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From today's featured article  Steiger, playing Al Capone Rod Steiger (1925–2002) was an American actor, noted for his portrayal of offbeat, often volatile and crazed characters. He is closely associated with the art of method acting, embodying the characters he played, which at times led to clashes with directors and co-stars. He starred with Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954), playing Charley, the mobster brother of Brando's character. He played the title character Sol Nazerman in The Pawnbroker (1964), and an opportunistic Russian politician in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago (1965). Steiger won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Mississippi police chief Bill Gillespie opposite Sidney Poitier in the film In the Heat of the Night (1967). During the 1970s, Steiger turned to European productions in his search for more demanding roles. He portrayed Napoleon in Waterloo (1970) and a Mexican bandit in Sergio Leone's Duck, You Sucker! (1971). He ended the decade playing a disturbed priest in The Amityville Horror (1979). (Full article...)

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Ongoing:  Recent deaths&#58;   On this day September 18  Interior of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"> <ul><li>Trajan ( b. AD 53)</li><li>Liu Sheng  ( d. 958)</li><li>Betty Cantor-Jackson  ( b. 1948)</li><li>Jimi Hendrix  ( d. 1970)</li></ul> More anniversaries: <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> <h2 id="mp-tfl-h2" class="mp-h2">From today's featured list <div class="thumbinner mp-thumb" style="background: transparent; border: none; padding: 0; max-width: 173px;"> Aftermath of an EF5 tornado in Greensburg, Kansas From May 4 to May 6, 2007, 132 tornadoes touched down across seven states in the Central United States. Collectively, the tornadoes killed 14 people, injured 90 others, and left behind $264.7 million in damage. The most destructive events took place on May 4, when an intense supercell thunderstorm produced a family of 22 tornadoes in central Kansas, one of which inflicted EF5 damage across the small town of Greensburg (aftermath pictured). Ninety-two tornadoes touched down across the country on May 5, with twenty-five in South Dakota, including one EF3 tornado and five EF2 tornadoes. Activity subsided on May 6, with only brief, weak tornadoes over rural areas in the Plains region. (Full list...) Recently featured: <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> <h2 id="mp-tfp-h2" class="mp-h2">Today's featured picture <h2 id="mp-other" class="mp-h2">Other areas of Wikipedia <h2 id="mp-sister" class="mp-h2">Wikipedia's sister projects <templatestyles src="Wikipedia's sister projects/styles.css" /> Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects:
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