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Ruth Warrick
Actor
Died January 15, 2005 (89 years)
Dame Ruth Elizabeth Warrick (June 29, 1916 – January 15, 2005), DM, was a long-time American singer, Hollywood Golden-Age actress and political activist, best known for her role as Phoebe Tyler on All My Children, which she played regularly from 1970 until her death in 2005.
She celebrated her 80th birthday by attending a special screening of Citizen Kane to a packed, standing-room-only audience, to which she spoke afterward. (She made her film debut as Kane's first wife.) Over the years, she collected several books about Orson Welles and Citizen Kane, in which she would write "Property of Ruth Warrick, Mrs. Citizen Kane".
She served as a Licensed Unity Teacher.
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Filmography
| 2014 | Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles · as Emily Monroe Norton Kane (clip from Citizen Kane (1941)) |
| 1984 | Death Mask · as Beatrice VandenBerg |
| 1983 | The Returning · as Grace |
| 1977 | The Love Boat (TV Series) · as Joan Heinsley |
| 1970 | All My Children (TV Series) · as Phoebe Tyler Wallingford |
| 1969 | The Great Bank Robbery · as Mrs. Applebee |
| 1968 | How to Steal the World · as Alice Garrow |
| 1966 | Ride Beyond Vengeance · as Aunt Gussie |
| 1964 | Daniel Boone (TV Series) · as Wise Woman |
| 1964 | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) · as Alice Garrow |
| 1961 | Father of the Bride (TV Series) · as Eleanor "Ellie" Banks |
| 1957 | Perry Mason (TV Series) · as Mrs. Winlock |
| 1956 | As The World Turns (TV Series) · as Edith 'Aunt Edie' Hughes Frye |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Clara Benteen |
| 1954 | Roogie's Bump · as Mrs. Rigsby |
| 1952 | Guiding Light (TV Series) · as Janet Johnson, RN |
| 1952 | Cavalcade of America (TV Series) · as Lydia Darragh |
| 1951 | Gruen Guild Theater (TV Series) · as Opera Singer |
| 1950 | Three Husbands · as Jane Evans |
| 1950 | Let's Dance · as Carola Everett |
| 1950 | One Too Many · as Helen Mason |
| 1950 | The Bigelow Theatre (TV Series) · as actor |
| 1950 | The Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) · as Anna Carmody |
| 1949 | The Great Dan Patch · as Ruth Treadwell |
| 1948 | Arch of Triumph · as Kate Bergstroem |
| 1948 | Studio One (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1947 | Daisy Kenyon · as Lucille O'Mara |
| 1947 | Driftwood · as Susan Moore |
| 1946 | Song of the South · as Sally |
| 1945 | China Sky · as Dr. Sara Durand |
| 1944 | Guest in the House · as Ann Proctor |
| 1943 | Journey Into Fear · as Mrs. Stephanie Graham |
| 1941 | Citizen Kane · as Emily Norton Kane |
| 1941 | The Corsican Brothers · as Countess Isabelle Gravini |