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Helen Hayes
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Helen Hayes was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve people wh…
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Helen Hayes was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In 1988 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is the namesake of the annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in the greater Washington, D.C. area since 1984. Perhaps the ultimate respect to be paid to any actor by a producer - of having a theater christened in their name - became a reality for Ms. Hayes in 1955 when the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City's Broadway theater district was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre. When that venue was torn down in 1982 (along with five other neighboring theaters), the operators of the Little Theatre, another standing theater two blocks away on 44th Street, renamed that house in her name, which it has retained ever since. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Hayes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2025
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2022
Bill Cosby: Walking Free
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1998
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1994
Divine Mercy No Escape
Movie
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1992
MGM: When the Lion Roars
TV show
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1990
Night of 100 Stars III
Movie Self
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1987
The Ten-Year Lunch
Movie Herself - Participant
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1985
Murder with Mirrors
Movie Miss Jane Marple
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1984
Highway to Heaven
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1983
A Caribbean Mystery
Movie Miss Jane Marple
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1982
Night of 100 Stars
Movie Self
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1982
Murder Is Easy
Movie Lavinia Fullerton
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1981
Hopper's Silence
Movie Herself
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1979
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
Movie Self
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1978
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV show Self
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1978
Old Friends... New Friends
TV show Self
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1978
A Family Upside Down
Movie Emma Long
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1977
Candleshoe
Movie Lady St. Edmund
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1977
The Love Boat
TV show Agatha Winslow
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1976
Victory at Entebbe
Movie Etta Grossman-Wise
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1976
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
TV show Dr. McCartney
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1975
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Movie Hettie
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1974
Herbie Rides Again
Movie Mrs. Steinmetz
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1973
The Snoop Sisters
TV show Ernesta Snoop
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1972
The Female Instinct
Movie Ernesta Snoop
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1972
Ghost Story
TV show Miss Gilden
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1972
Harvey
Movie Veta Louise Simmons
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1971
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Movie Sophie Tate Curtis
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1970
Airport
Movie Ada Quonsett
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1969
Hawaii Five-O
TV show Aunt Clara
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1969
Arsenic and Old Lace
Movie Abby Brewster
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1968
Here's Lucy
TV show Kathleen Brady
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1968
The Dick Cavett Show
TV show Self - Guest
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1966
Tarzan
TV show
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1962
The Merv Griffin Show
TV show Self
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1961
The Mike Douglas Show
TV show Self
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1961
The Challenge of Ideas
Movie Narrator
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1960
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
TV show Cornelia Van Gorder
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1960
The Bat
Movie Cornelia Van Gorder
