Shelley Winters
Birthday: August 18, 1920
Birth Place: East St. Louis, Illinois, USA
Height: 5' 4"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Shelley Winters. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

Biography

Movie Credits

Bomba, La	(1999)
Gideon	(1999)
[ Mackenzie Rosman ][ Shirley Jones ][ Crystal Bernard ][ Barbara Bain ]
Home Is Where the Afghan Is	(1996)
The Wedding	(1996)
[ Sandra Bernhard ]
Out of the Past	(1996)
The Portrait of a Lady	(1996)
[ Nicole Kidman ][ Mary Louise Parker ][ Barbara Hershey ][ Shelley Duvall ][ Amy Lindsay ]
Heavy	(1995)
[ Liv Tyler ][ Debbie Harry ]
Backfire!	(1995)
[ Mary McCormack ][ Edie Falco ][ Kristen Johnston ]
Raging Angels	(1995)
[ Monet Mazur ][ Diane Ladd ][ Teresa Hill ][ Arielle Dombasle ]
Mrs. Munck	(1995)
[ Kelly Preston ][ Diane Ladd ]
Jury Duty	(1995)
[ Tia Carrere ][ Siobhan Fallon ]
Silenzio dei prosciutti, Il	(1994)
[ Charlene Tilton ][ Phyllis Diller ][ Joanna Pacula ][ Heather Elizabeth Parkhurst ]
Thanksgiving 1994	(1994)
The Pickle	(1993)
[ Ally Sheedy ][ Isabella Rossellini ][ Dyan Cannon ][ Brooke Smith ][ Clothilde Coureau ]
Weep No More, My Lady	(1992)
[ Kristin Scott-Thomas ][ Francesca Annis ][ Stephane Audran ][ Cecile Paoli ]
Stepping Out	(1991)
[ Jane Krakowski ][ Liza Minelli ][ Julie Walters ][ Andrea Martin ][ Nora Dunn ]
Touch of a Stranger	(1990)
An Unremarkable Life	(1989)
[ Patricia Neal ]
Purple People Eater	(1988)
[ Thora Birch ][ Lindsay Price ]
The Delta Force	(1986)
[ Kim Delaney ][ Lainie Kazan ][ Susan Strasberg ][ Hanna Schygulla ]
Very Close Quarters	(1986)
Witchfire	(1986)
Alice in Wonderland	(1985)
[ Sally Struthers ][ Donna Mills ][ Carol Channing ]
Déjà Vu	(1985)
[ Jaclyn Smith ][ Claire Bloom ]
Over the Brooklyn Bridge	(1984)
[ Sarah Michelle Gellar ][ Carol Kane ][ Margaux Hemingway ]
Ellie	(1984)
Fanny Hill	(1983)
[ Lisa Raines ]
Emma and Grandpa on the Farm	(1983)
Venetian Love Song/The Arrangement/Arrividerci, Gopher/The Gigolo: Part 2	(1982)
[ Meredith Baxter ][ Marie Osmond ]
Looping - Der lange Traum vom kurzen Glück	(1981)
[ Sydne Rome ][ Barbara Valentin ]
S.O.B.	(1981)
[ Julie Andrews ][ Rosanna Arquette ][ Loretta Swit ][ Marisa Berenson ][ Gisele Lindley ]
The Magician of Lublin	(1979)
[ Louise Fletcher ][ Valerie Perrine ][ Lisa Welchel ][ Kate Bush ]
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July	(1979)
[ Ethel Merman ]
City on Fire	(1979)
[ Ava Gardener ][ Susan Clark ]
The Visitor	(1979)
Elvis	(1979)
[ Season Hubley ][ Melody Anderson ]
The Initiation of Sarah	(1978)
[ Morgan Fairchild ][ Talia Balsam ][ Kay Lenz ][ Tisa Farrow ]
King of the Gypsies	(1978)
[ Susan Sarandon ][ Brooke Shields ][ Annette O'Toole ][ Rachel Ticotin ][ Annie Potts ]
Mimì Bluette ... fiore del mio giardino	(1977)
Pete's Dragon	(1977)
Borghese piccolo piccolo, Un	(1977)
Tentacoli	(1977)
Gran bollito	(1977)
[ Laura Antonelli ][ Adriana Asti ]
Frosty's Winter Wonderland	(1976)
[ Angy Samiou ]
Locataire, Le	(1976)
[ Isabelle Adjani ]
Next Stop, Greenwich Village	(1976)
[ Ellen Greene ]
Dahlia scarlatta, La	(1976)
That Lucky Touch	(1975)
[ Julie Dawn Cole ][ Sydne Rome ]
Diamonds	(1975)
[ Barbara Hershey ]
Journey Into Fear	(1975)
[ Yvette Mimeux ]
Poor Pretty Eddy	(1975)
The Sex Symbol	(1974)
[ Connie Stevens ]
Big Rose: Double Trouble	(1974)
