Irene Dailey

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Irene Dailey (* 12. September 1920 in New York City , New York ; † 24. September 2008 in Santa Rosa , California ) was an American film - and theater - Actress .

Life

Dailey began her career as a vaudeville dancer as a child . Her older brother Dan Dailey was also an actor. She made her Broadway debut in Nine Girls in 1943 at the side of Barbara Bel Geddes . In 1946 she starred alongside Marlon Brando and Karl Malden in the short-lived Elia Kazan production of Maxwell Anderson's Truckline Cafe . Her other Broadway roles included the Bertolt Brecht productions of The Good Woman of Setzuan with Uta Hagen and Andorra alongside Horst Buchholz . However, all these productions were flops and Dailey had to stay afloat as a waitress and operator of a lampshade business. She had a Broadway hit in 1964 in the Tony Award winning production of Frank D. Gilroy's The Subject Was Roses, starring Martin Sheen . She received the Drama Desk Award in 1966 for her performance in the off-Broadway production Rooms . In addition, she performed in 1960 on London's West End ; she played at the Duke of York's Theater in the production Tomorrow - with Pictures! where it received excellent reviews.

Dailey was also featured in film and television from the mid-1950s to the early 1990s. In the 1960s she appeared in guest roles on series such as Preston & Preston , Dr. Kildare and Twilight Zone and has also been in some feature films such as Bizarre Murders and Five Easy Pieces - A Man Seeks Himself . Her best-known film roles include the portrayal of Aunt Helena in the horror film Amityville Horror from 1979. From 1969 to 1970 she was seen as Pamela Stewart in the soap opera The Edge of Night . In the soap opera Another World she played the matriarch Liz Matthews from 1974 to 1986 and 1988 to 1994 . For this she was awarded the Emmy Award in 1979 . She played her last role in 1996 on Broadway alongside Frank Langella in The Father .

Dailey died at the age of 88 of complications from colon cancer .

Filmography (selection)

Movie

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Broadway

Awards

  • 1966: Drama Desk Award for Rooms
  • 1979: Emmy for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series for Another World

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary , Playbill (English)
  2. ↑ a b c Irene Dailey, Actress of Stage and TV, Dies at 88 , The New York Times (English)
personal data
SURNAME Dailey, Irene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and theater actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 2008
Place of death Santa Rosa , California , United States