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Helen Craig is a Actor American born on 13 may 1912

Helen Craig

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Nationality USA
Birth 13 may 1912
Death 20 july 1986 (at 74 years)

Helen Craig, née le 13 mai 1912 à San Antonio (Texas) et morte le 20 juillet 1986 à New York (État de New York), est une actrice américaine.

Biography

Entamant sa carrière au théâtre, Helen Craig joue notamment à Broadway (New York), où elle débute en 1936 dans Russet Mantle de Lynn Riggs , aux côtés de John Beal (1909-1997), son mari depuis 1934. Suivent huit autres pièces, sa dernière étant More Stately Mansions d'Eugene O'Neill (avec Ingrid Bergman et Arthur Hill), représentée en 1967-1968. S'ajoute la comédie musicale Lute Song en 1946, sur une musique de Raymond Scott (avec Mary Martin et Yul Brynner).

Toujours à Broadway, mentionnons encore Johnny Belinda d'Elmer Harris (1940-1941, avec Horace McNally et Willard Parker) et La Maison de Bernarda Alba de Federico García Lorca (1951, avec Katína Paxinoú dans le rôle-titre et Ruth Ford).

Au cinéma, elle contribue à seulement cinq films américains, les deux premiers étant La Fosse aux serpents d'Anatole Litvak (1948, avec Olivia de Havilland et Mark Stevens) et Les Amants de la nuit de Nicholas Ray (1949, avec Cathy O'Donnell et Farley Granger). Ses trois films suivants sont tournés dans les années 1970, dont Rancho Deluxe de Frank Perry (1975, aveec Jeff Bridges et Sam Waterston) et Héros de Jeremy Kagan (le dernier, 1977, avec Henry Winkler et Sally Field).

À la télévision américaine, elle apparaît dans le téléfilm La Légende de Lizzie Borden de Paul Wendkos (1975, avec Elizabeth Montgomery tenant le rôle-titre et Katherine Helmond).

S'ajoutent neuf séries, la première en 1951 ; parmi les huit suivantes (1975-1977), citons le feuilleton Le Riche et le Pauvre (cinq épisodes, 1976) et Kojak (sa dernière série, deux épisodes, 1976-1977).

Helen Craig meurt d'une crise cardiaque en 1986, à 74 ans, laissant veuf son époux nommé plus haut.

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Filmography of Helen Craig (5 films)

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Heroes
Heroes (1977)
, 1h52
Directed by Jeremy Kagan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Henry Winkler, Sally Field, Harrison Ford, Val Avery, Stuart Margolin, Olivia Cole
Roles Bus Depot Manager
Rating60% 3.001073.001073.001073.001073.00107
Jack Dunne (Winkler), a Vietnam vet who turns out to have a case of lacunar amnesia, escapes a mental ward in New York City intending to start a business as a worm farmer in Eureka, California.
Rancho Deluxe, 1h33
Directed by Frank Perry
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley, Clifton James, Slim Pickens, Harry Dean Stanton
Roles Mrs. Castle
Rating62% 3.1453053.1453053.1453053.1453053.145305
Jack McKee and Cecil Colson are a couple of young, restless rustlers. Jack has turned his back on his wealthy family and his wife. Cecil is a Native American. Together, more out of boredom than anything else, they have begun rustling cattle, cutting them up with a chainsaw and paying bills with fresh meat in lieu of cash.
The Legend of Lizzie Borden, 1h40
Directed by Paul Wendkos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about families, Films about capital punishment
Actors Elizabeth Montgomery, Katherine Helmond, Ed Flanders, Fionnula Flanagan, Don Porter, Fritz Weaver
Roles Mrs. Abby Borden
Rating73% 3.6901953.6901953.6901953.6901953.690195
The film, although based on fact, is a stylized retelling of the events of August 4, 1892 when the father and step-mother of New England spinster Lizzie Andrew Borden were found brutally murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. The subsequent incarceration of the prime suspect (Lizzie herself) as well as the coroner's inquest and trial are largely faithfully depicted, using actual testimony. In what may be seen as deviation from the film's docudrama narrative, as Lizzie hears her verdict, flashbacks are shown of her actually committing the murders in the nude and bathing after each death, thus explaining why no blood was ever found on her or her clothes; however, it is left ambiguous whether Lizzie was actually reminiscing about the crimes or simply fantasizing how she herself would have disposed of her victims. The film ends after Lizzie's acquittal with Lizzie's sister Emma asking her point-blank if she killed their parents; Lizzie does not answer. The epilogue states that the killings of Andrew and Abby Borden remained unsolved.
They Live by Night, 1h35
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva, Jay C. Flippen, Will Wright, Helen Craig
Roles Mattie
Rating73% 3.694043.694043.694043.694043.69404
Bowie (Granger) escapes from prison with bank robbers Chicamaw (DaSilva) and T-Dub (Flippen). Bowie was unfairly convicted of murder. The three plan to rob a bank. Bowie needs the money to hire a lawyer to prove he's innocent. Bowie, injured in an auto accident, finds refuge with the daughter of the owner of a gas station, Keechie (O'Donnell). They marry and plan to live an honest life. But then Chicamaw and T-Dub return and demand that Bowie come with them for one more job. Bowie refuses but finds that he is unable to escape being hunted by the law. He is betrayed and meets a tragic end. Keechie carries on and is pregnant with their child.
The Snake Pit, 1h48
Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Children's films
Actors Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Glenn Langan, Leif Erickson
Roles Nurse Davis
Rating75% 3.795383.795383.795383.795383.79538
Virginia Cunningham (Olivia de Havilland) is an apparently schizophrenic inmate at a mental institution called the Juniper Hill State Hospital. She hears voices and seems so out of touch with reality that she doesn’t recognize her husband Robert (Mark Stevens).