Barbara Bel Geddes
Born: 1922-10-31 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 2005-08-08
Known For: Acting
Biography
Barbara Bel Geddes (October 31, 1922 – August 8, 2005) was an American actress, artist and children's author. She is best known for her role in the television drama series Dallas as matriarch Eleanor "Miss Ellie" Ewing. Bel Geddes also starred in the original Broadway production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof in the role of Maggie, and also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958). She was the recipient of several awards and award nominations for her thespian performances. Bel Geddes retired from Dallas (and acting) in 1990 and settled in her home in Northeast Harbor, Maine, where she continued to work as a fine artist. She was the author of two children's books and the creator of a line of greeting cards. She was twice married, the mother of two daughters, and died of lung cancer on August 8, 2005. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Bel Geddes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
2003
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self (archive footage)
1997
- Obsessed with Vertigo as Self
1978
- Dallas as Miss Ellie
1977
- Our Town as Mrs. Webb
1976
1971
- Summertree as Ruth
- The Todd Killings as Mrs. Todd
1966
- CBS Playhouse as Doris Gray
1964
- Daniel Boone as Molly Malone
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Dr. Ruth Halliman
- By Love Possessed as Clarissa Winner
1960
- Five Branded Women as Marja
1959
- Riverboat as Missy
- The Five Pennies as Wila Stutsman
1958
- Vertigo as Marjorie 'Midge' Wood
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Lucia Clay
1951
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Marcia
- Fourteen Hours as Virginia Foster
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as The Second Mrs. de Winter
- Panic in the Streets as Nancy Reed
1949
- Caught as Leonora Eames
1948
- Studio One as Charlotte Lamb
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Blood on the Moon as Amy Lufton
- I Remember Mama as Katrin
1947
- The Long Night as Jo Ann