Chalk
1997 · TV Show
as Janet Slatt
Geraldine Fitzgerald
1913-11-24
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Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland
Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lady Lindsay-Hogg was an Irish-American actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. She was born south of Dublin, the daughter of Edith Catherine and Edward Martin FitzGerald. She studied painting at the Dublin School of Art. Inspired by her aunt, and began her acting career in at Dublin's Gate Theatre. After two seasons in Dublin, she moved to London, where she found success in films The Mill on the Floss, The Turn of the Tide, and Cafe Mascot. Fitzgerald's success led her to the Broadway stage in 1938. She made her American debut in the Mercury Theatre production of Heartbreak House. Producer Hal B. Wallis saw her in this production and subsequently signed her to a contract with Warner Bros, where she starred in Dark Victory and Wuthering Heights. Afterwards, appeared in Shining Victory, The Gay Sisters, and Watch on the Rhine, but her career was hampered by her frequent clashes with studio management. Although she continued to work throughout the 1940s, the quality of her roles began to diminish and her career lost momentum. In 1946, shortly after completing work on Three Strangers, she left Hollywood to return to New York City, where she married her second husband, Stuart Scheftel, a grandson of Isidor Straus. She returned to Britain to film So Evil My Love, receiving strong reviews, and The Late Edwina Black, before returning to the United States. She became a naturalized United States citizen on April 18, 1955. The 1950s provided her with few opportunities in film, but during the 1960s she asserted herself as a character actor and her career enjoyed a revival. Among her successful films of this period were Ten North Frederick, The Pawnbroker, and Rachel, Rachel. Her later films included The Mango Tree, for which she received an Australian Film Institute Best Actress nomination, and Harry and Tonto, in a scene opposite Art Carney. She also starred in Arthur 1 and 2, miniseries Kennedy, Do You Remember Love, Easy Money, Poltergeist 2, as in Circle of Violence, a television film about elder abuse. Fitzgerald returned to stage acting, and won acclaim for her performance in the 1971 revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night. In 1976, she performed as a cabaret singer with the show Streetsongs, recorded an album of the show for Ben Bagley's Painted Smiles label. She also achieved success as a theatre director; becoming one of the first women to receive a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Play. While in New York, Fitzgerald collaborated with playwright and Franciscan brother Jonathan Ringkamp to found the Everyman Theater of Brooklyn, a street theater company, that performed throughout the city. She appeared on television, in such series as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Robert Montgomery Presents, Naked City, St. Elsewhere, The Golden Girls, and Cagney and Lacey. As well, she starred in Our Private World, and Mabel and Max. She won a Daytime Emmy Award as best actress for her appearance in the NBC Special Treat episode "Rodeo Red and the Runaways". Description above from the Wikipedia article Geraldine Fitzgerald, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Bump in the Night
1991 · Movie
as Mrs. Beauchamps
Dick Francis: Twice Shy
1989 · Movie
as Mrs. O'Rourke
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
1988 · Movie
as Martha Bach
Night of Courage
1987 · Movie
as Abby Abelsen
A Year in the Life
1987 · TV Show
as Mrs. Wilbourne
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
1986 · Movie
as Gramma-Jess
Circle of Violence: A Family Drama
1986 · Movie
as Charlotte Kessling
Do You Remember Love
1985 · Movie
as Lorraine Wyatt
The Golden Girls
1985 · TV Show
as Anna, Martha
Easy Money
1983 · Movie
as Mrs. Monahan
Dixie: Changing Habits
1983 · Movie
as Sister Agnes
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
1983 · Movie
as Self
Kennedy
1983 · TV Show
as Rose Kennedy
Blood Link
1982 · Movie
as Mrs. Thomason
St. Elsewhere
1982 · TV Show
as Margaret Ryan
Cagney & Lacey
1982 · TV Show
Arthur
1981 · Movie
as Martha Bach
Lovespell
1981 · Movie
as Bronwyn
Nurse
1981 · TV Show
as Helen McCall
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
1980 · Movie
as Granny Weatherall
Trapper John, M.D.
