Colleen Dewhurst - wikipedia Colleen Dewhurst Colleen Dewhurst Dewhurst in The Trial of Susan B. Anthony, 1971 Colleen Rose Dewhurst ( 1924 - 06 - 03 ) 3 June 1924 Montreal, Quebec, Canada 22 August 1991 ( 1991 - 08 - 22 ) ( aged 67 ) South Salem, New York, U.S. Occupation Film, stage, television, and voice actress Years active 1952 -- 1991 Spouse ( s ) James Vickery ( m. 1947 ; div. 1960 ) George C. Scott ( m. 1960 ; div. 1965 ) George C. Scott ( m. 1967 ; div. 1972 ) Partner ( s ) Ken Marsolais ( 1975 -- her death ) Children Colleen Rose Dewhurst ( 3 June 1924 -- 22 August 1991 ) was a Canadian - American actress. She is known most for theatre roles, and for a while as `` the Queen of Off - Broadway ''. In her autobiography, Dewhurst wrote : `` I had moved so quickly from one Off - Broadway production to the next that I was known, at one point, as the ' Queen of Off - Broadway '. This title was not due to my brilliance, but, rather, because most of the plays I was in closed after a run of anywhere from one night to two weeks. I would then move immediately into another. '' She was a renowned interpreter of the works of Eugene O'Neill on the stage, and her career also encompassed film, early dramas on live television, and Joseph Papp 's New York Shakespeare Festival. One of her last roles was playing Marilla Cuthbert in the Kevin Sullivan television adaptations of the Anne of Green Gables series, and her reprisal of the role in the subsequent TV series Road to Avonlea ( marketed as Avonlea in the US ). Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life and final years 3.1 Awards 3.2 Filmography 3.2. 1 Films and television films 3.2. 2 Television work ( excluding television films ) 3.3 Theatre 3.4 Bibliography 4 References 5 External links Early life Colleen Dewhurst was born 3 June 1924, in Montreal, Quebec, to housewife Frances Marie ( née Woods ) and Ferdinand Augustus `` Fred '' Dewhurst. She had no siblings. Fred Dewhurst was the owner of a chain of confectionery stores, and wife Frances ' father had been a celebrated athlete in Canada where he had played football with the Ottawa Rough Riders ``. The family became naturalized as U.S. citizens before 1940. Colleen 's mother was a Christian Scientist, a faith Colleen also embraced. The Dewhursts moved to Massachusetts in 1928 or 1929, staying in Boston, Dorchester, Auburndale, and West Newton. Later they moved to New York City, and then to Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. She attended Whitefish Bay High School for her first two years of high school, moved to Shorewood High School for her junior year, and finally graduated from Riverside High School in Milwaukee in 1942. Around this time, her parents separated. Dewhurst went on to attend Milwaukee - Downer College for two years before moving to New York City to pursue an acting career. Career One of Dewhurst 's most significant stage roles was in the 1974 Broadway revival of O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten as Josie Hogan, for which she won a Tony Award. She previously won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in 1961 for All the Way Home. She later played Katharina in a 1956 production of Taming of the Shrew for Joseph Papp. She ( as recounted in her posthumous obituary in collaboration with Tom Viola ) wrote : With Brooks Atkinson 's blessing, our world changed overnight. Suddenly in our audience of neighbors in T - shirts and jeans appeared men in white shirts, jackets and ties, and ladies in summer dresses. We were in a hit that would have a positive effect on my career, as well as Joe 's, but I missed the shouting. She played Shakespeare 's Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth for Papp and, years later, Gertrude in a production of Hamlet at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. Dewhurst and George C. Scott