Lee Remick
Lee Ann Remick (born December 14, 1935 in Quincy , Massachusetts , † July 2, 1991 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actress .
life and work
Lee Remick was born to a stage actress. She moved with her family to New York at an early age , where she completed Miss Hewitt's Classes and took ballet lessons with Ruth Swoboda and modern dance with Charles Weidman . It made its stage debut in 1952 during a major show at a music circus tent in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts . In 1953 she played on Broadway in the play Be Your Age and was regularly represented on the theater stage from that point on. In 1966, her portrayal of The Brave Blind In Wait Until It Is Dark (later filmed with Audrey Hepburn ) was a huge success, as was her London stage debut ten years later in the role of the truck stop singer in Bus Stop (filmed with Marilyn Monroe ).
TV adaptations of their stage successes are considered more interesting than their films in the 1970s. B. 1972 Summer and Smoke , 1973 The man who came to dinner . Remick also had success in television games, such as B. 1974 as Winston Churchill's mother Jennie Churchill in Jenny, Lady Churchill or 1979 as General Eisenhower's chauffeur and lover in Ike .
Despite her cancer ( liver and kidney cancer ) that emerged in the 1980s, she continued to work tirelessly on stage and on television, starring around the world in the 1989 miniseries in 80 days . She succumbed to her illness while preparing for the shooting of the television film Die Junge Katharina . Your role went to Marthe Keller.
Lee Remick was married twice. In 1957 she married the director Bill Colleran , from whom she divorced in 1968. The couple had two children. In her second marriage, she was married to the director and producer Kip Gowans from 1970 until her death . She died of cancer in her home at the age of 55.
Filmography (selection)
- 1957: A Face in the Crowd (A Face in the Crowd ) - Director: Elia Kazan
- 1958: The Long, Hot Summer (The Long, Hot Summer ) - Director: Martin Ritt
- 1959: Anatomy of a Murder (Anatomy of a Murder ) - Directed by Otto Preminger
- 1959: Thousand Hills (These Thousand Hills ) - Director: Richard Fleischer
- 1960: Wild River (Wild River ) - Director: Elia Kazan
- 1961: Confession of a Sinner (Sanctuary ) - Directed by Tony Richardson
- 1962: Days of Wine and Roses (Days of Wine and Roses ) - Director: Blake Edwards
- 1962: The Last Train (Experiment in Terror ) - Directed by Blake Edwards
- 1962: The second man (The Running Man) - Director: Carol Reed
- 1963: Separate Beds (The Wheeler Dealers) - Director: Arthur Hiller
- 1965: Die Lady und der Tramp (Baby the Rain Must Fall) - Director: Robert Mulligan
- 1965: Forty Cars Westward (The Hallelujah Trail) - Directed by John Sturges
- 1968: The Detective (The Detective) - Director: Gordon Douglas
- 1968: Bizarre Morde (No Way to Treat a Lady) - Director: Jack Smight
- 1969: The Killer and the Whore (Hard Contract) - Director: S. Lee Pogostin
- 1970: The biggest crooks far and wide (Loot) - Director: Silvio Narizzano
- 1970: Trust No House Friend (A Severed Head) - directed by Dick Clement
- 1970: They Want To Be Giants (Sometimes a Great Notion) Director: Paul Newman
- 1972: And No One Could Save Her - Director: Kevin Billington
- 1973 A Delicate Balance - Director: Tony Richardson
- 1974: Trauma / Conscience / Midnight Chase (Touch Me Not)
- 1974: Jenny, Lady Churchill (Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill) - Director: James Cellan Jones, 7-part television series
- 1975: A man named Hennessy (Hennessy) - Director: Don Sharp
- 1975: A Girl, a Muli and Grandma's Whiskey (A Girl Named Sooner) - Director: Delbert Mann
- 1975: Bottom Line (Hustling) - Director: Joseph Sargent
- 1976: Das Omen (The Omen) - Director: Richard Donner
- 1977: Telephone - Director: Don Siegel
- 1978: Like a bolt from the blue (Breaking Up) - Director: Delbert Mann
- 1978: The Horror of Medusa (The Medusa Touch) - Director: Jack Gold
- 1978 Wheels - Directed by Jerry London, 10-part television series
- 1979: The Europeans (The Europeans) - Director: James Ivory
- 1979: Torn Between Two Lovers - Director: Delbert Mann
- 1980: The Grand Finale (The Competition) - Director: Joel Oliansky
- 1980: A Summer in Manhattan (Tribute) - Director: Bob Clark
- 1981: The Letter - Directed by John Erman
- 1984: Playing with Fear (Rearview Mirror) - Director: Lou Antonio
- 1984: Love Battles (A Good Sport) - Director: Lou Antonio
- 1985: Bluterbe (Of Pure Blood) - Director: Joseph Sargent
- 1985: The Way Out (Toughlove) - Director: Glenn Jordan
- 1986: Emma's War - Director: Clytie Jessop
- 1987: Incitement to Murder (Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder) - Directed by Paul Bogart
- 1987 James Stewart: A Wonderful Life - Directed by David Heeley, Carol Burnett
- 1988: Jesse - Director: Glenn Jordan
- 1989: Around the World in 80 Days - Director: Buzz Kulik
- 1989: Entry to Hell (Dark Holiday , also Passport to Terror) - Director: Lou Antonio
- 1989: Bridge to Silence - Director: Karen Arthur
Awards and nominations
- 1963: Oscar nomination for The Days of Wine and Roses
- 1983: Golden Globe nomination for The Letter (Best TV Actress)
- 1979: Golden Globe nomination for Wheels (for best television actress)
- 1976: Golden Globe nomination for Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (for best television actress)
- 1974: Golden Globe for The Blue Knight (for best television actress)
- 1963: Golden Globe nomination for The Days of Wine and Roses (for best actress)
- 1960: Golden Globe nomination, Anatomy of a Murder (for best actress)
Web links
- Lee Remick in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Remick, Lee |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Remick, Lee Ann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Quincy , Massachusetts, United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd July 1991 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California, United States |