Richard Widmark

Richard Widmark in The Law and Jake Wade

Richard Widmark (1914 - 2008)

Film Deaths

• Road House (1948) [Jefty Robbins]: Shot by Ida Lupino as he attacks her with a rock; he dies shortly afterwards while talking to Cornel Wilde.
• The Street With No Name (1948) [Alec Stiles]: Shot to death by Mark Stevens.
• Yellow Sky (1948) [Dude]: Shot to death in a shoot-out with Gregory Peck.
• Night and the City (1950) [Harry Fabian]: Strangled by Mike Mazurki, who then throws his body into the river.
• Broken Lance (1954) [Ben Devereaux]: Shot to death by Eduard Franz just as Richard is about to shoot Robert Wagner.
• Garden of Evil (1954) [Fiske]: Mortally wounded (off-screen) in a battle with Apache warriors after he stays behind and fights them off so that Gary Cooper and Susan Hayward can escape; he dies shortly after Gary comes back for him.
• The Law and Jake Wade (1958) [Clint Hollister]: Shot in the chest in a shoot-out with Robert Taylor in the street of the ghost town.
• The Alamo (1960) [Col. Jim Bowie]: Stabbed with bayonets by Mexican soldiers while he's lying with a smashed leg (from previous explosion) in the bunk inside the chapel. (Historically, Bowie died in the low barracks near the main gate. It is also noted that Bowie was bedridden from a unspecific illness, not from a smashed leg).
• The Bedford Incident (1965) [Captain Eric Finlander]: Killed in an explosion, along with the rest of his ship's crew, when a Soviet submarine launches a torpedo at them.
• Madigan (1968) [Detective Daniel Madigan]: Shot to death in a shoot-out with Steve Ihnat.
• Death of a Gunfighter (1969) [Marshal Frank Patch]: Shot to death by several townspeople as he walks down the street, after a signal from David Opatoshu.
• The Moonshine War (1970) [Dr. Emmett Taulbee]: Killed in an explosion, along with Lee Hazlewood and the rest of their gang, in a trap set up by Alan Alda.
• When the Legends Die (1972) [Red Dillon]: Dies of alcohol-related illness, while talking to Frederic Forrest in a hotel room.
• Murder on the Orient Express (1974) [Lanfranco Cassetti]: Stabbed to death 12 times by Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset with Michael York (by her side), Denis Quilley, Rachel Roberts, Wendy Hiller, Anthony Perkins, John Gielgud, Colin Blakely and Jean-Pierre Cassel (each one stabbing him in turn), after Richard has been drugged in his train compartment. His body is shown afterwards when Jean-Pierre, John and Albert Finney enter the compartment, and the murder is shown in flashback when Albert explains the solution. (See Johnny Depp in the 2017 version.)
• The Sell-Out (1976) [Sam Lucas]: Shot by a guard after he drives past the boundary. He manages to get out of his vehicle before dying.
• The Domino Principle (The Domino Killings) (1977) [Marvin Tagge]: Killed in an explosion when his car blows up, as Candice Bergen and Gene Hackman look on helplessly from an airplane.
• The Swarm (1978) [General Thaddeus Slater]: Stung to death by the swarm of killer bees while using a flamethrower to help Michael Caine and Katharine Ross escape.
• Hanky Panky (1982) [Ransom]: Dies in an explosion on a helicopter along with Johnny Sekka, Josef Sommer, and Jay O. Sanders after Gene Wilder throws a torch at a gas truck that blows up the helicopter as it gets near.

Gallery

Richard Widmark in Murder on the Orient Express

Richard Widmark (most front) in The Swarm

Notable connections

• Mr. Jean Hazlewood (widowed).
• Mr. Susan Blanchard.