Birthday
1928/08/23
Day of death
2014/10/06 (86 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also know as
Marion Seldes, Marian Hall Seldes
Marian Hall Seldes (August 23, 1928 – October 6, 2014) was an American actress. A five-time Tony Award nominee, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for A Delicate Balance in 1967, and received subsequent nominations for Father's Day (1971), Deathtrap (1978–82), Ring Round the Moon (1999), and Dinner at Eight (2002). She also won a Drama Desk Award for Father's Day. Her other Broadway credits include Equus (1974–77), Ivanov (1997), and Deuce (2007). She was inducted into t...Read more
(1965) The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Herodias
(2007) August Rush
as The Dean
(1999) The Haunting
as Mrs. Dudley
(1997) Digging to China
as Leah Schroth
(2008) The Visitor
as Barbara
(2000) 1961
as Abby Hedley
(1954) The Lonely Night
as Caroline
(1958) The Light in the Forest
as Kate Owens
(1992) The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
as Margaret Armstrong
(1998) Celebrity
as Datloff Party Guest
(2000) If These Walls Could Talk 2
as Abby Hedley
(1978) Fingers
as Ruth
(1959) Crime and Punishment USA
as Debbie Cole
(2010) The Extra Man
as Vivian Cudlip
(2009) Home
as Peggy
(2004) Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision
as Narrator (voice)
(2003) Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
(2009) The Toe Tactic
as Eunice (voice)
(1959) The Big Fisherman
as Arnon
(1975) Kate McShane
as Secretary
(2008) The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment
as The Duchess of Krakenthorp
(1957) The Young Stranger
as Mrs. Morse (uncredited)
(2004) Plainsong
as Iva Stearns
(2002) Hollywood Ending
as Alexandra
(1988) Zits
as Miss Maple
(2006) In from the Night
as Nora Cantata
(1958) The Plot to Kill Stalin
as Mme. Molotov
(2008) Murnau, Borzage and Fox
as Self
(2005) Ballets Russes
as Narrator
(1995) Clarissa
as Lillian Banion
(1994) In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
as Justice Susie Sharp
(2007) Suburban Girl
as Margaret Paddleford
(2012) Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
as Mabel Billingsly
(1998) Affliction
as Alma Pittman
(2003) Mona Lisa Smile
as President Jocelyn Carr
(1987) Gertrude Stein and a Companion!
as Alice B. Toklas
(1997) Home Alone 3
as Mrs. Hess
(1995) Truman
as Eleanor Roosevelt
(1966) The Star Wagon
as Marian
(2000) Duets
as Harriet Gahagan
(2008) Leatherheads
as Clerk
(1995) Tom and Huck
as Widow Douglas
(1957) The True Story of Jesse James
as Rowena Cobb
(2017) Marian
as Self
(2007) Miriam
as Mrs. H.T. Miller
(2001) Town & Country
as Eugenie's Mother
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Lydia Winthrop
(2006) Big Day
as ---
(1990) Law & Order
as Suzanne
(1984) Kate & Allie
as ---
(1990) Wings
as Eleanor Kingsbury
(1999) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Peggy Kendall
(1995) Central Park West
as ---
(2006) The Book of Daniel
as Helen
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Mrs. Cullen
(1957) Perry Mason
as Mary K. Davis
(1948) Studio One
as Anna Zenger
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Persis Hughes
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Emily
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Lydia Brailing
(1958) Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
as ---
(1955) The Millionaire
as Dorothy 'Dot' McAllister
(2004) Clubhouse
as ---
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as May
(1954) Climax!
as Betty
(1957) M Squad
as Martha Wicklow
(1991) Good & Evil
as ---
(1955) Matinee Theater
as ---
(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as ---
(1965) Branded
as Neela
(1956) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Alicia Jolland
(1957) The Court of Last Resort
as ---
(1958) The Texan
as Cora Laird
(1998) Sex and the City
as Mrs. Big
(1993) Frasier
as Betty
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Adelaide Baines
(1948) Studio One
as Mary Widdicomb
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Iva Stearns
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Nora Cantata
(1948) Studio One
as Belle Giles
(1967) Mannix
as Ida Colby
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as Mollie Stanton
(2001) A Nero Wolfe Mystery
as Louise Grantham Robilotti
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as Emilia
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Audience Member
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Anne
(1949) Hands of Murder
as ---
(1947) Kraft Television Theatre
as ---
(1957) Suspicion
as ---
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
(1988) Murphy Brown
as Murphy's Aunt Brooke
(1958) The Rifleman
as Hazel / The Vision
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as Christie Smith
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Leah
(1952) Omnibus
as ---
(1958) Shirley Temple's Storybook
as Widow Enga