Ben Gazzara, known for his roles on the big and small screens and on stage, died Friday. The handsome son of immigrant Italian parents, suffered from pancreatic cancer, and died in Manhattan where he lived with his wife of 30 years, former German model Elke Stuckmann.

No one was hotter than Gazzara in the 1950s when he originated the role of Brick in the Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.