Julie Harris
Born: 1925-12-02 in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, USA
Died: 2013-08-24
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Julia Ann Harris (December 2, 1925 – August 24, 2013) was an American actress. Renowned for her classical and contemporary stage work, she received five Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Play. Harris debuted on Broadway in 1945, against the wishes of her mother, who wanted her to be a society debutante. Harris was acclaimed for her performance as an isolated 12-year-old girl in the 1950 play The Member of the Wedding, a role she reprised in the 1952 film of the same name, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1951, her range was demonstrated as Sally Bowles in the original production of I Am a Camera, for which she won her first Tony award. She subsequently appeared in the 1955 film version. Harris gave acclaimed performances in films including The Haunting (1963), and Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), in which she played opposite Marlon Brando. A method actor, she won Tony awards for The Lark (1956), Forty Carats (1969), The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (1973), and The Belle of Amherst (1977). She was also a Grammy Award winner and a three time Emmy Award winner. Harris was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1979, received the National Medal of Arts in 1994,[1] and the 2002 Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award Description above from the Wikipedia article Julie Harris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2021
- Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
2009
- The Lightkeepers as Mrs. Deacon
2008
- The Golden Boys as Melodeon Player
2007
- The Beatles: Help! as Self
2006
- The Way Back Home as Julie Harris
2005
- East of Eden: Art in Search of Life as Herself
1999
- The First of May as Carlotta
- Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony as Susan B. Anthony (voice)
1998
- Bad Manners as Professor Harper
1997
- Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough as Self
- Ellen Foster as Leonora Nelson
1996
- The Christmas Tree as Sister Anthony
- Passaggio per il paradiso as Martha
- Little Surprises
- Carried Away as Joseph's Mother
1995
- The Outer Limits as Hera
- Secrets as Caroline Phelan
- James Dean and Me as Self (uncredited)
1994
- Baseball as Voice
- One Christmas as Sook
- Scarlett as Eleanor Butler
1993
- The Dark Half as Reggie DeLesseps
- Vanished Without a Trace as Odessa Ray
- When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn as Alice
1992
- Housesitter as Edna Davis
1990
- The Civil War as Mary Chestnut
- Anthony Quinn: An Original as Self
1989
- Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre as Self (voice)
- Single Women, Married Men as Lucille Frankel
- Isadora Duncan: Movement from the Soul as Isadora Duncan (voice)
1988
- Gorillas in the Mist as Roz Carr
- Forever James Dean as Herself
- The Woman He Loved as Alice
- Too Good to Be True as Margaret Berent
- The Christmas Wife as Iris
1987
- The Cat That Drank and Used Too Much as Narrator
1986
- Nutcracker: The Motion Picture as Clara (Voice)
- Wordplay as Self - Celebrity Panelist
1985
- Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1984
- The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God as (voice)
1983
- Brontë as Charlotte Brontë
1982
- Family Ties as Margaret
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
- The Voyage of Odysseus as Narrator
1981
- Brooklyn Bridge as Emily Roebling (voice)
1979
- Knots Landing as Lilimae Clements
- Tales of the Unexpected as Mrs Bixby
- The Gift as Anne Devlin
- The Bell Jar as Mrs. Greenwood
- Backstairs at the White House as Helen 'Nellie' Taft
1978
- Vega$
- The Kennedy Center Honors as Self
- Stubby Pringle's Christmas as Georgia Henderson
1976
- Voyage of the Damned as Alice Fienchild
- The Belle of Amherst as Emily Dickinson
- The Last of Mrs. Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln
1975
- The Hiding Place as Betsie ten Boom
- Long Way Home as Elizabeth Holvak
- The Family Holvak
1974
- Home for the Holidays as Elizabeth Hall Morgan
- The Greatest Gift as Elizabeth Holvak
1973
- Hawkins as Janet Hubbard
- The Evil Touch
- Thicker than Water
1971
- Columbo as Karen Fielding
- Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones as Charity Jones
1970
- How Awful About Allan as Katherine
- House on Greenapple Road as Leona Miller
- The People Next Door as Gerrie Mason
1969
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- The Name of the Game as Verna Ward
- The Split as Gladys
- Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army as Charity Jones
- Journey to the Unknown
1967
- Reflections in a Golden Eye as Alison Langdon
- Garrison's Gorillas
1966
- Harper as Betty Fraley
- Tarzan
- You're a Big Boy Now as Miss Nora Thing
1965
- The Big Valley as Jennie Hall
- Laredo
- Run for Your Life as Lucrece Lawrence
- The Holy Terror as Florence Nightingale
1964
- Daniel Boone as Faith
- Hamlet as Ophelia
- Little Moon of Alban as Brigid Mary Mangan
1963
- The Haunting as Eleanor Lance
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Lucy Bram
- The Power and the Glory as Maria (Priest's Mistress)
- Pygmalion as Eliza Doolittle
1962
- Requiem for a Heavyweight as Grace Miller
- The War Lover ... (Costume Design)
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Victoria Regina as Queen Victoria
1960
- Sally's Irish Rogue as Sally Hamil
1959
- Bonanza as Sarah Carter
- Rawhide as Emma Teall
- A Doll's House as Nora
1958
- Johnny Belinda as Belinda
- Little Moon of Alban as Brigid Mary Mangan
1957
- The Lark as Joan of Arc
- The Truth About Women as Helen Cooper
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1955
- East of Eden as Abra Bacon
- I Am a Camera as Sally Bowles
- A Wind from the South as Shevawn
1952
- The Member of the Wedding as Frances 'Frankie' Addams
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Lu
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Actors Studio