met while working together in 1958, in Children of Darkness, while they were both married to other people. She appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Hour in Night Fever in 1965 and with Ingrid Bergman in More Stately Mansions on Broadway in 1967. José Quintero directed her in O'Neill's Long Day 's Journey into Night and Mourning Becomes Electra. She appeared in Edward Albee 's adaptation of Carson McCullers ' Ballad of the Sad Cafe, and as Martha in a Broadway revival of Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, opposite Ben Gazzara which Albee directed. Dewhurst ( right ) guest - starring on The Big Valley in 1966 with Barbara Stanwyck ( left ) She appeared in 1962 as Joanne Novak in the episode `` I Do n't Belong in a White - Painted House '' in NBC 's medical drama, The Eleventh Hour, starring Wendell Corey and Jack Ging. Dewhurst appeared opposite her then - husband, Scott, in a 1971 television adaptation of Arthur Miller 's The Price, on Hallmark Hall of Fame, an anthology series, and there is another television recording of them together when she played Elizabeth Proctor to his unfaithful John in Miller 's The Crucible ( with Tuesday Weld ). In 1977, Woody Allen cast her in his film Annie Hall as Annie 's mother. In 1972, she played a madam, Mrs. Kate Collingwood, in The Cowboys ( 1972 ), which starred John Wayne. In 1985, she played the role of Marilla Cuthbert in Kevin Sullivan 's adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery 's novel Anne of Green Gables, and reprised the role in 1987 's Anne of Avonlea ( also known as Anne of Green Gables : The Sequel ), and in several episodes of Kevin Sullivan 's Road to Avonlea. Dewhurst died before the character of Marilla could be written out and her final scenes were picked up off the editing - room floor and pieced together for her death scene. During 1989 and 1990, she appeared in a supporting role on the television series Murphy Brown playing the feisty mother of Candice Bergen 's title character ; this role earned her two Emmy Awards, the second being awarded posthumously. Dewhurst won a total of two Tony Awards and four Emmy Awards for her stage and television work. She was president of the Actors ' Equity Association from 1985 until her death. Personal life and final years Dewhurst was married to James Vickery from 1947 to 1960. She married and divorced George C. Scott twice. They had two sons, Alexander Scott and actor Campbell Scott ; she co-starred with Campbell in Dying Young ( 1991 ), one of her last performances. During the last years of her life, she lived on a farm in South Salem, New York, with her partner, Ken Marsolais. They also had a summer home on Prince Edward Island, Canada. Dewhurst 's Christian Science beliefs led to her refusal to countenance any kind of surgical treatment. Maureen Stapleton wrote about Dewhurst : Colleen looked like a warrior, so people assumed she was the earth mother. But in real life Colleen was not to be let out without a keeper. She could n't stop herself from taking care of people, which she then did with more care than she took care of herself. Her generosity of spirit was overwhelming and her smile so dazzling that you could n't pull the f_ - kng reins in on her even if you desperately wanted to and knew damn well that somebody should. Dewhurst 's summer home at Fortune Bridge, Prince Edward Island was built by the playwright Elmer Blaney Harris. It is a private inn as of August 2008. Dewhurst died of cervical cancer, age 67, at her South Salem home in 1991. She was cremated and her ashes were given to family and friends ; no public service was planned. Awards Over the course of her 45 - year career, Dewhurst won the 1974 Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre, two Tony Awards, two Obie Awards, and two Gemini Awards. In 1989, she won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in Hitting Home. Of her 13 Emmy Award nominations, she won four. She was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981. 