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Jo Van Fleet

Actress / Stage Actress / Film Actress | * 12/30/1914 († 81, 06/10/1996) | Oakland, California (United States of America (USA))
Jo Van Fleet (December 29, 1915 – June 10, 1996) was an American stage, film, and television actress. During her long career, which spanned over four decades, she often played characters much older than her actual age. Van Fleet won a Tony Award in 1954 for her performance in the Broadway production The Trip to Bountiful, and the next year she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her supporting role in East of Eden. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Crime | Comedies

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Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredm ...

I'll Cry Tomorrow

NR

1955 | 3.2/5 | 1h 57min
Drama
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In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reac ...

East of Eden

PG

1955 | 3.8/5 | 1h 55min
Drama, Romance / Love
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After the success of the live 1957 Cinderella on CBS (with Julie Andrews), the network decided to produce another television version. The new script hewed closer to the traditional tale, although near ...

Cinderella

Certification unknown

1965 | 3.1/5 | 1h 24min
Fantasy, Romance / Love, TV Movie, Music
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When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admi ...

Cool Hand Luke

PG

1967 | 3.9/5 | 2h 7min
Crime, Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Jo Van Fleet

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame Donaldson Awards Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
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Movies with Jo Van Fleet as Actress(18)

as Mrs. Einhorn1986 Seize the Day
as Mother Vanda1980 Power
as Madame Dioz1976 The Tenant
as Headmistress1973 Satan's School for Girls
as Mama Rico1972 The Family Rico
as Big Momma1971 The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
as Nonna1969 80 Steps to Jonah
as Mother1968 I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
as Arletta1967 Cool Hand Luke
as Stepmother1965 Cinderella
as Ella Garth1960 Wild River
as Kate Fisher1957 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
as Mme. Dufresne1957 This Angry Age
as Ma McDade1956 The King and Four Queens
as Kate Trask1955 East of Eden
as Katie Roth1955 I'll Cry Tomorrow
as Bessie1955 The Rose Tattoo
1953 The Trip to Bountiful

TV Shows/Series with Jo Van Fleet as Actress(22)

1974 Police Woman
1969 Medical Center
1968 The Mod Squad
1967 Mannix
1965 The Wild Wild West
1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Hildy Hesse1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Lee Calder1962 The Virginian
as Mrs. Cissy Hawk1960 Thriller
1960 Route 66
as Dr. Anna Chaloupka1958 Naked City
1958 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958 77 Sunset Strip
as Mrs. Shrike1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Anna Kaminsky1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Molly1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Miss Wanda Kelsey1953 GE Theater
1950 Robert Montgomery Presents
1949 Suspense
as herself1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 The Philco Television Playhouse
as Shirley1948 The Philco Television Playhouse

Full Name: Jo Fleet
Born: Wednesday, 12/30 1914 (December) in Oakland, California (United States of America (USA))
Died: Monday, 06/10 1996 (June) in Queens (aged: 81)
Zodiac sign: Capricorn (Chinese zodiac sign: Tiger)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: University of the Pacific, Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, HB Studio
Other names for Jo Van Fleet (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Catherine Josephine Van Fleet"
Jo Van Fleet frequently works together with these people:
John Newland (27x, Crew)
Vaughn Taylor (25x, Actor)
Don Barry (21x, Actor)
E.G. Marshall (19x, Actor)
Robert H. Harris (19x, Actor)
Cloris Leachman (18x, Actress)
Leslie Nielsen (17x, Actor)
James Gregory (17x, Actor)
Virginia Gregg (17x, Actress)
Walter Matthau (16x, Actor)
Harry Harvey (16x, Actor)
Alex North (6x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:221827, Added: 07/29/2018, Last updated: 04/21/2024