Joan Benedict Steiger & Rod Steiger

Rod Steiger and Joan Benedict Steiger
1959 - 2002
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Joan Benedict Steiger and Rod Steiger were married for 1 year before Rod Steiger died aged 77.

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Joan Benedict Steiger is a 96 year old American Actress. Born Joan Benedict on 21st June, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA, she is famous for her roles as Poopsie Patata in the 1965 comedy film Saturday Night Bath in Apple Valley and Edith Fairchild in the long-running Emmy® Award-winning ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital. Her zodiac sign is Gemini.

American Actor Rod Steiger was born Rodney Stephen Steiger on 14th April, 1925 in Westhampton, Long Island, New York, USA and passed away on 9th Jul 2002 Los Angeles, California, United States aged 77. He is most remembered for In The Heat Of The Night (1967).. His zodiac sign is Aries.

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Relationship Statistics

StatusDurationLength
Dating1959 - Oct 2000 41 years, 9 months
MarriedOct 2000 - Jul 2002 1 year, 9 months
Total 1959 - Jul 2002 43 years, 6 months


The year was 1959. Nineteen-year-old Joan Benedict was sitting in the makeup room, preparing for her part in the television series "Masquerade Party," when she saw a familiar face enter the room. She recognized Steiger from the movie "Al Capone" and from the Broadway play "Rashomon."
"He was larger than life," Benedict Steiger says. "I had seen 'Al Capone' at least 10 times. He looked at me and said, 'Come here, little girl.'"
They went to dinner and began an affair that would last for a year.
As happens all too often in show biz relationships, time and distance took their toll. Steiger moved to Los Angeles to make movies and would marry five times. Benedict Steiger married John Myhers, an actor playing Captain von Trapp in the theater version of "The Sound of Music."
The Myhers' life was full. They traveled, worked at their acting craft and raised a daughter. Their marriage lasted 32 years, until John Myhers died in 1992 from cancer of the tongue.
In 1999, 40 years after their meeting in the makeup room, Benedict Steiger picked up the phone to find Rod Steiger on the line. "I nearly fell over," she says. "My heart just jumped out."
She says Steiger, who was recently divorced, heard someone speak of her at a party and found her through her agent. When the two met for Chinese food at Mr. Chow, Benedict Steiger says they picked up where they had left off four decades before. In October of 2000, they tied the knot in their home in Malibu. "He was the dearest, kindest, most loving human being," she says. "He was so opposite the roles he played."
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In July 2002, Rod Steiger had to undergo surgery for cancer of the pancreas. He was expected to make a complete recovery. When he died from an infection resulting from that surgery, Joan Benedict Steiger's bustling world came to a crashing halt. "I felt like I was dropped into an empty canyon," she says.

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October, 2000 - Marriage

1960 - Breakup

1959 - Hookup

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Name
Joan Benedict Steiger
Rod Steiger
Joan Benedict Steiger
Rod Steiger
Age (at start of relationship)
31
33
Zodiac
Gemini
Aries
Occupation
Actress
Actor
Hair Color
Dyed Blonde
Salt and Pepper
Eye Color
Blue
Brown - Dark
Nationality
American
American

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