Elizabeth Wilson
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Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse, Elizabeth Wilson made her first Broadway appearance as Christine Schoenwalder in the original 1953 production of William Inge's Picnic. Christine Schoenwalder served as Wilson's entrée into films when Picnic was transferred to the Big Screen in 1956. She continued racking up such impressive Broadway credits as Desk Set and The Tunnel of Love throughout the fifties. During the next two decades, Wilson found her particular niche in uptight maternal roles, notably such characters as Marjorie Newquist in the stage and screen versions of Jules Feiffer's Little Murders and Harriet in Joseph Papp's production of Stick and Bones, which earned her an Emmy. She was a favorite of director Mike Nichols, who cast her in The Graduate (1967, as Benjamin Braddock's mother), Catch 22 (1970) and Day of the Dolphin (1973). On television, Elizabeth Wilson had regular roles in such series as East Side/West Side (1963) Dark Shadows (1966-71, as Mrs. Hopewell) and Doc (1975). In 1980, she played office snitch Roz Keith in 9 to 5 and later played the main antagonist in The Addams Family (1991). Wilson continued to work in film and TV movies in her later years, playing the Van Doren matriarch in Quiz Show (1994) and Sara Delano Roosevelt in Hyde Park on Hudson (2012). Wilson died in 2015, at age 94.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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37% | Hyde Park on Hudson |
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$6.4M | 2012 |
No Score Yet | The Boys Next Door |
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— | 1996 |
91% | Nobody's Fool |
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— | 1994 |
96% | Quiz Show |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Scarlett |
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— | 1994 |
77% | Addams Family Values |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Skylark |
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— | 1993 |
83% | It's All True |
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— | 1993 |
64% | The Addams Family |
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— | 1991 |
43% | Regarding Henry |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | A Conspiracy of Love |
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— | 1987 |
39% | The Believers |
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— | 1987 |
33% | Where Are the Children? |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Grace Quigley (The Ultimate Solution of Grace Quigley) |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | You Can't Take It with You |
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— | 1984 |
22% | The Incredible Shrinking Woman (La Increíble Mujer Diminuta) |
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— | 1981 |
83% | 9 to 5 |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Sanctuary of Fear |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | The Happy Hooker |
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— | 1975 |
57% | The Prisoner of Second Avenue |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Miles to Go Before I Sleep |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | Man on a Swing |
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— | 1974 |
42% | The Day of the Dolphin |
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— | 1973 |
67% | Little Murders |
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— | 1971 |
79% | Catch-22 |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | Let Me Hear You Whisper |
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— | 1969 |
No Score Yet | Jenny |
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— | 1969 |
87% | The Graduate |
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— | 1967 |
No Score Yet | The Tiger Makes Out |
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— | 1967 |
No Score Yet | Invitation to a Gunfighter |
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— | 1964 |
95% | The Birds |
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— | 1963 |
93% | A Child Is Waiting |
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— | 1963 |
No Score Yet | Too Hot to Handle |
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— | 1961 |
No Score Yet | The Tunnel of Love |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | The Goddess |
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— | 1958 |
83% | Patterns |
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— | 1956 |
44% | Picnic |
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— | 1955 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001-2011
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50% |
Gideon's Crossing
2000-2001
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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13% |
Delta
1992-1993
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No Score Yet |
All in the Family
1971-1979
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No Score Yet |
Great Performances
2000
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