1971: ROD STEIGER and NAPOLEON'S AUTOPSY NOTES | Movie Makers | BBC Archive

Rod Steiger was an Oscar-winning American character actor who excelled in very challenging films. He shone as a racist sheriff in In The Heat of the Night, an emotionally broken Holocaust survivor in The Pawnbroker and a serial killer in No Way To Treat A Lady.

In person, he was sharp, funny and brutally honest. In this Q&A with Bruce Beresford, filmed at the National Film Theatre, he discusses his own prejudices, Marlon Brando, and using the notes from Napoleon’s autopsy as a way to better understand him.


Clip from Movie Makers, originally broadcast on BBC One, Friday 23 July, 1971.





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