Barbara Harris (actress)

Barbara Densmoor Harris (born July 25, 1935 in Evanston , Illinois - † August 21, 2018 in Scottsdale , Arizona ) was an American actress .

Life

Barbara Harris was the daughter of businessman Oscar Harris and pianist Natalie Densmoor. She began her acting career as a teenager at the Playwrights Theater Club in Chicago . She was also a member of the Compass Players, one of the first improvisational theater ensembles in the USA. The Second City theater group later emerged from the Playwrights Theater Club and the Compass Players . With the musical From the Second City (1961) she made her debut on Broadway . The following year she was nominated for the Tony Award theater prize for her performance as “Best Actress in a Musical” . In 1962 she received the Theater World Award for the play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad . In 1967 she won the Tony Award for the 1966 musical The Apple Tree .

In the early 1960s she took on her first television roles; her first film Thousand Clowns (A Thousand Clowns), where she next to Jason Robards occurred, she turned 1965. Her major film credits include Nashville (1975) by Robert Altman , where she presented the role of a for success aspiring as a country singer wife, and Family Grave (1976), Alfred Hitchcock's last film in which she played the role of a deceitful spiritualist . In the Disney - Fantasy film Freaky Friday (1976) she played Ellen Andrews, the mother of Annabel Andrews that of Jodie Foster was shown. She also played the main character's mother several times in her later film roles, such as Kathleen Turner in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and John Cusack in her last film role in A Man - A Murder (1997).

1990 and 1991 had Harris in the television series E.NG with. She later worked as a theater director and gave acting lessons. She was married to director Paul Sills from 1955 until the divorce in 1958. Harris died of lung cancer in August 2018 at the age of 83 .

Awards and honors

Harris was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the following roles :

• Sandra Markowitz in the film A Thousand Clowns ,
• Albuquerque in the Nashville movie ,
• Blanche Tyler in the movie Family Grave ,
• Ellen Andrews in the movie Crazy Friday .

For the role of Allison Densmore in Who is Harry Kellerman? she was nominated for an Oscar in 1972 in the category Best Supporting Actress .

Filmography (selection)

• 1965: Thousand clown (A Thousand clown)
• 1967: O father, poor father, mother hangs you in the closet and I'm very sick (Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I Am Feeling so Sad)
• 1970: Hotel whispers (Plaza Suite)
• 1971: Who is Harry Kellerman? (Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?)
• 1972: War Between Men and Women
• 1974: You promised me a baby (Mixed Company)
• 1975: Nashville
• 1976: Family grave (Family Plot)
• 1976: Freaky Friday (Freaky Friday)
• 1978: Movie Movie
• 1979: The North Avenue Irregulars
• 1979: The Seduction of Joe Tynan (The Seduction of Joe Tynan)
• 1980: Second-hand hearts
• 1986: Peggy Sue got married (Peggy Sue Got Married)
• 1987: Nice Girls Don't Explode
• 1988: Two Adorably Depraved Villains (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
• 1997: One Man - One Murder (Grosse Pointe Blank)

Web links

• Barbara Harris in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Barbara Harris in the Internet Broadway Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ New York Times: Tony Award-Winning Actress Barbara Harris Dies at Age 83
2. ^ Actress Barbara Harris dies; Second City alum became toast of Broadway, movies . In: Chicago Sun-Times . ( suntimes.com [accessed August 22, 2018]). Actress Barbara Harris dies; Second City alum became toast of Broadway, movies ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.