Actor
Barbara Bel Geddes
Biography

Barbara Bel Geddes (October 31, 1922 – August 8, 2005) was an American actress, artist and children's author. She is best known for her role in the television drama series Dallas as matriarch Eleanor "Miss Ellie" Ewing. Bel Geddes also starred in the original Broadway production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof in the role of Maggie, and also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958). She was the recipient of several awards and award nominations for her thespian performances. Bel Geddes retired fro ...

Known For
Acting
2003 -- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self (archive footage)
1997 -- Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock's Masterpiece | Self
1977 -- Our Town | Mrs. Webb
1971 -- The Todd Killings | Mrs. Todd
1971 -- Summertree | Ruth
1961 -- By Love Possessed | Clarissa Winner
1960 -- Five Branded Women | Marja
1959 -- The Five Pennies | Wila Stutsman
1958 -- Vertigo | Marjorie 'Midge' Wood
1951 -- Fourteen Hours | Virginia Foster
1950 -- Panic in the Streets | Nancy Reed
1949 -- Caught | Leonora Eames
1948 -- Blood on the Moon | Amy Lufton
1948 -- I Remember Mama | Katrin
1947 -- The Long Night | Jo Ann
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