Shelley Winters
Born: 1920-08-18 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Died: 2006-01-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress whose career spanned almost six decades. She appeared in numerous films, and won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Other roles Winters appeared in include A Double Life (1947), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), Alfie (1966), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), and Pete's Dragon (1977). In addition to film, Winters appeared in television, including a years-long tenure on the sitcom Roseanne, and also authored three autobiographical books.
Filmography
2022
- Groucho & Cavett as Self (archive footage)
2020
- My Darling Vivian as Self (archive footage)
2017
- The Fabulous Allan Carr as Self (archive)
2012
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2001
- George Stevens and His Place In The Sun as Self (archive footage)
2000
- Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies as Self
- On Cukor as Self
1999
- La bomba as Prof. Summers
1998
- Gideon as Mrs. Willows
1997
1996
- The Portrait of a Lady as Mrs. Touchett
- Valley Girls as Lady in Truck
1995
- Jury Duty as Mrs. Collins
- Backfire! as The Good Lieutenant
- Heavy as Dolly Modino
- The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder
- Raging Angels as Grandma Ruth
- Mrs. Munck as Aunt Monica
- Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter' as Self
1994
- The Silence of the Hams as Mrs. Motel (The Mother)
- Marlon Brando: The Wild One as Self
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1993
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- Politically Incorrect
- The Pickle as Yetta
1992
- Vicki! as Self - Guest
- Weep No More, My Lady as Vivian Morgan
1991
- Charlie Rose as Self
- Stepping Out as Mrs. Fraser
- Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star as Self (archive footage)
1990
- Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge as Self
- Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol as Self
- Touch of a Stranger as Lily
1989
- Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood
- Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre as Self
- An Unremarkable Life as Evelyn McEllany
1988
- Roseanne as Nana Mary
- Purple People Eater as Rita
- Hello Actors Studio as Self
1986
- The Delta Force as Edie Kaplan
- Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend as Self
- Witchfire as Lydia
- Very Close Quarters as Galina
1985
- Déjà Vu as Olga Nabokova
- Alice in Wonderland as Dodo Bird
1984
- Hawaiian Heat
- Over the Brooklyn Bridge as Becky
- Ellie as Cora Jackson
1983
- James Bond: The First 21 Years as Self
- Fanny Hill as Mrs. Cole
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Do It Debbie's Way as Self
1982
- Wogan as Self
- Late Night with David Letterman as Self - Guest
- Hotel as Adele Ellsworth
1980
- Fridays as Self - Guest Host
- Russell Harty
1979
- The French Atlantic Affair as Helen Wabash
- The Visitor as Jane Phillips
- Elvis as Gladys Presley
- City on Fire as Nurse Andrea Harper
- Bringing A Legend To Life as Herself
- Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July as Crystal (voice)
- The Magician of Lublin as Elzbieta
- Cher... and Other Fantasies as Shelley
1978
- Vega$
- King of the Gypsies as Queen Rachel
- The Initiation of Sarah as Mrs. Erica Hunter
1977
- The Love Boat as Teresa Rosselli
- The Hollywood Greats
- Pete's Dragon as Lena Gogan
- Black Journal as Lea
- Tentacles as Tillie Turner
- An Average Little Man as Amalia Vivaldi
1976
- The Tenant as Concierge
- Next Stop, Greenwich Village as Faye Lapinsky
- Frosty's Winter Wonderland as Crystal
- Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden as Caterina
1975
- Midi Première as Self
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Journey into Fear as Mrs. Mathews
- Poor Pretty Eddie as Bertha
- That Lucky Touch as Diana Steedeman
- Diamonds as Zelda Shapiro
1974
- Chico and the Man
- Big Rose as Rose Winters
- The Sex Symbol as Agatha Murphy
1973
- Kojak as Evelyn McNeil
- The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts as Self
- The Stone Killer as Drunk Woman in Police Station (uncredited)
- Blume in Love as Mrs. Cramer
- Cleopatra Jones as Mommy
- The Devil's Daughter as Lilith Malone
