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person_profile-Judith Anderson

Judith Anderson Died at age: 94

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Judith Anderson

Date of Birth:

Feb 08, 1897

Country of birth:

Australia

Died:

Jan 03, 1992

Biography of

Judith Anderson

    Dame Judith Anderson was born Frances Margaret Anderson on February 10, 1897 in Adelaide, South Australia. She began her acting career in Australia before moving to New York in 1918. There she established herself as one of the greatest theatrical actresses and was a major star on Broadway throughout the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Her notable stage works included the role of Lady Macbeth, which she played first in the 1920s, and gave an Emmy Award-winning television performance in Macbeth (1960). Anderson's long association with Euripides's "Medea" began with her acclaimed Tony Award-winning 1948 stage performance in the title role. She appeared in the television version of Medea (1983) in the supporting character of the Nurse.

    Anderson made her Hollywood film debut under director Rowland Brown in a supporting role in Blood Money (1933). Her striking, not conventionally attractive features were complemented with her powerful presence, mastery of timing and an effortless style. Anderson made a film career as a supporting character actress in several significant films including Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940), for which she was Oscar nominated for Best Supporting Actress. She worked with director Otto Preminger in Laura (1944), then with René Clair in And Then There Were None (1945). Her remarkable performance in a supporting role in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) fit in a stellar acting ensemble under director Richard Brooks.

    Anderson was awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1960 Queen's New Year's Honours List for her services to the performing arts. Living in Santa Barbara in her later years, she also had a successful stint on the soap opera Santa Barbara (1984) and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in 1984. In the same year, at age 87, she appeared in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) as the High Priestess, and was nominated for a Saturn Award for that role. She was awarded Companion of the Order of Australia in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to the performing arts. Anderson died at age 94 of pneumonia on January 3, 1992 in Santa Barbara, California.

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Judith Anderson

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Filmography of

Judith Anderson

Found 37 Movies in total

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2018

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

actress 'Laura' (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1991

Impure Thoughts

The Sister of Purgatory (voice) ( Actor )

... 1986

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Vulcan High Priestess ( Actor )

... 1984

Inn of the Damned

Caroline Straulle ( Actor )

... 1975

The Underground Man

Mrs. Snow ( Actor )

... 1974

The Borrowers

Aunt Sophie ( Actor )

... 1973

A Man Called Horse

Buffalo Cow Head ( Actor )

... 1970

The File on Devlin

Elizabeth Devlin ( Actor )

... 1969

Macbeth

Lady Macbeth ( Actor )

... 1964

... 1964

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

'Rebecca' (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1961

Don't Bother to Knock

Maggie Shoemaker ( Actor )

... 1961

Cinderfella

Wicked Stepmother ( Actor )

... 1960

The Moon and Sixpence

Tiare ( Actor )

... 1959

Medea

Medea ( Actor )

... 1959

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Big Momma ( Actor )

... 1958

The Ten Commandments

Memnet ( Actor )

... 1956

Salome

Queen Herodias ( Actor )

... 1953

The Furies

Flo Burnett ( Actor )

... 1950

Tycoon

Miss Ellen Braithwaite ( Actor )

... 1947

Pursued

Mrs. Callum ( Actor )

... 1947

The Red House

Ellen Morgan ( Actor )

... 1947

... 1946

Specter of the Rose

Madame La Sylph ( Actor )

... 1946

The Diary of a Chambermaid

Madame Lanlaire ( Actor )

... 1946

And Then There Were None

Emily Brent ( Actor )

... 1945

Laura

Ann Treadwell ( Actor )

... 1944

Stage Door Canteen

Judith Anderson ( Actor )

... 1943

Edge of Darkness

Gerd Bjarnesen ( Actor )

... 1943

Kings Row

Harriet Gordon ( Actor )

... 1942

All Through the Night

Madame ( Actor )

... 1942

Lady Scarface

Slade ( Actor )

... 1941

Free and Easy

Lady Joan Culver ( Actor )

... 1941

Forty Little Mothers

Madame Granville ( Actor )

... 1940

Rebecca

Mrs. Danvers ( Actor )

... 1940

Blood Money

Ruby Darling ( Actor )

... 1933