Geraldine Fitzgerald
60 movies · 19 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 24, 1913
- Died
- Jul 17, 2005 (age 91)
- Place of birth
- Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland
- Also known as
- First Lady of the American Theater · Gerry
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.
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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".
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Geraldine Fitzgerald: movies and TV shows
Acting (79)
- 1997
- 1991 Bump in the Night
as Mrs. Beauchamps
- 1989 Dick Francis: Twice Shy
as Mrs. O'Rourke
- 1988 Arthur 2: On the Rocks
as Martha Bach
- 1987
- 1987 Night of Courage
as Abby Abelsen
- 1986 Circle of Violence: A Family Drama
as Charlotte Kessling
- 1986 Poltergeist II: The Other Side
as Gramma-Jess
- 1985
- 1985 Do You Remember Love
as Lorraine Wyatt
- 1983
- 1983 Easy Money
as Mrs. Monahan
- 1983 Dixie: Changing Habits
as Sister Agnes
- 1982
- 1982 Blood Link
as Mrs. Thomason
- 1982
- 1981 Arthur
as Martha Bach
- 1981
- 1981 Lovespell
as Bronwyn
- 1980 The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
as Granny Weatherall
- 1979
- 1978 Tartuffe
as Madame Pernelle
- 1978 Bye Bye Monkey
as Mrs. Toland
- 1977 The Mango Tree
as Grandma Carr
- 1977 The Quinns
as Peggy Quinn
- 1977 Yesterday's Child
as Emma Talbot
- 1976 Ah, Wilderness!
as Essie Miller
- 1976 Echoes of a Summer
as Sara
- 1976 Diary of the Dead
as Maud Kennaway
- 1975 Beyond the Horizon
as Mrs. Atkins
- 1975 Forget-Me-Not Lane
as Amy Bisley
- 1974 Harry and Tonto
as Jessie
- 1974 The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
as Grandmother
- 1973 Me
as Ma
- 1973 The Last American Hero
as Frau Jackson
- 1971
- 1970
- 1968 Rachel, Rachel
as Rev. Wood
- 1965 The Pawnbroker
as Marilyn Birchfield
- 1962
- 1961
- 1961 The Fiercest Heart
as Tante Marie
- 1959 The Moon and Sixpence
as Amy Strickland
- 1958
- 1958 Ten North Frederick
as Edith Chapin
- 1955
- 1954
- 1954 Dark Possession
as Charlotte Bell Wheeler
- 1952 Pontius Pilate
as Claudia Procula
- 1951
- 1951 The Late Edwina Black
as Elizabeth Grahame
- 1950
- 1949
- 1948
- 1948 So Evil My Love
as Susan Courtney
- 1946 Nobody Lives Forever
as Gladys Halvorsen
- 1946 O.S.S.
as Miss Ellen Rogers / Madame Elaine Duprez
- 1946 Three Strangers
as Crystal Shackleford
- 1945 The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
as Lettie Quincey
- 1944 Wilson
as Edith Bolling Galt
- 1944 Ladies Courageous
as Virgie Alford
- 1943 Watch on the Rhine
as Marthe de Brancovis
- 1942 The Gay Sisters
as Evelyn Gaylord
- 1941 Shining Victory
as Dr. Mary Murray
- 1941 Flight from Destiny
as Betty Farroway
- 1940 'Til We Meet Again
as Bonny Coburn
- 1939 A Child is Born
as Grace Sutton
- 1939 Dark Victory
as Ann King
- 1939 Wuthering Heights
as Isabella Linton
- 1937 The Mill on the Floss
as Maggie Tulliver
- 1936 Debt of Honour
as Peggy Mayhew
- 1936 Cafe Mascot
as Moira O'Flynn
- 1935 Department Store
as Jane Grey
- 1935 Turn of the Tide
as Ruth Fosdyck
- 1935 Blind Justice
as Peggy Summers
- 1935 Three Witnesses
as Diane Morton
- 1935 The Lad
as Joan Fandon
- 1935 The Ace of Spades
as Evelyn Daventry
- 1934 Open All Night
as Jill
Talk shows and appearances (5)
- 1983
- 1973
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show
1 episode
- 1956 Tony Awards
2 episodes
- 1952 Today
1 episode