Eileen Herlie

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Eileen Herlie (born March 8, 1918 in Glasgow , Scotland as Eileen Isobel Herlihy, † October 8, 2008 in New York City , New York , USA ) was a British actress in theater, film and television.

life and career

Eileen Isobel Herlihy, who was born in Glasgow, was an actress in numerous stage plays in Scotland in the 1940s and 1950s. However, she achieved fame above all on the West End stages and on Broadway .

On the big screen, Herlie appeared as an actress in relatively few films, including 1948 under the direction of Laurence Olivier in the Shakespeare adaptation of Hamlet in the role of Gertrude alongside fellow actors such as John Laurie , Esmond Knight and Anthony Quayle or in 1954 in J. Lee Thompson's romantic comedy Glück auf Raten with Dirk Bogarde , Susan Stephen and Cecil Parker . In 1962 she cast the director John Huston in his Sigmund Freud drama Freud in the ensemble of actors around Montgomery Clift and Susannah York in the role of Ida Koertner and in 1968 she played the part of Polina in Sidney Lumet's literary film adaptation of The Seagull .

She made her television debut in 1951, but did not resume roles on television until the early 1970s. Perhaps the most prominent role of her entire acting career, she played from 1976 to 2008 in the television series All My Children , where she embodied the character of Myrtle Fargate in 871 episodes for 32 years. For this role she was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for four consecutive years from 1983 to 1986 .

Eileen Herlie died on October 8, 2008 at the age of 90 in Manhattan.

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

  • 1947: The Copper Mountain (Hungry Hill)
  • 1948: Hamlet
  • 1950: The Angel with the Trumpet
  • 1953: The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
  • 1953: Isn't Life Wonderful!
  • 1954: Glück auf Installment (For Better, for Worse)
  • 1958: She Didn't Say No!
  • 1962: Freud
  • 1964: Hamlet
  • 1968: The Sea Gull

watch TV

  • 1951: BBC Sunday-Night Theater (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1971: Lemonade (TV short film)
  • 1972: The Woman I Love (TV movie)
  • 1976-2008: All My Children (TV series, 871 episodes)
  • 1983: Loving (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1999: One Life to Live (TV series, 1 episode)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ obituary Eileen Herlie in The Guardian
  2. ↑ Eileen Herlie. In: Rebecca D'Monte: British Theater and Performance 1900-1950. , Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015, p. 165.
  3. ↑ Eileen Herlie. In: Adrian Wright: West End Broadway: The Golden Age of the American Musical in London. , Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2012, p. 154.
  4. ↑ obituary Eileen Herlie in The New York Times
personal data
SURNAME Herlie, Eileen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herlihy, Eileen Isobel (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress in film, television and theater
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 2008
Place of death New York City , New York, USA