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Eleanor Parker

Actress / Television Actress / Film Actress | * 06/26/1922 († 91, 12/09/2013) | Cedarville, Ohio (United States of America (USA))
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Eleanor Jean Parker (June 26, 1922 – December 9, 2013) was an American actress. She was nominated for three Academy Awards for her roles in the films Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951), and Interrupted Melody (1955), the first of which won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She was also known for her roles in the films Of Human Bondage (1946), Scaramouche (1952), The Naked Jungle (1954), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), A Hole in the Head (1959), The Sound of Music (1965), and ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Romance / Love

Known for these Movies & Shows

Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence. She’s a foremost Wagnerian, equal to the vocal and physical demands of the composer� ...

Interrupted Melody

Certification unknown

1955 | 2.7/5 | 1h 46min
Drama, Music
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A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison. ...

Caged

Certification unknown

1950 | 3.6/5 | 1h 36min
Crime, Drama
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Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with ...

Detective Story

Certification unknown

1951 | 3.5/5 | 1h 43min
Crime, Drama
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In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life a ...

The Sound of Music

G

1965 | 3.9/5 | 2h 55min
Drama, Kids & Family, Music, Romance / Love
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Awards & Nominations for Eleanor Parker

Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame 3x Academy Award for Best Actress
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Movies with Eleanor Parker as Actress(64)

as Self (archive footage)1997 Frank Capra's American Dream
as Catherine Blake1991 Dead on the Money
as Zosch Machine (archive footage) (uncredited)1991 Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Katherine Richardson1981 Madame X
as The Lady1980 Once Upon a Spy
as Regine Danton1979 She's Dressed to Kill
as Mrs. Thoren1979 Sunburn
as Lady Amberly1978 The Bastard
as Alexandra Morgan1974 Home for the Holidays
as Peggy Lowery1973 The Great American Beauty Contest
as Claire Miller1971 Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
as Dame Brinker1969 Hans Brinker
as Aunt Danny1969 Eye of the Cat
as Margitta Kingsley1968 How to Steal the World
as Mrs. Doris Ruston1967 Warning Shot
as Mme Vincenzini1967 The Tiger and the Pussycat
as Deborah Kelly Rojack1966 An American Dream
as Sophie Cantaro1966 The Oscar
as Baroness Elsa von Schraeder1965 The Sound of Music
as Louise1964 Panic Button
as Anne Tremaine1961 Madison Avenue
as Connie Rossi1961 Return to Peyton Place
as Hannah Hunnicutt1960 Home from the Hill
as Eloise Rogers1959 A Hole in the Head
as Carol Carwin1957 The Seventh Sin
as Elizabeth Richmond1957 Lizzie
as Sabina McDade1956 The King and Four Queens
as Mary Stuart Cherne1955 Many Rivers to Cross
as Marjorie Lawrence1955 Interrupted Melody
as Zosch Machine1955 The Man with the Golden Arm
as Joanna Leiningen1954 The Naked Jungle
as Ann Barclay Mercedes1954 Valley of the Kings
as Lucey Tibbets1953 Above and Beyond
as Carla Forester1953 Escape from Fort Bravo
as Lenore1952 Scaramouche
as Christabel 'Christy' Sloane1951 A Millionaire for Christy
as Mary McLeod1951 Detective Story
as Joan Carlisle / Sarah Gray1951 Valentino
as Susan Chase1950 Three Secrets
as Joan "Jo" Holloway1950 Chain Lightning
as Marie Allen1950 Caged
as Eleanor Parker (uncredited)1949 It's a Great Feeling
as Laura Fairlie / Ann Catherick1948 The Woman in White
as Eleanor Parker (uncredited)1947 Always Together
as Sally Middleton1947 The Voice of the Turtle
as Fenella MacLean1947 Escape Me Never
as Mildred Rogers1946 Of Human Bondage
as herself1946 Blow-Ups of 1946
as Ellen Gayley1946 Never Say Goodbye
as Ruth Hartley1945 Pride of the Marines
as Bathing Beauty (uncredited)1944 Atlantic City
as Ann Bergner1944 Between Two Worlds
as Kitty Kelly1944 The Last Ride
as herself1944 Hollywood Canteen
as Janet Wheeler1944 The Very Thought of You
as Irene Carr1944 Crime by Night
as Mike's Wife on Record (voice) (uncredited)1943 Destination Tokyo
as Emlen Davies1943 Mission to Moscow
as Letty Carstairs1943 The Mysterious Doctor
as Colleen (song "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling")1942 Vaudeville Days
as Mrs. Frank Bickley1942 Men of the Sky
as Nurse Ryan1942 Soldiers in White
as Telephone Operator (voice)1942 The Big Shot
as Norma1942 Busses Roar

TV Shows/Series with Eleanor Parker as Actress(13)

as Maggie Tarrow1984 Murder, She Wrote
as Nora Spencer1984 Finder of Lost Loves
1982 Hotel
1978 Vega$
as Alicia Fairchild Bradbury1977 The Love Boat
as Rosie Strickland1977 The Love Boat
as Paula Burgess1972 Ghost Story
as Sylvia Caldwell1969 Bracken's World
as Mrs. Constance Kincaid1968 Hawaii Five-O
1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Dorian Smith1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Marion Bannion/Gussie Hill1960 Checkmate
as herself1948 The Ed Sullivan Show

Full Name: Eleanor Parker
Born: Monday, 06/26 1922 (June) in Cedarville, Ohio (United States of America (USA))
Died: Monday, 12/09 2013 (December) in Palm Springs (aged: 91)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Shaw High School
Employer: Warner Bros.
Other names for Eleanor Parker (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Элинор Паркер"
"エリノア・パーカー"
"Eleanor Jean Parker"
Eleanor Parker frequently works together with these people:
Perc Westmore (13x, Crew)
Carol Lawrence (12x, Actress)
Leslie Nielsen (11x, Actor)
Monte Markham (11x, Actor)
Lloyd Bochner (11x, Actor)
Alan Fudge (11x, Actor)
Robert Reed (11x, Actor)
Ed Nelson (10x, Actor)
Jessica Walter (10x, Actress)
Jack L. Warner (10x, Crew)
Bradford Dillman (9x, Actor)
William Windom (9x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:3417, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 03/29/2024