Anne Meacham
{{short description|American actress (1925–2006)}}
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| death_place = Canaan, New York, U.S.
| occupation = Actress
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Anne Meacham (July 21, 1925 — January 12, 2006) was an American actress of stage, film and television.
Biography
Born and raised in Chicago, Meacham left to study drama at Yale University and the Neighborhood Playhouse, New York.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/obituaries/arts/anne-meacham-80-actress-on-new-york-stages-and-tv.html |title=Anne Meacham, 80, Actress On New York Stages and TV |newspaper=The New York Times |date=17 January 2006 |access-date=2018-02-10 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206103902/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/obituaries/arts/anne-meacham-80-actress-on-new-york-stages-and-tv.html |archive-date=2017-02-06 |last1=Isherwood |first1=Charles }}{{cite book|title=Daniel Blum's Theatre World |volume=20 |year=1963 |publisher=Greenberg |page=247}} She debuted on Broadway as Ensign Jane Hilton in the 1952 The Long Watch,{{cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/anne-meacham-52619 |title=Anne Meacham |website=Internet Broadway Database |access-date=28 July 2023}} for which she received a Clarence Derwent Award, a prize for newcomers to the New York stage.
She appeared in many on- and off-Broadway productions, often adaptations of plays written by Tennessee Williams, such as Suddenly Last Summer, The Gnädiges Fräulein and In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel. For her interpretation of the role of Catherine Holly in Suddenly Last Summer (played by Elizabeth Taylor in the film version), she received an Obie Award as Best Actress.{{cite book|title=Culture Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility |first=Michael |last=Bronski |year=1984 |publisher=South End Press |isbn=9780896082175 |page=123}}
Other Broadway appearances included Jean Giraudoux's Ondine, Eugenia, an adaptation of Henry James's The Europeans, The Crucible and The Seagull. She received a second Obie award for her performance in Hedda Gabler in 1961.{{cite book|title=Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1960s. Voices, Documents, New Interpretations |first=Mike |last=Sell |year=2018 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=9781350204546 |page=216}} Her last Broadway appearance was as Gertrude in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in 1968.
Meacham made many TV appearances since the 1950s and made her film debut in Robert Rossen's 1964 Lilith. She was a long-lasting cast member of the TV series Another World.{{cite news|title=Anne Meacham, 80; Actress Had Roles in Plays by Her Friend Tennessee Williams |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jan-18-me-passings18.4-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=18 January 2006 |access-date=28 July 2023}}
She died from undisclosed causes in Canaan, New York, on January 12, 2006, aged 80. Her death was reported by her friend, actress Marian Seldes.
Filmography (selected)
- 1964: Lilith as Yvonne Meaghan
- 1972: Dear Dead Delilah as Grace Charles
- 1972–1982: Another World (TV series) as Louise Goddard
- 1974: The Gardener as Mrs. García
- 1974: Seizure as Eunice Kahn
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0574859}}
- {{iobdb name|17543}}
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American soap opera actresses
Category:American stage actresses
Category:Clarence Derwent Award winners
Category:Actresses from Chicago
Category:David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University alumni