1986 : Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress -- Miniseries or a Movie - Between Two Women 1989 : Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress -- Comedy Series - Murphy Brown 1989 : Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie - Those She Left Behind 1991 : Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series - Murphy Brown 1961 : Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play - All the Way Home 1974 : Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play - A Moon for the Misbegotten Nominations This television - related list is incomplete ; you can help by expanding it. 1962 : Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actress - Focus 1968 : Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Drama - The Crucible 1971 : Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - The Price 1976 : Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama or Comedy Special - A Moon For the Misbegotten 1979 : Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie - Silent Victory : The Kitty O'Neil Story 1981 : Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie - The Women 's Room 1990 : Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie - Lantern Hill 1990 : Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress -- Drama Series - Road to Avonlea 1991 : Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Drama Series - Road to Avonlea 1962 : Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play - Great Day In the Morning 1964 : Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe 1968 : Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play - More Stately Mansions 1972 : Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play - All Over 1973 : Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play - Mourning Becomes Electra 1977 : Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play - Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? Filmography Films and television films Year Film Role Notes 1959 The Nun 's Story Archangel Gabriel ( Sanatorium ) 1960 Man on a String Helen Benson 1961 The Foxes television film 1962 Focus television film 1966 A Fine Madness Dr. Vera Kropotkin 1967 The Crucible Elizabeth Proctor television film ( adaptation of the play The Crucible ) 1971 The Price Esther Franz television film 1971 The Last Run Monique 1972 The Cowboys Kate 1972 The Hands of Cormac Joyce Molly Joyce Made for television film 1973 Legend in Granite Marie Lombardi television film Parker Addison, Philosopher Hostess television film The Music School Hostess television film McQ Myra The Story of Jacob and Joseph Rebekah television film A Moon for the Misbegotten Josie Hogan television film ( adaptation of the play A Moon for the Misbegotten ) 1977 Annie Hall Mrs. Hall 1978 The Third Walker Kate Maclean Ice Castles Beulah Smith 1979 Silent Victory : The Kitty O'Neil Story Mrs. O'Neil television film When a Stranger Calls Tracy Fuller And Baby Makes Six Anna Kramer television film Mary and Joseph : A Story of Faith Elizabeth television film 1980 Death Penalty Elaine Lipton television film Escape Lily Levinson television film Guyana Tragedy : The Story of Jim Jones Mrs. Myrtle Kennedy television miniseries The Women 's Room Val television film ( based on the book The Women 's Room ) A Perfect Match Meg Larson television film Baby Comes Home Anna Kramer television film Final Assignment Dr. Valentine Ulanova Tribute Gladys Petrelli 1981 A Few Days in Weasel Creek Aunt Cora television film 1982 Split Cherry Tree Mother Between Two Brothers television film Sometimes I Wonder Grandma television film The Dead Zone Henrietta Dodd 1984 You Ca n't Take It with You Grand Duchess Olga