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Barbara Bel Geddes

Actor
Died August 8, 2005 (82 years)
Barbara Bel Geddes (October 31, 1922 – August 8, 2005) was an American actress, artist and children's author. She is best known for her role in the television drama series Dallas as matriarch Eleanor "Miss Ellie" Ewing. Bel Geddes also starred in the original Broadway production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof in the role of Maggie, and also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958). She was the recipient of several awards and award nominations for her thespian performances.

Bel Geddes retired from Dallas (and acting) in 1990 and settled in her home in Northeast Harbor, Maine, where she continued to work as a fine artist. She was the author of two children's books and the creator of a line of greeting cards. She was twice married, the mother of two daughters, and died of lung cancer on August 8, 2005.

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Known For
  • Vertigo
  • Dallas
  • I Remember Mama
  • Panic in the Streets
  • Caught
  • Blood on the Moon
  • The Five Pennies
  • The Long Night
  • Fourteen Hours
  • Summertree

Filmography

2005
2004
2002
After Dallas · as Miss Ellie Ewing
2000
Doing Dallas · as Miss Ellie Ewing
1982
1978
Dallas (TV Series) · as Miss Ellie Southworth Ewing Farlow
1977
Our Town · as Mrs. Webb
1971
The Todd Killings · as Mrs. Todd
1971
Summertree · as Ruth
1968
1967
CBS Playhouse (TV Series)
1964
Daniel Boone (TV Series) · as Molly Malone
1961
By Love Possessed · as Clarissa Winner
1961
Dr. Kildare (TV Series) · as Dr. Ruth Halliman
1960
5 Branded Women · as Marja
1959
Riverboat (TV Series) · as Missy
1959
The Five Pennies · as Wila Stutsman
1958
Vertigo · as Marjorie 'midge' Wood
1957
The DuPont Show of the Month (TV Series) · as Cast
1956
Playhouse 90 (TV Series) · as Sidney Cantrell
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) · as Sybilla Meade
1955
The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV Series) · as Cast
1953
The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) · as Lily Barton
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV Series) · as Mary Andrews
1951
Fourteen Hours · as Virginia Foster
1950
The Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (TV Series) · as Bethel Merriday
1950
Panic in the Streets · as Nancy Reed
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theatre (TV Series) · as The Second Mrs. De Winter
1949
Caught · as Leonora Eames
1948
Blood on the Moon · as Amy Lufton
1948
Studio One (TV Series) · as Letty Grey
1948
I Remember Mama · as Katrin
1947
The Long Night · as Jo Ann

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