Samantha Eggar

Larger Version See trench coat. Garner died from pancreatic cancer. In 2000, she had a brief run on the American soap opera All My Children. Her final screen performance was a small part in a made for television feature in 1980. She has appeared in such films as Walk, Don't Run, Doctor Dolittle The Molly Maguires (1970), and The Brood. After her film career ended, she ventured into stage acting and had some success, but also worked as a real estate agent between acting jobs in order to support herself. By 1965, she had received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Collector. Like many child performers, Garner was unable to make a successful transition into adult roles, although she did receive several supporting roles in films during the early 1950s.

Born Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar in Hampstead, London, England, she began her acting career in several Shakespearean companies, and debuted in film in 1962 in The Wild and the Willing. She reached the height of her success at the age of 13 in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) winning an Academy Juvenile Award largely on the basis of this performance. Samantha Eggar (born March 5, 1933) is a British actress. By 1938 she had made her first film appearance and over the next few years appeared in several more films including the young Jane in Jane Eyre (1944). Born in Canton, Ohio, Garner's mother pushed her into the limelight, and entered her in talent quests while Garner was still a child. Peggy Ann Garner (February 3, 1932 - October 16, 1984) was a American cinema and theater actress.