police drama In the Heat of the Night. Starring opposite Sidney Poitier, Steiger imbued his bigoted Southern sheriff with enough complexity to make him more than just a cliché redneck, reaching a prickly, believable détente with Poitier's sophisticated Northern detective.

Nominated alongside youngsters Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Paul Newman's iconic "Cool Hand" Luke, and venerable lion Spencer Tracy, Steiger won the Best Actor Oscar and closed his acceptance speech by asserting, "We shall overcome." Though he co-starred with Bloom in two films post-In the Heat of the Night, The Illustrated Man (1969) and Three Into Two Won't Go (1969), they divorced in 1969. Steiger won critics' hearts again with his bravura performance as a schizoid serial killer in No Way to Treat a Lady (1968). His antiwar sentiments, however, provoked Steiger to turn down the eponymous World War II general in Patton (1970); Steiger instead played French emperor Napoleon in the European production depicting his defeat at Waterloo (1970). In search of good roles, Steiger mostly worked abroad in the early '70s. Though they clashed over Steiger's Method techniques during production, Steiger was excellent as a peasant caught up in the Mexican Revolution in Sergio Leone's Western Duck, You Sucker! (1972).

He also worked with veteran Leone star Gian Maria Volonté in Francesco Rosi's Lucky Luciano (1974), and played Benito Mussolini in the The Last Days of Mussolini (1974). His performance in Claude Chabrol's Dirty Hands (1975), however, fell prey to his tendency to over-emote. Though he was a superb W.C. Fields in American biopic W.C. Fields and Me (1976), Steiger's Hollywood career had undeniably fallen from his 1950s and '60s heights. He shared the screen with new star Sylvester Stallone in one of Stallone's early flops, F.I.S.T. (1978), and chewed the haunted house scenery in schlock horror flick The Amityville Horror (1979). Steiger joined the distinguished cast of the British drama Lion of the Desert (1981) for his second turn as Il Duce, but the film sat on the shelf for two years before its release; appealing Western Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981) was buried by its distributor.

Steiger was back in peak form as a Hasidic rabbi in the film version of The Chosen (1981), but that did little to stop Steiger's slide into TV movies and such B-horror pictures as The Kindred (1987) and American Gothic (1987) in the 1980s. Steiger's career problems were exacerbated by health difficulties, as he was forced to undergo open-heart surgery in 1976 and 1980. With producers wary of hiring him, and his third marriage ending in 1979, Steiger suffered debilitating bouts of depression in the late '70s and mid-'80s. Nevertheless, Steiger continued to work into the 1990s. Crediting his fourth wife, Paula Ellis, with keeping him sane, Steiger weathered his disappointment with The Ballad of the Sad Café (1991), and took pleasure in appearing as "himself" in Robert Altman's acclaimed Hollywood evisceration The Player (1992) as well as playing Sam Giancana in the TV biopic Sinatra (1992).

While he mostly worked in TV, Steiger turned up in small yet memorable feature roles as a Mafia capo in The Specialist (1994), a loony Army commander in Mars Attacks! (1996), a judge in The Hurricane (1999), and a bombastic priest in End of Days (1999). His final film, the indie drama Poolhall Junkies (2002) with Christopher Walken, was slated for release the same year he was one of the indie-friendly actors dining on Jon Favreau's IFC talk show Dinner for Five. Steiger passed away from pneumonia and kidney failure on July 9, 2002. He was survived by his fifth wife, his daughter with Bloom, and his son with Ellis. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi Provided by Rovi ROD STEIGER - Actors Actors Audrey Hepburn Audrey Hepburn, British actress, born in Brussels, where she was born May 4, 1929 in a family of Dutch Baroness Ella van Heemstra and the English banker John Victor Hepburn-Ruston, received the name of Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn.

