Julie Harris
Acting · Costume & Make-Up
Born December 2, 1925, Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Julia Ann Harris (December 2, 1925 – August 24, 2013) was an American actress. Renowned for her classical and contemporary stage work, she received five Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Play. Harris debuted on Broadway in 1945, against the wishes of her mother, who wanted her to be a society debutante. Harris was acclaimed for her performance as an isolated 12-year-old girl in the 1950 play The Member of the Wedding, a role she reprised in the 1952 film of the same name, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1951, her range was demonstrated as Sally Bowles in the original production of I Am a Camera, for which she won her first Tony award. She subsequently appeared in the 1955 film version. Harris gave acclaimed performances in films including The Haunting (1963), and Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), in which she played opposite Marlon Brando. A method actor, she won Tony awards for The Lark (1956), Forty Carats (1969), The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (1973), and The Belle of Amherst (1977). She was also a Grammy Award winner and a three time Emmy Award winner. Harris was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1979, received the National Medal of Arts in 1994,[1] and the 2002 Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award Description above from the Wikipedia article Julie Harris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
- 2009The Lightkeepers — Mrs. Deacon
- 2008The Golden Boys — Melodeon Player
- 2006The Way Back Home — Julie Harris
- 1999Love Is Strange — Sylvia McClain
- Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony — Susan B. Anthony (voice)
- 1999The First of May — Carlotta
- 1998Bad Manners — Professor Harper
- 1997Ellen Foster — Leonora Nelson
- 1996Carried Away — Joseph's Mother
- 1996Little Surprises
- 1996Passage to Paradise — Martha
- 1996The Christmas Tree — Sister Anthony
- 1995Secrets — Caroline Phelan
- The Outer Limits — Hera
- Baseball — Voice, (voice)
- 1994One Christmas — Sook
- Scarlett — Eleanor Butler
- 1993The Dark Half — Reggie DeLesseps
- 1993Vanished Without a Trace — Odessa Ray
- 1993When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn — Alice
- 1992Housesitter — Edna Davis
- The Civil War — Mary Chestnut (voice)
- 1989Isadora Duncan: Movement from the Soul — Isadora Duncan (voice)
- 1989Single Women, Married Men — Lucille Frankel
- 1988Gorillas in the Mist — Roz Carr
- 1988The Christmas Wife — Iris
- 1988The Woman He Loved — Alice
- 1988Too Good to Be True — Margaret Berent
- 1987The Cat That Drank and Used Too Much — Narrator
- 1986Nutcracker: The Motion Picture — Clara (Voice)
- 1984The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God — (voice)
- 1983Brontë — Charlotte Brontë
- Family Ties — Margaret
- 1982The Voyage of Odysseus — Narrator
- 1981Brooklyn Bridge — Emily Roebling (voice)
- Backstairs at the White House — Helen 'Nellie' Taft
- Knots Landing — Lilimae Clements
- Tales of the Unexpected — Mrs Bixby, Mrs Foster
- 1979The Bell Jar — Mrs. Greenwood
- 1979The Gift — Anne Devlin
- 1978Stubby Pringle's Christmas — Georgia Henderson
- Vega$
- 1976The Belle of Amherst — Emily Dickinson
- 1976The Last of Mrs. Lincoln — Mary Todd Lincoln
- 1976Voyage of the Damned — Alice Fienchild
- 1975Long Way Home — Elizabeth Holvak
- The Family Holvak
- 1975The Hiding Place — Betsie ten Boom
- 1974Home for the Holidays — Elizabeth Hall Morgan
- 1974The Greatest Gift — Elizabeth Holvak
- Hawkins — Janet Hubbard
- The Evil Touch
- Thicker than Water — Nellie Paine
- Columbo — Karen Fielding
- 1971Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones — Charity Jones
- 1970House on Greenapple Road — Leona Miller
- 1970How Awful About Allan — Katherine
- 1970The People Next Door — Gerrie Mason
- Medical Center
- Journey to the Unknown — Leona Gillings
- 1968Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army — Charity Jones
- The Name of the Game — Verna Ward
- 1968The Split — Gladys
- Garrison's Gorillas
- 1967Reflections in a Golden Eye — Alison Langdon
- 1966Harper — Betty Fraley
- Tarzan
- 1966You're a Big Boy Now — Miss Nora Thing
- Laredo
- Run for Your Life — Lucrece Lawrence
- The Big Valley — Jennie Hall
- 1965The Holy Terror — Florence Nightingale
- Daniel Boone — Faith
- 1964Hamlet — Ophelia
- 1964Little Moon of Alban — Brigid Mary Mangan
- Kraft Suspense Theatre — Lucy Bram
- 1963Pygmalion — Eliza Doolittle
- 1963The Haunting — Eleanor Lance
- 1963The Power and the Glory — Maria (Priest's Mistress)
- 1962Requiem for a Heavyweight — Grace Miller
- 1962The War Lover — Costume Design
- 1961Victoria Regina — Queen Victoria
- 1960Sally's Irish Rogue — Sally Hamil
- 1959A Doll's House — Nora
- Bonanza — Sarah Carter
- Rawhide — Emma Teall
- 1958Johnny Belinda — Belinda
- 1958Little Moon of Alban — Brigid Mary Mangan
- 1957The Lark — Joan of Arc
- 1957The Truth About Women — Helen Cooper
- 1956THe Good Fairy — Lu
- 1955A Wind from the South — Shevawn
- 1955East of Eden — Abra Bacon
- 1955I Am a Camera — Sally Bowles
- The United States Steel Hour
- 1952The Member of the Wedding — Frances 'Frankie' Addams
- Hallmark Hall of Fame — Lu, Georgia Henderson, Grandmother Leonora, Joan of Ark, Belinda, Nora Helmer, Queen Victoria, Eliza Doolittle, Florence Nightingale, Anastasia
- Actors Studio
Appearances as themselves (18)
- 2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age — Self
- 2007THE BEATLES in HELP! — Self
- 2005East of Eden: Art in Search of Life — Self
- 2005James Dean: Forever Young — Self (archive footage)
- 2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There — Self
- 1997Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough — Self
- 1995James Dean and Me — Self (uncredited)
- 1990Anthony Quinn: An Original — Self
- 1989Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre — Self (voice)
- 1988Forever James Dean — Self
- Wordplay — Self - Celebrity Panelist
- 1985Night of 100 Stars II — Self
- 1982Night of 100 Stars — Self
- The Kennedy Center Honors — Self
- The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
- The Mike Douglas Show — Self
- Tony Awards — Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter
- The Ed Sullivan Show — Self