Not only was he ultra talented and handsome, but he had a great sense of humor! RIP Richard Widmark, you will never be forgotten.

He was superb. Udo is still a benchmark. Really underrated actor in my opinion.

So many films not to mention Coma, and my favorite The Bedford Incident. He played good guys and bad guys. He is missed by many.

I love Richard Widmark- His breakout performance in Kiss Of Death was Oscar worthy.

WHOA! Never realized how handsome he really was ... what a charmer!

Richard Widmark...my kind of man!

Mr.Widmark was never awarded the star status he deserved.Great actor,you could always rely on him.

Je découvre cette vidéo en même temps que la mort de ce grand monsieur... Il a marqué toute ma jeunesse. Son sourire, oui, et son regard... Adieu Richard, je n'ai pu te rencontrer sur cette Terre, mais je le ferai certainement là haut.

He had such exquisite penmanship!

These clips are priceless. Richard Widmark is one of my all time favorites. So many great roles. I really want the Madigan TV movies from the early 70's put on dvd. A great movie scene in Pickup On South Street is when he revives Jean Peters ,who was knocked out, by pouring a beer on her.

Richard Widmark is my favorite actor. There was no part he couldn't successfully master. Considering how private he was, I'm glad he did this. Thanks for posting :)

Best what's my line ever !!! :))) Borge and Widmark are splendid together!

I have had a crush on Richard Widmark ever since I was like 9 years old! His smile...Oh lawd! I melt! Thanks for posting this:)

One of Elvis Presley's favourite actors.

RIP Mr Widmark, I've enjoyed your work for many years.

What a find, and thanks for posting it. If anyone wants to see one of Widmark's greatest dramatic roles, check out the nearly forgotten "Time Limit," where he plays an army investigator trying to ensure that a Korean War "turncoat" (played by Richard Basehart) doesn't get railroaded to the gallows. While it's not strictly speaking a "trial" movie, it still ranks right up there with "Judgment at Nuremberg", "Compulsion", and "Witness For The Prosecution" among the great "courtroom" dramas.

He never shrugged off pushing that old lady down those stairs. Nor should he have. Great screen actor. One of the Hollywood legends. I particularly liked him in "The Last Wagon ", with Felicia Farr, aka Mrs. Jack Lemmon.

He was a genuinely cool guy- (something rarely seen these days).

Widmark was a great actor. He shared my birthday. R.I.P.

For many years, he was one of my favorites...

I've been making my way through many of these What's My Line videos. I think this is the first shot of the audience I've seen!

These clips are some of the best!!!Thanks.

This is sooooo awesome!!!! I love Rishard sooo f...ing much and really enjoyed this video! I guess his voice was so distinctive that disguising it was a given, and I laughed so hard! I also love Victor Borge, and was surprised to see him here; but why didn't he want to see him? That's odd.... I would, DROOOOOL!!!!!

Brilliant actor! Widmark's trademark evil laugh as Tommy Udo was very much like his real laugh - just more extreme. My mother told me when she was in highschool they all loved to re-enact the stairway scene from Kiss of Death... on the stairs at school. Except nobody died.

His wife was the luckiest woman ever...

@JubalCalif Some of us tried for years lobbying for a special Oscar for him. Even had a website. He wouldn't lobby for himself. Simply one of the most brilliant actors I've ever seen on film.

Handsome and could act....love Borge too!

Great classic clip - I always liked his movies - may he R.I.P. passed at 93 Info LATimes

Widmark looks cute here...

Thanx for posting. Always loved Richard Widmark. :-))

Thanks for posting this. I've been looking for it for ages. I've been a fan of Mr. Widmark's forever and I'll miss him forever. He was a fine actor and a fine man.

