Julie Harris
{{short description|American actress (1925–2013)}}
{{other uses}}
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{{Infobox person
| image = Julie Harris 1973.JPG
| caption = Publicity photo of Julie Harris (1973)
| birth_name = Julia Ann Harris
| birth_date = {{birth date|1925|12|2}}
| birth_place = Grosse Pointe, Michigan, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2013|8|24|1925|12|2}}
| death_place = West Chatham, Massachusetts, U.S.
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Jay Julian|1946|1954|end=div}}
- {{marriage|Manning Gurian|1954|1967|end=div}}
- {{marriage|Walter Carroll|1977|1982|end=div}}
}}
| children = 1
| education = Yale University
| years_active = 1945–2009
}}
Julia Ann Harris (December 2, 1925{{spnd}}August 24, 2013) was an American actress. Renowned for her classical and contemporary roles, she earned numerous accolades including the record five Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Play, three Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, and a BAFTA Award. She was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1979, received the National Medal of Arts in 1994, the Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award, and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2005.{{cite web |url=http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html#94 |title=Lifetime Honors – National Medal of Arts |website=National Endowment for the Arts |access-date=December 15, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721054307/http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html#86 |archive-date=July 21, 2011}}
After making her Broadway debut in 1945 Harris went on to win five Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Play for her roles in I Am a Camera (1952), The Lark (1956), Forty Carats (1969), The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (1973), and The Belle of Amherst (1977). Her other Tony-nominated roles were in Marathon '33 (1964), Skyscraper (1966), The au Pair Man (1974), Lucifer's Child (1991), and The Gin Game (1997).
She starred in the 1950 play The Member of the Wedding, a role she reprised in the 1952 film of the same name, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other notable film roles include East of Eden (1955), I Am a Camera (1955), The Haunting (1963), and Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967). Harris received three Primetime Emmy Awards for her roles in Little Moon of Alban (1969), Victoria Regina (1962), and Not for Ourselves Alone (1999). She won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for The Belle of Amherst (1978)
Early life and education
Julia Ann Harris was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, the daughter of Elsie L. (née Smith), a nurse, and William Pickett Harris, an investment banker and authority on zoology.{{cite web |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/44/Julie-Harris.html |title=Julie Harris profile |website=Film Reference |access-date=November 15, 2012}} She had an older brother, William, and a younger brother, Richard.1940 United States Federal Census She graduated from Grosse Pointe Country Day School, which later merged with two others to form the University Liggett School. In New York City, she attended The Hewitt School.{{cite web |title=Julie Harris – Too Good to be True? |author=Mula, Rose Madeline |url=http://www.seniorwomen.com/articles/rose/articlesRoseIntHarris.html |website=Senior Women Web |access-date=November 15, 2012}} As a teenager, she also trained at the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School & Camp in Colorado with Charlotte Perry, a mentor who encouraged Harris to apply to the Yale School of Drama, which she soon attended for a year.{{cite magazine |website=Yale Alumni Magazine |title=Famous Yalie dropouts |date=March 2001 |url=http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/01_03/dropouts.html |access-date=December 8, 2020}}{{cite news |title=Julie Harris, Broadway Star, Dies at 87 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/julie-harris-broadway-star-dies-613932 |access-date=December 8, 2020 |newspaper=The Hollywood Reporter |date=August 24, 2013 |agency=Associated Press}} In 2007, Yale bestowed an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree upon Harris.{{cite press release |date=May 28, 2007 |title=Yale Confers 10 Honorary Doctorates at Commencement 2007 |url=https://news.yale.edu/2007/05/28/yale-confers-10-honorary-doctorates-commencement-2007 |access-date=December 8, 2020 |publisher=YaleNews |language=en}} As a founding member of Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio,{{cite news |last1=Berson |first1=Misha |title=Queen Of Stage Julie Harris Is Back -- At 72, The Still-Luminous Actress Takes Time to Savor the 'Scent of the Roses' at Act {{!}} The Seattle Times |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19980712&slug=2760646 |access-date=July 4, 2022 |work=archive.seattletimes.com |date=July 12, 1998}} Harris studied method acting,{{cite news |last1=McArdle |first1=Terence |last2=Weil |first2=Martin |title=Julie Harris, esteemed film and stage actress who won five Tony Awards, dies at 87 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/julie-harris-esteemed-film-and-stage-actress-who-won-five-tony-awards-dies-at-87/2013/08/25/071b701e-0d99-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html |newspaper=Washington Post |date=August 25, 2013}} which emphasized psychology and emotions, and although it was strongly associated with male actors, she was able to successfully employ its techniques.{{cite book |last1=Hollinger |first1=Karen |title=The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star |year=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-20589-8 |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hVtHAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA14}}
Career
=1945–1959: Early roles =
File:James Dean - Julie Harris.jpg in East of Eden (1955)]]
In 1952, Harris won her first Best Actress Tony Award for originating the role of insouciant Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera, the stage version of Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin (later adapted as the Broadway musical Cabaret (1966) and as the 1972 film, with Liza Minnelli as Sally). Harris repeated her stage role in the film version of I Am a Camera (1955). Harris's screen debut was in 1952, repeating her Broadway success as the lonely teenaged girl Frankie in Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Director Elia Kazan cast her in East of Eden (1955) opposite James Dean in his first major screen role.
