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Acting

Rod Steiger

Career: Active from 1953 to 2002, busiest in 1995 with 6 main titles.

Leading roles: 71
top three billing

Average score: 59/100

Highest rated: On the Waterfront
89/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 95 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Rod Steiger Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.9, average 5.4
Situational Comedy
1.5, average 2.7
Coming of Age
1.9, average 3.0
Wholesome
2.3, average 3.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character Study 11
Psychological Drama 8
Historical Drama 6
Political Intrigue 6
Social Commentary 6
Psychological Thriller 5
Gritty Realism 5
Biographical Drama 5
Mystery 5
Moral Ambiguity 5
Crime 4
Gritty 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

145

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

8 titles · average score 37

The Hollywood Sign

40

as Floyd Benson

Poolhall Junkies

44

as Nick

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

as Pvt. O'Meara (archive footage)

A Month of Sundays

as Charley McCabe

The Flying Dutchman

29

as Ben

Body and Soul

34

as Johnny Ticotin

Animated Epics: Moby Dick

as Ahab (voice)

The Last Producer

39

as Sheri Ganse

1990s

44 titles · average score 58

Crazy in Alabama

53

as Judge Louis Mead

Modern Vampires

38

as Dr. Frederick Van Helsing

Animals with the Tollkeeper

70

as Fontina

Truth or Consequences, N.M.

47

as Tony Vago

Dalva

as John Wesley Northridge II

Shiloh

67

as Doc Wallace

Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story

57

as Anthony Comstock

Seven Sundays

as Benjamin

The Specialist

29

as Joe Leon

The Neighbor

49

as Dr. Myron Hatch

In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas

61

as Gordon Kahl

Guilty as Charged

40

as Kallin

1980s

24 titles · average score 60

The Simpsons

83

TV show · as Captain Tenille (voice)

Passion and Paradise

as Sir Harry Oakes

The January Man

39

as Mayor Eamon Flynn

The Kindred

59

as Dr. Phillip Lloyd

American Gothic

55

as Pa

Catch the Heat

37

as Jason Hannibal

Sword of Gideon

70

as Mordechai Samuels

The Naked Face

47

as Lieutenant McGreary

The Glory Boys

60

TV show · as Professor David Sokarev

Lion of the Desert

78

as Benito Mussolini

Klondike Fever

57

as Soapy Smith

Wolf Lake

62

as Charlie

1970s

18 titles · average score 60

The Amityville Horror

45

as Father Delaney

Breakthrough

54

as General Webster

Love and Bullets

42

as Joe Bomposa

F.I.S.T.

64

as Sen. Andrew Madison

Hennessy

52

as Niall Hennessy

Innocents with Dirty Hands

59

as Louis Wormser

The Last Four Days

64

as Mussolini

Lolly-Madonna XXX

49

as Laban Feather

The Heroes

as Guenther von Lutz

Duck, You Sucker

81

as Juan Miranda

Columbo

83

TV show · as Vincenzo Fortelli

Waterloo

51

as Napoleon Bonaparte

1960s

25 titles · average score 63

The Illustrated Man

45

as Carl

No Way to Treat a Lady

79

as Christopher Gill

The Sergeant

43

as MSgt. Albert Callan

In the Heat of the Night

83

as Police Chief Bill Gillespie

The Pawnbroker

78

as Sol Nazerman

Doctor Zhivago

77

as Viktor Komarovsky

Time of Indifference

54

as Leo

Hands Over the City

78

as Edoardo Nottola

13 West Street

52

as Detective Sergeant Koleski

The Mark

67

as Doctor McNally

An einem Freitag um halb zwölf

as Frank Morgan

Seven Thieves

54

as Paul Mason

1950s

24 titles · average score 69

Al Capone

63

as Al Capone

Cry Terror!

66

as Paul Hoplin

Run of the Arrow

63

as Pvt. O'Meara

The Unholy Wife

51

as Paul Hochen

Across the Bridge

73

as Carl Schaffner

The Harder They Fall

66

as Nick Benko

Jubal

86

as Pinky

Back from Eternity

62

as Vasquel

Oklahoma!

74

as Jud Fry

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

83

as Maj. Allan Guillion

On the Waterfront

89

as Charley Malloy

Marty

79

as Marty Pilletti

1940s

2 titles · average score 62

Suspense

62

TV show · as Leo Whaley

The Philco Television Playhouse

TV show · as Marty Pilletti