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Rod Steiger: Academy Award
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Three years later, Kazan, Steiger's mentor at the Actors Studio chose him to play Brando's betraying brother in On the Waterfront. The result: an Academy Award nomination as supporting actor and the beginning of a long film career.
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Over the next five years, Steiger honed his formidable Method skills in 250-plus live TV productions, as well as on Broadway. Though he appeared in the movie Teresa (1951), Steiger didn't fully make the transition to film until his award-winning performance as the lonely title character in the 1953 TV production of Paddy Chayefsky's Marty, which helped him nab a part in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront.
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KING: He has starred in well over 60 films, he's won all the awards there are to be given, he's the incredible Rod Steiger. After bouncing back from depression, what was it like to go back to work?
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