Katrina television film ( adaptation of the play You Ca n't Take It with You ) The Glitter Dome Lorna Dillman television film 1985 Anne of Green Gables Marilla Cuthbert television film 1986 Between Two Women Barbara Petherton television film Johnny Bull Marie Kovacs television film As Is Hospice Worker television film The Boy Who Could Fly Mrs. Sherman Sword of Gideon Golda Meir television film Hitting Home Judge television film Bigfoot Gladys Samco television film Anne of Green Gables : The Sequel Marilla Cuthbert television film 1988 Woman in the Wind 1989 Those She Left Behind Margaret Page television film Termini Station Molly Dushane The Exorcist III Pazuzu Voice, Uncredited Kaleidoscope Margaret television film Lantern Hill Elizabeth television film 1991 Dying Young Estelle Whittier Bed & Breakfast Ruth ( final film role ) 2000 Anne of Green Gables : The Continuing Story Marilla Cuthbert TV Mini-Series, Uncredited, ( archive footage ) 2008 Anne of Green Gables : A New Beginning Marilla Cuthbert TV Movie, ( archive footage ) Television work ( excluding television films ) Year Title Role Notes 1957 Studio One teleplay : First Prize for Murder 1958 Kraft Television Theatre teleplay : Presumption of Innocence Decoy Taffy one episode : `` Deadly Corridor '' DuPont Show of the Month teleplay The Count of Monte Cristo 1959 Aldonza / Dulcinea teleplay : I, Don Quixote Play of the Week Mordeen Saul / Woman teleplays : Burning Bright ; Medea The United States Steel Hour Vera Brandon teleplay : The Hours Before Dawn 1961 Play of the Week teleplays '' No Exit ; The Indifferent Lover Ben Casey Phyllis Anders one episode : `` I Remember a Lemon Tree '' 1962 The Eleventh Hour Joanne Novak one episode : `` I Do n't Belong in a White - Painted House '' The Virginian Celia Ames one episode : `` The Executioners '' The Nurses Grace Milo one episode : `` Fly, Shadow '' 1963 The United States Steel Hour Francie Broderick teleplay : Night Run to the West DuPont Show of the Month Karen Holt teleplay : Something to Hide 1964 East Side / West Side Shirley one episode : `` Nothing but the Half Truth '' 1965 Dr. Kildare Eleanor Markham one episode : `` All Brides Should Be Beautiful '' The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Nurse Ellen Hatch one episode : `` Night Fever '' 1966 The F.B.I. Amy Doucette one episode : `` The Baby Sitter '' The Big Valley Annie Morton one episode : `` A Day of Terror '' 1971 ITV Sunday Night Theatre Mrs. Franz teleplay : The Price Hallmark Hall of Fame 1972 Molly Joyce teleplay : The Hands of Cormac Joyce 1973 Wide World Mystery Margery Landing one episode : `` A Prowler in the Heart '' 1979 Studs Lonigan Mary Lonigan miniseries 1982 Quincy, M.E. Dr. Barbara Ludow one episode : `` For Love of Joshua '' The Blue and the Gray Maggie Geyser miniseries Great Performances Red Queen teleplay : Alice in Wonderland 1984 Finder of Lost Loves Rachel Green one episode : `` Echoes '' The Love Boat Maud one episode : `` Welcome Aboard : Part 1 and 2 '' 1985 A.D. Antonia miniseries 1988 The Twilight Zone Alley Parker one episode : `` There Was an Old Woman '' 1989 Moonlighting Betty Russell one episode : `` Take My Wife, for Example '' 1989 - 1990 Murphy Brown Avery Brown Sr. three episodes : - `` Brown Like Me : Part 1 and Part II '' ( 1989 ) - `` Mama Said '' ( 1989 ) - `` Bob & Murphy & Ted & Avery ( 1990 ) 1990 - 1992 Road to Avonlea Marilla Cuthbert four episodes : - `` Of Corsets and Secrets and True, True Love '' - `` The Materializing of Duncan McTavish '' - `` The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham 's '' and `` Old Friends New Wounds ( Marilla 's Death ) '' Theatre Year Play Role 1952 Desire Under the Elms Neighbor 1956 Tamburlaine the Great Virgin of Memphis / Turkish Concubine 1957 - 1958 The Country Wife Mrs. Squeamish 1960 Caligula Caesonia 1960 - 1961 All the Way