[ Joan Van-Ark ]
Cleopatra Jones	(1973)
[ Esther Rolle ][ Brenda Sykes ]
Blume in Love	(1973)
[ Shelley Morrison ][ Susan Anspach ]
The Devil's Daughter	(1973)
[ Diane Ladd ]
Something to Hide	(1972)
[ Linda Hayden ]
The Poseidon Adventure	(1972)
[ Stella Stevens ][ Pamela Sue Martin ][ Carol Lynley ]
Adventures of Nick Carter	(1972)
A Death of Innocence	(1971)
[ Jo Kennedy ][ Tisha Sterling ]
Revenge	(1971)
[ Joan Collins ]
What's the Matter with Helen?	(1971)
[ Debbie Reynolds ][ Agnes Moorehead ][ Yvette Vickers ]
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?	(1971)
Flap	(1970)
How Do I Love Thee?	(1970)
Bloody Mama	(1970)
[ Diane Varsi ]
Arthur! Arthur!	(1969)
The Mad Room	(1969)
[ Stella Stevens ]
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell	(1968)
[ Gina Lollobrigada ][ Lee Grant ]
Wild in the Streets	(1968)
[ Millie Perkins ][ Diane Varsi ]
The Scalphunters	(1968)
Enter Laughing	(1967)
Alfie	(1966)
[ Jane Asher ]
Harper	(1966)
[ Lauren Bacall ][ Janet Leigh ][ Pamela Tiffin ]
The Three Sisters	(1966)
A Patch of Blue	(1965)
The Greatest Story Ever Told	(1965)
[ Angela Lansbury ][ Carroll Baker ]
Back to Back	(1965)
A House Is Not a Home	(1964)
[ Raquel Welch ][ Edy Williams ]
Indifferenti, Gli	(1964)
[ Claudia Cardinale ][ Paulette Goddard ]
Two Is the Number	(1964)
Wives and Lovers	(1963)
[ Janet Leigh ][ Marianna Hill ]
The Balcony	(1963)
[ Lee Grant ]
The Chapman Report	(1962)
[ Jane Fonda ][ Cloris Leachman ][ Glynis Johns ][ Claire Bloom ]
Lolita	(1962)
[ Sue Lyon ][ Lois Maxwell ][ Shirley Douglas ]
The Young Savages	(1961)
Let No Man Write My Epitaph	(1960)
[ Jean Seberg ]
Odds Against Tomorrow	(1959)
[ Cicely Tyson ][ Gloria Grahame ]
The Diary of Anne Frank	(1959)
[ Diane Baker ][ Millie Perkins ]
Dark Wall	(1956)
I Died a Thousand Times	(1955)
The Big Knife	(1955)
The Treasure of Pancho Villa	(1955)
The Night of the Hunter	(1955)
[ Lillian Gish ]
I Am a Camera	(1955)
Sorry, Wrong Number	(1954)
To Dorothy a Son	(1954)
Mambo	(1954)
[ Silvana Mangano ]
Executive Suite	(1954)
[ Barbara Stanwyck ][ June Allyson ]
Playgirl	(1954)
[ Dolores Trull ]
Saskatchewan	(1954)
Tennessee Champ	(1954)
My Man and I	(1952)
Untamed Frontier	(1952)
Meet Danny Wilson	(1952)
Phone Call from a Stranger	(1952)
[ Betty Davis ]
The Raging Tide	(1951)
Behave Yourself!	(1951)
A Place in the Sun	(1951)
[ Elizabeth Taylor ]
He Ran All the Way	(1951)
Frenchie	(1950)
[ Elsa Lanchester ]
South Sea Sinner	(1950)
Winchester '73	(1950)
Johnny Stool Pigeon	(1949)
The Great Gatsby	(1949)
Take One False Step	(1949)
Cry of the City	(1948)
[ Debra Paget ]
Larceny	(1948)
Red River	(1948)
Living in a Big Way	(1947)
[ Barbara Billingsley ]
New Orleans	(1947)
Killer McCoy	(1947)
A Double Life	(1947)
The Gangster	(1947)
Abie's Irish Rose	(1946)
Susie Steps Out	(1946)
Two Smart People	(1946)
[ Lucille Ball ]
The Fighting Guardsman	(1946)
A Thousand and One Nights	(1945)
Escape in the Fog	(1945)
Dancing in Manhattan	(1945)
Tonight and Every Night	(1945)
[ Rita Hayworth ]
Together Again	(1944)
[ Irene Dunne ]
She's a Soldier Too	(1944)
Cover Girl	(1944)
[ Rita Hayworth ][ Eve Arden ]
Knickerbocker Holiday	(1944)
Sailor's Holiday	(1944)
The Racket Man	(1944)
What a Woman!	(1943)
[ Rosalind Russel ]
There's Something About a Soldier	(1943)