1972
- The Poseidon Adventure as Belle Rosen
- Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? as Mrs. Forrest
- The Adventures of Nick Carter as Bess Tucker
- Something to Hide as Gabriella Field
1971
- What's the Matter with Helen? as Helen
- A Death of Innocence as Elizabeth Cameron
- Revenge! as Amanda Hilton
1970
- McCloud
- Bloody Mama as 'Ma' Kate Barker
- How Do I Love Thee? as Lena Mervin
- Flap as Dorothy Bluebell
1969
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre as Barbara Bennet
- The Mad Room as Mrs. Armstrong
- Arthur? Arthur! as Hester Green
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self (uncredited)
- Here's Lucy as Shelley Summers
- That's Life
- The Scalphunters as Kate
- Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell as Shirley Newman
- Wild in the Streets as Mrs. Max Flatow (Frost)
1967
- Enter Laughing as Emma Kolowitz
- Easier in the Dark as Frances
1966
- Batman as Ma Parker
- ABC Stage 67 as Self
- Harper as Fay Estabrook
- Alfie as Ruby
- The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
- The Three Sisters as Natalya
1965
- Thirty-Minute Theatre as Mrs. Bixby
- The Greatest Story Ever Told as Woman who is healed
- A Patch of Blue as Rose-Ann D'Arcey
1964
- Time of Indifference as Lisa
- A House Is Not a Home as Polly Adler
1963
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Jenny Dworak
- Wives and Lovers as Fran Cabrell
- The Balcony as Madame Irma
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self - Guest
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- Lolita as Charlotte Haze
- The Chapman Report as Sarah Garnell
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Hostess
- Ben Casey
- Alcoa Premiere
- The Young Savages as Mary diPace
1960
- Let No Man Write My Epitaph as Nellie Romano
1959
- The David Susskind Show as Self
- The Diary of Anne Frank as Petronella Van Daan
- Odds Against Tomorrow as Lorry
1957
- Wagon Train as Ruth Owens
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- DuPont Show of the Month as Louisa Burt
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- The Steve Allen Show as Self - Guest
- Armchair Theatre as Frances
- The Perry Como Show
1955
- The Alcoa Hour
- The Night of the Hunter as Willa Harper
- The Big Knife as Dixie Evans
- I Died a Thousand Times as Marie Garson
- The Treasure of Pancho Villa as Ruth Harris
- I Am a Camera as Natalia Landauer
1954
- Climax! as Leona Stevenson
- Producers' Showcase as Crystal Allen
- Mambo as Toni Salerno
- Saskatchewan as Grace Markey
- Executive Suite as Eva Bardeman
- A Star Is Born World Premiere as Self
- Playgirl as Fran
- To Dorothy, a Son as Myrtle La Mar
- Tennessee Champ as Sarah Wurble
1953
1952
- The Ford Television Theatre as Sally Marland
- Phone Call from a Stranger as Binky Gay
- My Man and I as Nancy
- Untamed Frontier as Jane Stevens
- Meet Danny Wilson as Joy Carroll
1951
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Mildred Corrigan
- A Place in the Sun as Alice Tripp
- He Ran All the Way as Peggy Dobbs
- The Raging Tide as Connie Thatcher
- Behave Yourself! as Katherine "Kate" Denny
- The Re-Inforcer
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- Winchester '73 as Lola Manners
- Frenchie as Frenchie Fontaine
- South Sea Sinner as Coral
1949
- The Great Gatsby as Myrtle Wilson
- Johnny Stool Pigeon as Terry
- Take One False Step as Catherine Sykes
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Red River as Wagon Train Member (uncredited)
- Cry of the City as Brenda Martingale
- Larceny as Tory
1947
- Kraft Television Theatre as Helen
- A Double Life as Pat Kroll
- The Gangster as Hazel (uncredited)
- New Orleans as Mrs. Holmbright
- Killer McCoy as Waitress / Autograph Hound (uncredited)
- Living in a Big Way as Junior League Girl (uncredited)
1946
- Susie Steps Out as Band Singer
1945
- A Thousand and One Nights as Handmaiden
- Tonight and Every Night as Bubbles (uncredited)
- Escape in the Fog as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- Together Again as Young Woman Fleeing Nightclub Raid (uncredited)
- Knickerbocker Holiday as Ulda Tienhoven
- Sailor's Holiday as Gloria Flynn
- She's a Soldier Too as 'Silver' Rankin (uncredited)
1943
- There's Something About a Soldier as Norma
- What a Woman as Secretary (uncredited)