Actor Richard Widmark passed away last week, at 93 years old. He was a archetypal noir tough (and occassionally psycho) guy on screen, and a nice guy in real life. Widmark, had a house in Roxbury, Connecticut, the small (population 900) town where I grew up . I mowed his lawn twice and saw him a handful of times in the Roxbury Market, when I was a kid.
Anne Thompson’s blog at Variety has a good round-up of the obituraries.
And here’s is in the film noir classic thriller, Don’t Bother to Knock, with Widmark starring opposite, in her first real starring role, Marilyn Monroe (who also lived in Roxbury, when she was married to Arthur Miller):
