Geraldine Fitzgerald
Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lady Lindsay-Hogg was an Irish-American actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. She was born south of Dublin, the daughter of Edith Catherine and Edward Martin FitzGerald. She studied painting at the Dublin School of Art. Inspired by her aunt, and began her acting career in at Dublin's Gate Theatre. After two seasons in Dublin, she moved to London, where she found success in films The Mill on the Floss, The Turn of the Tide, and Cafe Mascot. Fitzgerald's success led her to the Broadway stage in 1938. She made her American debut in the Mercury Theatre production of Heartbreak House. Producer Hal B. Wallis saw her in this production and subsequently signed her to a contract with Warner Bros, where she starred in Dark Victory and Wuthering Heights. Afterwards, appeared in Shining Victory, The Gay Sisters, and Watch on the Rhine, but her career was hampered by her frequent clashes with studio management. Although she continued to work throughout the 1940s, the quality of her roles began to diminish and her career lost momentum. In 1946, shortly after completing work on Three Strangers, she left Hollywood to return to New York City, where she married her second husband, Stuart Scheftel, a grandson of Isidor Straus. She returned to Britain to film So Evil My Love, receiving strong reviews, and The Late Edwina Black, before returning to the United States. She became a naturalized United States citizen on April 18, 1955. The 1950s provided her with few opportunities in film, but during the 1960s she asserted herself as a character actor and her career enjoyed a revival. Among her successful films of this period were Ten North Frederick, The Pawnbroker, and Rachel, Rachel. Her later films included The Mango Tree, for which she received an Australian Film Institute Best Actress nomination, and Harry and Tonto, in a scene opposite Art Carney. She also starred in Arthur 1 and 2, miniseries Kennedy, Do You Remember Love, Easy Money, Poltergeist 2, as in Circle of Violence, a television film about elder abuse. Fitzgerald returned to stage acting, and won acclaim for her performance in the 1971 revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night. In 1976, she performed as a cabaret singer with the show Streetsongs, recorded an album of the show for Ben Bagley's Painted Smiles label. She also achieved success as a theatre director; becoming one of the first women to receive a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Play. While in New York, Fitzgerald collaborated with playwright and Franciscan brother Jonathan Ringkamp to found the Everyman Theater of Brooklyn, a street theater company, that performed throughout the city. She appeared on television, in such series as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Robert Montgomery Presents, Naked City, St. Elsewhere, The Golden Girls, and Cagney and Lacey. As well, she starred in Our Private World, and Mabel and Max. She won a Daytime Emmy Award as best actress for her appearance in the NBC Special Treat episode "Rodeo Red and the Runaways". Description above from the Wikipedia article Geraldine Fitzgerald, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 1997 · Chalk as Janet Slatt
- 1991 · Bump in the Night as Mrs. Beauchamps
- 1989 · Dick Francis: Twice Shy as Mrs. O'Rourke
- 1988 · Arthur 2: On the Rocks as Martha Bach
- 1987 · A Year in the Life as Mrs. Wilbourne
- 1987 · Night of Courage as Abby Abelsen
- 1986 · Circle of Violence: A Family Drama as Charlotte Kessling
- 1986 · Poltergeist II: The Other Side as Gramma-Jess
- 1985 · The Golden Girls as Anna
- 1985 · The Golden Girls as Martha