"Did you ever have a distinguishing characteristic that was imitated by little kids all over the country?" "Tee--hee--hee--hee . . . "

I like this guy

Victor Borge was hilarious in the panel. Had the great opportunity to see Borge perform live in Oslo, I think it was in 1999, and at 90 years of age he was still in incredibly good form (even intentionally falling off his piano chair at one point!). I bought tickets to his return concert the next year but the show was cancelled due to ill health and later that year Borge passed away :(

He was great in Judgment at Nuremberg.

He is cute.

Being a Brit, I've never seen this clip before. Very sad about Richard's passing. One of my favourite actors, and a lot of nice comments here testify to how popular he was. Thanks for putting this up.

Among many of his brilliant performances, Judgement at Nuremburg is one of my absolute favourites. Richard Widmark is abosutely wonderful!!

great actor

richard widmark=yum! victor borge was hilarious!

He was so cool

@JubalCalif Thank you. Just a traveling salesman's son from Sunrise, Minnesota, born the day after Christmas in 1914. The refrences to his having been a big radio actor (even though he kinda denied it in this clip) were very true. He used to quip that he was the only actor who actually gave up a mansion and a swimming pool to move to Hollywood. No wonder that he and Sidney Poitier were best friends for life. If you haven't seen it, watch NO WAY OUT and you'll know. Preachy but true.

Love Victor Borge...always funny.....now, sadly gone...like many of the folk

There is also "The Long Ships" (1964) with Sidney Poitier and Richard Widmark playing half brothers. SP is a Middle Eastern prince and RW is a Viking prince. SP sports a Little Richard pompadour and pink sequins and RW wears red leather hot pants for most of the movie. They meet through a plot contrivance, neither having been aware of the other's existence. This is a Bad Movie to love.

When Cesar Romero was the mystery guest Dorothy thought he was Richard Widmark.

Dorothy K was a genius on this game.

I think Ms. Kilgallen also had the hots for him. She couldn't get her blindfold off enough...fingers were flying LOL

We went to the same high school in Princeton, Illinois, but about 40 years apart. My best friend's aunt (who is still alive) was in plays with him there. For Widmark at his best, rent "The Bedford Incident."

In films, he usually portrayed a bad guy. In life, though, he was a good guy. Stood up to McCarthyism. That took guts. Later, he made fine films. "Judgement At Nuremberg" and "Murder On The Orient Express" to name but two. Narried for 55 years to the playwright Jean Hazlewood. Their daughter married the great Sandy Koufax. Dorothy asks if he's OVER 40 and Richard correctly answered no because he wasn't "OVER 40" he WAS precisely 40 when this show aired. Widmark was a high mark for Hollywood!

@TaxiSlim Don't forget that Widmark himself was in "Judgment at Nuremberg."

Great screen star. He'd be even bigger now I believe.

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These are references to his first movie role as villain Tommy Udo in the film-noir classic KISS OF DEATH who had a very distinctive evil laugh. If it is helpful, Frank Gorshin's RIDDLER character on Batman was an impression of Tommy Udo. Widmark would play similar roles due to the popularity of this character.

great actor, utterly unique...check him out in Jule Dassin's brutally dark noir,"Night in the City" He's unforgettable as amoral, low-life "club tout," desperate to be somebody, what ever the cost.

Borge is hysterically funny!

RW passed away recently. He was famous for not appearing on TV to promote movies. He made a comment that actors sell their privacy for a song and dance and perhaps a movie. Of course, Ms. Kilgallen knew who he was all along and this is a harmless, fun publicity event. He was a great actor. Night and the City... see that if nothing else. Oh and the wheelchair scene. Nice post.

It's disgraceful that Richard Widmark was never awarded an Oscar! He deserved one! And the tragic Bella Darvi - concentration camp survivor, used and thrown away by Darryl F. Zanuck and his wife when she became inconvenient. Ended her life by committing suicide. Utterly tragic.

TRIVIA: Impressionist Frank Gorshin used to do heavy dramatic actors such as Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark. His Widmark was the laugh and sadistic smile in KISS OF DEATH. He would reprise this laugh and smile and impression when he became The Riddler on Batman.

