Shirley Knight
Born: 1936-07-05 in Goessel, Kansas, USA
Died: 2020-04-22
Known For: Acting
Biography
Shirley Enola Knight (July 5, 1936 – April 22, 2020) was an American stage, screen, and television actress. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in 1960 for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and in 1962 for Sweet Bird of Youth.
Filmography
2021
- Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
2018
- Periphery as Leanne Cross
2015
- Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 as Mom
- The Missing Girl as Mrs. Colvins
2014
- Mercy as Mercy
2013
- Elevator as Jane Redding
- Redwood Highway as Marie
2011
- Our Idiot Brother as Ilene Rochlin
2010
- Hot in Cleveland as Loretta
- Listen to Your Heart as Grandma Sam
2009
- Drop Dead Diva as Millie Carlson
- Paul Blart: Mall Cop as Mom
- The Private Lives of Pippa Lee as Dot Nadeau
2008
- The Other Side of the Tracks as Helen
- Not Fade Away as Diane
2006
- The Unit as Mrs. Gaffney
- Grandma's Boy as Bea
- Open Window as Ann
- Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time as Self
- Love and Debate as Lea
2005
- Sexual Life as Joanne
2004
- House as Georgia Adams
- Desperate Housewives as Phyllis Van De Kamp
- Sudbury as Aunt Jet
2003
- Cold Case as Dottie
- A House on a Hill as Mercedes Mayfield
- Mrs. Ashboro's Cat as Mrs. Ashboro
- Fly Cherry as Miss Christina
2002
- The Salton Sea as Nancy Plummer
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood as Necie
- P.S. Your Cat is Dead! as Aunt Claire
- Shadow Realm as Mrs. Finch
2001
- Crossing Jordan as Frances Littleton
- Angel Eyes as Elanora Davis
- My Louisiana Sky as Jewel Ramsey
2000
- 75 Degrees in July as Jo Beth Anderson
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Dr. Wharton
1998
- Maggie Winters as Estelle Winters
- Significant Others
- A Marriage of Convenience as Harriet Winslow
- Little Boy Blue as Doris Knight
- A Father for Brittany as Donna Minkowitz
- The Wedding as Gram (Miss Caroline)
1997
- Ally McBeal as Helen Apple
- As Good as It Gets as Beverly Connelly
- Convictions as Margaret
1996
- If These Walls Could Talk as Mary Donnelly
- Diabolique as Edie Danziger
- A Promise to Carolyn as Jolene Maggart
- Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story as Joan Hart
- Somebody Is Waiting as Irma
- Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden as Sally Ann
- Mary & Tim as Esther
- The Uninvited as Delia
1995
- Cybill as Loretta Bennett
- VR.5 as Dr. Hearst
- Children of the Dust as Aunt Bertha
- Indictment: The McMartin Trial as Peggy Buckey
- Stuart Saves His Family as Mom
- Dad, the Angel & Me as Betty
1994
- ER as Mrs. Burke
- Color of Night as Edith Niedelmeyer
- Hoggs' Heaven as Mom
- A Part of the Family as Martha
- The Yarn Princess as Esther
- The Secret Life of Houses as Aunt Fergie
- Benders as Donna
- Death in Venice, CA as Mona Dickens
- Baby Brokers as Sylvia
1993
- NYPD Blue as Agnes Cantwell
- Angel Falls as Edie Wren Cox
- A Mother's Revenge as Bess Warden
- When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn as Edna Larson
1991
- Bump in the Night as Katie Leonard
- Shadow of a Doubt as Helen Potter
- To Save a Child as Rinda Larson
1990
- Law & Order as Melanie Cullen
1987
1985
- The Equalizer as Kay
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Grace Fenton
- Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense as Ann Denver
- The Sweet Scent of Death as Ann Fairfax Denver
- With Intent to Kill as Edna Reinecker
1982
- The Sender as Jerolyn
- Kennedy's Children as Carla
1981
- Nurse as Sylvia Dennis
- Endless Love as Ann
1980
- Playing for Time as Frau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Elizabeth Bourdon
- Champions: A Love Story as Barbara Harlich
- Beyond the Poseidon Adventure as Hannah Meredith
1978
- The Defection of Simas Kudirka as Genna Kudirka
1976
- 21 Hours at Munich as Anneliese Graes
- Return to Earth as Joan Aldrin
1975
- Medical Story as Phyllis Lenahan
- Medical Story as Phyllis Lenahan
- Please Stand by for Murder
- Friendly Persuasion as Eliza Birdwell
1974
- The Manhunter
- Juggernaut as Barbara Banister
- The Country Girl as Georgie Elgin
1973
- Barnaby Jones as Kay Lewiston
- Orson Welles' Great Mysteries as Margot Brenner
- The Lie as Anna
1972
- The Streets of San Francisco
- Ghost Story as Beth
- That Quiet Earth as The Woman
1971
- Alias Smith and Jones
- Secrets as Beatrice
1969
- Medical Center
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre as Barbara
- The Bold Ones: The New Doctors as Marci Boyle
- The Rain People as Natalie Ravenna
1968
- The Jazz Age as Emily Castleton
- Petulia as Polo
- Filmmaker as Self (uncredited)
- The Counterfeit Killer as Angie Peterson
- Shadow Over Elveron as Joanne Tregaskis
1967
- The Invaders as Margaret Cook
- The Outsider as Peggy Leydon
1965
- Thirty-Minute Theatre as The Woman - Joyce
1964
- Flight from Ashiya as Caroline Gordon / Stevenson
1963
- The Fugitive as Jane Washburn
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
- The Outer Limits as Noelle Anderson
- Arrest and Trial as Rhoda Waggner
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Virginian as Susan Morrow
- Sweet Bird of Youth as Heavenly Finley
- The Couch as Terry Ames
- House of Women as Erica Hayden
1961
- The Defenders as Bethany Windell
- Target: The Corruptors!
1960
- Surfside 6
- The Roaring 20's
- The Dark at the Top of the Stairs as Reenie Flood
- The Shape of the River as Susy Clemens
- Ice Palace as Grace Kennedy
1959
- Rawhide as Jennie Cooper
- Hawaiian Eye
- Bourbon Street Beat
- Johnny Staccato
- Five Gates to Hell as Sister Maria
1958
- Naked City as Kathy Meigs
- Lawman as Tendis Weston
- 77 Sunset Strip as Mari Ellen Taylor
- The Texan
- Bronco
- Buckskin as Mrs. Newcomb
1957
- Maverick as Nancy Powers
- The Restless Gun as Heide Ritter
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Winner
1955
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Georgie Elgin
1950
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee