Anne Baxter
Born: 1923-05-07 in Michigan City, Indiana, USA
Died: 1985-12-12
Known For: Acting
Biography
Anne Baxter (May 7, 1923 – December 12, 1985) was an American actress best known for her work in Hollywood films, Broadway, and television during the mid‑20th century. Born on May 7, 1923, in Michigan City, Indiana, she was the granddaughter of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and began acting on Broadway at the age of 13, earning strong reviews that helped launch her career. She moved to Hollywood in the late 1930s and signed a long‑term contract with 20th Century Fox, going on to appear in notable films such as The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Razor’s Edge (1946), and The Ten Commandments (1956). For her supporting role as Sophie MacDonald in The Razor’s Edge, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as a Golden Globe, and she later earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actress as Eve Harrington in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s classic All About Eve (1950). Throughout her career she worked with major directors including Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, and Cecil B. DeMille, while also appearing regularly on stage and in television productions, including series such as East of Eden and Hotel. Anne Baxter died on December 12, 1985, in New York City at the age of 62, leaving behind a legacy as a gifted dramatic actress with a strong presence in both classic cinema and television.
Filmography
2013
- Footsteps on the Ceiling as Eve Harrington (archive footage)
2003
- The Making of The Ten Commandments as Self (archive footage)
2000
- Backstory: 'All About Eve' as Self (archive footage)
1985
- Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1984
- The Masks of Death as Irene Adler / Mrs. Norton
1983
1982
- Hotel as Victoria Cabot
1981
- East of Eden as Faye
1980
- Hagen
- Jane Austen in Manhattan as Lilliana Zorska
1979
- Nero Wolfe as Mrs. Rachael Bruner
1978
- Little Mo as Jessamyn Connolly
1977
- The Love Boat as Priscilla Crawford
1976
- Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers as Edwina D'Orsey
1973
- Lisa, Bright and Dark as Margaret Schilling
1972
- Banacek as Leslie Lyle
- The Catcher as Kate
- Lapin 360 as Mrs. Barnes
1971
- Columbo as Nora Chandler
- Cannon
- Fools' Parade as Cleo
- If Tomorrow Comes as Miss Cramer
- The Late Liz as Liz Addams Hatch
1970
- Ritual of Evil as Jolene Wiley
- The Challengers as Stephanie York
1969
- Marcus Welby, M.D. as Myra Sherwood
- Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities as Myra Sherwood
1968
- The Name of the Game as Magda Blain
- Companions in Nightmare as Carlotta Mauridge
1967
- Mannix
- Ironside
- The Danny Thomas Hour
- Stranger on the Run as Valverda Johnson
- The Busy Body as Margo Foster Kane
- Sette donne per una strage
1966
- Batman as Zelda
- The Tall Women as Mary Ann
1965
- The Big Valley as Hannah Kendall
- Run for Your Life as Mona Morrison
- The F.B.I. as Katherine Daly
- The Loner
- The Family Jewels as Anne Baxter
1963
- Marilyn as archive footage
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Janice Brandt
- Walk on the Wild Side as Teresina Vidarverri
- Mix Me a Person as Dr. Anne Dyson
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Dr. Kildare as Nora Willis
1960
- My Three Sons as Eileen Talbot
- Checkmate as Beatrice Martin Kipp
- Cimarron as Dixie Lee
1959
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Louise
- Riverboat as Ellie Jenkins
- Summer of the Seventeenth Doll as Olive
1958
- Chase a Crooked Shadow as Kimberley Prescott
1957
- Armored Attack! as Marina Pavlov
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Laura Fletcher
- Playhouse 90 as Pat Bass
- The Ten Commandments as Nefretiri
- Three Violent People as Lorna Hunter Saunders
- The Come On as Rita
1955
- The Spoilers as Cherry Malotte
- One Desire as Tacey Cromwell
- Bedevilled as Monica Johnson
1954
- Carnival Story as Willi
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- General Electric Theater as Maj. Edith Johansen
- I Confess as Ruth Grandfort
- The Blue Gardenia as Norah Larkin
1952
- O. Henry's Full House as Joanna Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")
- The Outcasts of Poker Flat as Cal
- My Wife's Best Friend as Virginia Mason
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Margaret Schilling
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
- Follow the Sun as Valerie Hogan
1950
- All About Eve as Eve Harrington
- A Ticket to Tomahawk as Kit Dodge Jr.
1949
- You're My Everything as Hannah Adams
1948
- Yellow Sky as Constance Mae 'Mike'
- The Walls of Jericho as Julia Norman
- The Luck of the Irish as Nora
- Homecoming as Mrs. Penny Johnson
1947
- Mother Wore Tights as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Blaze of Noon as Lucille Stewart
1946
- The Razor's Edge as Sophie MacDonald
- Angel on My Shoulder as Barbara Foster
- Smoky as Julie Richards
1945
- A Royal Scandal as Anna Jaschikoff
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- The Purple Heart as Anne (voice) (uncredited)
- Guest in the House as Evelyn Heath
- The Fighting Sullivans as Katherine Mary Sullivan
- Sunday Dinner for a Soldier as Tessa Osborne
- The Eve of St. Mark as Janet Feller
1943
- Five Graves to Cairo as Mouche
- Crash Dive as Jean Hewlett
- The North Star as Marina Pavlov
1942
- The Magnificent Ambersons as Lucy Morgan
- The Pied Piper as Nicole Rougeron
1941
- Swamp Water as Julie Keefer
- Charley's Aunt as Amy Spettigue
1940
- 20 Mule Team as Jean Johnson
- The Great Profile as Mary Maxwell