Cast & creator
Helen Hayes
Best known for The Mike Douglas Show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Love Boat
Helen Hayes was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In 1988 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is the namesake of the annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in the greater Washington, D.C. area since 1984. Perhaps the ultimate respect to be paid to any actor by a producer - of having a theater christened in their name - became a reality for Ms. Hayes in 1955 when the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City's Broadway theater district was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre. When that venue was torn down in 1982 (along with five other neighboring theaters), the operators of the Little Theatre, another standing theater two blocks away on 44th Street, renamed that house in her name, which it has retained ever since. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Hayes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Helen Hayes Brown, Хелен Хейс Макартур, Хелен Хейс, Helen Hayes MacArthur
47
film credits
40
television credits
87
1917–2025 · acting roles
6.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (87)
Showing 87 of 87 credits
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
The Love Boat
Agatha Winslow
1977
What's My Line?
Self
1950
Hawaii Five-O
Aunt Clara
1969
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Tony Awards
Self - Accepting Award for Apa-Phoenix
1956Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956Tony Awards
Self - Winner
1956Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
1956Tony Awards
Self - Previous Winner
1956Tony Awards
Self (archive footage)
1956
Robert Montgomery Presents
Queen Victoria
1950
Highway to Heaven
1984
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
1950
Here's Lucy
Kathleen Brady
1968
The Jack Benny Program
Helen Hayes
1950
Omnibus
1952Omnibus
Bessie Arlington
1952Omnibus
Mrs. Dearth
1952Omnibus
Mrs. Larue
1952
Kraft Television Theatre
Self - Host
1947
The Oscars
Self
1953
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
1978
Tarzan
1966
Ghost Story
Miss Gilden
1972
The Bell Telephone Hour
Self
1959
Play of the Week
Mother Hildebrand
1959
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Essie
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Vicaress
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame
Veta Louise Simmons
1951
The Snoop Sisters
Ernesta Snoop
1973
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
Dr. McCartney
1976The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
Cornelia Van Gorder
1960
MGM: When the Lion Roars
1992
Herbie Rides Again
Mrs. Steinmetz
1974
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Honora Canderay (woman)
1951
Airport
Ada Quonsett
1970
A Farewell to Arms
Catherine Barkley
1932The Ezio Pinza Show
Self
1951
Old Friends... New Friends
Self
1978
Night of 100 Stars
Self
1982
Murder Is Easy
Lavinia Fullerton
1982
Third Man on the Mountain
Hotel guest (uncredited)
1959
Anastasia
Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
1956
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
1990
The Ten-Year Lunch
Herself - Participant
1987
Candleshoe
Lady St. Edmund
1977
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
1995
Airports
2025
Stage Door Canteen
Helen Hayes
1943
Harvey
Veta Louise Simmons
1972
A Family Upside Down
Emma Long
1978
Victory at Entebbe
Etta Grossman-Wise
1976
Bill Cosby: Walking Free
Self (archive footage)
2022
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Sophie Tate Curtis
1971
Murder with Mirrors
Miss Jane Marple
1985
Hollywood Goes to Town
Self
1938
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Hettie
1975
Arsenic and Old Lace
Abby Brewster
1969
A Caribbean Mystery
Miss Jane Marple
1983
Main Street to Broadway
Self
1953
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Madelon Claudet
1931
What Every Woman Knows
Maggie Wylie
1934
Arrowsmith
Leora Tozer Arrowsmith
1931
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self (archive footage)
1940
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Vanessa Paris
1935
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
Self (archive footage)
1998
The Son-Daughter
Lian Wha
1932The Female Instinct
Ernesta Snoop
1972
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
Self
1979
Four Women in Black
Sister Theresa
1957
A.N.T.A. Album of 1955
Self
1955
Night Flight
Madame Fabian
1933
My Son John
Lucille Jefferson
1952
The Weavers of Life
Peggy
1917
The Dancing Town
Olive Pepperall
1928
The White Sister
Angela Chiaromonte
1933
Crime Without Passion
Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
1934The Challenge of Ideas
Narrator
1961Riders of the Range
Inez
1923
The Bat
Cornelia Van Gorder
1960
Another Language
Stella Hallam
1933
Hopper's Silence
Herself
1981