Harris was nominated for 11 Primetime Emmy Awards for her television work, winning three. She starred as Nora Helmer opposite Christopher Plummer in A Doll's House (1959), a 90-minute television adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play. She made more appearances in leading roles on the Hallmark Hall of Fame than any other actress, also appearing in two different adaptations of the play Little Moon of Alban,{{cite web |title=Julie Harris... A Bit of Magic on a Cold Winter's Day |first=Rebecca |last=Paller |url=http://www.paleycenter.org/julie-harris-a-bit-of-magic-on-a-cold-winters-day |website=Paley Center for Media |date=January 16, 2009 |access-date=November 15, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615212553/http://paleycenter.org/julie-harris-a-bit-of-magic-on-a-cold-winters-day/ |archive-date=June 15, 2010 |df=mdy-all}} her performance in the 1958 TV movie of the same name earning her the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
=1960–1989: Breakthrough and acclaim =
File:Julie Harris - 1963.jpg (1963)]]
She played the ethereal Eleanor Lance in The Haunting (1963), director Robert Wise's screen adaptation of a novel by Shirley Jackson. Another cast member recalled Harris refusing to socialize with the other actors while not on set, later explaining that she had done so as a method of emphasizing the alienation from the other characters experienced by her character in the film. Other notable films Harris appeared in during the 1960s include Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962), Harper (with Paul Newman) (1966), and Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967). Another noteworthy film appearance was the World War II drama The Hiding Place (1975).
Her second Emmy win came for her role as Queen Victoria in the 1961 Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina. She received further Emmy nominations for a range of roles including Anastasia (1967), The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (1976)—where she reprised her Tony-winning role as Mary Todd Lincoln from the 1973 play of the same name—and The Woman He Loved (1988). She won her third Emmy award in 2000 for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for her voice role of Susan B. Anthony in Not for Ourselves Alone.
Of particular note is her Tony-winning performance in The Belle of Amherst, a one-woman play (written by William Luce and directed by Charles Nelson Reilly) based on the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson. She received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording for the audio recording of the play. She first performed the play in 1976 and subsequently appeared in other solo shows, including Luce's Brontë.{{cite web |title=William Luce's Bronte – Press |url=http://www.williamluce.com/bronte/press.html |website=Samuel French, Inc. |access-date=August 25, 2013}} Harris holds the Tonys record as the person with most wins (5) and nominations (9) in the Lead Actress in a Play category. Other Broadway credits include The Playboy of the Western World, Macbeth, The Member of the Wedding, A Shot in the Dark, Skyscraper, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Forty Carats, The Glass Menagerie, A Doll's House, The Gin Game, and a North American tour in 1992 of Lettice and Lovage in the lead part originated by Maggie Smith on Broadway.
