Ben Gazzara; in Memoriam
Today stage, movie, and television has lost a figure that already give a color to those world. Ben Gazzara; a senior of hollywood actor died at 81. Longtime family friend Suzanne Mados said Ben Gazzara died Friday in Manhattan. Mados, who owned the Wyndham Hotel before he was hospitalized in Belleveu Hospital Center because his pancreatic cancer. Ben Gazzara died in friday in a place where celebrities such as Peter Falk and Martin Sheen stayed. Ben Gazzara died leaving his wife; German-born Elke Krivat, daughter Elizabeth and Danja and a brother.
Ben Gazzara have achieved his maximum performance in act when he play in stage and stiring two broadway performance; that is 1955 broadway show ”Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “A Hatful of Rain.” in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” he played as Brick Pollitt; an alcoholic son and failed footbal stars. in “A Hatful of Rain” he tried an challenging role Johnny Pope, the drug addict. and for his performance in Broadway he get three nomination in Tony Award. in 1965 Ben Gazzara continue his carrer and try to make a television performance in “Run for Your Life” story about a lawyer that’s has been judged to be have a fatal illness and with his two years of his rest of his live, he try to fullfill his live and embark a journey.
In movies, Ben Gazzara is known by his act in 1959 ”Anatomy of Murder” as accused killer. Ben Gazzara personal life, he is already have the third marriage; the first one with actress Louise Erikson and the second one with Janice Rule; which both of them ended with divorce. Ben Gazzara third marriage with Elke Krivat. Ben Gazzara and Elke Krivat met when Ben Gazzara filming “Inchon” in Korea in 1981. then he adopted Krivat’s daughter, Danja, as his own.