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Father, he does not remember: parents divorced when her son was about a year. In Staygere mixed French, Swedish and German blood, and his mother was brought up in simplicity and rigor of Lutheranism. Acting leanings appeared at Roda still in elementary school, where he played Santa Claus or George Washington. РћРґРЅРѕРєР°С?РЅРёРєРё gave him the nickname Rodney-rock because of its strength. During the war, Rhode torpedistom was first class and took part in the most dangerous combat operations, the Third and the Fifth United States fleet, including Ivodzhimskoy and Okinawa campaigns. The day after the capitulation of Japan Stayger left the naval service to the medical report of an acute skin disease. In the amateur theatrical group led his desire to become acquainted with the girls. Stayger Menelaya played the king in the play "The husband of Helen and the role of villain in the play entitled" Be cursed, Jack Dalton. " Troupe leader advised him to learn from the actor.

Genus Stayger moved to New York, where for two years studying the art of acting at the New School for Social Research, and Daniel Mann invited him to New York actors studio, which led by Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg. Stayger, inclined to corpulence, with a thoughtful, and even severe expression, at once has been chosen for the role of mature, often elderly. "I am - an actor no representations, and experiences," - he said. In April 1951, Rhode Stayger got his first role on Broadway in the play resumed production of Clifford Odetsa "Night Music". He played pyatidesyatipyatiletnego detective, and was highly marked by the New York critics. The following year he appears on stage in a comedy Hugh Hastings "Seagulls over Sorrento, and in ibsenovskom" enemy of the people. " But the main field of activity of the actors in those years - on television. Have not yet received a Hollywood roles - "emotional villain, Rhode Stayger demonstrates the breadth of its range - from Romeo and Rasputin.

In the five years from 1948 to 1953, he has played over 250 roles. Stayger Silwan was awarded in 1953 for best TV actor for his participation in five productions, among them - "Marty." He is proud of that record TV Marti is stored in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. For the first time tried Staygera in the movie Fred Tsinneman in 1951. «Rod Steiger» The film "Teresa" was one of the short bursts of American neorealizma. Already next Staygera role in the film prompted criticism to speak of him as a phenomenon. He plays along with Marlon Brando in the film Elia Kazana "The Port" (1954). Genus Stayger was presented to the Oscar as the best singer of the second. But "Oscar" for a long time will circumvent it. The following year, director Robert Oldrich film "Big Knife." Stayger played by producer Stanley Hoff. He is a very short time on screen, but all the action heroes are subject to its magnetic adamantine power. Stanley Hoff - an ominous figure, and yet suffers.

Choice of Staygera director Otto Premindzherom the role of the army prosecutor Allan Guillaume in the Tribunal of the Billy Mitchell was clearly a conscious choice after pictures Kazana. Although the main character - Billy Mitchell (Gary Cooper), the work Staygera not go unnoticed. Shifty, tenacious, smarmy prosecutor was all review for the film. Himself an actor from the works of this period provides a very small role Jouda Fry Fred Tsinnemana in the musical "Oklahoma!" Stayger general loved to sing, and once immediately after returning to the Navy, he "raised" voice. Now his musical training paid off. According to the actor, he had a lot of work to read Jouda, farm laborer literally chased him. He even wrote in the book their observations, take notes about the characters. "I played a" villain ", but I do not believe that my hero should be or really good or really bad. We have all the good and bad at the same time." Fred Tsinneman, which included Staygera the five most interesting actors in Hollywood, was satisfied with his debut in the musical. "Rod was simply amazing.

He turned Judah in neurotic and make people feel pity for him. " Roda Staygera best role in a movie in the late 1950′s - in the English film "The Bridge" by Ken Annakina. The film on a Graham Green novel. Genus Stayger tragedy based on an adventure blockbuster. His Hero - International financier Carl Shaffner. Eternal doomed heroes Staygera here appears particularly bright, sharp, saturated. Full Movie Ken Annakina - so, as the English say, one-man show. The director was very happy Staygerom. "I deeply penetrating into the psychology of the central hero, he made the film no less input than I do." By the luck of the television time the role of sheriff in the performance "The city turned to ashes" on the play by Rhoda Serlinga "Planet of apes". Stayger made in this role, first by the BBC in England (per-director Alvin Rakoff), and then in America in the setting of John Frankenheymera (premiere took place on 19 June 1958). Sheriff, the hero Staygera - rueful figure, suffering and broken.

