Geraldine Fitzgerald
Acting • Born 1913-11-24 – Died 2005-07-17
Biography
Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lady Lindsay-Hogg was an Irish-American actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. She was born south of Dublin, the daughter of Edith Catherine and Edward Martin FitzGerald. She studied painting at the Dublin School of Art. Inspired by her aunt, and began her acting career in at Dublin's Gate Theatre. After two seasons in Dublin, she moved to London, where she found success in films The Mill on the Floss, The Turn of the Tide, and Cafe Mascot. Fitzgerald's success led her to the Broadway stage in 1938. She made her American debut in the Mercury Theatre production of Heartbreak House. Producer Hal B. Wallis saw her in this production and subsequently signed her to a contract with Warner Bros, where she starred in Dark Victory and Wuthering Heights. Afterwards, appeared in Shining Victory, The Gay Sisters, and Watch on the Rhine, but her career was hampered by her frequent clashes with studio management. Although she continued to work throughout the 1940s, the quality of her roles began to diminish and her career lost momentum. In 1946, shortly after completing work on Three Strangers, she left Hollywood to return to New York City, where she married her second husband, Stuart Scheftel, a grandson of Isidor Straus. She returned to Britain to film So Evil My Love, receiving strong reviews, and The Late Edwina Black, before returning to the United States. She became a naturalized United States citizen on April 18, 1955. The 1950s provided her with few opportunities in film, but during the 1960s she asserted herself as a character actor and her career enjoyed a revival. Among her successful films of this period were Ten North Frederick, The Pawnbroker, and Rachel, Rachel. Her later films included The Mango Tree, for which she received an Australian Film Institute Best Actress nomination, and Harry and Tonto, in a scene opposite Art Carney. She also starred in Arthur 1 and 2, miniseries Kennedy, Do You Remember Love, Easy Money, Poltergeist 2, as in Circle of Violence, a television film about elder abuse. Fitzgerald returned to stage acting, and won acclaim for her performance in the 1971 revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night. In 1976, she performed as a cabaret singer with the show Streetsongs, recorded an album of the show for Ben Bagley's Painted Smiles label. She also achieved success as a theatre director; becoming one of the first women to receive a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Play. While in New York, Fitzgerald collaborated with playwright and Franciscan brother Jonathan Ringkamp to found the Everyman Theater of Brooklyn, a street theater company, that performed throughout the city. She appeared on television, in such series as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Robert Montgomery Presents, Naked City, St. Elsewhere, The Golden Girls, and Cagney and Lacey. As well, she starred in Our Private World, and Mabel and Max. She won a Daytime Emmy Award as best actress for her appearance in the NBC Special Treat episode "Rodeo Red and the Runaways". Description above from the Wikipedia article Geraldine Fitzgerald, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
93 credits
Wuthering Heights
Movie • 1939
Isabella Linton
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
Movie • 1986
Gramma-Jess
The Pawnbroker
Movie • 1965
Marilyn Birchfield
Ah, Wilderness!
Movie • 1976
Essie Miller
Blood Link
Movie • 1982
Mrs. Thomason
The Last American Hero
Movie • 1973
Frau Jackson
Nobody Lives Forever
Movie • 1946
Gladys Halvorsen
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
Movie • 1988
Martha Bach
Dark Victory
Movie • 1939
Ann King
Arthur
Movie • 1981
Martha Bach
Three Strangers
Movie • 1946
Crystal Shackleford
Bye Bye Monkey
Movie • 1978
Mrs. Toland
Harry and Tonto
Movie • 1974
Jessie Stone
Rachel, Rachel
Movie • 1968
Rev. Wood
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
Movie • 1945
Lettie Quincey
Watch on the Rhine
Movie • 1943
Marte Brankovic
So Evil My Love
Movie • 1948
Susan Courtney
Easy Money
Movie • 1983
Mrs. Monahan
Wilson
Movie • 1944
Edith Bolling Galt
The Gay Sisters
Movie • 1942
Evelyn Gaylord
O.S.S.
