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Rod Steiger: Claire Bloom
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Steiger still occasionally acted on-stage, including Orson Welles' unusual adaptation of Moby Dick in 1962. Nevertheless, Steiger concentrated mostly on movies, with his career taking on an international flavor after he married his second wife and Broadway co-star, Claire Bloom, in 1959. After appearing in the low-key British drama The Mark (1961), Steiger joined the impressive Hollywood all-star cast re-staging of D-Day in the war epic The Longest Day (1962). He returned to films after his 1962 theater hiatus as a dishonest politico in the Italian film Le Mani Sulla Città (1963). Rather than a permanent sign of a professional ebb, Steiger's forays into Italian movies preceded two of the best years of his career. In Sidney Lumet's groundbreaking independent drama The Pawnbroker, Steiger's powerful performance as a Holocaust survivor running a Harlem pawnshop earned the Berlin Film Festival's Best Actor prize in 1964 and garnered raves upon the film's 1965 U.S. release.
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Of Rod Steiger's four marriages, the first three were dissolved. His first, to Sally Gracie in 1952, lasted 14 months; by his second marriage (1959-69) to Claire Bloom, he had a daughter, the opera singer Anna Steiger; his third wife (1973-79) was Sherry Nelson, and his last, whom he married in 1986, was Paula Ellis, by whom, late in life, he had a son.
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Steiger was married and divorced four times: to Sally Gracie, actor Claire Bloom (with who he appeared in Rashomon on Broadway), Sherry Nelson and Paula Ellis. He and Bloom had a daughter, Anna, now an opera singer. A son, Michael Winston (named for the actor's heroes: Michelangelo and Winston Churchill) was born to him and Ellis in 1993. In 2000, he married Joan Benedict.
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Steiger concentrated mostly on movies, with his career taking on an international flavor after he married his second wife and Broadway co-star, Claire Bloom, in 1959. After appearing in the low-key British drama The Mark (1961), Steiger joined the impressive Hollywood all-star cast re-staging of D-Day in the war epic The Longest Day (1962).
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Five times married, Steiger made two films with his second spouse, actress Claire Bloom. In The Illustrated Man (1969), based on stories by sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury (a close friend), Steiger was a strange, tattooed figure whose body designs foretold the future, and Bloom was the mysterious tattoo artist.
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Steiger has ... made a number of films abroad, primarily in the United Kingdom and Italy, with some German credits through the 80s as well. Among the more notable are Francesco Rosi's powerful political drama, "Hands Over the City" (1963); "Duck, You Sucker" (1972), Sergio Leone's ambitious spaghetti Western set during the Mexican Revolution; and Peter Hall's drama about adultery "Three Into Two Won't Go" (1969), in which he co-starred with his then-wife Claire Bloom as a married couple who break up, paralleling their real-life split that year.
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