Shelley Winters
Acting • Born 1920-08-18 – Died 2006-01-14
Biography
Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress whose career spanned almost six decades. She appeared in numerous films, and won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Other roles Winters appeared in include A Double Life (1947), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), Alfie (1966), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), and Pete's Dragon (1977). In addition to film, Winters appeared in television, including a years-long tenure on the sitcom Roseanne, and also authored three autobiographical books.
Filmography
212 credits
The Poseidon Adventure
Movie • 1972
Belle Rosen
Lolita
Movie • 1962
Charlotte Haze
The Stone Killer
Movie • 1973
Drunk Woman in Police Station (uncredited)
The Night of the Hunter
Movie • 1955
Willa Harper
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Movie • 1965
Woman who is healed
The Diary of Anne Frank
Movie • 1959
Petronella Van Daan
The Silence of the Hams
Movie • 1994
Mrs. Motel (The Mother)
Escape in the Fog
Movie • 1945
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
King of the Gypsies
Movie • 1978
Queen Rachel
Cry of the City
Movie • 1948
Brenda Martingale
Take One False Step
Movie • 1949
Catherine Sykes
Pete's Dragon
Movie • 1977
Lena Gogan
Bloody Mama
Movie • 1970
'Ma' Kate Barker
The Tenant
Movie • 1976
Concierge
Heavy
Movie • 1995
Dolly Modino
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
Movie • 1972
Mrs. Forrest
The Initiation of Sarah
Movie • 1978
Mrs. Erica Hunter
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Movie • 1976
Faye Lapinsky
The Scalphunters
Movie • 1968
Kate
Harper
Movie • 1966
Fay Estabrook
A Place in the Sun
Movie • 1951
Alice Tripp
Larceny
Movie • 1948
Tory
The Gangster
Movie • 1947
Hazel (uncredited)
He Ran All the Way
Movie • 1951
Peggy Dobbs
Odds Against Tomorrow
Movie • 1959
Lorry
Frosty's Winter Wonderland
Movie • 1976
Crystal
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
Movie • 1968
Shirley Newman
A Patch of Blue
Movie • 1965
Rose-Ann D'Arcey
S.O.B.
Movie • 1981
Eva Brown
Cleopatra Jones
Movie • 1973
Mommy
Elvis
Movie • 1979
Gladys Presley
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
Movie • 1979
Crystal (voice)
The Pickle
Movie • 1993
Yetta
I Died a Thousand Times
Movie • 1955
Marie Garson
A Double Life
Movie • 1947
Pat Kroll
Playgirl
Movie • 1954
Fran
Stepping Out
Movie • 1991
Mrs. Fraser
Winchester '73
Movie • 1950
Lola Manners
What's the Matter with Helen?
Movie • 1971
Helen Hill
The Portrait of a Lady
Movie • 1996
Mrs. Touchett
Wild in the Streets
Movie • 1968
Mrs. Max Flatow (Frost)
Enter Laughing
Movie • 1967
Emma Kolowitz
Executive Suite
Movie • 1954
Eva Bardeman
Tonight and Every Night
Movie • 1945
Bubbles (uncredited)
Alfie
Movie • 1966
Ruby
The Raging Tide
Movie • 1951
Connie Thatcher
The Delta Force
Movie • 1986
Edie Kaplan
Poor Pretty Eddie
Movie • 1975
Bertha
The Big Knife
Movie • 1955
Dixie Evans
Tentacles
Movie • 1977
Tillie Turner
Jury Duty
Movie • 1995
Mrs. Collins
The Great Gatsby
Movie • 1949
Myrtle Wilson
Johnny Stool Pigeon
Movie • 1949
Terry
An Average Little Man
Movie • 1977
Amalia Vivaldi
The Visitor
Movie • 1979
Jane Phillips
I Am a Camera
Movie • 1955
Natalia Landauer
Phone Call from a Stranger
Movie • 1952
Binky Gay
Black Journal
Movie • 1977
Lea
The Young Savages
Movie • 1961
Mary diPace
The Treasure of Pancho Villa
Movie • 1955
Ruth Harris
Fanny Hill
Movie • 1983
Mrs. Cole
On Cukor
Movie • 2000
Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Movie • 2012
(archive footage)
The Devil's Daughter
Movie • 1973
Lilith Malone
Diamonds
Movie • 1975
Zelda Shapiro
City on Fire
Movie • 1979
Nurse Andrea Harper
Time of Indifference
Movie • 1964
Lisa
Blume in Love
Movie • 1973
Mrs. Cramer
La bomba
Movie • 1999
Prof. Summers
South Sea Sinner
Movie • 1950
Coral
Backfire!
Movie • 1995
The Good Lieutenant
Witchfire
Movie • 1986
Lydia
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Movie • 1960
Nellie Romano
Revenge!
Movie • 1971
Amanda Hilton
Saskatchewan
Movie • 1954
Grace Markey
The Chapman Report
Movie • 1962
Sarah Garnell
The Balcony
Movie • 1963
Madame Irma
Meet Danny Wilson
Movie • 1952
Joy Carroll
Big Rose
Movie • 1974
Rose Winters
Journey into Fear
Movie • 1975
Mrs. Mathews
Wives and Lovers
Movie • 1963
Fran Cabrell
Untamed Frontier
Movie • 1952
Jane Stevens
Déjà Vu
Movie • 1985
Olga Nabokova
To Dorothy, a Son
Movie • 1954
Myrtle La Mar
The Adventures of Nick Carter
Movie • 1972
Bess Tucker
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Movie • 1983
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Behave Yourself!
