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person_profile-Geraldine Fitzgerald

Geraldine Fitzgerald Died at age: 91

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Geraldine Fitzgerald

Date of Birth:

Nov 24, 1913

Country of birth:

Ireland

Died:

Jul 17, 2005

Biography of

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".

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Filmography of

Geraldine Fitzgerald

Found 58 Movies in total

Bump in the Night

Mrs. Beauchamps ( Actor )

... 1991

Dick Francis: Twice Shy

Mrs. O'Rourke ( Actor )

... 1989

Arthur 2: On the Rocks

Martha Bach ( Actor )

... 1988

Night of Courage

Abby Abelsen ( Actor )

... 1987

Circle of Violence: A Family Drama

Charlotte Kessling ( Actor )

... 1986

Poltergeist II: The Other Side

Gramma-Jess ( Actor )

... 1986

Do You Remember Love

Lorraine Wyatt ( Actor )

... 1985

... 1983

Easy Money

Mrs. Monahan ( Actor )

... 1983

Dixie: Changing Habits

Sister Agnes ( Actor )

... 1983

Blood Link

Mrs. Thomason ( Actor )

... 1982

Lovespell

Bronwyn ( Actor )

... 1981

Arthur

Martha Bach ( Actor )

... 1981

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

Granny Weatherall ( Actor )

... 1980

Tartuffe

Madame Pernelle ( Actor )

... 1978

Bye Bye Monkey

Mrs. Toland ( Actor )

... 1978

The Mango Tree

Grandma Carr ( Actor )

... 1977

The Quinns

Peggy Quinn ( Actor )

... 1977

Yesterday's Child

Emma Talbot ( Actor )

... 1977

Ah, Wilderness!

Essie Miller ( Actor )

... 1976

Echoes of a Summer

Sara ( Actor )

... 1976

Diary of the Dead

Maud Kennaway ( Actor )

... 1976

Beyond the Horizon

Mrs. Atkins ( Actor )

... 1975

Forget-Me-Not Lane

Amy Bisley ( Actor )

... 1975

Harry and Tonto

Jessie Stone ( Actor )

... 1974

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

Grandmother ( Actor )

... 1974

Me

Ma ( Actor )

... 1973

The Last American Hero

Frau Jackson ( Actor )

... 1973

Rachel, Rachel

Rev. Wood ( Actor )

... 1968

The Pawnbroker

Marilyn Birchfield ( Actor )

... 1965

The Moon and Sixpence

Amy Strickland ( Actor )

... 1959

Ten North Frederick

Edith Chapin ( Actor )

... 1958

Dark Possession

Charlotte Bell Wheeler ( Actor )

... 1954

Pontius Pilate

Claudia Procula ( Actor )

... 1952

The Late Edwina Black

Elizabeth Grahame ( Actor )

... 1951

So Evil My Love

Susan Courtney ( Actor )

... 1948

Nobody Lives Forever

Gladys Halvorsen ( Actor )

... 1946

O.S.S.

Miss Ellen Rogers / Madame Elaine Duprez ( Actor )

... 1946

Three Strangers

Crystal Shackleford ( Actor )

... 1946

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

Lettie Quincey ( Actor )

... 1945

Wilson

Edith Bolling Galt ( Actor )

... 1944

Ladies Courageous

Virgie Alford ( Actor )

... 1944

Watch on the Rhine

Marte Brankovic ( Actor )

... 1943

The Gay Sisters

Evelyn Gaylord ( Actor )

... 1942

Shining Victory

Dr. Mary Murray ( Actor )

... 1941

Flight from Destiny

Betty Farroway ( Actor )

... 1941

'Til We Meet Again

Bonny Coburn ( Actor )

... 1940

A Child Is Born

Grace Sutton ( Actor )

... 1939

Dark Victory

Ann King ( Actor )

... 1939

Wuthering Heights

Isabella Linton ( Actor )

... 1939

The Mill on the Floss

Maggie Tulliver ( Actor )

... 1937

Debt of Honour

Peggy Mayhew ( Actor )

... 1936

Department Store

Jane Grey ( Actor )

... 1935

Turn of the Tide

Ruth Fosdyck ( Actor )

... 1935

Three Witnesses

Diane Morton ( Actor )

... 1935

The Lad

Joan Fandon ( Actor )

... 1935

The Ace of Spades

Evelyn Daventry ( Actor )

... 1935

Open All Night

Jill ( Actor )

... 1934