Movie • 1946
Miss Ellen Rogers / Madame Elaine Duprez
Beyond the Horizon
Movie • 1975
Mrs. Atkins
Echoes of a Summer
Movie • 1976
Sara
Ten North Frederick
Movie • 1958
Edith Chapin
Diary of the Dead
Movie • 1976
Maud Kennaway
Lovespell
Movie • 1981
Bronwyn
The Late Edwina Black
Movie • 1951
Elizabeth Grahame
'Til We Meet Again
Movie • 1940
Bonny Coburn
Flight from Destiny
Movie • 1941
Betty Farroway
Turn of the Tide
Movie • 1935
Ruth Fosdyck
The Ace of Spades
Movie • 1935
Evelyn Daventry
Shining Victory
Movie • 1941
Dr. Mary Murray
Do You Remember Love
Movie • 1985
Lorraine Wyatt
A Child is Born
Movie • 1939
Grace Sutton
The Lad
Movie • 1935
Joan Fandon
The Mill on the Floss
Movie • 1937
Maggie Tulliver
The Quinns
Movie • 1977
Peggy Quinn
Me
Movie • 1973
Ma
Yesterday's Child
Movie • 1977
Emma Talbot
Bump in the Night
Movie • 1991
Mrs. Beauchamps
Ladies Courageous
Movie • 1944
Virgie Alford
The Mango Tree
Movie • 1977
Grandma Carr
The Fiercest Heart
Movie • 1961
Tante Marie
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
Movie • 1974
Grandmother
Forget-Me-Not Lane
Movie • 1975
Amy Bisley
Circle of Violence: A Family Drama
Movie • 1986
Charlotte Kessling
Department Store
Movie • 1935
Jane Grey
Open All Night
Movie • 1934
Jill
Tartuffe
Movie • 1978
Madame Pernelle
Debt of Honour
Movie • 1936
Peggy Mayhew
Cafe Mascot
Movie • 1936
Moira O'Flynn
Three Witnesses
Movie • 1935
Diane Morton
Pontius Pilate
Movie • 1952
Claudia Procula
Dark Possession
Movie • 1954
Charlotte Bell Wheeler
Dixie: Changing Habits
Movie • 1983
Sister Agnes
Night of Courage
Movie • 1987
Abby Abelsen
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
Movie • 1983
Self
Blind Justice
Movie • 1935
Peggy Summers
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Movie • 1980
Granny Weatherall
Dick Francis: Twice Shy
Movie • 1989
Mrs. O'Rourke
The Moon and Sixpence
Movie • 1959
Amy Strickland
St. Elsewhere
TV • 1982
Margaret Ryan
The Golden Girls
TV • 1985
Anna
Chalk
TV • 1997
Janet Slatt
Naked City
TV • 1958
Brigid Delito
Cagney & Lacey
TV • 1982
Studio One
TV • 1948
Claudia Procula
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Elizabeth Burton
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Mary Todd Lincoln
Climax!
TV • 1954
Miriam Lambert
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Suspense
TV • 1949
Anna
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Lila Windell
The Best Of Everything
TV • 1970
Nurse
TV • 1981
Helen McCall
Naked City
TV • 1958
Lillian Clinton
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Kennedy
TV • 1983
Rose Kennedy
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV • 1973
Self
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Elizabeth
Studio One
TV • 1948
Charlotte Bell Wheeler
Studio One
TV • 1948
Marian McNeill
Studio One
TV • 1948
Duchess
A Year in the Life
TV • 1987
Mrs. Wilbourne
Suspense
TV • 1949
Trapper John, M.D.
TV • 1979
Bag lady
The Golden Girls
TV • 1985
Martha
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Agatha Tomlin
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Grandmother
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Amy Bisley
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Mrs.Atkins
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Essie Miller
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self