Jo Van Fleet
Date of birth: 1915-12-29
Place of birth: Oakland, California, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Catherine Josephine Van Fleet
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Catherine Josephine Van Fleet (December 30, 1914 – June 10, 1996) was an American stage, film, and television actress. During her long career, which spanned over four decades, she often played characters much older than her actual age. Van Fleet won a Tony Award in 1954 for her performance in the Broadway production The Trip to Bountiful, and the next year she won an Oscar for her supporting role in East of Eden.
Movie Credits
East of Eden
1955-04-10
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelmin
Cool Hand Luke
1967-11-01
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957-05-30
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their partic
The Tenant
1976-05-26
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit
Cinderella
1965-02-22
After the success of the live 1957 Cinderella on CBS (with Julie Andrews), the network decided to p
I'll Cry Tomorrow
1955-12-25
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
1968-10-18
Harold Fine is a self-described square - a 35-year-old Los Angeles lawyer who's not looking forward
The King and Four Queens
1956-12-21
Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and
The Rose Tattoo
1955-12-12
A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on h
Wild River
1960-05-26
A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the buildin
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
1971-12-22
A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.
Seize the Day
1986-09-09
Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his
80 Steps to Jonah
1969-12-01
Wayne Newton stars as an accused thug hiding out at a camp for blind children.
This Angry Age
1957-10-31
Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of a
Satan's School for Girls
1973-09-19
Satan's School for Girls is set within the grim walls of Fallbridge College for Girls. Hoping to lea
Paradise Lost
1971-02-25
Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of
Power
1980-01-14
Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a
The Trip to Bountiful
1953-03-01
A woman has to live with a daughter in law who hates her and a son who does not dare take her side.
Concerning a Woman of Sin
1949-03-24
An unscrupulous agent is able to sell a story by an unknown authoress to a Hollywood studio chief fo
The Family Rico
1972-09-12
A Mafia chief is torn between his brother, who has defected from the family, and his loyalty to the
Heidi
1955-10-01
Johanna Spyri's beloved children's story is given the live-television musical treatment.