Helen Hayes
Acting
- Born:
- 1900-10-09
- Died:
- 1993-03-17
- Place of birth:
- Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Airports
Bill Cosby: Walking Free
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Divine Mercy No Escape
MGM: When the Lion Roars
Night of 100 Stars III
The Ten-Year Lunch
Murder with Mirrors
Highway to Heaven
A Caribbean Mystery
Night of 100 Stars
Murder Is Easy
Hopper's Silence
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
The Kennedy Center Honors
Old Friends... New Friends
A Family Upside Down
Candleshoe
The Love Boat
Victory at Entebbe
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Herbie Rides Again
The Snoop Sisters
The Female Instinct
Ghost Story
Harvey
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Airport
Hawaii Five-O
Arsenic and Old Lace
Here's Lucy
The Dick Cavett Show
Tarzan
The Merv Griffin Show
The Mike Douglas Show
The Challenge of Ideas
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
The Bat
Third Man on the Mountain
Play of the Week
The Bell Telephone Hour
Four Women in Black
Anastasia
Tony Awards
A.N.T.A. Album of 1955
Main Street to Broadway
The Oscars
Omnibus
My Son John
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Ezio Pinza Show
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
The Jack Benny Program
The Colgate Comedy Hour
What's My Line?
Robert Montgomery Presents
The Ed Sullivan Show
Kraft Television Theatre
Stage Door Canteen
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Hollywood Goes to Town
Vanessa: Her Love Story
What Every Woman Knows
Crime Without Passion
Night Flight
Another Language
The White Sister
The Son-Daughter
A Farewell to Arms
Arrowsmith
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
The Dancing Town
Riders of the Range
The Weavers of Life