In 1980, Harris guest starred in the series Knots Landing as country singer Lilimae Clements, the eccentric and protective mother of Valene Ewing (Joan Van Ark); she returned to the series as a regular character from 1981 to 1987. The role earned Harris a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, and two Soap Opera Digest Award nominations. In 1983, Harris became a company member of The Mirror Theater Ltd's Mirror Repertory Company.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/11/arts/theater-mirror-rep-in-a-revival-of-rain.html |title=Theater: Mirror Rep, in a Revival of 'Rain' |first=Mel |last=Gussow |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 11, 1984 |access-date=December 9, 2018 |url-access=subscription}} She became a mentor to the company, having urged Founding Artistic Director Sabra Jones to create the company from 1976 forward, when Jones married John Strasberg. Harris and Jones met at a performance of The Belle of Amherst, a revival of which The Mirror Theater Ltd recently performed in their summer home in Vermont.{{cite news |title=Dickinson Brought To Life By Schaffel |date=September 14, 2016 |page=6 |url=https://hardwickgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2016-09-14.pdf |newspaper=Hardwick Gazette |first=David K. |last=Rodgers |access-date=March 31, 2022}}
=1990–2009: Established actress =
Harris made two recordings of narrations of E. B. White's children's book Stuart Little for the Pathways of Sound record label: the last six chapters for a single LP record in 1965,{{cite book |first=Mary |last=Burkey |title=Audiobooks for Youth: A Practical Guide to Sound Literature |publisher=American Library Association |location=Chicago |year=2013 |page=8 |isbn=978-0-8389-1157-0}} and the entire book for a two-record set in 1979.{{cite news |first=Paul |last=Kresh |title=The Children's World of E.B. White on Discs |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 18, 1979 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/18/archives/the-childrens-world-of-eb-white-on-disks.html |url-access=subscription}}{{cite web |title=PRH Audio: Stuart Little by E.B. White, read by Julie Harris |website=SoundCloud |url=https://soundcloud.com/penguin-audio/stuart-little-by-e-b-white}} She also recorded narrations of many children's books for Caedmon Records. Harris also did extensive voiceover work for documentary maker Ken Burns: the voices of Emily Warren Roebling in Brooklyn Bridge (1981), Ann Lee in The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1984), and most notably Southern diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut for Burns' 1990 series The Civil War.
In the summer of 2008, she appeared on stage again in Chatham, Massachusetts, as "Nanny" in a Monomoy Theater production of The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.{{cite news |title=Julie Harris Returns To Stage |url=https://www.courant.com/2008/08/28/julie-harris-returns-to-stage-spamalot-cuts-shows/ |first=Frank |last=Rizzo |newspaper=Hartford Courant |date=August 28, 2008 |access-date=November 15, 2012}} Harris continued to work until 2009, well into her eighties, narrating five historical documentaries by Christopher Seufert and Mooncusser Films, as well as being active as a director on the board of the independent Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT).{{cite web |url=http://www.what.org/about/what-board |title=WHAT Board |website=Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater |access-date=November 15, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107173913/http://www.what.org/about/what-board/ |archive-date=November 7, 2012 |df=mdy-all}} In 2007, when the company built a new, additional theater, also in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Ms Harris declined to have the building named for her. However, she consented to their naming "a piece of it after me"; WHAT named their stage the "Julie Harris Stage".
