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 ...

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 ...

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 (AP) _ Rod Steiger brought out the best in his co-stars, so much so that frequent collaborator Norman Jewison tried to fit the stocky actor into all his movies. ``I always tried to put him ...