Actor
Judith Anderson
Biography

Dame Frances Margaret Anderson, AC, DBE (February 10, 1897 – January 3, 1992), known professionally as Judith Anderson, was an Australian actress who had a successful career in stage, film and television. Considered one of the greatest classical stage actors of the 20th century, she has two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award to her name, as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award and an Academy Award each. She began her acting career in Australia but her ambition brought her to New York in 1918. She ...

Known For
Acting
2018 -- Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood | Self (archive footage)
1991 -- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | actress 'Laura' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1986 -- Impure Thoughts | The Sister of Purgatory (voice)
1984 -- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | Vulcan High Priestess
1983 -- Medea | Nurse
1975 -- Inn of the Damned | Caroline Straulle
1974 -- The Underground Man | Mrs. Snow
1973 -- The Borrowers | Aunt Sophie
1970 -- A Man Called Horse | Buffalo Cow Head
1969 -- The File on Devlin | Elizabeth Devlin
1964 -- Macbeth | Lady Macbeth
1964 -- The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre | Paulina
1961 -- Hollywood: The Selznick Years | 'Rebecca' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961 -- Don't Bother to Knock | Maggie Shoemaker
1960 -- Cinderfella | Wicked Stepmother
1959 -- A Christmas Festival | Narrator of the final offering
1959 -- The Moon and Sixpence | Tiare
1959 -- Medea | Medea
1958 -- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Big Momma
1956 -- The Ten Commandments | Memnet
1953 -- Salome | Queen Herodias
1950 -- The Furies | Flo Burnett
1947 -- Tycoon | Miss Ellen Braithwaite
1947 -- Pursued | Mrs. Callum
1947 -- The Red House | Ellen Morgan
1946 -- The Strange Love of Martha Ivers | Mrs. Ivers
1946 -- Specter of the Rose | Madame La Sylph
1946 -- The Diary of a Chambermaid | Madame Lanlaire
1945 -- And Then There Were None | Emily Brent
1944 -- Laura | Ann Treadwell
1943 -- Stage Door Canteen | Judith Anderson
1943 -- Edge of Darkness | Gerd Bjarnesen
1942 -- Kings Row | Harriet Gordon
1942 -- All Through the Night | Madame
1941 -- Lady Scarface | Slade
1941 -- Free and Easy | Lady Joan Culver
1940 -- Forty Little Mothers | Madame Granville
1940 -- Rebecca | Mrs. Danvers
1933 -- Blood Money | Ruby Darling
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