Helen Hayes
Acting • Born 1900-10-09 – Died 1993-03-17
Biography
Helen Hayes was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In 1988 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is the namesake of the annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in the greater Washington, D.C. area since 1984. Perhaps the ultimate respect to be paid to any actor by a producer - of having a theater christened in their name - became a reality for Ms. Hayes in 1955 when the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City's Broadway theater district was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre. When that venue was torn down in 1982 (along with five other neighboring theaters), the operators of the Little Theatre, another standing theater two blocks away on 44th Street, renamed that house in her name, which it has retained ever since. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Hayes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
78 credits
Airport
Movie • 1970
Ada Quonsett
Herbie Rides Again
Movie • 1974
Mrs. Steinmetz
Murder Is Easy
Movie • 1982
Lavinia Fullerton
Victory at Entebbe
Movie • 1976
Etta Grossman-Wise
A Caribbean Mystery
Movie • 1983
Miss Jane Marple
Murder with Mirrors
Movie • 1985
Miss Jane Marple
A Farewell to Arms
Movie • 1932
Catherine Barkley
The Female Instinct
Movie • 1972
Ernesta Snoop
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Movie • 1975
Hettie
Candleshoe
Movie • 1977
Lady St. Edmund
Anastasia
Movie • 1956
Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
Stage Door Canteen
Movie • 1943
Helen Hayes
Third Man on the Mountain
Movie • 1959
Hotel guest (uncredited)
My Son John
Movie • 1952
Lucille Jefferson
Another Language
Movie • 1933
Stella Hallam
Arrowsmith
Movie • 1931
Leora Tozer Arrowsmith
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Movie • 1931
Madelon Claudet
Night Flight
Movie • 1933
Madame Fabian
Bill Cosby: Walking Free
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
The White Sister
Movie • 1933
Angela Chiaromonte
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Movie • 1935
Vanessa Paris
Hopper's Silence
Movie • 1981
Herself
The Son-Daughter
Movie • 1932
Lian Wha
What Every Woman Knows
Movie • 1934
Maggie Wylie
The Challenge of Ideas
Movie • 1961
Narrator
A Family Upside Down
Movie • 1978
Emma Long
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Movie • 1971
Sophie Tate Curtis
The Dancing Town
Movie • 1928
Olive Pepperall
Night of 100 Stars III
Movie • 1990
Self
Night of 100 Stars
Movie • 1982
Self
Harvey
Movie • 1972
Veta Louise Simmons
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
Movie • 1998
Self (archive footage)
Main Street to Broadway
Movie • 1953
Self
A.N.T.A. Album of 1955
Movie • 1955
Self
The Bat
Movie • 1960
Cornelia Van Gorder
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Movie • 1940
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Goes to Town
Movie • 1938
Self
Arsenic and Old Lace
Movie • 1969
Abby Brewster
The Ten-Year Lunch
Movie • 1987
Herself - Participant
Crime Without Passion
Movie • 1934
Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
The Weavers of Life
Movie • 1917
Peggy
Riders of the Range
Movie • 1923
Inez
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
Movie • 1979
Self
Airports
Movie • 2025
Four Women in Black
Movie • 1957
Sister Theresa
Divine Mercy No Escape
Movie • 1994
Here's Lucy
TV • 1968
Kathleen Brady
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV • 1950
Self
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Aunt Clara
Highway to Heaven
TV • 1984
Omnibus
TV • 1952
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Essie
The Snoop Sisters
TV • 1973
Ernesta Snoop
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Tarzan
TV • 1966
MGM: When the Lion Roars
TV • 1992
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Queen Victoria
The Jack Benny Program
TV • 1950
Helen Hayes
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV • 1978
Self
Ghost Story
TV • 1972
Miss Gilden
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Honora Canderay (woman)
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
TV • 1976
Dr. McCartney
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
The Vicaress
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Veta Louise Simmons
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Agatha Winslow
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
The Bell Telephone Hour
TV • 1959
Self
Play of the Week
TV • 1959
Mother Hildebrand
Pride and Prejudice
TV • 1952
Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Omnibus
TV • 1952
Bessie Arlington
Omnibus
TV • 1952
Mrs. Dearth
Omnibus
TV • 1952
Mrs. Howard V. Larue III
Kraft Television Theatre
TV • 1947
Self - Host