1979 · TV Show
as Bag lady
Bye Bye Monkey
1978 · Movie
as Mrs. Toland
Tartuffe
1978 · Movie
as Madame Pernelle
The Quinns
1977 · Movie
as Peggy Quinn
Yesterday's Child
1977 · Movie
as Emma Talbot
The Mango Tree
1977 · Movie
as Grandma Carr
Ah, Wilderness!
1976 · Movie
as Essie Miller
Echoes of a Summer
1976 · Movie
as Sara
Diary of the Dead
1976 · Movie
as Maud Kennaway
Beyond the Horizon
1975 · Movie
as Mrs. Atkins
Forget-Me-Not Lane
1975 · Movie
as Amy Bisley
Harry and Tonto
1974 · Movie
as Jessie
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
1974 · Movie
as Grandmother
The Last American Hero
1973 · Movie
as Frau Jackson
Me
1973 · Movie
as Ma
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973 · TV Show
as Self
Great Performances
1971 · TV Show
as Amy Bisley, Grandmother, Mrs.Atkins, Essie Miller
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The Best Of Everything
1970 · TV Show
Rachel, Rachel
1968 · Movie
as Rev. Wood
The Pawnbroker
1965 · Movie
as Marilyn Birchfield
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · TV Show
as Agatha Tomlin
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The Fiercest Heart
1961 · Movie
as Tante Marie
The Defenders
1961 · TV Show
as Lila Windell
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · TV Show
as Self
The Moon and Sixpence
1959 · Movie
as Amy Strickland
Ten North Frederick
1958 · Movie
as Edith Chapin
Naked City
1958 · TV Show
as Brigid Delito, Lillian Clinton
Tony Awards
1956 · TV Show
as Self - Nominee, Self - Performer
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · TV Show
as Elizabeth Burton
Dark Possession
1954 · Movie
as Charlotte Bell Wheeler
Climax!
1954 · TV Show
as Miriam Lambert
Pontius Pilate
1952 · Movie
as Claudia Procula
Today
1952 · TV Show
as Herself - Actress
The Late Edwina Black
1951 · Movie
as Elizabeth Grahame
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · TV Show
as Mary Todd Lincoln
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950 · TV Show
as Elizabeth
Suspense
1949 · TV Show
as Anna
So Evil My Love
1948 · Movie
as Susan Courtney
Studio One
1948 · TV Show
as Claudia Procula, Charlotte Bell Wheeler, Marian McNeill, Duchess
Nobody Lives Forever
1946 · Movie
as Gladys Halvorsen
Three Strangers
1946 · Movie
as Crystal Shackleford
O.S.S.
1946 · Movie
as Miss Ellen Rogers / Madame Elaine Duprez
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
1945 · Movie
as Lettie Quincey
Wilson
1944 · Movie
as Edith Bolling Galt
Ladies Courageous
1944 · Movie
as Virgie Alford
Watch on the Rhine
1943 · Movie
as Marthe de Brancovis
The Gay Sisters
1942 · Movie
as Evelyn Gaylord
Flight from Destiny
1941 · Movie
as Betty Farroway
Shining Victory
1941 · Movie
as Dr. Mary Murray
'Til We Meet Again
1940 · Movie
as Bonny Coburn
Wuthering Heights
1939 · Movie
as Isabella Linton
Dark Victory
1939 · Movie
as Ann King
A Child is Born
1939 · Movie
as Grace Sutton
The Mill on the Floss
1937 · Movie
as Maggie Tulliver
Debt of Honour
1936 · Movie
as Peggy Mayhew
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Cafe Mascot
1936 · Movie
as Moira O'Flynn
Turn of the Tide
1935 · Movie
as Ruth Fosdyck
The Ace of Spades
1935 · Movie
as Evelyn Daventry
The Lad
1935 · Movie
as Joan Fandon
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Department Store
1935 · Movie
as Jane Grey
Three Witnesses
1935 · Movie
as Diane Morton
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Blind Justice
1935 · Movie
as Peggy Summers
Open All Night
1934 · Movie
as Jill