Position cinematic villain, has confirmed its Staygerom in 1950, of course, determines the choice of its director, Richard Wilson in the main role in the movie "Al Capone". «Rod Steiger» In addition, Wilson has a formal resemblance between the actor and famous gangsters. But, in fact, bribed Staygera great opportunity to play a distinctive role. He carried away by the upcoming movie, read the biography of Al Capone, the newspaper of those years. "I asked myself: Why would this man? And decided he wanted to be respected. But it made it so, by whom he has become. He was, I think, poseur, an actor. He wanted recognition. " Stayger studied all of his characteristic gestures, and obygryvaya them, he wore a jacket over one′s shoulders and a hat with zalomlennymi fields. "I felt it would be significant. It was imperative that the natural human actions speak for themselves. " "Al Capone" was a huge success. Stayger at this time returned to the theater. On Broadway, he plays a dark, ill-Mexican in the play "Rasemon.

Stayger recalled: "I then made a much more interesting things, but people continued to say:" Oh, cool you found this Capone. "I have worked on Broadway, and just around the corner was" Capone. " Roles seemed diametrically opposed, that secretly teshilo my pride and give the opportunity to feel like a real actor ... Risk - a noble cause. " Together with him in the theater to play a British actress Claire Bloom - kareglazaya elegant woman, so well chosen for the main role Chaplin "ramp lights." Three months after dating - 19 September 1959 - Claire Bloom was the wife Staygera, and a pair of Bloom - Stayger will soon be able to compete in terms of popularity with the other actor′s "star" a pair of Elizabeth Taylor - Richard Burton, has not been reached, however, the vast wealth of recent . In the film Stayger appear now on the sunny quay Monte Carlo - a young, handsome, in a white suit and hat, but grustnovaty and uncertain. He is a hero of the film by Henry Hataueya Seven thieves "(1960).

Seven thieves "Hollywood completing a period of creativity Staygera. He was in several films outside of the United States. At the small role of commander of an American destroyer in the cost of the multimillion epic "The Longest Day" (1962) Genus Stayger have been invited as an international film star. In the early 1960′s Stayger works in Italy. Choosing Staygera on the primary role in Francesco Rosi tape "Hands over the City characterized the first meeting between an actor and producer. Rosie gave Staygeru to understand Italy. Actor and now argues that, thanks to Rosie, he fell in love with Rome. Because he was pleased to immediately agreed to removed in another movie with a young Italian director Francesco Mazelli. "Indifference" (1964) - filming the first novel by Alberto Moravia. The film paints a two days of the Roman bourgeois family, once wealthy, now broken. The "indifferent" Stayger serves coherent ensemble of the major stars of international screen - Paulette Goddar, Claudia Cardinale, Tomas Milian, and Shelley Winters.

Genus Stayger performs here the role of Leo - the lover young lady, a widow Mariagratsii (Paulette Goddar). In his film career he was the first time in the role of seducer. Genus Stayger remain dissatisfied with the picture Mazelli, won prizes at festivals in 1965 in Mar del Plata and in Rome. "This film is too intelligent and too slow for me. I do not like to talk about it. " When asked interviewers: "What kind of films do you consider your best?" Stayger says: " usurer. "I love it." Loan shark ", an eighteen outage actor." What did I do in these Eighteen months? read, painted, wrote stories for the two films, rastolstel, brought to mind his family and playing tennis. " "I′m always conscious of the danger to be an actor - the danger of turning the art of life, instead of one, albeit the most important part of life. You need another man, who was always there. To play, you should be primarily a man to love, make friends, to suffer in real life. " Offer his friend Sydney Lyumeta play sixtieth Jew-usurer actor interrupts simple.

