Barbara Bel Geddes
Date of birth: 1922-10-31
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
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
Movie Credits
Vertigo
1958-05-28
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of a
Panic in the Streets
1950-07-27
A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. W
Blood on the Moon
1948-11-11
Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispu
Caught
1949-02-17
Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is lov
I Remember Mama
1948-03-09
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a d
The Long Night
1947-05-28
City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there
The Five Pennies
1959-06-18
Dixieland cornetist Red Nichols runs into opposition to his sound, but breaks through to success. He
Fourteen Hours
1951-04-01
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to
Five Branded Women
1960-03-15
Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by
By Love Possessed
1961-07-19
An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner.
Our Town
1977-05-30
3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.
The Todd Killings
1971-10-20
Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmidt ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper
Obsessed with Vertigo
1997-10-04
A documentary about the making and restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece "Vertigo." Narrated
Summertree
1971-06-06
Jerry, not a member of the 'protest generation' but is instead, an 'All American boy,' is drafted in
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003-04-03
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about Ame