Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rod Steiger in 1956 - Getty Rod Steiger, the burly and beloved star born a century ago this week, could have become the greatest ...

Rod Steiger, the beefy, intense actor who won the Academy Award as best actor of 1967 for his role as the unrelenting police chief of a small Southern town in "In the Heat of the Night," died Tuesday.

The door to the Ladies crashed open and the burly 58-year-old with a ludicrous toupee barged his way into the room demanding telephone numbers. The average 24-year-old might have reacted with ...

Rod Steiger, an Oscar-winning actor whose chameleon-like ability to inhabit diverse characters placed him firmly among a generation of acclaimed postwar performers, died Tuesday at age 77. Steiger, ...

Rod Steiger is primarily remembered for his tough guys in such films as "Al Capone," "The Big Knife" and his Oscar-winning performance in "In the Heat of the Night." But his performances include such ...

Rod Steiger, one of the American screen's most distinctive non-star actors, who won an Oscar for his role as a curmudgeonly Southern sheriff in the 1967 film In the Heat of the Night, died this week ...

Of all the Method actors who evolved from the Actors Studio and its tentacles, Rod Steiger, who has died aged 77 of pneumonia and kidney failure, was arguably the most intense. The style of ...