Rod Steiger’s Death – Cause and Date

The movie actor Rod Steiger died at the age of 77. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

He won a Best Actor Academy Award for his role in the 1967 film, In the Heat of the Night. Critics celebrated his performances in Oklahoma! and The Harder They Fall.

His daughter is opera singer Anna Steiger. He was married to his fifth wife, Joan Benedict, from 2000 to 2002.

Steiger was married five times, and had a daughter, opera singer Anna Steiger, and a son, Michael Steiger. He died of pneumonia and kidney failure as a result of complications from surgery for a gall bladder tumor on July 9, 2002, aged 77, in Los Angeles, and was survived by his fifth wife Joan Benedict Steiger.

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I said ‘well, I’ll kiss her twice, you see? We’ll come around, I’ll kiss her, and if you put a little more track down for the camera, then I’ll put my tongue down her throat and you’ll get what you want’. He said ‘You think so?’

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I didn’t ever think of it as a social thing at the time. I took it as a good story. Maybe because I’ve always been kind of progressive so I never thought of it, you know.

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I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We’re shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear.

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Sometimes it’s great, sometimes it’s bad. I think the film could have been a lot better.

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I was very pleased you know, and I was afraid that I might stick out, but I didn’t. My happiest thing about that picture is that I proved that American actors can speak as well and also fit in with an ensemble like that.