Cast & creator
Barbara Bel Geddes
Best known for Dallas, Dr. Kildare, Robert Montgomery Presents
Barbara Bel Geddes (October 31, 1922 – August 8, 2005) was an American actress, artist and children's author. She is best known for her role in the television drama series Dallas as matriarch Eleanor "Miss Ellie" Ewing. Bel Geddes also starred in the original Broadway production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof in the role of Maggie, and also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958). She was the recipient of several awards and award nominations for her thespian performances. Bel Geddes retired from Dallas (and acting) in 1990 and settled in her home in Northeast Harbor, Maine, where she continued to work as a fine artist. She was the author of two children's books and the creator of a line of greeting cards. She was twice married, the mother of two daughters, and died of lung cancer on August 8, 2005. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Bel Geddes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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film credits
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television credits
34
1947–2003 · acting roles
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (34)
Showing 34 of 34 credits
Dallas
Miss Ellie
1978
Dr. Kildare
Dr. Ruth Halliman
1961
Robert Montgomery Presents
The Second Mrs. de Winter
1950Robert Montgomery Presents
Tracy Samantha Lord
1950
Studio One
Charlotte Lamb
1948Studio One
Letty Grey
1948
Daniel Boone
Molly Malone
1964
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Lucia Clay
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Mary Maloney
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Helen Brewster
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Sybilla Meade
1955
Riverboat
Missy
1959
Vertigo
Marjorie 'Midge' Wood
1958CBS Playhouse
Doris Gray
1966
Journey to the Unknown
Inga Madison
1968The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
1960
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Marcia
1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Mary Andrews
1951
Spencer's Pilots
1976
Fourteen Hours
Virginia Foster
1951
Blood on the Moon
Amy Lufton
1948
The Long Night
Jo Ann
1947
Panic in the Streets
Nancy Reed
1950
Caught
Leonora Eames
1949
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self (archive footage)
2003
I Remember Mama
Katrin
1948
By Love Possessed
Clarissa Winner
1961
Summertree
Ruth
1971
The Five Pennies
Wila Stutsman
1959
Obsessed with Vertigo
Self
1997
Five Branded Women
Marja
1960
The Todd Killings
Mrs. Todd
1971
Our Town
Mrs. Webb
1977