Shelley Winters
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1920-08-18
Day of Death
2006-01-14 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Shelley Winters
Biography
Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress whose career spanned almost six decades. She appeared in numerous films, and won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Other roles Winters appeared in include A Double Life (1947), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), Alfie (1966), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), and Pete's Dragon (1977). In addition to film, Winters appeared in television, including a years-long tenure on the sitcom Roseanne, and also authored three autobiographical books.
Known For
Acting
(2022)
Groucho & Cavett
as Self (archive footage)
(2020)
My Darling Vivian
as Self (archive footage)
(2012)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
(2001)
George Stevens and His Place In The Sun
as Self (archive footage)
(2000)
On Cukor
as Self
(2000)
(1999)
La bomba
as Prof. Summers
(1998)
Gideon
as Mrs. Willows
(1997)
(1996)
The Portrait of a Lady
as Mrs. Touchett
(1996)
Valley Girls
as Lady in Truck
(1995)
Jury Duty
as Mrs. Collins
(1995)
Mrs. Munck
as Aunt Monica
(1995)
Raging Angels
as Grandma Ruth
(1995)
Heavy
as Dolly Modino
(1995)
Backfire!
as The Good Lieutenant
(1995)
(1994)
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
as Self
(1994)
The Silence of the Hams
as Mrs. Motel (The Mother)
(1993)
The Pickle
as Yetta
(1992)
Weep No More, My Lady
as Vivian Morgan
(1991)
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
as Self (archive footage)
(1991)
Stepping Out
as Mrs. Fraser
(1990)
(1990)
(1990)
Touch of a Stranger
as Lily
(1989)
An Unremarkable Life
as Evelyn McEllany
(1989)
(1989)
(1988)
Purple People Eater
as Rita
(1988)
Hello Actors Studio
as Self
(1986)
The Delta Force
as Edie Kaplan
(1986)
Witchfire
as Lydia
(1986)
(1986)
(1985)
Déjà Vu
as Olga Nabokova
(1984)
Ellie
as Cora Jackson
(1984)
Over the Brooklyn Bridge
as Becky
(1983)
(1983)
Fanny Hill
as Mrs. Cole
(1983)
Do It Debbie's Way
as Self
(1983)
Emma and Grandpa
as Narrator (US)
(1983)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1981)
Looping
as Carmen
(1981)
S.O.B.
as Eva Brown
(1979)
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
as Crystal (voice)
(1979)
The Visitor
as Jane Phillips
(1979)
City on Fire
as Nurse Andrea Harper
(1979)
The Magician of Lublin
as Elzbieta
(1979)
Elvis
as Gladys Presley
(1979)
Cher... and Other Fantasies
as Shelley
(1979)
Bringing A Legend To Life
as Herself
(1978)
The Initiation of Sarah
as Mrs. Erica Hunter
(1978)
King of the Gypsies
as Queen Rachel
(1977)
Pete's Dragon
as Lena Gogan
(1977)
Tentacles
as Tillie Turner
(1977)
An Average Little Man
as Amalia Vivaldi
(1977)
Black Journal
as Lea
(1976)
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
as Faye Lapinsky
(1976)
The Tenant
as Concierge
(1976)
Frosty's Winter Wonderland
as Crystal
(1976)
Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden
as Caterina
(1975)
Journey into Fear
as Mrs. Mathews
(1975)
Diamonds
as Zelda Shapiro
(1975)
That Lucky Touch
as Diana Steedeman
(1975)
Poor Pretty Eddie
as Bertha
(1974)
Big Rose
as Rose Winters
(1974)
The Sex Symbol
as Agatha Murphy
(1973)
Cleopatra Jones
as Mommy
(1973)
The Stone Killer
as Drunk Woman in Police Station (uncredited)
(1973)
The Devil's Daughter
as Lilith Malone
(1973)
Blume in Love
as Mrs. Cramer
(1972)
The Poseidon Adventure
as Belle Rosen
(1972)
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
as Mrs. Forrest
(1972)
The Adventures of Nick Carter
as Bess Tucker
(1972)
Something to Hide
as Gabriella Field
(1971)
What's the Matter with Helen?
