Geraldine Fitzgerald
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 24, 1913
- Died
- July 17, 2005 (aged 91)
- Birthplace
- Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland
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.
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Filmography
Chalk
TV · as Janet Slatt · 6 eps
Bump in the Night
Movie · as Mrs. Beauchamps
Dick Francis: Twice Shy
Movie · as Mrs. O'Rourke
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
Movie · as Martha Bach
Night of Courage
Movie · as Abby Abelsen
A Year in the Life
TV · as Mrs. Wilbourne · 1 ep
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
Movie · as Gramma-Jess
Circle of Violence: A Family Drama
Movie · as Charlotte Kessling
Do You Remember Love
Movie · as Lorraine Wyatt
The Golden Girls
TV · as Anna, Martha · 1 ep
Easy Money
Movie · as Mrs. Monahan
Dixie: Changing Habits
Movie · as Sister Agnes
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
Movie · as Self
Kennedy
TV · as Rose Kennedy · 3 eps
Blood Link
Movie · as Mrs. Thomason
St. Elsewhere
TV · as Margaret Ryan · 2 eps
Cagney & Lacey
TV · 1 ep
Arthur
Movie · as Martha Bach
Lovespell
Movie · as Bronwyn
Nurse
TV · as Helen McCall · 1 ep
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Movie · as Granny Weatherall
Trapper John, M.D.
TV · as Bag lady · 1 ep
Bye Bye Monkey
Movie · as Mrs. Toland
Tartuffe
Movie · as Madame Pernelle
The Quinns
Movie · as Peggy Quinn
Yesterday's Child
Movie · as Emma Talbot
The Mango Tree
Movie · as Grandma Carr
Ah, Wilderness!
Movie · as Essie Miller
Echoes of a Summer
Movie · as Sara
Diary of the Dead
Movie · as Maud Kennaway
Beyond the Horizon
Movie · as Mrs. Atkins
Forget-Me-Not Lane
Movie · as Amy Bisley
Harry and Tonto
Movie · as Jessie
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
Movie · as Grandmother
The Last American Hero
Movie · as Frau Jackson
Me
Movie · as Ma
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Great Performances
TV · as Grandmother, Amy Bisley, Mrs.Atkins, Essie Miller · 1 ep
The Best Of Everything
TV · 130 eps
Rachel, Rachel
Movie · as Rev. Wood
The Pawnbroker
Movie · as Marilyn Birchfield
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV · as Agatha Tomlin · 1 ep
The Fiercest Heart
Movie · as Tante Marie
The Defenders
TV · as Lila Windell · 1 ep
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Moon and Sixpence
Movie · as Amy Strickland
Ten North Frederick
Movie · as Edith Chapin
Naked City
TV · as Brigid Delito, Lillian Clinton · 1 ep
Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Nominee, Self - Performer · 1 ep
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Elizabeth Burton · 1 ep
Dark Possession
Movie · as Charlotte Bell Wheeler
Climax!
TV · as Miriam Lambert · 1 ep
Pontius Pilate
Movie · as Claudia Procula
Today
TV · as Herself - Actress · 1 ep
The Late Edwina Black
Movie · as Elizabeth Grahame
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV · as Mary Todd Lincoln · 1 ep
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV · as Elizabeth · 5 eps
Suspense
TV · as Anna · 1 ep
So Evil My Love
Movie · as Susan Courtney
Studio One
TV · as Claudia Procula, Charlotte Bell Wheeler, Marian McNeill, Duchess · 1 ep
Nobody Lives Forever
Movie · as Gladys Halvorsen
Three Strangers
Movie · as Crystal Shackleford
O.S.S.
Movie · as Miss Ellen Rogers / Madame Elaine Duprez
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
Movie · as Lettie Quincey
Wilson
Movie · as Edith Bolling Galt
Ladies Courageous
Movie · as Virgie Alford
Watch on the Rhine
Movie · as Marthe de Brancovis
The Gay Sisters
Movie · as Evelyn Gaylord
Flight from Destiny
Movie · as Betty Farroway
Shining Victory
Movie · as Dr. Mary Murray
'Til We Meet Again
Movie · as Bonny Coburn
Wuthering Heights
Movie · as Isabella Linton
Dark Victory
Movie · as Ann King
A Child is Born
Movie · as Grace Sutton
The Mill on the Floss
Movie · as Maggie Tulliver
Debt of Honour
Movie · as Peggy Mayhew
Cafe Mascot
Movie · as Moira O'Flynn
Turn of the Tide
Movie · as Ruth Fosdyck
The Ace of Spades
Movie · as Evelyn Daventry
The Lad
Movie · as Joan Fandon
Department Store
Movie · as Jane Grey
Three Witnesses
Movie · as Diane Morton
Blind Justice
Movie · as Peggy Summers
Open All Night
Movie · as Jill