Helen Hayes

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1900-10-09 (93 years old)

Deathday

1993-03-17

Place of Birth

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Helen Hayes

Biography

Helen Hayes was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In 1988 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is the namesake of the annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in the greater Washington, D.C. area since 1984. Perhaps the ultimate respect to be paid to any actor by a producer - of hav...

Acting

1970

Airport

as Ada Quonsett

1974

Herbie Rides Again

as Mrs. Steinmetz

1982

Murder Is Easy

as Lavinia Fullerton

1976

Victory at Entebbe

as Etta Grossman-Wise

1983

A Caribbean Mystery

as Miss Jane Marple

1985

Murder with Mirrors

as Miss Jane Marple

1932

A Farewell to Arms

as Catherine Barkley

1972

The Female Instinct

as Ernesta Snoop

1977

Candleshoe

as Lady St. Edmund

1956

Anastasia

as Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna

1943

Stage Door Canteen

as Helen Hayes

1959

Third Man on the Mountain

as Hotel guest (uncredited)

1952

My Son John

as Lucille Jefferson

1933

Another Language

as Stella Hallam

1931

Arrowsmith

as Leora Tozer Arrowsmith

1931

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

as Madelon Claudet

1933

Night Flight

as Madame Fabian

2022

Bill Cosby: Walking Free

as Self (archive footage)

1933

The White Sister

as Angela Chiaromonte

1935

Vanessa: Her Love Story

as Vanessa Paris

1981

1932

The Son-Daughter

as Lian Wha

1934

What Every Woman Knows

as Maggie Wylie

1961

1978

1971

1928

The Dancing Town

as Olive Pepperall

1972

Harvey

as Veta Louise Simmons

1998

Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero

as Self (archive footage)

1960

The Bat

as Cornelia Van Gorder

1940

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

as Self (archive footage)

1969

Arsenic and Old Lace

as Abby Brewster

1987

The Ten-Year Lunch

as Herself - Participant

1934

Crime Without Passion

as Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

1952

Mr. Lincoln

as Bessie Arlington

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