Trivia

• Her father was Jonas Schrift, her mother was Rose Schrift, and her sister was Blanche Schrift.
• Her early acting training was under the tutelage of actor Charles Laughton.
• Was roommates with Marilyn Monroe when they were both starting out in Hollywood.
• Taught Marilyn Monroe how to "act" pretty by tilting her head back, keeping her eyes lowered and her mouth partly opened
• Born at 12:05am-CST
• Godmother of actor Sally Kirkland. Kirkland, also an ordained minister, conducted the wedding ceremony between Shelly Winters and Gerry DeFord ten hours before she died.
• Made her Broadway debut as Ado Annie in "Oklahoma!" - five years into its run.
• Used her mother's maiden name as her professional name
• Has the distinction of currently being the highest ranked female performer on The Oracle of Bacon's list of the top 1000 performers based upon their "center of the film universe" average number. Winter's average link number is 2.696842, placing seventeenth on the list. The places her well above Kevin Bacon, who is currently ranked 1161st, despite being the original focus of the quirky game of linking actors through their co-stars.
• Measurements: 37-26 1/2 -36 (as a pin-up starlet in the 1950s)
• Godmother of Laura Dern.
• She donated her Oscar for _Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959/I)_ to the Anne Frank museum.
• In The Poseidon Adventure (1972), she plays an award winning swimmer and in A Place in the Sun (1951), she can't swim and drowns.
• Daughter, Vittoria-Gina, a physician, with Vittorio Gassman.
• Played the Marx Brothers' mother Minnie in the Broadway musical "Minnie's Boys," which ran at the Imperial Theatre for 80 Performances from Mar 26 to May 30, 1970. It was the penultimate performance of her eight Broadway appearances. She appeared in only one more Broadway show, "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds," which ran at the Biltmore Theatre for 16 performances March 14-26, 1978.
• In her most important films such as A Place in the Sun (1951), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), A Double Life (1947), _Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959/I)_ and many others, her character is often murdered.
• Fan of the TV show "Babylon 5" (1994).
• Suffered a heart attack on October 14, 2005.
• On the 6 July, 1972 episode of "Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson", she grew tired of Oliver Reed's attitude towards women. They had a heated conversation and, after Winters told Reed what she thought of his opinions, she left the set. The show continued with Oliver Reed going on about women while Johnny Carson looked at him in a daze. Shortly afterward, Winters appeared from stage left, unannounced to Reed and to the shock of Carson. She was carrying a champagne bucket of ice and water with which she surprised Reed by dumping it over his head. Reed was furious over this and tried to attack her but set personnel intervened. The show broke for commercial break. When it resumed, both actors were gone.
• Her marriage to Franciosa broke up when he had an affair with Lauren Bacall. During their affair, Bacall called up Winters and complained, "I've been waiting for Tony for an hour. Where the hell is he?" Shelley said, "You're complaining to me because my husband is late for a date with you?" Bacall answered, "If your husband doesn't respect your marriage, why should I?"
• She had a part in the motion picture "Always" (1985) and filmed a few scenes, but at some point, she had a tantrum and left the set. Her agent pleaded with her to go back and resume her role, but she refused and her character was replaced. She does not appear in the final film.
• Shirley Schrift took her mother's maiden name (Winter) as her stage name and added Shelley for her favorite poet. When she saw the call sheet for "A Double Life" she discovered that Universal had added an 's' making her Shelley Winters.
• Godmother of actor Sally Kirkland. Kirkland, also an ordained minister, conducted the wedding ceremony between Winters and Gerry DeFord ten hours before she died.
• She donated her Oscar for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) to the Anne Frank museum.
• Daughter, Vittoria-Gina(Vittoria Gassman), a physician, with Vittorio Gassman.
• In her most important films such as A Place in the Sun (1951), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), A Double Life (1947), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and many others, her character is murdered.
• On the 6 July, 1972 episode of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" (1962), she grew tired of Oliver Reed's attitude towards women. They had a heated conversation and, after Winters told Reed what she thought of his opinions, she left the set. The show continued with Reed going on about women while Johnny Carson looked at him in a daze. Shortly afterward, Winters appeared from stage left, unannounced to Reed and to the shock of Carson. She was carrying a champagne bucket of ice and water and surprised Reed by dumping it over his head. Reed was furious over this and tried to attack her but crew members intervened. The show broke for commercial break. When it resumed, both actors were gone.
• Her marriage to Anthony Franciosa broke up when he had an affair with Lauren Bacall. During their affair, Bacall called up Winters and complained, "I've been waiting for Tony for an hour. Where the hell is he?" Shelley said, "You're complaining to me because my husband is late for a date with you?" Bacall answered, "If your husband doesn't respect your marriage, why should I?"
• She had a part in Always (1985) and filmed a few scenes, but at one point she had a tantrum and left the set. Her agent pleaded with her to go back and resume her role, but she refused and her character was replaced. She does not appear in the final film.
• Shirley Schrift took her mother's maiden name (Winter) as her stage name and added Shelley for her favorite poet. When she saw the call sheet for A Double Life (1947) she discovered that Universal had added an "s", making her Shelley Winters.

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