LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Rod Steiger
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Synopsis: In this bizarre comic fantasy, Duke Osso (Rod Steiger) is the leader of a strange underground nation. Osso's spouse Hera (Malgorzata Potocka) has designs on usurping her husband's rule, and with the help of court jester Balthasar (Dieter Meier), she intends to seize power with the use of a magicalRead More
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After training in New York, Rod Steiger began his acting career on stage and in television, but it was the movies that made him a star. His burly, brooding presence captured the audience's attention in dozens of films throughout the second half of the 20th century, including No Way to Treat a Lady, The Pawnbroker, Dr Zhivago and Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rod Steiger, the beefy, intense actor who won the Academy Award as best actor of 1967 for his role as the unrelenting southern police chief in In the Heat of the Night, died yesterday. He was 77.
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On this date in 1925, actor Rod Steiger was born in New York City, the only child of parents who had played on vaudeville and got divorced when he was a baby. His mother, who suffered from alcoholism, raised him as a single parent. After Pearl Harbor, the 16-year-old lied about his age and joined the Navy, serving in the Pacific during WWII. Steiger attended drama school on the GI Bill, and eventually studied at the Actors Studio. He participated in the Golden Age of live television, and began a memorable career as villains and heavies, such as playing the menacing ranch-hand Jud Fry in "Oklahoma!" (1955).
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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Rod Steiger, the gruff-voiced actor best known for his Oscar-winning turn as a Southern police chief in 1967's "In the Heat of the Night," died Tuesday. He was 77.
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Rodney Stephen Steiger was born April 14, 1925, in Westhampton, N.Y., the only child of Frederick and Lorraine Driver Steiger. The Steigers had worked together as a song-and-dance team but Rod never knew his father. He said his father ran out on his mother and his mother dropped out of show business, working at relatively menial jobs, succumbing to alcoholism. Mr. Steiger recalled that as a child, he had to fetch her in saloons but the two always remained close. At night, he once recalled, she would entertain him by playing the piano and singing such songs as ''Shine On, Harvest Moon,'' and ''Roses of Picardy.''
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