Personal life
Harris lived in West Chatham, Cape Cod, for many years until her death.{{cite news |title=Michigan House Envy: Windmill Pointe palace offers medieval charm |url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012311040026 |date=November 4, 2012 |author=Rose, Judy |newspaper=Detroit Free Press |access-date=November 15, 2012}}{{dead link|date=March 2022}} Three times divorced, she had one son, Peter Gurian. A breast cancer survivor, she suffered a severe fall requiring surgery in 1999, a stroke in 2001, and a second stroke in 2010.{{cite news |title=The Belle of Aphasia |url=http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/aha/strokeconnection_20070708/index.php#/18 |first=Jon |last=Caswell |website=Stroke Connection |date=July–August 2007 |access-date=November 15, 2012}}
Harris died on August 24, 2013, of congestive heart failure at her home in West Chatham, Massachusetts.{{cite news |last=Weil |first=Martin |date=August 24, 2013 |title=Tony-Winning Actress Julie Harris Dies at 87 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/tony-winning-actress-julie-harris-dies-at-87/2013/08/24/b998bbc8-0d23-11e3-8974-f97ab3b3c677_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=August 25, 2013}}{{cite web |author=Kennedy, Mark |date=August 24, 2013 |title=Julie Harris, Broadway Star, Dies at 87 |url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/julie-harris-broadway-star-dies-87 |website=Associated Press |access-date=August 25, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130825003100/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/julie-harris-broadway-star-dies-87 |archive-date=August 25, 2013}} Harris was cremated after her death.{{cite book |last=Wilson |first=Scott |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&q=Julie+Harris+burial+scott+wilson&pg=PA318 |title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons |edition=3d |date=August 19, 2016 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-2599-7 |access-date=December 9, 2018 |via=Google Books}}
Legacy and honors
Image:2005 Kennedy Center honorees.jpg and Laura Bush pose with the Kennedy Center honorees (L to R): Julie Harris, Robert Redford, Tina Turner, Suzanne Farrell, and Tony Bennett in 2005]]
On December 5, 2005, Harris was named a Kennedy Center Honoree. At a White House ceremony, President George W. Bush remarked: "It's hard to imagine the American stage without the face, the voice, and the limitless talent of Julie Harris. She has found happiness in her life's work, and we thank her for sharing that happiness with the whole world."{{cite web |title=President Welcomes Kennedy Center Honorees to the White House |url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/12/20051204.html |date=December 4, 2005 |access-date=March 31, 2022 |website=The White House}}
Ben Brantley, theater critic for The New York Times, considered her "the actress who towered most luminously ... rather like a Statue of Liberty for Broadway."{{cite news |first=Ben |last=Brantley |author-link=Ben Brantley |date=August 25, 2013 |title=Luminous Julie Harris, Close Up and Afar |url=http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/theater/luminous-julie-harris-close-up-and-afar.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=August 30, 2013 |url-access=subscription}} Alec Baldwin, who played Harris's son on Knots Landing, praised her in a tribute in the Huffington Post: "Her voice was like rainfall. Her eyes connected directly to and channeled the depths of her powerful and tender heart. Her talent, a gift from God."{{cite web |first=Alec |last=Baldwin |author-link=Alec Baldwin |date=August 30, 2013 |title=A Public Farewell to Julie Harris |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/julie-harris-farewell_b_3843615.html |work=Huffington Post |access-date=August 30, 2013}}
Harris ties with Angela Lansbury with five Tony Award wins (Audra McDonald has since passed them both, with six wins).{{cite web |title=Tony Awards Facts & Trivia |url=http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/history/facts/ |website=Tony Awards |access-date=August 25, 2013 |archive-date=July 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704091953/http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/history/facts/ |url-status=dead}} However, she holds the record (alongside Chita Rivera) for the most individual Tony Award nominations, with 10 (Audra McDonald has also since received her 10th nomination).{{cite web |title=Tony Awards Ohio State Murders |url=https://www.tonyawards.com/shows/ohio-state-murders/ |website=Tony Awards |access-date=May 30, 2023}} In 1966, Harris won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre.