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Frank Gorshin patterned his Riddler character in the Batman TV show after Widmark's Tommy Udo character.

I've always enjoyed Victor Borge. A tough act to pinch-hit for Bennett Cerf.

He answered NO to the question have you played a scene in a hospital wasnt he in the movie NO WAY OUT in 1950 ?

Yes, he was. He said so in his interview.

If I was a panelist, I could swear this was Walter Brennan.

@JubalCalif you might be happy to know that he at least has a star on the walk of fame, and he was at least given recognition for his films in the western performers hall of fame here at the cowboy hall of fame and western heritage museum here in oklahoma city, oklahoma, in which he was inducted in 2002, a few years before his death.

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You may have to resend this because when I view the video I can not hear a blessed thing and I have the volume on both my speakers and for the video itself at a decent level for listening pleasure. It is the same way with the Elanor Roosevelt Episode of What's my line too.

This originally aired on January 31, 1954...

@eheaven3 Ah but if Richard Widmark was even 40 years and one second he would be over 40. Or am I too pedantic. I agree, he was one of Hollywood's greatest screen villains and kindest persons in real life. I have only this morning watched his movie The Law and Jake Ward. Richard Widmark was brilliant. I see similarities between Widmark and Frank Gorshin. I think Widmark would have been a fantastic Batman villain, perhaps, like Gorshin, The Riddler..

Hoy se cumplen dos años del fallacimiento de Mr. Widmark

I thought RIchard Widmark was so great...Evil lbut so good at it and cute too...Stayed married to same wife for years tils she died first.

They always seemed like they were in a hurry to leave! lol

I've never known WML to have a shot of the audience.

Widmark was great as a young Public Health officer trying to stop the plague in New Orleans in "Panic in the Streets", starts a nuclear war as Captain Finlander in "The Bedford Incident", and was the funniest corrupt LAPD cop in "National Lampoon Goes to the Movies".

@ShivecianMagnet The Looney Tunes character you are thinking of is Foghorn Leghorn.

@mxylpx Borge was a genius. And he lived a long life, thankfully.

WHOA! Never realized how handsome he really was ... what a charmer! Reminds me of Brad Pitt -- hhhhmmmmm

My right ear is very lonely...

How could you possibly insult the memory of the legendary Audie Murphy?

Victor Borge is hilarious in this.

R.I.P. Richard.....You will be missed :(

i should also add that if you search for Tommy Udo on You Tube you will find quite a few clips for KISS OF DEATH including quite a few spoofs.

@crgreen53 Oh OK thanks for that my misunderstanding cheers for clearing that up

widmark best picture bedford incident

Hell and High Water , should have scrapped that before it started.

@nellgwen48 "Are you wavin' the flag at ME?"

4:16 She ALWAYS seems to be peeking

I'm curious, do you know what the distinguishing trademark was that kids picked up from him? I can't imagine what Dorothy meant.

Me too boomac62

@leahblashful They had more than one person in each episode.

Looks like he could be Tab Hunter's dad.

@207nkf She married to Sandy Koufax and divorced.

@207nkf Well she was, but they divorced in the mid '80s.

Did you actually know Mr Widmark or did you meet him? I did. He was a mostly unpleasant whenever he visited my aunt's home to collect his wife [the second one]. This happened more than once. He was not particularly liked by his co-stars. He made many enemies along the way. That is probably why he never received an Honourary [King's English} Oscar.

I wonder if he's of swedish descent. Widmark is a very swedish name.

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5:15 Is that an alien from another planet?

''distinguishing characteristic that been imitated by kids all over the country?'' and ''have u ever push an old lady down the stairs?'' Can anyone explain to me? Are these kind of some scenes from his movies?

I believe his daughter is married to Sandy Koufax..

I wouldn't wish him on Tab Hunter for all the tea in China.