Home Mary Follet 1962 Great Day in the Morning Phoebe Flaherty 1963 - 1964 The Ballad of the Sad Café Miss Amelia Evans 1967 - 1968 More Stately Mansions Sara 1970 The Good Woman of Setzuan Shen Te 1971 All Over The Mistress 1972 Mourning Becomes Electra Christine Mannon 1973 - 1974 A Moon for the Misbegotten Josie Hogan 1976 Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? Martha 1977 - 1978 An Almost Perfect Person Irene Porter 1982 The Queen and the Rebels Argia 1983 - 1984 You Ca n't Take It with You Olga 1988 Long Day 's Journey into Night Mary Cavan Tyrone Ah, Wilderness ! Essie Miller 1989 - 1990 Love Letters Melissa Gardner Bibliography Dewhurst, Colleen ; Viola, Tom ( 1997 ). Colleen Dewhurst - Her Autobiography. Scribner. ISBN 978 - 0 - 684 - 80701 - 0. References ^ Jump up to : Dewhurst, Colleen ; Viola, Tom ( 1997 ). Colleen Dewhurst -- Her Autobiography. Scribner ; ISBN 978 - 0 - 684 - 80701 - 0 Jump up ^ Colleen Dewhurst genealogy Jump up ^ `` Show Business : Gorgeous Gael ''. Time. January 21, 1974. Retrieved April 30, 2010. Jump up ^ Colleen Dewhurst profile, Yahoo ! Movies ; accessed February 8, 2014. Jump up ^ Susan Ware ( editor ), Notable American Women : A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century, Volume 5, pages 174 - 175 ( Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press, 2004 ). ISBN 9780674014886 Jump up ^ The New York Times, March 3, 1981 - 26 Elected to the Theater Hall of Fame External links Biography portal Colleen Dewhurst at Find a Grave Colleen Dewhurst at the Internet Broadway Database Colleen Dewhurst at the Internet Off - Broadway Database Colleen Dewhurst on IMDb Awards for Colleen Dewhurst Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television award winners for Best Supporting Actress Canadian Film Award 1969 -- 1978 Ruth Springford ( 1969 ) Fernande Giroux ( 1970 ) Olivette Thibault ( 1971 ) Doris Petrie ( 1972 ) Camille Bernard ( 1973 ) no award ( 1974 ) Lila Kedrova ( 1975 ) Tedde Moore ( 1976 ) Carole Lazare ( 1977 ) Marilyn Lightstone ( 1978 ) Genie Award 1980 -- 2011 Geneviève Bujold ( 1980 ) Kate Reid ( 1981 ) Denise Filiatrault ( 1982 ) Jackie Burroughs ( 1983 ) Jackie Burroughs ( 1984 ) Linda Sorenson ( 1985 ) Linda Sorenson ( 1986 ) Louise Portal ( 1987 ) Paule Baillargeon ( 1988 ) Colleen Dewhurst ( 1989 ) Robyn Stevan ( 1990 ) Danielle Proulx ( 1991 ) Monique Mercure ( 1992 ) Nicola Cavendish ( 1993 ) Martha Henry ( 1994 ) Kate Nelligan ( 1995 ) Martha Burns ( 1996 ) Seana McKenna ( 1997 ) Monique Mercure ( 1998 ) Catherine O'Hara ( 1999 ) Helen Shaver ( 2000 ) Molly Parker ( 2001 ) Pascale Montpetit ( 2002 ) Marie - Josée Croze ( 2003 ) Jennifer Jason Leigh ( 2004 ) Danielle Proulx ( 2005 ) Carrie - Anne Moss ( 2006 ) Kristen Thomson ( 2007 ) Kristin Booth ( 2008 ) Martha Burns ( 2009 ) Minnie Driver ( 2010 ) Sophie Nélisse ( 2011 ) Canadian Screen Award 2012 -- present Seema Biswas ( 2012 ) Sarah Gadon ( 2013 ) Suzanne Clément ( 2014 ) Joan Allen ( 2015 ) Molly Parker ( 2016 ) Bahar Noohian ( 2017 ) Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Olivia Cole ( 1977 ) Blanche Baker ( 1978 ) Esther Rolle ( 1979 ) Mare Winningham ( 1980 ) Jane Alexander ( 1981 ) Penny Fuller ( 1982 ) Jean Simmons ( 1983 ) Roxana Zal ( 1984 ) Kim Stanley ( 1985 ) Colleen Dewhurst ( 1986 ) Piper Laurie ( 1987 ) Jane Seymour ( 1988 ) Colleen Dewhurst ( 1989 ) Eva Marie Saint ( 1990 ) Ruby Dee ( 1991 ) Amanda Plummer ( 1992 ) Mary Tyler Moore ( 1993 ) Cicely Tyson ( 1994 ) Judy Davis / Shirley Knight ( 1995 ) Greta Scacchi ( 1996 ) Diana Rigg ( 1997 ) Mare Winningham ( 1998 ) Anne Bancroft ( 1999 ) Vanessa Redgrave ( 2000 ) Tammy Blanchard ( 2001 ) Stockard Channing ( 2002 ) Gena Rowlands ( 2003 ) Mary - 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Question: who played marilla on anne of green gables
Answer: Colleen Rose Dewhurst