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Jo Van Fleet
Jo Van Fleet was an American stage, film, and television actress. During her long career, which spanned over four decades, she often played characters much older than her actual age. Van Fleet won a Tony Award in 1954 for her performance in the Broadway production The Trip to Bountiful, and the next year she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in East of Eden.
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entertainment · American actress (1915–1996) · actor · stage actor · film actor · also Jo Van Fleet, Catherine Josephine Van Fleet, Fleet
Born 29 December 1915 · Died 10 June 1996 · Q233832
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2026· 3 entries
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1996· 1 entry
Died 1996-06-10.
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1958· 1 entry
Van Fleet was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in Look Homeward, Angel, in which she played the acquisitive mother of Anthony Perkins' character
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1956· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for East of Eden (1956).
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1954· 4 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play (1954).
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For her portrayal of Jessie Mae Watts in Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful, costarring Lillian Gish and Eva Marie Saint
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For her performance in the Broadway production The Trip to Bountiful, and the next year she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in East of Eden
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Encouraged her to work in films in Hollywood
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1952· 1 entry
Directed her in the play Flight to Egypt and the following year in Camino Real
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1950· 1 entry
As Regan opposite Louis Calhern in King Lear
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1946· 1 entry
Van Fleet married William G
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1944· 1 entry
Van Fleet began her professional stage career and immediately distinguished herself in the role of Miss Phipps in the production of Uncle Harry at the National Theatre in Washington, D
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1936· 1 entry
Focusing on a variety of subjects, and then spent several years as a high school teacher in Morro Bay, California
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1919· 1 entry
Of a streptococcus throat infection which was lanced, inadvertently spreading the disease throughout his body
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1915· 2 entries
Born 1915-12-29.
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In Oakland, California, the younger of two daughters of Michigan native Roy H
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