On August 28, 2013, Broadway theaters dimmed their lights for one minute in honor of Harris.{{cite web |author=Snetiker, Marc |date=August 27, 2013 |title=Broadway Theaters to Dim Lights in Honor of Stage Legend Julie Harris |url=http://www.broadway.com/buzz/171407/broadway-theaters-to-dim-lights-in-honor-of-stage-legend-julie-harris |publisher=Broadway.com |access-date=August 30, 2013}}
On December 3, 2013, Joan Van Ark announced at a Broadway memorial service the creation of the Julie Harris Scholarship, which provides annual support to an actor studying at the Yale School of Drama. Alec Baldwin made the first contribution.{{cite web |author= |title=Julie Harris Scholarship Established at Yale School of Drama |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/connecticut/article/Julie-Harris-Scholarship-Established-at-Yale-School-of-Drama-20131205 |access-date=December 7, 2020 |website=Broadway World |language=en}} In 2021, Yale Drama became tuition-free and was rebranded the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.{{cite news |last=Paulson |first=Michael |date=June 30, 2021 |title=Yale Drama Goes Tuition-Free With $150 Million Gift From David Geffen |language=en-US |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/theater/yale-drama-david-geffen-tuition.html |access-date=December 13, 2021 |issn=0362-4331 |url-access=subscription}}
Acting credits
= Theatre =
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Venue |
|---|
| 1945
| It's a Gift | Atlanta | |
| rowspan="2"| 1946
| | |
| Oedipus Rex
| | |
| 1946–1947
| The Playboy of the Western World | Nelly | |
| 1947
| Alice in Wonderland | White Rabbit | alternate{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/alice-in-wonderland-1542#OpeningNightCast |title=Alice In Wonderland: Opening Night Cast |website=Internet Broadway Database |access-date=March 31, 2022}} |
| rowspan="2"| 1948
| Macbeth | Witch | |
| Sundown Beach
| Ida Mae | |
| 1948–1949
| The Young and Fair | Nancy Gear | |
| rowspan="2"| 1949
| Magnolia Alley | Angel Tuttle | |
| Montserrat
| Felisa | |
| 1950–1951
| Frankie Addams | |
| 1951–1952
| Sally Bowles | |
| 1954
| Mademoiselle Colombe | Colombe | |
| 1955–1956
| The Lark | Joan | |
| 1959–1960
| The Warm Peninsula | Ruth Arnold | |
| 1960
|King John |Blanch of Spain | |
| 1960
|Romeo and Juliet |Juliet | |
| 1960
| Little Moon of Alban | Bridgid Mary Mangan | |
| 1961–1962
| Josefa Lantenay | |
| 1963–1964
| June | |
| 1964
|Hamlet |Ophelia | |
| 1964–1965
| Ready When You Are, C.B.! | Annie | |
| 1965–1966
| Georgina | |
| 1968–1970
| Ann Stanley | |
| 1971
| And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little | Anna Reardon | |
| 1972
| Voices | Claire | |
| 1972–1973
| |
| 1973–1974
| The au Pair Man | Mrs. Rogers | |
| 1974–1975
| Lydia Cruttwell | |
| 1976
| |
| 1979
|On Golden Pond | | |
| 1979
| Break a Leg | Gertie Kessel | |
| 1980–1981
| Mixed Couples | Clarice | |
| 1983
|Under The Ilex |Dora de Houghton Carrington Partridge | |
| 1988
|Bronte |Charlotte Brontë | |
| 1989–1990
|Love Letters |Melissa Gardiner | |
| 1990
|Driving Miss Daisy |Daisy Werthan | |
| 1991
| Lucifer's Child | |
| 1992
|Dear Liar |Mrs. Patrick Campbell | |
| 1993
|The Fiery Furnace |Eunice | |
| 1994
|Exile in Jerusalem |Elsa | |
| 1994–1995
| Amanda Wingfield | |
| 1996
|Sonya |Sonya Tolstoy | |
| 1997
|The Road to Mecca |Miss Helen | |
| 1997
| Fonsia Dorsey | |
| 1998
|Scent of the Roses |Annalise Morant | |
| 2000
|All My Sons |Kate Keller | |
| 2001
|Fossils | | |
=Films=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1952
| Frances "Frankie" Addams | Film debut |
| rowspan="2"| 1955
| Abra Bacon | |
| I Am a Camera
| Sally Bowles | |
| 1957
| Helen Cooper | |
| 1958
| Sally Hamil | |
| 1962
| Grace Miller | |
| 1963
| Eleanor "Nell" Lance | |
| 1964
| Hamlet | Ophelia | |
| rowspan="2"| 1966
| Harper | Betty Fraley | |
| You're a Big Boy Now
| Miss Nora Thing | |
| 1967
| Alison Langdon | |
| rowspan="2"| 1968
| Gladys | |
| Journey to Midnight
| Leona Gillings | "The Indian Spirit Guide" |
| 1970
| Gerrie Mason | |
| 1975
