Widmark number 1 appeared withinside picture show in 1947's Kiss of Death (in which he giggles as he pushes the wheelchair-attached old woman (played by Mildred Dunnock) down a flight of stairs), which began his vii month locate 20th Century Fox. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the performance. Widmark's character therein film was a inspiration for the song, "The Ballad of Tommy Udo" per band Kaleidoscope.

Widmark became therefore popular and so convenient that it was only two years later that he got his handprints cast inside cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater. inside the intervening ii years, he got appeared in ''Slattery's Hurricane, Down to the Sea in Ships, Yellow Sky, Road House and The Street with No Name''.

His number one married woman, Jean Hazlewood, to whom he was married from either April 5, 1942 until her death in March 2,1997 was the mother of his girl, Anne Heath Widmark world health organization married baseball legend Sandy Koufax on January 1, 1969. He is successfully remarried to Henry Fonda's third ex-wife, Susan Blanchard since September of 1999.

More starring roles include: Night and the City (1948) Panic in the Streets No Way Out Don't Bother to Knock Halls of Montezuma (1951) Destination Gobi Pickup on South Street Take the High Ground! The Cobweb (1955) Backlash Run for the Sun (1956) The Last Wagon Warlock The Alamo The Secret Ways Two Rode Together (1961) Judgment at Nuremberg (1962) How the West Was Won (1962) The Long Ships Cheyenne Autumn (1964) The Bedford Incident (1965) When the Legends Die Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Coma (1978) Madigan (1968) (Widmark also starred in the Madigan' television series, which was according to this moving-picture show).

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Richard Widmark has the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6800 Hollywood Boulevard. Within 2002, he was inducted into a Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.