Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rod Steiger in 1956 - Getty Rod Steiger, the burly and beloved star born a century ago this week, could have become the greatest ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Rod Steiger brought out the best in his co-stars, so much so that frequent collaborator Norman Jewison tried to fit the stocky actor into all his movies. ``I always tried to put him ...

Rod Steiger's glittering Hollywood legacy is being marred by an ugly family feud, with his daughter battling her stepsister over missing trophies – including major film festival prizes that she says ...

Rod Steiger, an Oscar-winning actor whose chameleon-like ability to inhabit diverse characters placed him firmly among a generation of acclaimed postwar performers, died Tuesday at age 77. Steiger, ...

LOS ANGELES, July 9 (UPI) -- Academy Award-winning actor Rod Steiger died Tuesday of pneumonia and kidney failure. He was 77. Steiger, who starred in more than 100 feature films and TV movies, ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on Aug. 3, 1967. This story was written by Wanda Hale.) It’s a pleasure, all too rare, to watch two splendid actors pitted against each other with equal force ...

Joan Benedict Steiger, who was part of the original stock company for Candid Camera and later became the wife of actor Rod Steiger, died June 24 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of ...

Rod Steiger, one of the finest character actors of the past 50 years and an Academy Award winner in 1967 for his depiction of the bigoted Southern sheriff in “In the Heat of the Night,” died Tuesday ...

Oscar-winning actor Rod Steiger, who portrayed sinners like Al Capone and saints like Pope John XXIII in a career spanning more than five decades, died yesterday at age 77. Steiger died at a Los ...

Veteran screen heavy Rod Steiger, who won a Best Actor Oscar playing a redneck Southern police chief the 1967 film “In the Heat of the Night,” died yesterday in Los Angeles. He was 77. Steiger, who ...

Of all the Method actors who evolved from the Actors Studio and its tentacles, Rod Steiger, who has died aged 77 of pneumonia and kidney failure, was arguably the most intense. The style of ...