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Elizabeth Hartman

Date of birth: 1943-12-23

Place of birth: Youngstown, Ohio, USA

Known for: Acting

Also known as: Mary Elizabeth Hartman (birth name)

Elizabeth Hartman

Biography

Mary Elizabeth Hartman (December 23, 1943 – June 10, 1987) was an American actress. She was best known for her performance in the 1965 film A Patch of Blue, playing a blind girl named Selina D'Arcy, opposite Sidney Poitier, a role for which she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama. The next year, she appeared in You're a Big Boy Now as Barbara Darling, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elizabeth Hartman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movie Credits

The Secret of NIMH
3.7

The Secret of NIMH

1982-06-17

A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow.

The Beguiled
3.5

The Beguiled

1971-01-23

Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls

Walking Tall
3.3

Walking Tall

1973-02-22

Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles wit

A Patch of Blue
3.8

A Patch of Blue

1965-12-10

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her esca

You're a Big Boy Now
3.1

You're a Big Boy Now

1966-12-09

Naive library clerk Bernard Chanticleer moves out of his parents’ home and into a chaotic city full

The Group
2.8

The Group

1966-03-04

It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper-class group at a private girl'

The Fixer
3

The Fixer

1968-12-08

Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish p

Full Moon High
2.1

Full Moon High

1981-08-04

After a trip to Romania, popular high school quarterback Tony Walker becomes a werewolf, and struggl

A Cinderella Named Elizabeth
3.5

A Cinderella Named Elizabeth

1965-01-01

Describes how Elizabeth Hartman was auditioned and chosen for the part of Selina in "A Patch of Blue

In Pursuit of Treasure
0

In Pursuit of Treasure

1972-03-17

In Pursuit of Treasure was shot over 11 weeks in 1970 with Panavision cameras in Kanab, Utah, with u

A Little Bit Like Murder
0

A Little Bit Like Murder

1973-03-29

A malevolent old house is pervaded by evil spirits who inflict harm upon the occupants. Their latest

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
0

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1967-01-01

Unfinished version of the immortal story with Jason Robards in the lead role, who was replaced by Ja