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)
2012
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2001
- George Stevens and His Place In The Sun as Self (archive footage)
2000
- On Cukor as Self
- Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies 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
- Heavy as Dolly Modino
- Raging Angels as Grandma Ruth
- Backfire! as The Good Lieutenant
- Mrs. Munck as Aunt Monica
- The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder
- Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter' as Self
1994
- Marlon Brando: The Wild One as Self
- The Silence of the Hams as Mrs. Motel (The Mother)
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1993
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- The Pickle as Yetta
- Politically Incorrect
1992
- Vicki! as Self
- Weep No More, My Lady as Vivian Morgan
1991
- Stepping Out as Mrs. Fraser
- Charlie Rose as Self
- Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star as Self (archive footage)
1990
- Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge as Self
- Touch of a Stranger as Lily
- Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol as Self
1989
- Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre as Self
- An Unremarkable Life as Evelyn McEllany
- Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood
1988
- Roseanne as Nana Mary
- Purple People Eater as Rita
- Hello Actors Studio as Self
1986
- Witchfire as Lydia
- The Delta Force as Edie Kaplan
- Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend as Self
- Very Close Quarters
1985
- Déjà Vu as Olga Nabokova
- Alice in Wonderland as Dodo Bird
1984
- Ellie as Cora Jackson
- Over the Brooklyn Bridge as Becky
- Hawaiian Heat
1983
- Fanny Hill as Mrs. Cole
- James Bond: The First 21 Years as Self
- Emma and Grandpa as Narrator (US)
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Do It Debbie's Way as Self
1982
- Hotel as Adele Ellsworth
- Wogan as Self
- Late Night with David Letterman as Self
1980
- Fridays as Self - Guest Host
- Russell Harty
1979
- The Visitor as Jane Phillips
- Elvis as Gladys Presley
- Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July as Crystal (voice)
- The Magician of Lublin as Elzbieta
- City on Fire as Nurse Andrea Harper
- The French Atlantic Affair as Helen Wabash
- Cher... and Other Fantasies as Shelley
- Bringing A Legend To Life as Herself
1978
- Vega$
- King of the Gypsies as Queen Rachel
- The Initiation of Sarah as Mrs. Erica Hunter
1977
- The Love Boat as Teresa Rosselli
- Pete's Dragon as Lena Gogan
- Tentacles as Tillie Turner
- Black Journal as Lea
- An Average Little Man as Amalia Vivaldi
- The Hollywood Greats
1976
- Frosty's Winter Wonderland as Crystal
- Next Stop, Greenwich Village as Faye Lapinsky
- The Tenant as Concierge
- Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden as Caterina
1975
- Midi Première as Self
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Diamonds as Zelda Shapiro
- That Lucky Touch as Diana Steedeman
- Poor Pretty Eddie as Bertha
- Journey into Fear as Mrs. Mathews
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)
- The Devil's Daughter as Lilith Malone
- Blume in Love as Mrs. Cramer
- Cleopatra Jones as Mommy
1972
- Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? as Mrs. Forrest
- The Poseidon Adventure as Belle Rosen
- The Adventures of Nick Carter as Bess Tucker
- Something to Hide as Gabriella Field
1971
- Revenge! as Amanda Hilton
- What's the Matter with Helen? as Helen Hill
- A Death of Innocence as Elizabeth Cameron
1970
- McCloud
- Flap as Dorothy Bluebell
- Bloody Mama as 'Ma' Kate Barker
- How Do I Love Thee? as Lena Mervin
1969
- Arthur? Arthur! as Hester Green
- The Mad Room as Mrs. Armstrong
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Here's Lucy as Shelley Summers
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
- The Scalphunters as Kate
- Wild in the Streets as Mrs. Max Flatow (Frost)
- Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell as Shirley Newman
- That's Life
1967
- Enter Laughing as Emma Kolowitz
- Easier in the Dark as Frances
1966
- Batman as Ma Parker
- Harper as Fay Estabrook
- ABC Stage 67 as Self
- The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
- Alfie as Ruby
- 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
- A House Is Not a Home as Polly Adler
- Time of Indifference as Lisa
1963
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Jenny Dworak
- The Balcony as Madame Irma
- Wives and Lovers as Fran Cabrell
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 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 Diary of Anne Frank as Petronella Van Daan
- Odds Against Tomorrow as Lorry
- The David Susskind Show as Self
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 (archive footage)
- The Steve Allen Show as Self - Guest
- The Perry Como Show
- Armchair Theatre as Frances
1955
- The Night of the Hunter as Willa Harper
- The Big Knife as Dixie Evans
- The Treasure of Pancho Villa as Ruth Harris
- I Died a Thousand Times as Marie Garson
- I Am a Camera as Natalia Landauer
- The Alcoa Hour
1954
- Climax! as Leona Stevenson
- Mambo as Toni Salerno
- Executive Suite as Eva Bardeman
- Tennessee Champ as Sarah Wurble
- Producers' Showcase as Crystal Allen
- Saskatchewan as Grace Markey
- A Star Is Born World Premiere as Self
- To Dorothy, a Son as Myrtle La Mar
- Playgirl as Fran
1953
1952
- The Ford Television Theatre as Sally Marland
- Untamed Frontier as Jane Stevens
- Meet Danny Wilson as Joy Carroll
- Phone Call from a Stranger as Binky Gay
- My Man and I as Nancy
1951
- Behave Yourself! as Katherine "Kate" Denny
- A Place in the Sun as Alice Tripp
- He Ran All the Way as Peggy Dobbs
- The Raging Tide as Connie Thatcher
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Mildred Corrigan
- The Re-Inforcer
1950
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- The Bob Hope Show 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)
- Larceny as Tory
- Cry of the City as Brenda Martingale
1947
- New Orleans as Mrs. Holmbright
- Kraft Television Theatre as Helen
- Killer McCoy as Waitress / Autograph Hound (uncredited)
- The Gangster as Hazel
- Living in a Big Way as Junior League Girl (uncredited)
- A Double Life as Pat Kroll
1945
- A Thousand and One Nights as Handmaiden
- Escape in the Fog as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
- Tonight and Every Night as Bubbles (uncredited)
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- Together Again as Young Woman Fleeing Nightclub Raid (uncredited)
- Sailor's Holiday as Gloria Flynn
- She's a Soldier Too as 'Silver' Rankin (uncredited)
- Knickerbocker Holiday as Ulda Tienhoven
1943
- What a Woman as Secretary (uncredited)
- There's Something About a Soldier as Norma