Richard Widmark who made his big-screen debut as a giggling killer in Kiss of Death for which he netted an Oscar nod and then went on to star in Broken Lance Two Rode Together and 40 other films died on Monday at his home in Roxbury Connecticut after a long illness It was a big shock Widmarks wife Susan tells the AP declining to disclose the cause of death But he was 93Upon graduating college Widmark got his start on radio in 1938 lending his Midwestern voice to many a soap opera A few years later he began appearing in theater productions After making a splash with Kiss of Death the film offers started pouring in Madigan a 1968 film that was converted into a short-lived TV series in which Widmark played a loner detective would mark his only ongoing gig for the smaller screen
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