Richard Widmark
Richard Widmark (born December 26, 1914, Sunrise Township, United States; died 2008), was an American actor and producer. Widmark's honours include Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Richard Widmark’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Richard
Richard Widmark’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Richard in the U.S.?
#234
US rank in 2025
~2,587,082
Americans share it since 1880
1946
its peak year
The SSA recorded 6,669 American boys and 30 girls named Richard in 1914: 17th among boys and 1,116th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Richard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
2
Soul Urge · closeness
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on R (9) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Richard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Frost white · Ivory · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1914, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Richard apart
The Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year, Actor came in 1948, when Richard Widmark was 34.
The schooling ran through Princeton High School and Lake Forest College.
Richard Widmark was 24 when the work began in 1938.
Richard Widmark lies at Great Oak Cemetery.
The family line: married Jean Hazlewood and Susan Blanchard and raised one child.
Wikipedia files Richard Widmark under Film producers from Minnesota, Lake Forest College alumni and People from Chisago County, Minnesota.
Charles Babbage (1791) and Jared Leto (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Princeton High School and Lake Forest College
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year, Actor (1948)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1938
- Buried at
- Great Oak Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 48
What the chart says
Richard, according to the stars
Core essence
Richard is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Richard is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Richard wants to be loved
Richard wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Richard even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Richard creates
How Richard makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Richard creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Richard is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Richard is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Richard does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Richard's birth date. Working below.
Where Richard sits
Six lines
Richard’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Richard Widmark
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sunrise Township on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Sunrise Township that night
Computed for 45.54°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Sunrise Township was Mirfak, in Perseus, 85.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
From 45.5°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Sunrise Township at all: they sit past the −44.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 45° below the horizon, Moon up and 75% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Sunrise Township, United States
The death is recorded at Roxbury, Northwest Hills Planning Region in 2008.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Richard Widmark: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Richard's chart is
Chart pattern score
32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 unaspected planets · 1 planet at a critical degree
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays the long game. Wins it.
Richard Widmark's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 26, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Richard Widmark was born on December 26, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Richard Widmark's birth date, December 26, 1914, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Widmark's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Richard Widmark combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb
Richard’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMoonsquareNeptune0.1° to 6.5° orb
Richard’s feelings grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionMars0.5° to 0.8° orb
Richard’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableVenustrineNeptune1.2° to 1.5° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto1.9° to 3.5° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto1.9° to 2.7° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto2.5° to 3.5° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto2.7° to 2.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.6° to 5.4° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn4.6° to 5.5° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn5.2° to 6.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.4° to 6.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Richard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 14°47′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 2°07′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 5°33′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 29°11′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 14°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Neptune 0.5°
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.8°
- Ceres trine Pluto 1.0°
- Ceres sextile Mars 1.4°
- Eros square Sun 1.4°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.0°
- Eros square Mars 2.1°
Richard’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mars; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Richard’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quincunx Saturn 0.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.1°
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.8°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.3°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.4°
More people like Richard
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- Jack Cardiff1914
- Eli Wallach1915
- Fred Clark1914
- Jane Wyman1917
- Ray Walston1914
- Gary Merrill1915
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Other Capricorn Tiger charts
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Other Radiant Strategists
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From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?
Richard’s cards
Computed from December 26, 1914. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q320036 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Widmark at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Richard Widmark.
Quick answers about Richard Widmark’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Richard Widmark?
- Richard Widmark was a Capricorn: born December 26, 1914, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Richard Widmark's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 26, 1914 birth.
- How tall was Richard Widmark?
- Richard Widmark was 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Richard Widmark's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Richard Widmark's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Richard Widmark's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Richard Widmark's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mars; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