"usurer" in Italy has exceeded the cash on the success of James Bond films, which caused surprise distributors. During these years, couple Staygerov is life, typical of the international screen actors. Claire Bloom was then in France, then Germany, then England, then in Italy. As Stayger, she fell in love with Rome. In the short intervals between films Claire Bloom is coming to Italy, where he was Stayger. In the same 1965 Staygera invited taken an interesting English director Tony Richardson in the screening satirical novel Evelyn in "unforgettable." Next year Stayger conducted in Spain and then was withdrawn from the Italian director Pasquale Festa Kampanile, places tragicomedy about the First World War, "The girl and the general." In mid-1960′s Stayger completely given film, leaving at least he loved the theater. If the role requires a focus, it becomes a constant for Staygera and in life, yet the film is not finished. The actor believes that you can not catch the manner of his hero, and immediately assume the audience, you need to live a little like inside risuemogo image.

Norman began shooting pictures Dzhuisona "air at night." His hero, Bill Gillespie - Chief of Police of Sparta, a small town in the southern United States. Stayger now permanently and nesemochnoe being chewed gum, and said with emphasis southerner and wore huge shoes to get used to swinging walk sheriff. Genus Stayger talked about the film: "night air" - not a great social drama, and I did not give full opportunity to express its attitude to racial prejudice, but it had to act on the human subconscious, when people see a white and black get along with each other ... " Nevertheless, the picture "night air" was a huge success worldwide. «Rod Steiger» Criticism of this time was unanimous with the decision kinoakademikov, awarded him "Oscar": "It has nothing to add, everyone knows that in the next few years, Rhode Stayger is one of the best screen actors of the world." Detective Jack Smythe "So ladies do not go" is built on a series of murders, every - single short story, allowing Staygeru demonstrate the art of reincarnation.

Stayger plays in the film back, which the pastor, and the plumber, a hairdresser and flirtatious, and police, and finally, a prostitute. Roman Dennis Murphy, which in 1968 directed by John Flynn began to shoot the film "Sergeant", Roda Staygera interested in a further eight years ago. "I was struck by a tragedy of this man, his loneliness, his haughtiness, his willingness to sacrifice useless." However, some nuances of the novel (hidden hint at homosexuality and, most importantly, suicide, Sergeant U.S. Army) did not screen it, censorship is not allowed to this fact at the time. Stayger was invited to the central role that brought him to France, where there were shooting. The film is advertised almost as an indictment of homosexuality. Sergeant Kallai, as played by his Rhode Stayger - infinitely lonely man. He wants to love someone, he dreams of at least one sister′s soul. Kallai tries to start a friendship with a young soldier Suonsenom (John Phillip Law). "He was trying to return to the life of a boy, killed him at the beginning of the movie," - explained Stayger.

The film proved fatal for four Staygerov. The crack in the family emerged early. "Claire loves company, parties - and I can not tolerate this. Also, when I shoot, I is closed, focus, do I need solitude. Perhaps I nesnosen ", - said Stayger the eve of divorce. In 1968, Claire Bloom and Rod Stayger acted in two films in succession, and he hoped that working together once again brought together by them. But soon in the newspapers it was reported that Claire Bloom is married to Broadway producer Hillarda Elkinsa. Stayger deeply experienced a breakup with a beloved wife. This was during the shooting of "Waterloo" by Sergei Bondarchuk. "Stayger - and this is my directing idea, - says Sergei Bondarchuk in the June day in 1969 in the field of Uzhgorod before shooting - shows not only Napoleon, military leader, but above all, Napoleon-man ... Whatever Stayger played, he has always been interested in the human condition, experience, he should shake the audience. It is five years studying psychology, excellent use of the lessons of the Russian acting school, he was close to the talent of Nikolai Cherkasov.