| Betsie Ten Boom | |
| 1976
| Alice Fienchild | |
| 1979
| Mrs. Greenwood | |
| 1983
| Brontë | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 1985
| | Uncredited |
| 1986
| Nutcracker: The Motion Picture | Clara (voice) | |
| 1988
| Roz Carr | |
| 1992
| Edna Davis | |
| 1993
| Reggie Delesseps | |
| 1996
| Joseph's Mother | |
| 1997
| Professor Harper | |
| rowspan="2"| 1998
| Passage to Paradise | Martha McGraw | |
| The First of May
| Carlotta | |
| 2006
| The Way Back Home | Jo McMillen | |
| 2008
| Melodeon Player | |
| 2009
| Mrs. Deacon | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1948–1949
| | 4 episodes |
| 1951
| Bernice | episode: "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" |
| 1951–1953
| Goodyear Television Playhouse | | 2 episodes |
| 1955
| The United States Steel Hour | Shevawn | episode: "A Wind from the South" |
| 1956
| The Good Fairy | Lu | TV movie |
| 1957
| The Lark | Joan of Arc | TV movie |
| rowspan="2"| 1958
| Bridgid Mary Mangan | TV movie |
| Johnny Belinda
| Belinda | TV movie |
| 1959
| Nora Helmer | TV movie |
| 1960
| Francesca | episode: "Turn the Key Deftly" |
| 1960–1961
| Mattie Silver/Julia | 2 episodes |
| rowspan="4" | 1961
| | episode: "He Who Gets Slapped" |
| The Heiress
| Catherine Sloper | TV movie |
| The Power and the Glory
| Maria (Priest's Mistress) | TV movie |
| Victoria Regina
| Queen Victoria | TV movie |
| 1963
| Eliza Dolittle | TV movie |
| rowspan="2"| 1964
| Little Moon of Alban | Brigid Mary Mangan | TV movie |
| Kraft Suspense Theatre
| Lucy Bram | episode: "The Roborioz Ring" |
| rowspan="3"| 1965
| The Holy Terror | Florence Nightingale | TV movie |
| Rawhide
| Emma Teall | episode: "The Calf Women" |
| Laredo
| Annamay | episode: "Rendezvous at Arillo" |
| 1966
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Isobel Cain/Vicky Cain | episode: "Nightmare" |
| 1967
| Anastasia | Anastasia | TV movie |
| 1967–1968
| Tarzan | Charity Jones | 4 episodes |
| rowspan="6"| 1968
| Therese Donet | episode: "Run from Death" |
| Run for Your Life
| Lucrece Lawrence | episode: "The Rape of Lucrece" |
| Daniel Boone
| Faith | episode: "Faith's Way" |
| Bonanza
| Sarah Carter | episode: "A Dream to Dream" |
| Journey to the Unknown
| Leona Gillings | episode: "The Indian Spirit Guide" |
| The Big Valley
| Jennie Hall | episode: "A Stranger Everywhere" |
| 1969–1970
| Verna Ward/Ruth 'Doc' Harmon | 2 episodes |
| rowspan="2"| 1970
| Leona Miller | TV movie |
| How Awful About Allan
| Katherine | TV movie |
| 1971
| Jenny | episode: "Wolf Track" |
| 1972
| Elizabeth Hall Morgan | TV movie |
| rowspan="5"| 1973
| Nellie Paine | 9 episodes |
| Medical Center
| Helen | episode: "The Guilty" |
| Columbo
| Karen Fielding | episode: "Any Old Port in a Storm" |
| Hawkins
| Janet Hubbard | episode: "Die, Darling, Die" |
| The Evil Touch
| Aunt Carrie/Jenny | 2 episodes |
| 1974
| rowspan="3"| Elizabeth Holvak | TV movie |
| rowspan="3"| 1975
| Long Way Home | TV movie |
| The Family Holvak
| 10 episodes |
| Match Game
| Herself (panelist) | 6 total episodes (1 for syndication) |
| rowspan="2"| 1976
| TV movie |
| The Belle of Amherst
| TV movie |
| 1978
| Stubby Pringle's Christmas | Georgia Henderson | TV movie |
| rowspan="3"| 1979
| Backstairs at the White House | Mrs. Helen 'Nellie' Taft | miniseries |
| Tales of the Unexpected
| Mrs. Bixby/Mrs. Foster | 2 episodes |
| The Gift
| Anne Devlin | TV movie |
| 1980–1987
| Lilimae Clements | 165 episodes |
| rowspan="2"| 1986
| Annihilator | Girl | TV movie |
| Family Ties
| Margaret | episode: "The Freshman and the Senior" |
| 1987
| Irene Culver | episode: "Who Killed Maxwell Thorn?" |
| rowspan="3"| 1988
| Alice | TV movie |
| Too Good to Be True
| Margaret Berent | TV movie |
| The Christmas Wife
| Iris | TV movie |
| 1989
| Single Women Married Men | Lucille Frankyl | TV movie |
| 1990
| Mary Chestnut (voice) | miniseries; 9 episodes |
| rowspan="2"| 1993
| Vanished Without a Trace | Odessa Ray | TV movie |
| When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn
| Alice Hearn | TV movie |
| rowspan="2"| 1994
