Joan Benedict Steiger, who was part of the original stock company for Candid Camera and later became the wife of actor Rod Steiger, died June 24 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of ...

LOS ANGELES -- Rod Steiger, the stocky, intense actor who played Marlon Brando's hoodlum brother in "On the Waterfront" and won an Oscar as a redneck Southern police chief in "In the Heat of the Night ...

GOOD MORNING: I’d answer the phone and this unmistakably gruff voice would launch into, “So this doctor said–” and a joke would follow. It would be Rod Steiger — totally out of character, reporting on ...

Benedict is also known for stints as a cast member of "Candid Camera" and "The Steve Allen Show." Born July 21, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, Benedict first performed at just 7 years old, onstage at the ...

She also worked with Steve Allen and Elizabeth Taylor and played a jailed Leona Helmsley in a one-woman stage show. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Joan Benedict, who starred on the original Steve Allen ...