Marian Seldes

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: Acting

Born: New York City, New York, USA, 1928-08-23

Died: 2014-10-06

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1954	The Lonely Night	Caroline	0
2	1957	The Young Stranger	Mrs. Morse (uncredited)	58
3	1957	The True Story of Jesse James	Rowena Cobb	61
4	1958	The Light in the Forest	Kate Owens	68
5	1958	The Plot to Kill Stalin	Mme. Molotov	0
6	1959	The Big Fisherman	Arnon	46
7	1959	Crime and Punishment USA	Debbie Cole	52
8	1965	The Greatest Story Ever Told	Herodias	64
9	1966	The Star Wagon	Marian	70
10	1975	Kate McShane	Secretary	0
11	1978	Fingers	Ruth	64
12	1987	Gertrude Stein and a Companion!	Alice B. Toklas	0
13	1988	Zits	Miss Maple	46
14	1992	The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag	Margaret Armstrong	51
15	1994	In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness	Justice Susie Sharp	65
16	1995	Truman	Eleanor Roosevelt	76
17	1995	Clarissa	Lillian Banion	74
18	1995	Tom and Huck	Widow Douglas	53
19	1997	Digging to China	Leah Schroth	64
20	1997	Home Alone 3	Mrs. Hess	53
21	1998	Affliction	Alma Pittman	63
22	1998	Celebrity	Datloff Party Guest	60
23	1999	The Haunting	Mrs. Dudley	55
24	2000	1961	Abby Hedley	0
25	2000	If These Walls Could Talk 2	Abby Hedley	66
26	2000	Duets	Harriet Gahagan	57
27	2001	Town & Country	Eugenie's Mother	45
28	2002	Hollywood Ending	Alexandra	65
29	2003	Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There	Self	70
30	2003	Mona Lisa Smile	President Jocelyn Carr	69
31	2004	Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision	Narrator (voice)	40
32	2004	Plainsong	Iva Stearns	66
33	2005	Ballets Russes	Narrator	72
34	2006	In from the Night	Nora Cantata	67
35	2007	Suburban Girl	Margaret Paddleford	56
36	2007	Miriam	Mrs. H.T. Miller	0
37	2007	August Rush	The Dean	74
38	2008	The Visitor	Barbara	71
39	2008	Leatherheads	Clerk	58
40	2008	The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment	The Duchess of Krakenthorp	70
41	2008	Murnau, Borzage and Fox	Self	70
42	2009	The Toe Tactic	Eunice (voice)	50
43	2009	Home	Peggy	52
44	2010	The Extra Man	Vivian Cudlip	58
45	2012	Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life	Mabel Billingsly	40
46	2017	Marian	Self	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1947	Kraft Television Theatre		73
2	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		60
3	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Emilia	60
4	1948	Studio One	Anna Zenger	47
5	1948	Studio One	Mary Widdicomb	47
6	1948	Studio One	Belle Giles	47
7	1949	Hands of Murder		0
8	1950	Lux Video Theatre	May	60
9	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Anne	60
10	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Emily	87
11	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Iva Stearns	87
12	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Nora Cantata	87
13	1952	Omnibus		60
14	1953	General Electric Theater	Persis Hughes	60
15	1953	General Electric Theater	Adelaide Baines	60
16	1953	General Electric Theater	Leah	60
17	1954	Climax!	Betty	30
18	1955	The Millionaire	Dorothy 'Dot' McAllister	50
19	1955	Gunsmoke	Mrs. Cullen	66
20	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Lydia Brailing	78
21	1955	Matinee Theater		46
22	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee	46
23	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Audience Member	46
24	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient	46
25	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Alicia Jolland	55
26	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel	Mollie Stanton	74
27	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel	Christie Smith	74
28	1957	M Squad	Martha Wicklow	52
29	1957	Perry Mason	Mary K. Davis	77
30	1957	Suspicion		59
31	1957	The Court of Last Resort		0
32	1958	Shirley Temple's Storybook	Widow Enga	58
33	1958	The Texan	Cora Laird	55
34	1958	The Rifleman	Hazel / The Vision	71
35	1958	Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse		53
36	1965	Branded	Neela	64
37	1967	Mannix	Ida Colby	67
38	1984	Kate & Allie		58
39	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Lydia Winthrop	75
40	1988	Murphy Brown	Murphy's Aunt Brooke	64
41	1990	Wings	Eleanor Kingsbury	69
42	1990	Law & Order	Suzanne	74
43	1991	Good & Evil		60
44	1993	Frasier	Betty	77
45	1995	Central Park West		46
46	1998	Sex and the City	Mrs. Big	74
47	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Peggy Kendall	79
48	2001	A Nero Wolfe Mystery	Louise Grantham Robilotti	78
49	2004	Clubhouse		35
50	2006	The Book of Daniel	Helen	71
51	2006	Big Day		52