People
Barbara Bel Geddes
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... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self (archive footage) | 2003-04-03 |
Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock's Masterpiece as Self | 1997-06-01 |
Our Town as Mrs. Webb | 1977-05-30 |
The Todd Killings as Mrs. Todd | 1971-10-20 |
Summertree as Ruth | 1971-06-06 |
By Love Possessed as Clarissa Winner | 1961-07-19 |
Five Branded Women as Marja | 1960-03-15 |
The Five Pennies as Wila Stutsman | 1959-06-18 |
Vertigo as Marjorie 'Midge' Wood | 1958-05-28 |
Fourteen Hours as Virginia Foster | 1951-04-01 |
Panic in the Streets as Nancy Reed | 1950-07-27 |
Caught as Leonora Eames | 1949-02-17 |
Blood on the Moon as Amy Lufton | 1948-11-11 |
I Remember Mama as Katrin | 1948-03-09 |
The Long Night as Jo Ann | 1947-05-28 |