Helen Hayes
Born: 1900-10-09 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Died: 1993-03-17
Known For: Acting
Biography
Helen Hayes was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In 1988 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is the namesake of the annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in the greater Washington, D.C. area since 1984. Perhaps the ultimate respect to be paid to any actor by a producer - of having a theater christened in their name - became a reality for Ms. Hayes in 1955 when the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City's Broadway theater district was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre. When that venue was torn down in 1982 (along with five other neighboring theaters), the operators of the Little Theatre, another standing theater two blocks away on 44th Street, renamed that house in her name, which it has retained ever since. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Hayes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2025
2022
- Bill Cosby: Walking Free as Self (archive footage)
1998
- Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero as Self (archive footage)
1990
- Night of 100 Stars III as Self
1987
- The Ten-Year Lunch as Herself - Participant
1985
- Murder with Mirrors as Miss Jane Marple
1984
1983
- A Caribbean Mystery as Miss Jane Marple
1982
- Murder Is Easy as Lavinia Fullerton
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
1981
- Hopper's Silence as Herself
1979
1978
- The Kennedy Center Honors as Self
- A Family Upside Down as Emma Long
1977
- The Love Boat as Agatha Winslow
- Candleshoe as Lady St. Edmund
1976
- Victory at Entebbe as Etta Grossman-Wise
- Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers as Dr. McCartney
1975
- One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing as Hettie
1974
- Herbie Rides Again as Mrs. Steinmetz
1973
- The Snoop Sisters as Ernesta Snoop
1972
- Harvey as Veta Louise Simmons
- Ghost Story as Miss Gilden
- The Female Instinct as Ernesta Snoop
1971
- Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate as Sophie Tate Curtis
1970
- Airport as Ada Quonsett
1969
- Arsenic and Old Lace as Abby Brewster
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Aunt Clara
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Here's Lucy as Kathleen Brady
1966
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- The Challenge of Ideas as Narrator
1960
- The Bat as Cornelia Van Gorder
1959
- The Bell Telephone Hour as Self
- Third Man on the Mountain as Hotel guest (uncredited)
- Play of the Week as Mother Hildebrand
1957
- Four Women in Black as Sister Theresa
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Accepting Award for Apa-Phoenix
- Anastasia as Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
1955
- A.N.T.A. Album of 1955 as Self
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Main Street to Broadway as Self
1952
- Omnibus
- My Son John as Lucille Jefferson
- Pride and Prejudice as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
- Mr. Lincoln as Bessie Arlington
1951
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as Queen Victoria
- What's My Line? as Self
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- The Jack Benny Program as Helen Hayes
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1947
- Kraft Television Theatre as Self - Host
1943
- Stage Door Canteen as Helen Hayes
1940
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self (archive footage)
1938
- Hollywood Goes to Town as Self
1935
- Vanessa: Her Love Story as Vanessa Paris
1934
- Crime Without Passion as Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
- What Every Woman Knows as Maggie Wylie
1933
- Night Flight as Madame Fabian
- Another Language as Stella Hallam
- The White Sister as Angela Chiaromonte
1932
- A Farewell to Arms as Catherine Barkley
- The Son-Daughter as Lian Wha
1931
- Arrowsmith as Leora Tozer Arrowsmith
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Madelon Claudet
1928
- The Dancing Town as Olive Pepperall
1923
- Riders of the Range as Inez
1917
- The Weavers of Life as Peggy