Rod Steiger, the beefy, intense actor who won the Academy Award as best actor of 1967 for his role as the unrelenting police chief of a small Southern town in "In the Heat of the Night," died Tuesday.

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 -- Rod Steiger, the stocky, intense actor who played Marlon Brando's hoodlum brother in "On the Waterfront" and won an Oscar as a redneck Southern police chief in "In the Heat of the Night ...

Rod Steiger, who won an Oscar as the bigoted police chief in "In the Heat of the Night," died of pneumonia and kidney failure July 10 in an L.A. hospital. He was 78. Steiger played such diverse roles ...

Rodney Stephen "Rod" Steiger (April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002) was an American actor known for his performances in such films as In the Heat of the Night, Oklahoma!, Waterloo, The Pawnbroker, On the ...

The Oscar award-winning actor had starred alongside 50s heartthrob Marlon Brando in the film On The Waterfront; Rod Steiger played a pivotal part in The Pawnbroker, and A Fistful of Dynamite, leaving ...

Benedict is also known for stints as a cast member of "Candid Camera" and "The Steve Allen Show." Born July 21, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, Benedict first performed at just 7 years old, onstage at the ...

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, ...

How many Broadway shows has Rod Steiger been in? Rod Steiger has appeared on Broadway in 5 shows. How many West End shows has Rod Steiger been in? Rod Steiger has not appeared in the West End.

LOS ANGELES -- Oscar-winning actor Rod Steiger died Tuesday at a Los Angeles hospital at the age of 77. His publicist, Lori de Waal, said he died of pneumonia and kidney failure. Steiger, who won an ...

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 ...