Eleanor Parker

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1922-06-26 (91 years old)

Deathday

2013-12-09

Place of Birth

Cedarville, Ohio, USA

Eleanor Parker

Biography

Eleanor Jean Parker (June 26, 1922 – December 9, 2013) was an American actress. She was nominated for three Academy Awards for her roles in the films Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951), and Interrupted Melody (1955), the first of which won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She was also known for her roles in the films Of Human Bondage (1946), Scaramouche (1952), The Naked Jungle (1954), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), A Hole in the Head (1959), The Sound of Music (1965), and The Oscar (1966). Description above from the Wikipedia article Eleanor Parker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1955

1951

Detective Story

as Mary McLeod

1974

Home for the Holidays

as Alexandra Morgan

1949

It's a Great Feeling

as Eleanor Parker (uncredited)

1968

How to Steal the World

as Margitta Kingsley

1944

Between Two Worlds

as Ann Bergner

1959

A Hole in the Head

as Eloise Rogers

1952

Scaramouche

as Lenore

1950

Caged

as Marie Allen

1965

The Sound of Music

as The Baroness

1948

The Woman in White

as Laura Fairlie / Ann Catherick

1956

The King and Four Queens

as Sabina McDade

1955

Interrupted Melody

as Marjorie Lawrence

1950

Three Secrets

as Susan Chase

1946

Never Say Goodbye

as Ellen Gayley

1954

The Naked Jungle

as Joanna Leiningen

1953

Above and Beyond

as Lucey Tibbets

1955

Many Rivers to Cross

as Mary Stuart Cherne

1945

Pride of the Marines

as Ruth Hartley

1961

Madison Avenue

as Anne Tremaine

1977

Fantasy Island

as Eunice Hollander Baines

1953

Escape from Fort Bravo

as Carla Forester

1966

The Oscar

as Sophie Cantaro

1967

1943

The Mysterious Doctor

as Letty Carstairs

1950

Chain Lightning

as Joan "Jo" Holloway

1967

Warning Shot

as Mrs. Doris Ruston

1960

Home from the Hill

as Hannah Hunnicutt

1969

Eye of the Cat

as Aunt Danny

1942

Busses Roar

as Norma

1947

Escape Me Never

as Fenella MacLean

1980

Once Upon a Spy

as The Lady

1961

Return to Peyton Place

as Connie Rossi

1966

An American Dream

as Deborah Kelly Rojack

1944

Crime by Night

as Irene Carr

1957

Lizzie

as Elizabeth Richmond

1954

Valley of the Kings

as Ann Barclay Mercedes

1943

Mission to Moscow

as Emlen Davies

1979

Sunburn

as Mrs. Thoren

1946

Of Human Bondage

as Mildred Rogers

1947

The Voice of the Turtle

as Sally Middleton

1969

Hans Brinker

as Dame Brinker

1957

The Seventh Sin

as Carol Carwin

1951

A Millionaire for Christy

as Christabel 'Christy' Sloane

1944

The Last Ride

as Kitty Kelly

1944

The Very Thought of You

as Janet Wheeler

1979

She's Dressed to Kill

as Regine Danton

1951

Valentino

as Joan Carlisle / Sarah Gray

1991

Dead on the Money

as Catherine Blake

1978

The Bastard

as Lady Amberly

1967

Warning Shot

as Doris Ruston

1964

Panic Button

as Louise

1947

Always Together

as Eleanor Parker (uncredited)

1942

The Big Shot

as Telephone Operator (voice)

1943

Destination Tokyo

as Mike's Wife on Record (voice) (uncredited)

1942

Vaudeville Days

as Colleen (song "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling")

1944

Atlantic City

as Bathing Beauty (uncredited)

1981

Madame X

as Katherine Richardson

1942

Soldiers in White

as Nurse Ryan

1942

Men of the Sky

as Mrs. Frank Bickley

1946

1991

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as Zosch Machine (archive footage) (uncredited)

1997

Frank Capra's American Dream

as Self (archive footage)

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