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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
August 18, 1920
Place of Birth:
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Shelley Winters
Biography
Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress whose career spanned almost six decades. She appeared in numerous films, and won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Other roles Winters appeared in include A Double Life (1947), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), Alfie (1966), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), and Pete's Dragon (1977). In addition to film, Winters appeared in television, including a years-long tenure on the sitcom Roseanne, and also authored three autobiographical books.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Groucho & Cavett | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | The Sparks Brothers | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2020 | My Darling Vivian | Self (archive footage) |
| 2014 | Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films | Edie Kaplan (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) |
| 2001 | George Stevens and His Place In The Sun | Self (archive footage) |
| 2000 | On Cukor | Self |
| 1999 | La bomba | Prof. Summers |
| 1998 | Gideon | Mrs. Willows |
| 1997 | Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady | Self |
| 1996 | The Portrait of a Lady | Mrs. Touchett |
| 1996 | Valley Girls | Lady in Truck |
| 1995 | Heavy | Dolly Modino |
| 1995 | Jury Duty | Mrs. Collins |
| 1995 | Backfire! | The Good Lieutenant |
| 1995 | Mrs. Munck | Aunt Monica |
| 1995 | Raging Angels | Grandma Ruth |
| 1995 | Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter' | Self |
| 1994 | The Silence of the Hams | Mrs. Motel (The Mother) |
| 1994 | Marlon Brando: The Wild One | Self |
| 1993 | The Pickle | Yetta |
| 1992 | Weep No More, My Lady | Vivian Morgan |
| 1991 | Stepping Out | Mrs. Fraser |
| 1991 | Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star | Self (archive footage) |
| 1990 | Touch of a Stranger | Lily |
| 1990 | Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge | Self |
| 1990 | Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol | Self |
| 1989 | An Unremarkable Life | Evelyn McEllany |
| 1989 | Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre | Self |
| 1989 | Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre | Herself |
| 1988 | Hello Actors Studio | Self |
| 1988 | Purple People Eater | Rita |
| 1986 | The Delta Force | Edie Kaplan |
| 1986 | Witchfire | Lydia |
| 1986 | Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend | Self |
| 1986 | Very Close Quarters | |
| 1985 | Déjà Vu | Olga Nabokova |
| 1985 | George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey | Self (archive footage) |
| 1984 | Over the Brooklyn Bridge | Becky |
| 1984 | Ellie | Cora Jackson |
| 1983 | Fanny Hill | Mrs. Cole |
| 1983 | Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1983 | Do It Debbie's Way | Self |
| 1981 | S.O.B. | Eva Brown |
| 1981 | Looping | Carmen |
| 1979 | Elvis | Gladys Presley |
| 1979 | Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July | Crystal (voice) |
| 1979 | The Visitor | Jane Phillips |
| 1979 | City on Fire | Nurse Andrea Harper |
| 1979 | The Magician of Lublin | Elzbieta |
| 1979 | Cher... and Other Fantasies | Shelley |
| 1978 | King of the Gypsies | Queen Rachel |
| 1978 | The Initiation of Sarah | Mrs. Erica Hunter |
| 1977 | Pete's Dragon | Lena Gogan |
| 1977 | Tentacles | Tillie Turner |
| 1977 | An Average Little Man | Amalia Vivaldi |
| 1977 | Black Journal | Lea |
| 1976 | The Tenant | Concierge |
| 1976 | Next Stop, Greenwich Village | Faye Lapinsky |
| 1976 | Frosty's Winter Wonderland | Crystal |
| 1976 | Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden | Caterina |
| 1975 | Poor Pretty Eddie | Bertha |
| 1975 | Diamonds | Zelda Shapiro |
| 1975 | Journey into Fear | Mrs. Mathews |
