Oscar-winning actor Rod Steiger, who portrayed sinners like Al Capone and saints like Pope John XXIII in a career spanning more than five decades, died yesterday at age 77. Steiger died at a Los ...

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, ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on Aug. 3, 1967. This story was written by Wanda Hale.) It’s a pleasure, all too rare, to watch two splendid actors pitted against each other with equal force ...

2002-07-10 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- Rod Steiger, the acclaimed actor who starred in such films as "The Pawnbroker" and "In the Heat of the Night," died Tuesday at 77. The Oscar-winning actor died of ...

Marlon Brando emerged as the big star from Elia Kazan's story of an ex-prize fighter who decides to take on the corrupt union officials who run the docks. But Steiger's superb portrayal of Brando's ...

Rod Steiger, one of the finest character actors of the past 50 years and an Academy Award winner in 1967 for his depiction of the bigoted Southern sheriff in “In the Heat of the Night,” died Tuesday ...

Actors and directors are mourning the loss of the "quintessential actor" Rod Steiger, who has died aged 77. Norman Jewison, who directed Steiger in his Oscar-winning performance in In The Heat of the ...

LOS ANGELES, July 9 (UPI) -- Academy Award-winning actor Rod Steiger died Tuesday of pneumonia and kidney failure. He was 77. Steiger, who starred in more than 100 feature films and TV movies, ...