Rod Steiger
Actor
On the Waterfront (1954)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb…
- Brooding tour–de–force with Marlon Brando in his prime as the square–jawed misfit entangled in corrupt union politics. Winner of 8…
Big Knife, The (1955)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Rod Steiger…
- Lurid expose of the Hollywood 'studio system' from the melodramatic pen of playwright Clifford Odets.
Palance shows a rare vulnerability as a…
Harder They Fall, The (1956)
- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger
- A quality bow–out from the movies for Humphrey Bogart, playing a jaded sports press–agent in the hard world of professional boxing in a…
Across the Bridge (1957)
- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Rod Steiger, Marla Landi, Noel Willman…
- An underrated and little–known thriller with Steiger playing a shady accountant on the run from the FBI and Scotland Yard, who tries to make…
Al Capone (1959)
- Dir. Richard Wilson
Feat. Rod Steiger, Fay Spain, James Gregory…
- Rod Steiger is a belligerent Scarface in this throwback to the 30s gangster films.
Pawnbroker, The (1965)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Rod Steiger
- Rod Steiger gives a career–best performance as a Jewish pawnbroker whose new life in Spanish Harlem conjures haunting images of his Nazi prison…
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger
- Oscar winning thriller starring Sidney Poitier as an urban black detective brought in to investigate a murder in a racist southern town. Rod Steiger…
Illustrated Man, The (1969)
- Dir. Jack Smight
Feat. Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom
- Bizarrely conceived encounter with an embittered Rod Steiger, who tells a stranger of his all–over body tattoos, which then mysteriously induce…
Waterloo (1970)
- Dir. Sergei Bondarchuk
Feat. Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles
- Napoleonic epic from the Russian director of WAR AND PEACE is dramatically woolly, but includes superb, sprawling battle–scenes. Rod Steiger…
A Fistful of Dynamite (Duck, You Sucker!) (1971)
- Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli
- Leone’s final spaghetti–western is a sprawling adventure set in the Mexican revolution, with fistfuls of action and comedy aplenty to rival his…