Actor: Edmond OBrien

Edmond O’Brien won Best Supporting Actor for The Barefoot Contessa, playing a press agent who perspires continuously, which became something of a signature.

D.O.A. gives him the premise every noir wishes it had: a man walks into a police station to report his own murder, having been poisoned with a slow-acting toxin.

The Killers, White Heat and The Wild Bunch fill out a long career, and he was also nominated for Seven Days in May.