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Ruth Warrick

Ruth Warrick

Birthday: 1915-06-29 | Place of Birth: Saint Joseph, Missouri, U.S.

Dame Ruth Elizabeth Warrick (June 29, 1916 – January 15, 2005), DM, was a long-time American singer, Hollywood Golden-Age actress and political activist, best known for her role as Phoebe Tyler on All My Children, which she played regularly from 1970 until her death in 2005. She celebrated her 80th birthday by attending a special screening of Citizen Kane to a packed, standing-room-only audience, to which she spoke afterward. (She made her film debut as Kane's first wife.) Over the years, she collected several books about Orson Welles and Citizen Kane, in which she would write "Property of Ruth Warrick, Mrs. Citizen Kane". She served as a Licensed Unity Teacher. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ruth Warrick, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1984
Death Mask

as    Beatrice VandenBerg

1983
The Returning

as    Grace

1961
Father of the Bride

as    Eleanor "Ellie" Banks

1950
Three Husbands

as    Jane Evans

1949
The Great Dan Patch

as    Ruth Treadwell

1947
Daisy Kenyon

as    Lucille O'Mara

1947
Driftwood

as    Susan Moore

1946
Song of the South

as    Sally

1945
China Sky

as    Dr. Sara Durand

1944
Mr. Winkle Goes to War

as    Amy Winkle

1944
Secret Command

as    Lea Damaron

1943
Forever and a Day

as    Lesley Trimble

1943
Journey into Fear

as    Mrs. Stephanie Graham

1942
Obliging Young Lady

as    Linda Norton

1941
The Corsican Brothers

as    Countess Isabelle Gravini

1941
Citizen Kane

as    Emily Norton Kane