Helen Hayes
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Helen Hayes was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In 1988 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is the namesake of the annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in the greater Washington, D.C. area since 1984. Perhaps the ultimate respect to be paid to any actor by a producer - of having a theater christened in their name - became a reality for Ms. Hayes in 1955 when the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City's Broadway theater district was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre. When that venue was torn down in 1982 (along with five other neighboring theaters), the operators of the Little Theatre, another standing theater two blocks away on 44th Street, renamed that house in her name, which it has retained ever since. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Hayes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Herbie Rides Again (1974)
as Mrs. Steinmetz
Airport (1970)
as Ada Quonsett
Airports (2025)
Actor
Harvey (1972)
as Veta Louise Simmons
Anastasia (1956)
as Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
A Farewell to Arms (1932)
as Catherine Barkley
Candleshoe (1977)
as Lady St. Edmund
Bill Cosby: Walking Free (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
The Female Instinct (1972)
as Ernesta Snoop
The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)
as Herself - Participant
Arsenic and Old Lace (1969)
as Abby Brewster
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)
as Hettie
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
as Self
Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
as Hotel guest (uncredited)
Victory at Entebbe (1976)
as Etta Grossman-Wise
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1971)
as Sophie Tate Curtis
Stage Door Canteen (1943)
as Helen Hayes
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
as Self (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars III (1990)
as Self
Murder Is Easy (1982)
as Lavinia Fullerton
Hollywood Goes to Town (1938)
as Self
A Caribbean Mystery (1983)
as Miss Jane Marple
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
as Self (archive footage)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
as Madelon Claudet
The Weavers of Life (1917)
as Peggy
Arrowsmith (1931)
as Leora Tozer Arrowsmith
Murder with Mirrors (1985)
as Miss Jane Marple
Main Street to Broadway (1953)
as Self
What Every Woman Knows (1934)
as Maggie Wylie
Night Flight (1933)
as Madame Fabian
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman (1979)
as Self
Four Women in Black (1957)
as Sister Theresa
Crime Without Passion (1934)
as Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935)
as Vanessa Paris
The Son-Daughter (1932)
as Lian Wha
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero (1998)
as Self (archive footage)
Another Language (1933)
as Stella Hallam
Riders of the Range (1923)
as Inez
The White Sister (1933)
as Angela Chiaromonte
My Son John (1952)
as Lucille Jefferson
A Family Upside Down (1978)
as Emma Long
The Dancing Town (1928)
as Olive Pepperall
A.N.T.A. Album of 1955 (1955)
as Self
The Challenge of Ideas (1961)
as Narrator
The Bat (1960)
as Cornelia Van Gorder
Hopper's Silence (1981)
as Herself
Divine Mercy No Escape (1994)
Actor