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Barbara Bel Geddes

Barbara Bel Geddes
  • Name: Barbara Bel Geddes
  • Birthday: 1922-10-31
  • Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
  • Popularity: 4.761
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

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Title Release date
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