Helen Hayes
- Acting
- October 9, 1900 · Washington, District of Columbia, USA
- March 17, 1993
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.
Known for
Filmography
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- Bill Cosby: Walking Free · Self
- Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero · Self
- The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies · Self
- Divine Mercy No Escape
- MGM: When the Lion Roars
- Night of 100 Stars III · Self
- The Ten-Year Lunch · Self
- Murder with Mirrors · Miss Jane Marple
- Highway to Heaven
- A Caribbean Mystery · Miss Jane Marple
- Night of 100 Stars · Self
- Murder Is Easy · Lavinia Fullerton
- Hopper's Silence · Self
- All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman · Self
- The Kennedy Center Honors · Self
- Old Friends... New Friends · Self
- A Family Upside Down · Emma Long
- Candleshoe · Lady St. Edmund
- The Love Boat · Agatha Winslow
- Victory at Entebbe · Etta Grossman-Wise
- Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers · Dr. McCartney
- One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing · Hettie
- Herbie Rides Again · Mrs. Steinmetz
- The Snoop Sisters · Ernesta Snoop
- The Female Instinct · Ernesta Snoop
- Ghost Story · Miss Gilden
- Harvey · Veta Louise Simmons
- Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate · Sophie Tate Curtis
- Airport · Ada Quonsett
- Hawaii Five-O · Aunt Clara
- Arsenic and Old Lace · Abby Brewster
- Here's Lucy · Kathleen Brady
- The Dick Cavett Show · Self
- Tarzan
- The Merv Griffin Show · Self
- The Mike Douglas Show · Self
- The Challenge of Ideas · Narrator
- The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries · Cornelia Van Gorder
- The Bat · Cornelia Van Gorder
- Third Man on the Mountain · Hotel guest (uncredited)
- Play of the Week · Mother Hildebrand
- The Bell Telephone Hour · Self
- Four Women in Black · Sister Theresa
- Anastasia · Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
- Tony Awards · Self
- A.N.T.A. Album of 1955 · Self
- Main Street to Broadway · Self
- The Oscars · Self
- Omnibus · Bessie Arlington, Mrs. Dearth
- My Son John · Lucille Jefferson
- Hallmark Hall of Fame · Essie, The Vicaress
- The Ezio Pinza Show · Self
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars · Honora Canderay (woman)
- The Jack Benny Program · Helen Hayes
- The Colgate Comedy Hour · Self
- What's My Line? · Self
- Robert Montgomery Presents · Queen Victoria
- The Ed Sullivan Show · Self
- Kraft Television Theatre · Self
- Stage Door Canteen · Helen Hayes
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards · Self
- Hollywood Goes to Town · Self
- Vanessa: Her Love Story · Vanessa Paris
- What Every Woman Knows · Maggie Wylie
- Crime Without Passion · Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
- Night Flight · Madame Fabian
- Another Language · Stella Hallam
- The White Sister · Angela Chiaromonte
- The Son-Daughter · Lian Wha
- A Farewell to Arms · Catherine Barkley
- Arrowsmith · Leora Tozer Arrowsmith
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet · Madelon Claudet
- The Dancing Town · Olive Pepperall
- Riders of the Range · Inez
- The Weavers of Life · Peggy