| Scarlett | Eleanor Butler | miniseries |
| One Christmas
| Sook | TV movie |
| rowspan="2"| 1995
| Secrets | Caroline Phelan | TV movie |
| Lucifer's Child
| TV movie |
| rowspan="2"| 1996
| Ethel | TV short |
| The Christmas Tree
| Sister Anthony | TV movie |
| 1997
| Leonora Nelson | TV movie |
| 1998
| Hera | episode: "Lithia" |
| rowspan="2"| 1999
| Sylvia McClain | TV movie |
| Not for Ourselves Alone
| Susan B. Anthony (voice) | TV documentary |
Awards and nominations
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| scope="col" style="width:5em;" | Year
! scope="col" style="width:28em;"| Category ! scope="col" style="width:25em;"| Nominated work ! scope="col" style="width:5em;" | Result ! Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|
| colspan=5|Academy Awards | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1952
| {{nom}} | ||
| colspan=5|BAFTA Awards | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1955
| {{nom}} | ||
| colspan=5|Emmy Awards | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1956
| rowspan=4|Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie | The United States Steel Hour | {{nom}} | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1959
| {{won}} | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1960
| {{nom}} | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1962
| {{won}} | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1965
| Outstanding Individual Achievement | The Holy Terror | {{nom}} | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1967
|rowspan=2| Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie | Anastasia | {{nom}} | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1977
| {{nom}} | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1982
| Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | {{nom}} | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1988
| rowspan=2|Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie | {{nom}} | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1998
| {{nom}} | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1999
| Outstanding Voice-Over Performance | {{won}} | ||
| colspan=5|Grammy Awards | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1968 | rowspan=2|Best Children's Music Album
| Magic Fishbone/Happy Prince/Potted Princess | {{nom}} | |
| style="text-align:center;"| 1972
| The Story of Sheherazade | {{nom}} | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1978 | Best Spoken Word Recording
| {{won}} | |
| colspan=5|Tony Awards | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1952
| rowspan=3|Best Actress in a Play | {{won}} | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1956
| The Lark | {{won}} | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1964
| {{nom}} | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1966
| {{nom}} | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1969
| rowspan=6|Best Actress in a Play | {{won}} | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1973
| {{won}} | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1974
| The au Pair Man | {{nom}} | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1977
| {{won}} | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1991
| Lucifer's Child | {{nom}} | ||
| style="text-align:center;"| 1997
| {{nom}} |
References
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Further reading
- Young, Jordan R. (1989). Acting Solo: The Art of One-Person Shows. Beverly Hills: Past Times Publishing Co. Introduction by Julie Harris. {{isbn|9780940410848}}. {{oclc|1020463283}}.
External links
{{Commons category|Julie Harris}}
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- {{iobdb name|6014}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070423055643/http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/interactive/video/index.html#c#h TonyAwards.com Interview with Julie Harris]
- [http://www.seniorwomen.com/articles/rose/articlesRoseIntHarris.html Senior Women Web Interviews: Julie Harris – Too Good to be True? ]
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