2002-07-10 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- Rod Steiger, the acclaimed actor who starred in such films as "The Pawnbroker" and "In the Heat of the Night," died Tuesday at 77. The Oscar-winning actor died of ...

Associated Press WriterLOS ANGELES (AP) -- Rod Steiger, who played Marlon Brando's mob-connected brother in "On the Waterfront" and won the 1967 Oscar for best actor for his role as the unrelenting ...

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, ...

LOS ANGELES -- Rod Steiger, the stocky, intense actor who played Marlon Brando's hoodlum brother in "On the Waterfront" and won an Oscar as a redneck Southern police chief in "In the Heat of the Night ...

Rod Steiger, 77, a richly compelling Academy Award-winning actor who riveted audiences in such dramas as "On the Waterfront," "The Pawnbroker," "Doctor Zhivago" and "In the Heat of the Night" and ...

Rod Steiger, the burly and beloved star born a century ago this week, could have become the greatest film actor of all time. Or at least, like his character’s brother in On the Waterfront, he coulda ...

Oscar-winning actor Rod Steiger, who portrayed sinners like Al Capone and saints like Pope John XXIII in a career spanning more than five decades, died yesterday at age 77. Steiger died at a Los ...

Joan Benedict Steiger, who was part of the original stock company for Candid Camera and later became the wife of actor Rod Steiger, died June 24 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of ...

LOS ANGELES -- Rod Steiger, who played Marlon Brando's mob-connected brother in "On the Waterfront" and won the 1967 Oscar for best actor for his role as the redneck Southern police chief in "In the ...