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Richard Widmark, who created a villain in his first movie role who was so repellent and frightening that the actor became a star overnight, died Monday at his home in Roxbury, Conn. He was 93. Enlarge This Image Chester Higgins Jr./The New York TimesRichard Widmark in his Manhattan apartment in 2001. RelatedFilmography: Richard WidmarkHis death was announced Wednesday morning by his wife, Susan Blanchard. She said that Mr. Widmark had fractured a vertebrae in recent months and that his conditioned had worsened.....A passionate liberal Democrat, Mr. Widmark played a bigot who baits a black doctor in Joseph Mankiewicz’s “No Way Out†(1950). He was so embarrassed by the character that after every scene he apologized to the young actor he was required to torment, Sidney Poitier. In 1990, when Mr. Widmark was given the D.W. Griffith Career Achievement Award by the National Board of Review, it was Mr. Poitier who presented it to him.Within two years after his Fox contract ended, Mr. Widmark had formed a production company and produced “Time Limit†(1957), a serious dissection of possible treason by an American prisoner of war that The New York Times called “sobering, important and exciting.†Directed by the actor Karl Malden, “Time Limit†starred Mr. Widmark as an army colonel who is investigating a major (Richard Basehart) who is suspected of having broken under pressure during the Korean War and aided the enemy.
