Colleen DewhurstColleen Dewhurst (3 June 1924 - 22 August 1991) was a Canadian actress best known for playing Marilla Cuthbert in the various Anne of Green Gables productions from Sullivan Entertainment. Her breakthrough stage role, which made her a major success, came in 1974 after 27 years of acting, when she appeared in Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten. Dewhurst also had a recurring role on the CBS TV series Murphy Brown, for which she won two Emmys. Over the course of her 45 year career, she won a total of four Emmys, two Tony Awards, two Obies and two Gemini Awards. Dewhurst was born in Montreal, Quebec, but in the last years of her life she lived on a farm in South Salem, New York with a summer home on Prince Edward Island. She died of cervical cancer at age sixty-seven. Dewhurst was married to James Vickery and to George C. Scott, and is the mother of actor Campbell Scott. This page about Colleen Dewhurst includes information from a Wikipedia article. Additional articles about Colleen Dewhurst News stories about Colleen Dewhurst External links for Colleen Dewhurst Videos for Colleen Dewhurst Wikis about Colleen Dewhurst Discussion Groups about Colleen Dewhurst Blogs about Colleen Dewhurst Images of Colleen Dewhurst |
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Scott, and is the mother of actor Campbell Scott. Other film appearances include The Night They Raided Minsky's, Get Carter and The Wicker Man. Dewhurst was married to James Vickery and to George C. She appeared in the 1974 James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun. She died of cervical cancer at age sixty-seven. She later had a much-publicised romance with "bad-boy" rock star Rod Stewart, and in 1984 she married rock musician, Slim Jim Phantom, who was almost twenty years her junior; they also divorced. Dewhurst was born in Montreal, Quebec, but in the last years of her life she lived on a farm in South Salem, New York with a summer home on Prince Edward Island. Britt Ekland became famous as a result of her whirlwind romance with British actor and comedian, Peter Sellers, who proposed after seeing her photograph in the paper; they had one daughter, Victoria, before divorcing. Over the course of her 45 year career, she won a total of four Emmys, two Tony Awards, two Obies and two Gemini Awards. Britt Ekland (born October 6, 1942) is a Swedish actress, born in Stockholm. Dewhurst also had a recurring role on the CBS TV series Murphy Brown, for which she won two Emmys. Colleen Dewhurst (3 June 1924 - 22 August 1991) was a Canadian actress best known for playing Marilla Cuthbert in the various Anne of Green Gables productions from Sullivan Entertainment. Her breakthrough stage role, which made her a major success, came in 1974 after 27 years of acting, when she appeared in Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten. |