
Shelley Winters
Known for Acting · 209 credits
- Born
- 1920-08-18
- Died
- 2006-01-14
- Place of birth
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Also known as
- Shirley Schrift · Shelley Winter · شلی وینترز
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
TV Shows (60)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self - Guest / Self - Guest Hostess

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self - Co-Hostess

The Love Boat
1977
as Teresa Rosselli

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee / Self - Nominee / Presenter

Batman
1966
as Ma Parker

Wagon Train
1957
as Ruth Owens

What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest

Late Night with David Letterman
1982
as Self - Guest

The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest

Wogan
1982
as Self

Hotel
1982
as Adele Ellsworth

Climax!
1954
as Leona Stevenson / Margaret Corey / Ethel / Lillian / Ann / Carol
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
as Jenny Dworak / Edith / Clarry Golden

Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter / Self (archive footage)

Ben Casey
1961

The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest

Midi Première
1975
as Self

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self

Kojak
1973
as Evelyn McNeil

Here's Lucy
1968
as Shelley Summers

The Oscars
1953
as Self

The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self

Vega$
1978

McCloud
1970

The Bob Hope Show
1950
as Self

The Ford Television Theatre
1952
as Sally Marland

The Steve Allen Show
1956
as Self - Guest
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
as Self

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
as Self (uncredited)

Kraft Television Theatre
1947
as Helen

The United States Steel Hour
1953

ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as Barbara Bennet

Chico and the Man
1974

Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as Mrs. Bixby
Vicki!
1992
as Self - Guest

Fridays
1980
as Self - Guest Host

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1973
as Self

ABC Stage 67
1966
as Self

Alcoa Premiere
1961

Charlie Rose
1991
as Self

DuPont Show of the Month
1957
as Louisa Burt

Roseanne
1988
as Nana Mary
Producers' Showcase
1954
as Crystal Allen

The Alcoa Hour
1955

Alice in Wonderland
1985
as Dodo Bird

The French Atlantic Affair
1979
as Helen Wabash

The David Susskind Show
1959
as Self
Russell Harty
1980

The Hollywood Greats
1977

Politically Incorrect
1993
That's Life
1968

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Mildred Corrigan

Armchair Theatre
1956
as Frances

Hawaiian Heat
1984

Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self

The Perry Como Show
1956

The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder
1995

Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood
1989
Movies (149)

Lolita
1962
as Charlotte Haze

The Delta Force
1986
as Edie Kaplan

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)

The Poseidon Adventure
1972
as Belle Rosen

The Night of the Hunter
1955
as Willa Harper

The Tenant
1976
as Concierge

The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
as Woman who is healed

Harper
1966
as Fay Estabrook

Red River
1948
as Wagon Train Member (uncredited)

The Portrait of a Lady
1996
as Mrs. Touchett

Pete's Dragon
1977
as Lena Gogan

The Diary of Anne Frank
1959
as Petronella Van Daan
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
as Self

Jury Duty
1995
as Mrs. Collins

Cleopatra Jones
1973
as Mommy

A Place in the Sun
1951
as Alice Tripp

The Stone Killer
1973
as Drunk Woman in Police Station (uncredited)

Winchester '73
1950
as Lola Manners

The Pickle
1993
as Yetta

The Silence of the Hams
1994
as Mrs. Motel (The Mother)

James Bond: The First 21 Years
1983
as Self

Bloody Mama
1970
as 'Ma' Kate Barker

Executive Suite
1954
as Eva Bardeman

The Scalphunters
1968
as Kate

Alfie
1966
as Ruby

S.O.B.
1981
as Eva Brown

Tentacles
1977
as Tillie Turner

Heavy
1995
as Dolly Modino

Elvis
1979
as Gladys Presley

The Young Savages
1961
as Mary diPace

King of the Gypsies
1978
as Queen Rachel

A Patch of Blue
1965
as Rose-Ann D'Arcey

The Visitor
1979
as Jane Phillips

My Darling Vivian
2020
as Self (archive footage)

Hello Actors Studio
1988
as Self

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991
as Self (archive footage)

Next Stop, Greenwich Village
1976
as Faye Lapinsky

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
1990
as Self

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
1990
as Self

I Died a Thousand Times
1955
as Marie Garson

Frenchie
1950
as Frenchie Fontaine

Over the Brooklyn Bridge
1984
as Becky

The Devil's Daughter
1973
as Lilith Malone

Saskatchewan
1954
as Grace Markey

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Chapman Report
1962
as Sarah Garnell

