Helen Hayes

Actor Oct 9 (died age 92) Washington, District of Columbia, USA 1917–2025 (108 year career)

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Biography

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 excellenc…

Known For

Film

Airport

Ada Quonsett

Film

Herbie Rides Again

Mrs. Steinmetz

Film

Anastasia

Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna

Film

Candleshoe

Lady St. Edmund

Film

A Farewell to Arms

Catherine Barkley

Film

Third Man on the Mountain

Hotel guest (uncredited)

Film

Arrowsmith

Leora Tozer Arrowsmith

Film

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

Hettie

Filmography

Acting (73)

Movies (45)

Airports

2025

Bill Cosby: Walking Free

2022

as Self (archive footage)

8.3

Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero

1998

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Night of 100 Stars III

1990

as Self

4.0

The Ten-Year Lunch

1987

as Herself - Participant

Murder with Mirrors

as Miss Jane Marple

A Caribbean Mystery

as Miss Jane Marple

Murder Is Easy

as Lavinia Fullerton

Night of 100 Stars

as Self

Hopper's Silence

as Herself

All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman

1979

as Self

A Family Upside Down

as Emma Long

Candleshoe

as Lady St. Edmund

Victory at Entebbe

as Etta Grossman-Wise

5.0

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

as Hettie

Herbie Rides Again

as Mrs. Steinmetz

Harvey

as Veta Louise Simmons

6.8

The Female Instinct

1972

as Ernesta Snoop

Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate

1971

as Sophie Tate Curtis

Airport

as Ada Quonsett

Arsenic and Old Lace

as Abby Brewster

The Challenge of Ideas

1961

as Narrator

3.5

The Bat

1960

as Cornelia Van Gorder

5.0

Third Man on the Mountain

1959

as Hotel guest (uncredited)

6.6

Four Women in Black

1957

as Sister Theresa

Anastasia

1956

as Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna

6.8

A.N.T.A. Album of 1955

1955

as Self

Main Street to Broadway

as Self

My Son John

as Lucille Jefferson

Stage Door Canteen

as Helen Hayes

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1940

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

Hollywood Goes to Town

1938

as Self

7.0

Vanessa: Her Love Story

1935

as Vanessa Paris

6.2

What Every Woman Knows

1934

as Maggie Wylie

7.0

Crime Without Passion

1934

as Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

5.8

The White Sister

1933

as Angela Chiaromonte

Night Flight

as Madame Fabian

Another Language

as Stella Hallam

The Son-Daughter

as Lian Wha

A Farewell to Arms

as Catherine Barkley

Arrowsmith

as Leora Tozer Arrowsmith

6.6

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

as Madelon Claudet

The Dancing Town

as Olive Pepperall

Riders of the Range

as Inez

The Weavers of Life

1917

as Peggy

Television (28)

MGM: When the Lion Roars

Highway to Heaven

The Kennedy Center Honors

as Self

The Love Boat

as Agatha Winslow

Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers

as Dr. McCartney

The Snoop Sisters

as Ernesta Snoop

Ghost Story

as Miss Gilden

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

Hawaii Five-O

as Aunt Clara

Here's Lucy

as Kathleen Brady

Tarzan

The Merv Griffin Show

1962

as Self

6.2

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

as Self

5.4

The Bell Telephone Hour

1959

as Self

7.3

Play of the Week

1959

as Mother Hildebrand

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Host

5.9

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Accepting Award for Apa-Phoenix

The Oscars

as Self

Omnibus

Pride and Prejudice

as Lady Catherine de Bourgh

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Essie

8.6

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

7.2

Robert Montgomery Presents

as Queen Victoria

What's My Line?

as Self

The Colgate Comedy Hour

1950

as Self

6.8

The Jack Benny Program

as Helen Hayes

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Kraft Television Theatre

1947

as Self - Host

7.5