Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 09, 1900
Died
Mar 17, 1993
Place of Birth
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Credits
76 titles
Helen Hayes
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
Self (archive footage)
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
Self (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
Divine Mercy No Escape
MGM: When the Lion Roars
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
The Ten-Year Lunch
Herself - Participant
Murder with Mirrors
Miss Jane Marple
Highway to Heaven
A Caribbean Mystery
Miss Jane Marple
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Murder Is Easy
Lavinia Fullerton
Hopper's Silence
Herself
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
Old Friends... New Friends
Self
A Family Upside Down
Emma Long
Candleshoe
Lady St. Edmund
The Love Boat
Agatha Winslow
Victory at Entebbe
Etta Grossman-Wise
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
Dr. McCartney
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Hettie
Herbie Rides Again
Mrs. Steinmetz
The Snoop Sisters
Ernesta Snoop
The Female Instinct
Ernesta Snoop
Ghost Story
Miss Gilden
Harvey
Veta Louise Simmons
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Sophie Tate Curtis
Airport
Ada Quonsett
Arsenic and Old Lace
Abby Brewster
Here's Lucy
Kathleen Brady
Hawaii Five-O
Aunt Clara
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Tarzan
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
The Challenge of Ideas
Narrator
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
Cornelia Van Gorder
The Bat
Cornelia Van Gorder
Third Man on the Mountain
Hotel guest (uncredited)
Play of the Week
Mother Hildebrand
The Bell Telephone Hour
Self
Four Women in Black
Sister Theresa
Anastasia
Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
Tony Awards
Self - Accepting Award for Apa-Phoenix
A.N.T.A. Album of 1955
Self
Main Street to Broadway
Self
The Oscars
Self
Omnibus