Time of Indifference
1964
as Lisa

Phone Call from a Stranger
1952
as Binky Gay

The Great Gatsby
1949
as Myrtle Wilson

Stepping Out
1991
as Mrs. Fraser

Fanny Hill
1983
as Mrs. Cole

Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
1979
as Crystal (voice)

Raging Angels
1995
as Grandma Ruth

Johnny Stool Pigeon
1949
as Terry

A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954
as Self

City on Fire
1979
as Nurse Andrea Harper

Déjà Vu
1985
as Olga Nabokova

Gideon
1998
as Mrs. Willows

Journey into Fear
1975
as Mrs. Mathews

Larceny
1948
as Tory

Purple People Eater
1988
as Rita

There's Something About a Soldier
1943
as Norma

Black Journal
1977
as Lea

The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017
as Self (archive)

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986
as Self

Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
1997
as Self

Backfire!
1995
as The Good Lieutenant

My Man and I
1952
as Nancy

Together Again
1944
as Young Woman Fleeing Nightclub Raid (uncredited)

The Gangster
1947
as Hazel (uncredited)

The Big Knife
1955
as Dixie Evans

Odds Against Tomorrow
1959
as Lorry

Knickerbocker Holiday
1944
as Ulda Tienhoven

The Raging Tide
1951
as Connie Thatcher

Cher... and Other Fantasies
1979
as Shelley

The Three Sisters
1966
as Natalya

The Treasure of Pancho Villa
1955
as Ruth Harris

Poor Pretty Eddie
1975
as Bertha

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
1968
as Shirley Newman

A Thousand and One Nights
1945
as Handmaiden

A Double Life
1947
as Pat Kroll

Take One False Step
1949
as Catherine Sykes

The Adventures of Nick Carter
1972
as Bess Tucker

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
1972
as Mrs. Forrest

Untamed Frontier
1952
as Jane Stevens

Playgirl
1954
as Fran

Killer McCoy
1947
as Waitress / Autograph Hound (uncredited)

The Magician of Lublin
1979
as Elzbieta

A House Is Not a Home
1964
as Polly Adler

Frosty's Winter Wonderland
1976
as Crystal

Cry of the City
1948
as Brenda Martingale

Wild in the Streets
1968
as Mrs. Max Flatow (Frost)

What's the Matter with Helen?
1971
as Helen Hill

Tonight and Every Night
1945
as Bubbles (uncredited)

Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960
as Nellie Romano

An Unremarkable Life
1989
as Evelyn McEllany

He Ran All the Way
1951
as Peggy Dobbs

Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden
1976
as Caterina

Valley Girls
1996
as Lady in Truck

Looping
1981
as Carmen

Ellie
1984
as Cora Jackson

Meet Danny Wilson
1952
as Joy Carroll

Marlon Brando: The Wild One
1994
as Self

Big Rose
1974
as Rose Winters

The Sex Symbol
1974
as Agatha Murphy

Flap
1970
as Dorothy Bluebell

What a Woman
1943
as Secretary (uncredited)

Enter Laughing
1967
as Emma Kolowitz

The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
1966

Diamonds
1975
as Zelda Shapiro

Behave Yourself!
1951
as Katherine "Kate" Denny

Escape in the Fog
1945
as Taxi Driver (uncredited)

The Initiation of Sarah
1978
as Mrs. Erica Hunter

Blume in Love
1973
as Mrs. Cramer

Mrs. Munck
1995
as Aunt Monica

Living in a Big Way
1947
as Junior League Girl (uncredited)

Mambo
1954
as Toni Salerno

Very Close Quarters
1986
as Galina

An Average Little Man
1977
as Amalia Vivaldi

New Orleans
1947
as Mrs. Holmbright
About Shelley Winters
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… With 209 credits spanning from 1943 to 2022, Shelley Winters has appeared in 149 films and 60 TV shows.
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Most Popular Shelley Winters Movies
- Lolita (1962) — as Charlotte Haze
- The Delta Force (1986) — as Edie Kaplan
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) — as (archive footage)
- The Poseidon Adventure (1972) — as Belle Rosen
- The Night of the Hunter (1955) — as Willa Harper
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