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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 23, 1928
Died
October 6, 2014
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Marion Seldes
- Marian Hall Seldes
Marian Seldes
0.9 Popularity
Biography
Marian Hall Seldes (August 23, 1928 – October 6, 2014) was an American actress. A five-time Tony Award nominee, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for A Delicate Balance in 1967, and received subsequent nominations for Father's Day (1971), Deathtrap (1978–82), Ring Round the Moon (1999), and Dinner at Eight (2002). She also won a Drama Desk Award for Father's Day. Her other Broadway credits include Equus (1974–77), Ivanov (1997), and Deuce (2007). She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995 and received the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2010. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marian Seldes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
0.0
Self
Marian
2017
4.3
Mabel Billingsly
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
2012
5.8
Vivian Cudlip
The Extra Man
2010
5.4
Peggy
Home
2009
4.0
Eunice (voice)
The Toe Tactic
2009
7.0
Self
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
2008
7.0
The Duchess of Krakenthorp
The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment
2008
5.9
Clerk
Leatherheads
2008
7.1
Barbara
The Visitor
2008
7.4
The Dean
August Rush
2007
Credits
Marian
as Self
2017
0.0
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
as Mabel Billingsly
2012
4.3
The Extra Man
as Vivian Cudlip
2010
5.8
Home
as Peggy
2009
5.4
The Toe Tactic
as Eunice (voice)
2009
4.0
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
as Self
2008
7.0
The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment
as The Duchess of Krakenthorp
2008
7.0
Leatherheads
as Clerk
2008
5.9
The Visitor
as Barbara
2008
7.1
August Rush
as The Dean
2007
7.4
Miriam
as Mrs. H.T. Miller
2007
0.0
Suburban Girl
as Margaret Paddleford
2007
5.5
Big Day
2006
5.7
In from the Night
as Nora Cantata
2006
6.7
The Book of Daniel
as Helen
2006
6.6
Ballets Russes
as Narrator
2005
7.2
Clubhouse
2004
3.5
Plainsong
as Iva Stearns
2004
7.0
Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision
as Narrator (voice)
2004
4.0
Mona Lisa Smile
as President Jocelyn Carr
2003
6.9
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
2003
7.0
Hollywood Ending
as Alexandra
2002
6.5
Town & Country
as Eugenie's Mother
2001
4.4
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
as Louise Grantham Robilotti
2001
7.8
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
as Mrs. Louise Grantham Robilotti
2001
7.8
Duets
as Harriet Gahagan
2000
5.6
1961
as Abby Hedley
2000
0.0
If These Walls Could Talk 2
as Abby Hedley
2000
6.5
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Peggy Kendall
1999
7.9
The Haunting
as Mrs. Dudley
1999
5.5
Celebrity
as Datloff Party Guest
1998
6.0
Sex and the City
as Mrs. Big
1998
7.4
Affliction
as Alma Pittman
1998
6.3
Home Alone 3
as Mrs. Hess
1997
5.3
Digging to China
as Leah Schroth
1997
6.4
Remember WENN
as Miss Frye
1996
8.0
Tom and Huck
as Widow Douglas
1995
5.3
Clarissa
as Lillian Banion
1995
7.4
Central Park West
1995
4.0
Truman
as Eleanor Roosevelt
1995
7.6
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
as Justice Susie Sharp
1994
6.5
Frasier
as Betty
1993
7.7
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
as Margaret Armstrong
1992
5.1
Good & Evil
as Charlotte Sandler
1991
6.0
Law & Order
as Suzanne
1990
7.4
Wings
as Eleanor Kingsbury
1990
6.9
Murphy Brown
as Murphy's Aunt Brooke
1988
6.4
Zits
as Miss Maple
1988
3.9
Gertrude Stein and a Companion!
as Alice B. Toklas
1987
0.0
Murder, She Wrote
as Lydia Winthrop
1984
7.5
Kate & Allie
1984
5.9
Fingers
as Ruth
1978
6.3
Kate McShane
as Secretary
1975
0.0
Mannix
as Ida Colby
1967
6.7
The Star Wagon
as Marian
1966
7.0
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Herodias
1965
6.4
Branded
as Neela
1965
6.6
Crime and Punishment USA
as Debbie Cole
1959
5.2
The Big Fisherman
as Arnon
1959
4.6
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
5.8
The Rifleman
as Hazel / The Vision
1958
7.1
The Texan
as Cora Laird
1958
5.5
The Plot to Kill Stalin
as Mme. Molotov
1958
0.0
The Light in the Forest
as Kate Owens
1958
6.8
Shirley Temple's Storybook
as Widow Enga
1958
6.2
🎬
The Court of Last Resort
1957
0.0
Suspicion
1957
5.9
Perry Mason
as Mary K. Davis
1957
7.7
M Squad
as Martha Wicklow
1957
5.2
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Mollie Stanton
1957
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Christie Smith
1957
7.3
The True Story of Jesse James
as Rowena Cobb
1957
6.2
The Young Stranger
as Mrs. Morse (uncredited)
1957
5.8
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Alicia Jolland
1956
6.0
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Audience Member
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
1956
5.9
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Lydia Brailing
1955
7.8
Gunsmoke
as Mrs. Cullen
1955
6.6
The Millionaire
as Dorothy 'Dot' McAllister
1955
5.0
Climax!
as Betty
1954
3.3
🎬
The Lonely Night
as Caroline
1954
0.0
General Electric Theater
as Persis Hughes
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Adelaide Baines
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Leah
1953
6.4
Omnibus
1952
6.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Emily
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Iva Stearns
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Nora Cantata
1951
8.6
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as May
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Anne
1950
6.3
🎬
Hands of Murder
1949
0.0
Studio One
as Anna Zenger
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Mary Widdicomb
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Belle Giles
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Anna Zeger
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Emilia
1948
6.3
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
7.5