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, ...