Shelley Winters

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1920-08-18 (86 years old)

Deathday

2006-01-14

Place of Birth

St. Louis, Missouri, USA

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 ...

Acting

1972

1962

Lolita

as Charlotte Haze

1973

The Stone Killer

as Drunk Woman in Police Station (uncredited)

1955

1965

The Greatest Story Ever Told

as Woman who is healed

1959

The Diary of Anne Frank

as Petronella Van Daan

1994

The Silence of the Hams

as Mrs. Motel (The Mother)

1945

Escape in the Fog

as Taxi Driver (uncredited)

1978

King of the Gypsies

as Queen Rachel

1948

Cry of the City

as Brenda Martingale

1949

Take One False Step

as Catherine Sykes

1977

Pete's Dragon

as Lena Gogan

1970

Bloody Mama

as 'Ma' Kate Barker

1976

The Tenant

as Concierge

1995

Heavy

as Dolly Modino

1972

1978

The Initiation of Sarah

as Mrs. Erica Hunter

1976

1968

1966

Harper

as Fay Estabrook

1951

A Place in the Sun

as Alice Tripp

1948

Larceny

as Tory

1947

The Gangster

as Hazel

1951

He Ran All the Way

as Peggy Dobbs

1968

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

as Shirley Newman

1965

A Patch of Blue

as Rose-Ann D'Arcey

1981

S.O.B.

as Eva Brown

1973

1979

Elvis

as Gladys Presley

1993

The Pickle

as Yetta

1955

1947

A Double Life

as Pat Kroll

1954

Playgirl

as Fran

1991

Stepping Out

as Mrs. Fraser

1950

Winchester '73

as Lola Manners

1996

The Portrait of a Lady

as Mrs. Touchett

1968

Wild in the Streets

as Mrs. Max Flatow (Frost)

1967

Enter Laughing

as Emma Kolowitz

1954

Executive Suite

as Eva Bardeman

1945

Tonight and Every Night

as Bubbles (uncredited)

1966

Alfie

as Ruby

1951

The Raging Tide

as Connie Thatcher

1986

The Delta Force

as Edie Kaplan

1975

1955

The Big Knife

as Dixie Evans

1977

Tentacles

as Tillie Turner

1995

Jury Duty

as Mrs. Collins

2014

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

as Edie Kaplan (archive footage) (uncredited)

1949

The Great Gatsby

as Myrtle Wilson

1977

An Average Little Man

as Amalia Vivaldi

1979

The Visitor

as Jane Phillips

1955

I Am a Camera

as Natalia Landauer

1977

1961

The Young Savages

as Mary diPace

1983

Fanny Hill

as Mrs. Cole

2000

On Cukor

as Self

2012

1973

The Devil's Daughter

as Lilith Malone

1975

Diamonds

as Zelda Shapiro

1979

City on Fire

as Nurse Andrea Harper

1973

Blume in Love

as Mrs. Cramer

1999

La bomba

as Prof. Summers

1950

1995

Backfire!

as The Good Lieutenant

1986

Witchfire

as Lydia

1960

1971

Revenge!

as Amanda Hilton

1954

Saskatchewan

as Grace Markey

1962

The Chapman Report

as Sarah Garnell

1963

The Balcony

as Madame Irma

1952

Meet Danny Wilson

as Joy Carroll

1974

Big Rose

as Rose Winters

1975

Journey into Fear

as Mrs. Mathews

1963

Wives and Lovers

as Fran Cabrell

1952

Untamed Frontier

as Jane Stevens

1985

Déjà Vu

as Olga Nabokova

1954

To Dorothy, a Son

as Myrtle La Mar

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1951

Behave Yourself!

as Katherine "Kate" Denny

1954

Tennessee Champ

as Sarah Wurble

1989

An Unremarkable Life

as Evelyn McEllany

1950

Frenchie

as Frenchie Fontaine

1964

A House Is Not a Home

as Polly Adler

1974

The Sex Symbol

as Agatha Murphy

1984

Ellie

as Cora Jackson

1952

My Man and I

as Nancy

1944

Together Again

as Young Woman Fleeing Nightclub Raid (uncredited)

1995

Mrs. Munck

as Aunt Monica

1947

Killer McCoy

as Waitress / Autograph Hound (uncredited)

1971

A Death of Innocence

as Elizabeth Cameron

1948

Red River

as Wagon Train Member (uncredited)

1947

Living in a Big Way

as Junior League Girl (uncredited)

1979

1970

Flap

as Dorothy Bluebell

1954

Mambo

as Toni Salerno

1944

Sailor's Holiday

as Gloria Flynn

1991

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

as Self (archive footage)

1970

How Do I Love Thee?

as Lena Mervin

1969

The Mad Room

as Mrs. Armstrong

2022

Groucho & Cavett

as Self (archive footage)

1967

1972

Something to Hide

as Gabriella Field

1944

She's a Soldier Too

as 'Silver' Rankin (uncredited)

1947

New Orleans

as Mrs. Holmbright

1944

Knickerbocker Holiday

as Ulda Tienhoven

-

Emma and Grandpa

as Narrator (US)

1975

That Lucky Touch

as Diana Steedeman

1943

What a Woman

as Secretary (uncredited)

1995

Raging Angels

as Grandma Ruth

1992

Weep No More, My Lady

as Vivian Morgan

1981

Looping

as Carmen

1998

Gideon

as Mrs. Willows

1966

1985

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

as Self (archive footage)

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

1969

Arthur? Arthur!

as Hester Green

1945

2020

My Darling Vivian

as Self (archive footage)

2001

1996

Valley Girls

as Lady in Truck

2021

The Sparks Brothers

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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