Geraldine Fitzgerald
Age: 91 | From: Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland
Person Details
Birthday: 1913-11-24 18:19:56
Death: 2005-07-17 18:19:56
Aliases: First Lady of the American Theater , Gerry
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland
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Movie Involvements: 48
TV Involvements: 15
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
(1962) Agatha Tomlin
Robert Montgomery Presents
(1950) Elizabeth
Climax!
(1954) Miriam Lambert
Naked City
(1958) Lillian Clinton
Studio One
(1948) Duchess
The Defenders
(1961) Lila Windell
Suspense
(1949) Anna
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(1955) Elizabeth BurtonActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Janet Slatt | |
| 1991 | Mrs. Beauchamps | |
| 1989 | Mrs. O'Rourke | |
| 1988 | Martha Bach | |
| 1987 | Abby Abelsen | |
| 1986 | Charlotte Kessling | |
| Gramma-Jess | ||
| 1985 | Martha | |
| Anna | ||
| Lorraine Wyatt | ||
| 1983 | Rose Kennedy | |
| Self | ||
| Mrs. Monahan | ||
| Sister Agnes | ||
| 1982 | N/A | |
| Mrs. Thomason | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1981 | Bronwyn | |
| Martha Bach | ||
| Helen McCall | ||
| 1980 | Granny Weatherall | |
| 1978 | Madame Pernelle | |
| Mrs. Toland | ||
| 1977 | Grandma Carr | |
| Peggy Quinn | ||
| Emma Talbot | ||
| 1976 | Essie Miller | |
| Sara | ||
| Maud Kennaway | ||
| 1975 | Mrs. Atkins | |
| 1974 | Jessie Stone | |
| 1973 | Frau Jackson | |
| Self | ||
| 1971 | Grandmother | |
| Amy Bisley | ||
| Mrs.Atkins | ||
| Essie Miller | ||
| 1970 | N/A | |
| 1968 | Rev. Wood | |
| 1964 | Marilyn Birchfield | |
| 1962 | Agatha Tomlin | |
| 1961 | Lila Windell | |
| Tante Marie | ||
| 1959 | Amy Strickland | |
| 1958 | Lillian Clinton | |
| Brigid Delito | ||
| Edith Chapin | ||
| 1955 | Elizabeth Burton | |
| 1954 | Miriam Lambert | |
| Charlotte Bell Wheeler | ||
| 1952 | Claudia Procula | |
| 1951 | N/A | |
| Mary Todd Lincoln | ||
| Elizabeth Grahame | ||
| 1950 | N/A | |
| Elizabeth | ||
| 1949 | N/A | |
| Anna | ||
| 1948 | Claudia Procula | |
| Charlotte Bell Wheeler | ||
| Marian McNeill | ||
| Duchess | ||
| Susan Courtney | ||
| 1946 | Gladys Halvorsen | |
| Miss Ellen Rogers / Madame Elaine Duprez | ||
| Crystal Shackleford | ||
| 1945 | Lettie Quincey | |
| 1944 | Edith Bolling Galt | |
| Virgie Alford | ||
| 1943 | Marte Brankovic | |
| 1942 | Evelyn Gaylord | |
| 1941 | Dr. Mary Murray | |
| Betty Farroway | ||
| 1940 | Bonny Coburn | |
| 1939 | Grace Sutton | |
| Ann King | ||
| Isabella Linton | ||
| 1937 | Maggie Tulliver | |
| 1936 | Peggy Mayhew | |
| Moira O'Flynn | ||
| 1935 | Jane Grey | |
| Ruth Fosdyck | ||
| Peggy Summers | ||
| Diane Morton | ||
| Joan Fandon | ||
| Evelyn Daventry | ||
| 1934 | Jill | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
