Cloris Leachman | |
Job | Actress, comedienne |
Years active | 1942-present |
Top Roles | Agnes, Christina Bailey, Miss Selby, Queen Sirena, Great Gam Gam |
Top Genres | Drama, Adventure, Crime, Comedy, Animation, Western |
Top Topics | Romance (Comic), Christmas, Romance (Drama) |
Top Collaborators | Mel Brooks (Director), Paul Newman, Dom DeLuise, Harvey Korman |
Shares birthday with | Eve Arden, David Manners, Al Lewis see more.. |
Cloris Leachman Overview:
Actress, Cloris Leachman, was born on Apr 30, 1926 in Des Moines, IA. Leachman died at the age of 94 on Jan 27, 2021 in Encinitas, CA .
MINI BIO:
Cloris Leachman was a thin-faced blonde American actress who appeared mostly in anguished roles, but was no slouch in screwball comedies. She was tremendously busy working on television from the late 1940s, and was hardly seen in film until she won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for "The Last Picture Show" which brought her wider recognition. Television called her back for featured (and sometimes starring) roles in many TV movies and shows of the 1970s and 1980's.
(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).HONORS and AWARDS:
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Cloris Leachman was nominated for one Academy Award, winning for Best Supporting Actress for The Last Picture Show (as Ruth Popper) in 1971.
Academy Awards
Year | Award | Film name | Role | Result |
1971 | Best Supporting Actress | The Last Picture Show (1971) | Ruth Popper | Won |
She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television. In addition, Leachman was inducted into the TV Hall of Fame .
BlogHub Articles:
Channels Garfield; Peter Graves Arm Wrestles Clint Walker
By Rick29 on Feb 19, 2017 From Classic Film & TV CafeThis post of part of the Cafe's Movie of the Week Blogathon. Please check out the other awesome reviews by visiting the blogathon schedule. The hotel at the Portals of Eden. Haunts of the Very Rich (1972). The opening scene introduces seven people who are en route to a paradise resort known as t... Read full article
Channels Garfield; Peter Graves Arm Wrestles Clint Walker
By Rick29 on Feb 19, 2017 From Classic Film & TV CafeThis post of part of the Cafe's Movie of the Week Blogathon. Please check out the other awesome reviews by visiting the blogathon schedule. The hotel at the Portals of Eden. Haunts of the Very Rich (1972). The opening scene introduces seven people who are en route to a paradise resort known as t... Read full article
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Cloris Leachman Quotes:
[sarcastically]
Christina Bailey: One man, wonderful man!
Christina Bailey: You have only one real lasting love.
Mike Hammer: Now who could that be?
Christina Bailey: You. You're one of those self-indulgent males who thinks about nothing but his clothes, his car, himself. Bet you do push-ups every morning just to keep your belly hard.
Christina Bailey: Get me to that bus stop and forget you ever saw me. If we don't make it to the bus stop...
Mike Hammer: We will.
Christina Bailey: If we don't, remember me.
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