as Helen Hill
(1971)
Revenge!
as Amanda Hilton
(1971)
A Death of Innocence
as Elizabeth Cameron
(1970)
Flap
as Dorothy Bluebell
(1970)
Bloody Mama
as 'Ma' Kate Barker
(1970)
How Do I Love Thee?
as Lena Mervin
(1969)
Arthur? Arthur!
as Hester Green
(1969)
The Mad Room
as Mrs. Armstrong
(1968)
The Scalphunters
as Kate
(1968)
Wild in the Streets
as Mrs. Max Flatow (Frost)
(1968)
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
as Shirley Newman
(1967)
Easier in the Dark
as Frances
(1967)
Enter Laughing
as Emma Kolowitz
(1966)
The Three Sisters
as Natalya
(1966)
(1966)
Alfie
as Ruby
(1966)
Harper
as Fay Estabrook
(1965)
A Patch of Blue
as Rose-Ann D'Arcey
(1965)
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Woman who is healed
(1964)
A House Is Not a Home
as Polly Adler
(1964)
Time of Indifference
as Lisa
(1963)
The Balcony
as Madame Irma
(1963)
Wives and Lovers
as Fran Cabrell
(1962)
Lolita
as Charlotte Haze
(1962)
The Chapman Report
as Sarah Garnell
(1961)
The Young Savages
as Mary diPace
(1960)
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
as Nellie Romano
(1959)
The Diary of Anne Frank
as Petronella Van Daan
(1959)
Odds Against Tomorrow
as Lorry
(1955)
The Night of the Hunter
as Willa Harper
(1955)
The Treasure of Pancho Villa
as Ruth Harris
(1955)
I Am a Camera
as Natalia Landauer
(1955)
The Big Knife
as Dixie Evans
(1955)
I Died a Thousand Times
as Marie Garson
(1954)
Executive Suite
as Eva Bardeman
(1954)
Saskatchewan
as Grace Markey
(1954)
To Dorothy, a Son
as Myrtle La Mar
(1954)
(1954)
Playgirl
as Fran
(1954)
Mambo
as Toni Salerno
(1954)
Tennessee Champ
as Sarah Wurble
(1952)
Untamed Frontier
as Jane Stevens
(1952)
Meet Danny Wilson
as Joy Carroll
(1952)
Phone Call from a Stranger
as Binky Gay
(1952)
My Man and I
as Nancy
(1951)
Behave Yourself!
as Katherine "Kate" Denny
(1951)
A Place in the Sun
as Alice Tripp
(1951)
The Raging Tide
as Connie Thatcher
(1951)
He Ran All the Way
as Peggy Dobbs
(1951)
(1950)
Frenchie
as Frenchie Fontaine
(1950)
Winchester '73
as Lola Manners
(1950)
South Sea Sinner
as Coral
(1949)
The Great Gatsby
as Myrtle Wilson
(1949)
Johnny Stool Pigeon
as Terry
(1949)
Take One False Step
as Catherine Sykes
(1948)
Red River
as Wagon Train Member (uncredited)
(1948)
Cry of the City
as Brenda Martingale
(1948)
Larceny
as Tory
(1947)
New Orleans
as Mrs. Holmbright
(1947)
Killer McCoy
as Waitress / Autograph Hound (uncredited)
(1947)
A Double Life
as Pat Kroll
(1947)
The Gangster
as Hazel
(1947)
Living in a Big Way
as Junior League Girl (uncredited)
(1945)
Escape in the Fog
as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
(1945)
Tonight and Every Night
as Bubbles (uncredited)
(1945)
A Thousand and One Nights
as Handmaiden
(1944)
Knickerbocker Holiday
as Ulda Tienhoven
(1944)
Sailor's Holiday
as Gloria Flynn
(1944)
Together Again
as Young Woman Fleeing Nightclub Raid (uncredited)
(1944)
She's a Soldier Too
as 'Silver' Rankin (uncredited)
(1943)
What a Woman
as Secretary (uncredited)
(1943)