In which film did Rod Steiger play a sheriff to win the 1967 Best Actor Oscar?
Rod Steiger been acclaimed as one of the greatest films ever made, and in 1998 was selected as the 39th best American film in the original AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list by the American Film Institute. Steiger had intended returning to the stage, and had signed on to play the title character in Bertolt Brecht's "Galileo", at the Lincoln Center Repertory Company in April 1967, but the production was cancelled when he became ill. Steiger won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Chief of Police Bill Gillespie in "In the Heat of the Night", opposite Sidney Poitier. He played a
Rod Steiger acclaimed for his performance, which garnered him the prize for Best Actor at the Berlin International Film Festival and his second Best Actor nomination at the Oscars. Steiger was so certain that he had produced an Oscar-winning performance that he was shocked when he lost to Lee Marvin. In 1965, Steiger played an effeminate embalmer in Tony Richardson's comedy "The Loved One", about the funeral business in Los Angeles, based on the 1948 short satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh. His curly-haired appearance in the film was modeled on a bust of Apollo he once saw while meeting Richardson. Steiger offended