Stayger often improvising in front of the camera ... Any smooth literary phrase annoys Staygera ... That Napoleon was not yet in the film, and in this lies a certain danger, because the audience is already accustomed to a certain cliche. " In early 1974, to screen out an Italian film producer Carlo Lidzani "Mussolini, the last act, where Rhode Stayger performed a central role. Painting Lidzani - it chronicles the five days of April 1945. Committee of National Liberation of Mussolini was sentenced to death. Acting work Staygera here is perfect, he was never false, deciding to set a task to show the last days of man, fallen from the top of unjust glory and did not understand his plea for the country. "I was more interested in ideas and vivid characters than plots, - said the actor. - Execution of the roles of the real heroes brings me more pleasure than imagined. Feel responsibility before history, the need to find the truth and save her. " Genus Stayger together with Romy Schneider appears in the detective stories of family life "Innocent with dirty hands" (1974) Claude Shabrolya.

The director, along with actors psychologically accurately analyze family relationships, transfers all the nuances of the characters. Another memorable movie involving Staygera - "Jesus of Nazareth" (1976) Franco Dzeffirelli delivered in English and Italian cinematographers on the order of the Vatican. In this picture have also been employed such stars as Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov, Ralph Richardson, Ann Benkroft, Robert Powell and others. In 1978, Rhode Stayger played in the movie "The senator Andrew Madison" (FIST), and in 1982 - in the German screening novel by Thomas Mann "The Magic Mountain." Unfortunately, on the big screen, it appears less and less. In 1991, Rhode Stayger shot in the film directed by Simon Kallou "Ballad of the sad cafe", where his partner was the famous Vanessa Redgrave. This drama of love ugly women. Scold the love and the unfairness of fate - platitude, but the performance of amazing actors story seems original and touching. Stayger argues that learned to think in more realistic and easier to carry disappointment.

"I realized that really like to play, although the romantic aura of the profession has already faded, and I often cursed her, but I know that would not otherwise exist. And because I have cursed it, I see ever more clearly and try to play better. It′s like the feeling of toreador. I know that I can be wounded, but give me a good bull, and see if I can make this presentation ... " P.S. Genus Stayger passed away on 9 July 2002. Rod Steiger dies at 77 - Telegraph Rod Steiger dies at 77 8:20PM BST 09 Jul 2002 Rod Steiger, the Oscar-winning actor, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 77. The star, once married to British actress Claire Bloom, won a best actor for his 1967 role in movie classic In the Heat of the Night. His publicist, Lori De Waal, said Steiger died at a Los Angeles hospital of pneumonia and kidney failure at 9am (1600 GMT). During his long career in television and the movies, Steiger played a wide range of roles.

He liked the challenge of playing real-life people, taking on the roles of Mussolini, Rasputin, Napoleon and Al Capone. He once said: "My generation of actors was taught to be able to create different people; that's what an actor is supposed to do." Steiger received his first film roles in the early 1950s and his first major performance was in Teresa (1951). His breakthrough performance came in 1954, with On the Waterfront where he starred opposite Marlon Brando. Ever since then he played everything from a popular leading man to a little known character actor. Steiger played the title character in Al Capone in 1959 and also starred in the D-Day biopic The Longest Day. His other films included The Pawnbroker for which he received an Oscar nomination, Doctor Zhivago and No Way to Treat a Lady (1969). He famously turned down the lead role in the film Patton believing the film would glorify war and killing. That role was taken by George C Scott who won an Oscar for it. His more recent film roles saw him appear with Denzel Washington in The Hurricane and Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone in The Specialist.

He also appeared in Mars Attacks, The Amityville Horror, The Kid, The Player and most recently in the 2001 film A Month of Sundays. Steiger's mother and father, a struggling song-and-dance duo, split-up soon after their only son was born in Westhampton, New York. His mother remarried and took her son to grow up in Newark, New Jersey. At sixteen he lied about his aged and joined the army, going on to fight in the South Pacific. Back in New Jersey after the war, Steiger worked at a menial job and joined a drama group of office workers. He then went on to study drama at the New School for Social Research before becoming getting his break in Hollywood. Steiger was married a total of five times. He married Claire Bloom in 1959 but the couple divorced ten years later in 1969.

Question: Which British actress was married to the actor Rod Steiger from 1959 until 1969?
Answer: CLAIRE BLOOM