| 1975 | That Lucky Touch | Diana Steedeman |
| 1974 | Big Rose | Rose Winters |
| 1974 | The Sex Symbol | Agatha Murphy |
| 1973 | The Stone Killer | Drunk Woman in Police Station (uncredited) |
| 1973 | Cleopatra Jones | Mommy |
| 1973 | The Devil's Daughter | Lilith Malone |
| 1973 | Blume in Love | Mrs. Cramer |
| 1972 | The Poseidon Adventure | Belle Rosen |
| 1972 | Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? | Mrs. Forrest |
| 1972 | The Adventures of Nick Carter | Bess Tucker |
| 1972 | Something to Hide | Gabriella Field |
| 1971 | What's the Matter with Helen? | Helen Hill |
| 1971 | Revenge! | Amanda Hilton |
| 1971 | A Death of Innocence | Elizabeth Cameron |
| 1970 | Bloody Mama | 'Ma' Kate Barker |
| 1970 | Flap | Dorothy Bluebell |
| 1970 | How Do I Love Thee? | Lena Mervin |
| 1969 | The Mad Room | Mrs. Armstrong |
| 1969 | Arthur? Arthur! | Hester Green |
| 1968 | The Scalphunters | Kate |
| 1968 | Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell | Shirley Newman |
| 1968 | Wild in the Streets | Mrs. Daphne Flatow |
| 1967 | Enter Laughing | Emma Kolowitz |
| 1967 | Easier in the Dark | Frances |
| 1966 | Harper | Fay Estabrook |
| 1966 | Alfie | Ruby |
| 1966 | The Three Sisters | Natalya |
| 1965 | The Greatest Story Ever Told | Woman who is healed |
| 1965 | A Patch of Blue | Rose-Ann D'Arcey |
| 1964 | Time of Indifference | Lisa |
| 1964 | A House Is Not a Home | Polly Adler |
| 1963 | The Balcony | Madame Irma |
| 1963 | Wives and Lovers | Fran Cabrell |
| 1962 | Lolita | Charlotte Haze |
| 1962 | The Chapman Report | Sarah Garnell |
| 1961 | The Young Savages | Mary diPace |
| 1960 | Let No Man Write My Epitaph | Nellie Romano |
| 1959 | The Diary of Anne Frank | Petronella Van Daan |
| 1959 | Odds Against Tomorrow | Lorry |
| 1955 | The Night of the Hunter | Willa Harper |
| 1955 | I Died a Thousand Times | Marie Garson |
| 1955 | The Big Knife | Dixie Evans |
| 1955 | I Am a Camera | Natalia Landauer |
| 1955 | The Treasure of Pancho Villa | Ruth Harris |
| 1954 | Playgirl | Fran |
| 1954 | Executive Suite | Eva Bardeman |
| 1954 | Saskatchewan | Grace Markey |
| 1954 | To Dorothy, a Son | Myrtle La Mar |
| 1954 | Tennessee Champ | Sarah Wurble |
| 1954 | Mambo | Toni Salerno |
| 1954 | A Star Is Born World Premiere | Self |
| 1952 | Phone Call from a Stranger | Binky Gay |
| 1952 | Meet Danny Wilson | Joy Carroll |
| 1952 | Untamed Frontier | Jane Stevens |
| 1952 | My Man and I | Nancy |
| 1951 | A Place in the Sun | Alice Tripp |
| 1951 | He Ran All the Way | Peggy Dobbs |
| 1951 | The Raging Tide | Connie Thatcher |
| 1951 | Behave Yourself! | Katherine "Kate" Denny |
| 1951 | The Re-Inforcer | |
| 1950 | Winchester '73 | Lola Manners |
| 1950 | South Sea Sinner | Coral |
| 1950 | Frenchie | Frenchie Fontaine |
| 1949 | Take One False Step | Catherine Sykes |
| 1949 | The Great Gatsby | Myrtle Wilson |
| 1949 | Johnny Stool Pigeon | Terry |
| 1948 | Cry of the City | Brenda Martingale |
| 1948 | Larceny | Tory |
| 1948 | Red River | Wagon Train Member (uncredited) |
| 1947 | The Gangster | Hazel |
| 1947 | A Double Life | Pat Kroll |
| 1947 | Killer McCoy | Waitress / Autograph Hound (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Living in a Big Way | Junior League Girl (uncredited) |
| 1947 | New Orleans | Mrs. Holmbright |
| 1945 | Escape in the Fog | Taxi Driver (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Tonight and Every Night | Bubbles (uncredited) |
| 1945 | A Thousand and One Nights | Handmaiden |
| 1944 | Together Again | Young Woman Fleeing Nightclub Raid (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Sailor's Holiday | Gloria Flynn |
| 1944 | She's a Soldier Too | 'Silver' Rankin (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Knickerbocker Holiday | Ulda Tienhoven |
| 1943 | What a Woman | Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1943 | There's Something About a Soldier | Norma |
| Emma and Grandpa | Narrator (US) |