Barbara Bel Geddes
Actor
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 from Dallas (and acting) in 1990 and settled in her home in Northeast Harbor, Maine, where she continued to work as a fine artist. She was the author of two children's books and the creator of a line of greeting cards. She was twice married, the mother of two daughters, and died of lung cancer on August 8, 2005.
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Filmography
Panic in the Streets
as Nancy Reed 1950
Caught
as Leonora Eames 1949
Blood on the Moon
as Amy Lufton 1948
I Remember Mama
as Katrin 1948
Fourteen Hours
as Virginia Foster 1951
The Long Night
as Jo Ann 1947
The Five Pennies
as Wila Stutsman 1959
Five Branded Women
as Marja 1960
Obsessed with Vertigo
as Self 1997
The Todd Killings
as Mrs. Todd 1971
By Love Possessed
as Clarissa Winner 1961
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self (archive footage) 2003
Summertree
as Ruth 1971