Shelley Winters

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shelley Winters, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Belle Rosen

The Poseidon Adventure

Charlotte Haze

Lolita

Drunk Woman in Police Station (uncredited)

The Stone Killer

Willa Harper

The Night of the Hunter

Woman who is healed

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Petronella Van Daan

The Diary of Anne Frank

Mrs. Motel (The Mother)

Il silenzio dei prosciutti

Taxi Driver (uncredited)

Escape in the Fog

Queen Rachel

King of the Gypsies

Brenda Martingale

Cry of the City

Catherine Sykes

Take One False Step

Lena Gogan

Pete's Dragon

'Ma' Kate Barker

Bloody Mama

Concierge

Le locataire

Dolly Modino

Heavy

Mrs. Forrest

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?

Faye Lapinsky

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

Mrs. Erica Hunter

The Initiation of Sarah

Kate

The Scalphunters

Fay Estabrook

Harper

Alice Tripp

A Place in the Sun

Tory

Larceny

Hazel

The Gangster

Peggy Dobbs

He Ran All the Way

Lorry

Odds Against Tomorrow

Crystal

Frosty's Winter Wonderland

Shirley Newman

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

Rose-Ann D'Arcey

A Patch of Blue

Eva Brown

S.O.B.

Mommy

Cleopatra Jones

Gladys Presley

Elvis

Crystal (voice)

Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July

Yetta

The Pickle

Marie Garson

I Died a Thousand Times

Pat Kroll

A Double Life

Fran

Playgirl

Mrs. Fraser

Stepping Out

Lola Manners

Winchester '73

Mrs. Touchett

The Portrait of a Lady

Helen Hill

What's the Matter with Helen?

Mrs. Max Flatow (Frost)

Wild in the Streets

Emma Kolowitz

Enter Laughing

Eva Bardeman

Executive Suite

Bubbles (uncredited)

Tonight and Every Night

Ruby

Alfie

Connie Thatcher

The Raging Tide

Edie Kaplan

The Delta Force

Bertha

Poor Pretty Eddie

Dixie Evans

The Big Knife

Tillie Turner

Tentacoli

Mrs. Collins

Jury Duty

Edie Kaplan (archive footage) (uncredited)

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Myrtle Wilson

The Great Gatsby

Terry

Johnny Stool Pigeon

Amalia Vivaldi

Un borghese piccolo piccolo

Jane Phillips

Stridulum

Natalia Landauer

I Am a Camera

Binky Gay

Phone Call from a Stranger

Lea

Gran bollito

Mary diPace

The Young Savages

Ruth Harris

The Treasure of Pancho Villa

Mrs. Cole

Fanny Hill

Self

On Cukor

(archive footage)

Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim

Lilith Malone

The Devil's Daughter

Zelda Shapiro

Diamonds

Nurse Andrea Harper

City on Fire

Lisa

Gli indifferenti

Mrs. Cramer

Blume in Love

Prof. Summers

La bomba

Coral

South Sea Sinner

The Good Lieutenant

Backfire!

Lydia

Witchfire

Nellie Romano

Let No Man Write My Epitaph

Amanda Hilton

Revenge!

Grace Markey

Saskatchewan

Sarah Garnell

The Chapman Report

Madame Irma

The Balcony

Joy Carroll

Meet Danny Wilson

Rose Winters

Big Rose: Double Trouble

Mrs. Mathews

Journey into Fear

Fran Cabrell

Wives and Lovers

Jane Stevens

Untamed Frontier

Olga Nabokova

Déjà Vu

Bess Tucker

The Adventures of Nick Carter

Myrtle La Mar

To Dorothy, a Son

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Katherine "Kate" Denny

Behave Yourself!

Sarah Wurble

Tennessee Champ

Evelyn McEllany

An Unremarkable Life

Self

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

Frenchie Fontaine

Frenchie

Becky

Over the Brooklyn Bridge

Polly Adler

A House Is Not a Home

Agatha Murphy

The Sex Symbol

Cora Jackson

Ellie

Self

Hello Actors Studio

Lily

Touch of a Stranger

Nancy

My Man and I

Self

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Rita

Purple People Eater

Young Woman Fleeing Nightclub Raid (uncredited)

Together Again

Aunt Monica

Mrs. Munck

Waitress / Autograph Hound (uncredited)

Killer McCoy

Elizabeth Cameron

A Death of Innocence

Wagon Train Member (uncredited)

Red River

Junior League Girl (uncredited)

Living in a Big Way

Elzbieta

The Magician of Lublin

Dorothy Bluebell

Flap

Toni Salerno

Mambo

Gloria Flynn

Sailor's Holiday

Self

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge

Self (archive footage)

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

Lena Mervin

How Do I Love Thee?

Mrs. Armstrong

The Mad Room

Self (archive footage)

Groucho & Cavett

Frances

Easier in the Dark

Gabriella Field

Something to Hide

'Silver' Rankin (uncredited)

She's a Soldier Too

Mrs. Holmbright

New Orleans

Ulda Tienhoven

Knickerbocker Holiday

Narrator (US)

Emma and Grandpa

Diana Steedeman

That Lucky Touch

Secretary (uncredited)

What a Woman

Grandma Ruth

Raging Angels

Vivian Morgan

Weep No More, My Lady

Norma

There's Something About a Soldier

Self

Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady

Carmen

Looping

Self

A Star Is Born World Premiere

Mrs. Willows

Gideon

Shelley

Cher... and Other Fantasies

The Re-Inforcer

Self

Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'

Caterina

Mimì Bluette... fiore del mio giardino

Natalya

The Three Sisters

Self

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Self (archive footage)

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

Self (archive footage)

And the Oscar Goes To...

Hester Green

Arthur? Arthur!

Self

Do It Debbie's Way

Very Close Quarters

Handmaiden

A Thousand and One Nights

Self

Marlon Brando: The Wild One

Self (archive footage)

My Darling Vivian

Self (archive footage)

George Stevens and His Place In The Sun

Lady in Truck

Valley Girls

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Sparks Brothers

Herself

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Self

Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

150

Gender

Female

Birthday

1920-08-18

Place of Birth

St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Also Known As

Shirley Schrift