He won a Best Actor Academy Award for his role in the 1967 film, In the Heat of the Night. Critics celebrated his performances in Oklahoma! and The Harder They Fall.
He left home at age sixteen to join the United States Navy during World War II.
An Academy Award winner, he appeared in On the Waterfront, Waterloo, and Doctor Zhivago.
His daughter is opera singer Anna Steiger. He was married to his fifth wife, Joan Benedict, from 2000 to 2002.
He starred with Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront.