Movie • 1951
Katherine "Kate" Denny
Tennessee Champ
Movie • 1954
Sarah Wurble
An Unremarkable Life
Movie • 1989
Evelyn McEllany
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Movie • 1986
Self
Frenchie
Movie • 1950
Frenchie Fontaine
Over the Brooklyn Bridge
Movie • 1984
Becky
A House Is Not a Home
Movie • 1964
Polly Adler
The Sex Symbol
Movie • 1974
Agatha Murphy
Ellie
Movie • 1984
Cora Jackson
Hello Actors Studio
Movie • 1988
Self
Touch of a Stranger
Movie • 1990
Lily
My Man and I
Movie • 1952
Nancy
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Movie • 1989
Self
Purple People Eater
Movie • 1988
Rita
Together Again
Movie • 1944
Young Woman Fleeing Nightclub Raid (uncredited)
Mrs. Munck
Movie • 1995
Aunt Monica
Killer McCoy
Movie • 1947
Waitress / Autograph Hound (uncredited)
A Death of Innocence
Movie • 1971
Elizabeth Cameron
Red River
Movie • 1948
Wagon Train Member (uncredited)
Living in a Big Way
Movie • 1947
Junior League Girl (uncredited)
The Magician of Lublin
Movie • 1979
Elzbieta
Flap
Movie • 1970
Dorothy Bluebell
Mambo
Movie • 1954
Toni Salerno
Sailor's Holiday
Movie • 1944
Gloria Flynn
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Movie • 1990
Self
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Movie • 1991
Self (archive footage)
How Do I Love Thee?
Movie • 1970
Lena Mervin
The Mad Room
Movie • 1969
Mrs. Armstrong
Groucho & Cavett
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Easier in the Dark
Movie • 1967
Frances
Something to Hide
Movie • 1972
Gabriella Field
She's a Soldier Too
Movie • 1944
'Silver' Rankin (uncredited)
New Orleans
Movie • 1947
Mrs. Holmbright
Knickerbocker Holiday
Movie • 1944
Ulda Tienhoven
That Lucky Touch
Movie • 1975
Diana Steedeman
What a Woman
Movie • 1943
Secretary (uncredited)
Raging Angels
Movie • 1995
Grandma Ruth
Weep No More, My Lady
Movie • 1992
Vivian Morgan
There's Something About a Soldier
Movie • 1943
Norma
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
Movie • 1997
Self
Looping
Movie • 1981
Carmen
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Movie • 1954
Self
Gideon
Movie • 1998
Mrs. Willows
Cher... and Other Fantasies
Movie • 1979
Shelley
The Re-Inforcer
Movie • 1951
Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'
Movie • 1995
Self
Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden
Movie • 1976
Caterina
The Three Sisters
Movie • 1966
Natalya
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Movie • 1990
Self
Arthur? Arthur!
Movie • 1969
Hester Green
Do It Debbie's Way
Movie • 1983
Self
Very Close Quarters
Movie • 1986
Galina
A Thousand and One Nights
Movie • 1945
Handmaiden
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Movie • 1994
Self
My Darling Vivian
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
George Stevens and His Place In The Sun
Movie • 2001
Self (archive footage)
Valley Girls
Movie • 1996
Lady in Truck
Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies
Movie • 2000
Self
Bringing A Legend To Life
Movie • 1979
Herself
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
Movie • 1966
James Bond: The First 21 Years
Movie • 1983
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
Charlie Rose
TV • 1991
Self
Here's Lucy
TV • 1968
Shelley Summers
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV • 1950
Self
Batman
TV • 1966
Ma Parker
Chico and the Man
TV • 1974
Roseanne
TV • 1988
Nana Mary
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
The David Susskind Show
TV • 1959
Self
Hotel
TV • 1982
Adele Ellsworth
Politically Incorrect
TV • 1993
Kojak
TV • 1973
Evelyn McNeil
The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder
TV • 1995
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Late Night with David Letterman
TV • 1982
Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Vega$
TV • 1978
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV • 1968
Self (uncredited)
McCloud
TV • 1970
The Alcoa Hour
TV • 1955
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Mildred Corrigan
Climax!
TV • 1954
Leona Stevenson
The United States Steel Hour
TV • 1953
Ben Casey
TV • 1961
Hawaiian Heat
TV • 1984
The Steve Allen Show
TV • 1956
Self - Guest
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self
The Hollywood Greats
TV • 1977
DuPont Show of the Month
TV • 1957
Louisa Burt
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Alcoa Premiere
TV • 1961
Russell Harty
TV • 1980
The Perry Como Show
TV • 1956
Alice in Wonderland
TV • 1985
Dodo Bird
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV • 1965
Mrs. Bixby
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
TV • 1973
Self
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Ruth Owens
The Ford Television Theatre
TV • 1952
Sally Marland
Producers' Showcase
TV • 1954
Crystal Allen
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self - Guest
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self - Co-Hostess
The Bob Hope Show
TV • 1950
Self
The French Atlantic Affair
TV • 1979
Helen Wabash
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Teresa Rosselli
Climax!
TV • 1954
Margaret Corey / Ethel / Lillian / Ann
Climax!
TV • 1954
Carol
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Midi Première
TV • 1975
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
Jenny Dworak
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Vicki!
TV • 1992
Self
That's Life
TV • 1968
ABC Stage 67
TV • 1966
Self
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
Edith
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
Clarry Golden
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self - Guest Hostess
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee / Presenter
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV • 1957
Self
Armchair Theatre
TV • 1956
Frances
Kraft Television Theatre
TV • 1947
Helen
Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood
TV • 1989
Fridays
TV • 1980
Self - Guest Host