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A leading Broadway star from the 1920s through the 50s, Judith Anderson was perhaps most famous for her savage, award-winning performance as "Medea" in 1947; as a formidable Lady Macbeth (opposite Laurence Olivier in London in 1937 and Maurice Evans on Broadway in 1941); and as an interpreter of the neurotic heroines of Eugene O'Neill (Nina in "Strange Interlude" in 1928 and Lavinia in "Mourning Becomes Electra" in 1932). Anderson made her film debut in 1933 and played the sinister housekeeper Mrs....

Filmography

Impure Thoughts - ( Narrator(- Narration) / 1986 / Released / )
The Thrill of Genius - ( Herself / 1985 / Released / )
Star Trek III - ( T'Lar / 1984 / Released / )
Inn of the Damned - ( Caroline Straulle / 1974 / Released / Village Roadshow Pictures Worldwide )
A Man Called Horse - ( Buffalo Cow Head / 1970 / Released / Cinema Center )
Don't Bother to Knock - ( Maggie Shoemaker / 1964 / Released / )
Cinderfella - ( Wicked Stepmother / 1960 / Released / )
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - ( Big Mama Pollitt / 1958 / Released / )
The Ten Commandments - ( Memnet / 1956 / Released / )
Pursued - ( / 1947 / Released / Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution )
Tycoon - ( / 1947 / Released / )
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers - ( / 1946 / Released / )
Laura - ( / 1944 / Released / )
Stage Door Canteen - ( / 1943 / Released / )
All Through the Night - ( / 1942 / Released / )
Kings Row - ( Harriet Gordon / 1941 / Released / )
Rebecca - ( Mrs. Danvers / 1940 / Released / )
Blood Money - ( / 1933 / Released / 20th Century Fox Studios )
TV Credits
The Booth ( 1985 / Released ): Actor
Santa Barbara ( 1984 / Released ): Actor
The Underground Man ( 1974 / Released ): Actor
The Borrowers ( 1973 / Released ): Actor
A Salute to Television's 25th Anniversary ( 1972 / Released ): Actor
The File on Devlin ( 1969 / Released ): Actor
Macbeth ( 1960 / Released ): Actor
Caesar and Cleopatra ( 1956 / Released ): Actor
Macbeth ( 1954 / Released ): Actor
Full Biography (Back to top)

A leading Broadway star from the 1920s through the 50s, Judith Anderson was perhaps most famous for her savage, award-winning performance as "Medea" in 1947; as a formidable Lady Macbeth (opposite Laurence Olivier in London in 1937 and Maurice Evans on Broadway in 1941); and as an interpreter of the neurotic heroines of Eugene O'Neill (Nina in "Strange Interlude" in 1928 and Lavinia in "Mourning Becomes Electra" in 1932). Anderson made her film debut in 1933 and played the sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers in Hitchcock's "Rebecca" seven years later. It was the first, and most memorable, in a series of malevolent character roles that exploited her severe features and commanding presence. Cast against type, Anderson made an effective Big Mama in Richard Brooks' film adaptation of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958). Late in her career she gained a new following as campy grande dame Minx Lockridge on the NBC TV soap opera, "Santa Barbara".

Profession(s):
Actor
Sometimes Credited As:
Dame Judith Anderson
Frances Anderson
Frances Margaret Anderson-Anderson
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Family
husband:Benjamin Harrison Lehman (married on May 18, 1937; divorced on August 23, 1938; taught at University of California at Berkeley)
husband:Luther Greene (married on July 11, 1946; divorced in 1950)
Awards (Back to top)
Emmy Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role "Macbeth" 1960 - 1961
Emmy Best Actress in a Single Performance "Macbeth" 1954
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Best Speech Award 1948
Donaldson Award "Medea" 1948
Tony Actress (Dramatic) "Medea" 1948

Milestones (Back to top)
1991 Hospitalized in Santa Barbara with a stroke (August)
1986 Narrated feature, "Impure Thoughts"
1984 - 1987 Featured in a regular role on TV soap opera, "Santa Barbara"
1984 Former Lion Theater on West 42nd Street in New York (Theater Row) renamed the Judith Anderson Theater
1982 Played the nurse in a Broadway revival of "Medea"; production broadcast on PBS (1983)
1971 Starred on stage in title role of "Hamlet" at Carnegie Hall in New York
1960 Again played Lady Macbeth on a "Hallmark Hall of Fame" broadcast
1954 Appeared on TV's "Light's Diamond Jubilee"
1954 Played Lady Macbeth on "Hallmark Hall of Fame"
1949 Returned to Broadway to star as "Medea" at the City Center
1947 Starred on Broadway in landmark production of "Medea" (which ran 214 performances), adapted specifically for Anderson from Euripides's drama by poet Robinson Jeffers; followed Broadway run with an eig
1937 London stage debut, "Macbeth" at the Old Vic
1933 Film debut, "Blood Money"
1924 Broadway debut in "The Cobra"
1918 Went to Hollywood with a letter of introduction to Cecil B DeMille, who rejected her for the movies
1918 New York stage debut (Broadway stock) at the 14th Street Theatre
1915 Stage debut in "A Royal Divorce" at the Theater Royal in Sydney, Australia
Toured Australia with an American stock company
Entertained US Armed Forces overseas during WWII


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