Rod Steiger

1925-2002

Biography: life and films

Rod Steiger was an American actor. He was born in Westhampton, New York, USA on 14th April 1925 and died in Los Angeles, California, USA on 9th July 2002, aged 77.

His best films as an actor include Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954), Mark Robson's crime-thriller The Harder They Fall (1956), Andrew L. Stone's Cry Terror! (1958), Norman Jewison's In the Heat of the Night (1967) and Sergio Leone's Giù la testa (1971).

Rod Steiger appeared in 92 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Norman Jewison (3 films), Stuart Rosenberg (2), Mark Robson (2), John Farrow (2), Jack Smight (2), Fred Zinnemann (2), Francesco Rosi (2) and Arthur Hiller (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (58 films), Thriller (25), War (11), comedy (9), Biography (9), crime-thriller (8), Western (5), Horror (5), comedy-thriller (4), comedy-drama (4), Documentary (4), romance (3), history (3) and Fantasy (2).

Our average rating for Rod Steiger over all films is: 3.0

Filmography

Key: a = actor

Teresa (1951) [a]

On the Waterfront (1954) [a]

Oklahoma! (1955) [a]

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) [a]

The Big Knife (1955) [a]

Back from Eternity (1956) [a]

Jubal (1956) [a]

The Harder They Fall (1956) [a]

Across the Bridge (1957) [a]

Run of the Arrow (1957) [a]

The Unholy Wife (1957) [a]

Cry Terror! (1958) [a]

Al Capone (1959) [a]

Seven Thieves (1960) [a]

An einem Freitag um halb zwölf (1961) [a]

The Mark (1961) [a]

13 West Street (1962) [a]

Convicts 4 (1962) [a]

Le Mani sulla città (1963) [a]

Gli indifferenti (1964) [a]

The Pawnbroker (1964) [a]

Doctor Zhivago (1965) [a]

E venne un uomo (1965) [a]

In the Heat of the Night (1967) [a]

La Ragazza e il generale (1967) [a]

No Way to Treat a Lady (1968) [a]

The Sergeant (1968) [a]

The Illustrated Man (1969) [a]

Three Into Two Won't Go (1969) [a]

Waterloo (1970) [a]

Giù la testa (1971) [a]

Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971) [a]

Gli Eroi (1973) [a]

Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973) [a]

Lucky Luciano (1973) [a]

Mussolini: Ultimo atto (1974) [a]

Hennessy (1975) [a]

Les Innocents aux mains sales (1975) [a]

W.C. Fields and Me (1976) [a]

Portrait of a Hitman (1977) [a]

F.I.S.T (1978) [a]

Wolf Lake (1978) [a]

Love and Bullets (1979) [a]

Steiner - Das eiserne Kreuz, 2. Teil (1979) [a]

The Amityville Horror (1979) [a]

Klondike Fever (1980) [a]

The Lucky Star (1980) [a]

Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981) [a]

Lion of the Desert (1981) [a]

The Chosen (1981) [a]

Der Zauberberg (1982) [a]

The Naked Face (1984) [a]

American Gothic (1987) [a]

Catch the Heat (1987) [a]

The Kindred (1987) [a]

Djavolji raj (1989) [a]

Tennessee Nights (1989) [a]

The Exiles (1989) [a]

The January Man (1989) [a]

Men of Respect (1990) [a]

Guilty as Charged (1991) [a]

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991) [a]

The Neighbor (1993) [a]

Humphrey Bogart: Behind the Legend (1994) [a]

The Last Tattoo (1994) [a]

The Specialist (1994) [a]

Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys (1995) [a]

Tous les jours dimanche (1995) [a]

Carpool (1996) [a]

Livers Ain't Cheap (1996) [a]

Mars Attacks! (1996) [a]

Shiloh (1996) [a]

Incognito (1997) [a]

The Kid (1997) [a]

Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997) [a]

Alexandria Hotel (1998) [a]

Animals with the Tollkeeper (1998) [a]

Body and Soul (1998) [a]

Legacy (1998) [a]

The Snatching of Bookie Bob (1998) [a]

Crazy in Alabama (1999) [a]

Cypress Edge (1999) [a]

End of Days (1999) [a]

Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season (1999) [a]

The Hurricane (1999) [a]

A Month of Sundays (2001) [a]

Lightmaker (2001) [a]

The Hollywood Sign (2001) [a]

Poolhall Junkies (2002) [a]

James Dean: Forever Young (2005) [a]



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