Ruth Warrick
Dame Ruth Elizabeth Warrick (June 29, 1916 – January 15, 2005), DM, was a long-time American singer, Hollywood Golden-Age actress and political activist, best known for her role as Phoebe Tyler on All My Children, which she played regularly from 1970 until her death in 2005. She celebrated her 80th birthday by attending a special screening of Citizen Kane to a packed, standing-room-only audience, to which she spoke afterward. (She made her film debut as Kane's first wife.) Over the years, she collected several books about Orson Welles and Citizen Kane, in which she would write "Property of Ruth Warrick, Mrs. Citizen Kane". She served as a Licensed Unity Teacher. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ruth Warrick, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1916-06-29 · Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
- Died
- 2005-01-15
Known for
- Citizen Kane (1941) — Emily Norton Kane
- Song of the South (1946) — Sally
- The Love Boat (1977) — Joan Heinsley
- Perry Mason (1957) — Mrs. Winlock
- Gunsmoke (1955) — Clara Benteen
- Journey into Fear (1943) — Mrs. Stephanie Graham
- Daisy Kenyon (1947) — Lucille O'Mara
- Arch of Triumph (1948) — Kate Bergstroem
- Daniel Boone (1964) — Wise Woman
- The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996) — Self
- All My Children (1970) — Phoebe Tyler
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1996) — Self
- Guest in the House (1944) — Ann Proctor
- How to Steal the World (1968) — Alice Garrow
- Three Husbands (1950) — Jane Evans
- Forever and a Day (1943) — Lesley Trimble