Profile
Ruth Warrick
Actor
Female
Born
Jun 29, 1916
Hometown
Saint Joseph, Mis...
Died
Jan 15, 2005
Death Place
U.S.
Other Names
Ruth Elizabeth Wa...
Ruth Elizabeth Warrick, DM, was an American singer, actress and political activist, best known for her role as Phoebe Tyler on All My Children, which she played regularly from 1970 until her death in 2005. She celebrated her 80th birthday by attending… Read More
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Erik RolfMarried 1938
News + Updates
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Joan Crawford's Star Shines From Comedies To Dramas On Tcm Aug. 22 Examiner.ComGoogle News - Aug 22, 2011
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Orson Welles Movie Schedule: Citizen Kane, Mr. Arkadin, The Immortal Story Alt Film Guide (Blog)Google News - Aug 08, 2011
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Josh Duhamel Returns To 'All My Children' Next Week The Daily News Online (Blog)Google News - Jul 29, 2011
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Interview: Julia Barr Reflects On Her Career And Brooke English, Part 1 Of 2 We Love SoapsGoogle News - Jul 23, 2011
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1916
Birth
Born on June 29, 1916.
THIRTIES
1953
37 Years Old
Warrick became a cast member on the soap opera The Guiding Light, playing Janet Johnson, R. N. from 1953 to 1954.
FORTIES
1956
40 Years Old
Phillips was impressed by Warrick's performance and hired her for her new soap opera, As the World Turns when the show debuted in 1956.
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1959
43 Years Old
From 1959-1960, she was the understudy for Una Merkel and future All My Children co-star Eileen Herlie in the Broadway production of Take Me Along.
1961
45 Years Old
During the 1961-62 television season, she starred in the Father of the Bride television series.
1965
49 Years Old
Then, in 1965, she joined the cast of the primetime serial, Peyton Place, playing Hannah Cord.
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FIFTIES
1969
53 Years Old
ABC approved her new show, All My Children, in 1969, which was based on a treatment that Procter & Gamble had rejected a few years earlier.
1970
54 Years Old
When All My Children debuted on January 5, 1970, Warrick was among the contracted cast, playing Phoebe Tyler (the character's full name via her marriages would eventually be Phoebe English Tyler Wallingford Matthews Wallingford).
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1973
57 Years Old
She was on Broadway with Debbie Reynolds in the 1973 stage play Irene.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
She published her autobiography, The Confessions of Phoebe Tyler (co-written by Don Preston) in 1980, the same year she won a Soapy Award (a prelude to the Soap Opera Digest Awards).
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2000
84 Years Old
In July 2000, she refused to accept a lifetime achievement award from the South Carolina Arts Commission because she was offended by legislators' decision to move the Confederate flag from the state Capitol dome to another spot on the grounds in response to a boycott of the state by flag opponents.
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2002
86 Years Old
Warrick's name popped up in television infotainment shows and supermarket racks in 2002 in connection with the highly publicized courtship and marriage of Liza Minnelli and David Gest.
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The day after the 2005 Academy Award ceremony, former castmate Kelly Ripa expressed her outrage on her national television show Live with Regis and Kelly that Warrick had not been included in the annual memorial tribute to actors who had died in the previous year on the telecast.
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