Ruth Warrick
Biography
Dame Ruth Elizabeth Warrick (June 29, 1916 – January 15, 2005), DM, was a long-time American singer, Hollywood Golden-Age actress and political activist, best known for her role as Phoebe Tyler on All My Children, which she played regularly from 1970 until her death in 2005. She celebrated her 80th birthday by attending a special screening of Citizen Kane to a packed, standing-room-only audience, to which she spoke afterward. (She made her film debut as Kane's first wife.) Over the years, she collected several books about Orson Welles and Citizen Kane, in which she would write "Property of Ruth Warrick, Mrs. Citizen Kane". She served as a Licensed Unity Teacher. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ruth Warrick, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movies (35)
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
as Self
2001
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
as Self
1996
Peyton Place: The Next Generation
as Hannah Cord
1985
Deathmask
as Beatrice VandenBerg
1984
The Returning
as Grace
1983
The Great Bank Robbery
as Mrs. Applebee
1969
How to Steal the World
as Alice Garrow
1968
Ride Beyond Vengeance
as Aunt Gussie
1966
A Letter to Nancy
as Mrs. Helen Reed
1965
Roogie's Bump
as Mrs. Rigsby
1954
One Too Many
as Helen Mason
1950
Let's Dance
as Carola Everett
1950
Three Husbands
as Jane Evans
1950
Second Chance
as Emily Dean
1950
Beauty on Parade
as Marian Medford
1950
The Great Dan Patch
as Ruth Treadwell
1949
Make Believe Ballroom
as Liza Lee
1949
Arch of Triumph
as Kate Bergstroem
1948
Daisy Kenyon
as Lucille O'Mara
1947
Driftwood
as Susan Moore
1947
Swell Guy
as Ann Duncan
1946
Song of the South
as Sally
1946
Perilous Holiday
as Agnes Stuart
1946
China Sky
as Dr. Sara Durand
1945
Guest in the House
as Ann Proctor
1944
Secret Command
as Lea Damaron
1944
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
as Amy Winkle
1944
The Iron Major
as Florence Ayres Cavanaugh
1943
Petticoat Larceny
as Pat Mitchell
1943
Forever and a Day
as Lesley Trimble
1943
Journey into Fear
as Mrs. Stephanie Graham
1943
Obliging Young Lady
as Linda Norton
1942
The Corsican Brothers
as Countess Isabelle Gravini
1941
Citizen Kane
as Emily Norton Kane
1941
Citizen Kane Trailer
as herself/Emily Monroe Norton Kane
1940
TV Shows (13)
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self
1996
All My Children
as Phoebe Tyler
1970
Daniel Boone
as Wise Woman
1964
Peyton Place
as Hannah Cord
1964
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Co-Host
1961
Father of the Bride
as Eleanor "Ellie" Banks
1961
Perry Mason
as Mrs. Winlock
1957
Gunsmoke
as Clara Benteen
1955
Cavalcade of America
as Lydia Darragh
1952
Short Short Dramas
1952
Lux Video Theatre
as Anna Carmody
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Marion Shaw
1950
Studio One
1948