- 1985 · Do You Remember Love as Lorraine Wyatt
- 1983 · Kennedy as Rose Kennedy
- 1983 · Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano as Self
- 1983 · Easy Money as Mrs. Monahan
- 1983 · Dixie: Changing Habits as Sister Agnes
- 1982 · St. Elsewhere as
- 1982 · Blood Link as Mrs. Thomason
- 1982 · Cagney & Lacey as
- 1981 · Lovespell as Bronwyn
- 1981 · Arthur as Martha Bach
- 1981 · Nurse as Helen McCall
- 1980 · The Jilting of Granny Weatherall as Granny Weatherall
- 1979 · Trapper John, M.D. as Bag lady
- 1978 · Tartuffe as Madame Pernelle
- 1978 · Bye Bye Monkey as Mrs. Toland
- 1977 · The Mango Tree as Grandma Carr
- 1977 · The Quinns as Peggy Quinn
- 1977 · Yesterday's Child as Emma Talbot
- 1976 · Ah, Wilderness! as Essie Miller
- 1976 · Echoes of a Summer as Sara
- 1976 · Diary of the Dead as Maud Kennaway
- 1975 · Beyond the Horizon as Mrs. Atkins
- 1975 · Forget-Me-Not Lane as Amy Bisley
- 1974 · Harry and Tonto as Jessie Stone
- 1974 · The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd as Grandmother
- 1973 · Me as Ma
- 1973 · The Last American Hero as Frau Jackson
- 1973 · The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- 1971 · Great Performances as Grandmother
- 1971 · Great Performances as Amy Bisley
- 1971 · Great Performances as Mrs.Atkins
- 1971 · Great Performances as Essie Miller
- 1970 · The Best Of Everything as
- 1968 · Rachel, Rachel as Rev. Wood
- 1965 · The Pawnbroker as Marilyn Birchfield
- 1962 · The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Agatha Tomlin
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- 1961 · The Defenders as Lila Windell
- 1961 · The Fiercest Heart as Tante Marie
- 1959 · The Moon and Sixpence as Amy Strickland
- 1958 · Naked City as Brigid Delito
- 1958 · Naked City as Lillian Clinton
- 1958 · Ten North Frederick as Edith Chapin
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Performer
- 1955 · Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Elizabeth Burton
- 1954 · Climax! as Miriam Lambert
- 1954 · Dark Possession as Charlotte Bell Wheeler
- 1952 · Pontius Pilate as Claudia Procula
- 1951 · Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Mary Todd Lincoln
- 1951 · Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as
- 1951 · The Late Edwina Black as Elizabeth Grahame
- 1950 · Robert Montgomery Presents as
- 1950 · Robert Montgomery Presents as Elizabeth
- 1949 · Suspense as Anna
- 1949 · Suspense as
- 1948 · Studio One as Claudia Procula
- 1948 · Studio One as Charlotte Bell Wheeler
- 1948 · Studio One as Marian McNeill
- 1948 · Studio One as Duchess
- 1948 · So Evil My Love as Susan Courtney
- 1946 · Nobody Lives Forever as Gladys Halvorsen
- 1946 · O.S.S. as Miss Ellen Rogers / Madame Elaine Duprez
- 1946 · Three Strangers as Crystal Shackleford
- 1945 · The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry as Lettie Quincey
- 1944 · Wilson as Edith Bolling Galt
- 1944 · Ladies Courageous as Virgie Alford
- 1943 · Watch on the Rhine as Marte Brankovic
- 1942 · The Gay Sisters as Evelyn Gaylord
- 1941 · Shining Victory as Dr. Mary Murray
- 1941 · Flight from Destiny as Betty Farroway
- 1940 · 'Til We Meet Again as Bonny Coburn
- 1939 · A Child Is Born as Grace Sutton
- 1939 · Dark Victory as Ann King
- 1939 · Wuthering Heights as Isabella Linton
- 1937 · The Mill on the Floss as Maggie Tulliver
- 1936 · Debt of Honour as Peggy Mayhew
- 1936 · Cafe Mascot as Moira O'Flynn
- 1935 · Department Store as Jane Grey
- 1935 · Turn of the Tide as Ruth Fosdyck
- 1935 · Blind Justice as Peggy Summers
- 1935 · Three Witnesses as Diane Morton
- 1935 · The Lad as Joan Fandon
- 1935 · The Ace of Spades as Evelyn Daventry
- 1934 · Open All Night as Jill