Profile
Colleen Dewhurst
Film + Stage + Television and Voice Actress
Female
Born
Jun 3, 1924
Hometown
Montreal
Died
Aug 22, 1991
Death Place
South Salem, New ...
Colleen Rose Dewhurst was a Canadian-American actress known most for theatre roles, and for a while as "the Queen of Off-Broadway. " In her autobiography, Dewhurst wrote: "I had moved so quickly from one Off-Broadway production to the next that I was… Read More
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James VickeryMarried 1947 - 1960
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Colleen Dewhurst
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1924
Birth
Born on June 3, 1924.
TEENAGE
1942
18 Years Old
She graduated from Riverside High School in Whitefish Bay in 1942, and it was around this time that her parents separated.
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THIRTIES
1958
34 Years Old
Dewhurst and Scott met while working together in 1958, in Children of Darkness, while they were both married to other people.
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1961
37 Years Old
She won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in 1961 for All The Way Home. in 1966 with Barbara Stanwyck.
1962
38 Years Old
She appeared in 1962 as Joanne Novak in the episode "I Don't Belong in a White-Painted House" in NBC's medical drama, The Eleventh Hour, starring Wendell Corey and Jack Ging.
FORTIES
1971
47 Years Old
Dewhurst appeared opposite her then-husband, Scott, in a 1971 television adaptation of Arthur Miller's The Price, on Hallmark Hall of Fame, an anthology series, and there is another television recording of them together when she played Elizabeth Proctor to his unfaithful John in Miller's The Crucible (with Tuesday Weld.
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1972
48 Years Old
In 1972 she played a madam, Mrs. Kate Collingwood, in The Cowboys (1972), which starred John Wayne.
LATE ADULTHOOD
In 1985, she played the role of Marilla Cuthbert in Kevin Sullivan's adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel Anne of Green Gables, and reprised the role in 1987's Anne of Avonlea (also known as Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel), and in several episodes of Kevin Sullivan's Road to Avonlea.
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During 1989 and 1990, she appeared in a supporting role on the television series Murphy Brown playing the feisty mother of Candice Bergen's title character; this role earned her two Emmy Awards.
1991
67 Years Old
Died on August 22, 1991.
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