Died 2002-09-11.
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Kim Hunter
Kim Hunter was an American theatre, film, and television actress. She achieved prominence for portraying Stella Kowalski in the original production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which she reprised for the 1951 film adaptation, and won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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entertainment · American actress (1922–2002) · stage actor · television actor · film actor · actor · also Kim Hunter, Janet Cole, Hunter
Born 12 November 1922 · Died 11 September 2002 · Q59824
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2002· 1 entry
2000· 1 entry
Hunter and Emmett would occasionally perform together in stage plays; he died in 2000.
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1979· 1 entry
Appeared as First Lady Ellen Axson Wilson in the serial drama Backstairs at the White House
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1977· 1 entry
Appeared on the NBC Western series The Oregon Trail starring Rod Taylor, in the episode "The Waterhole", which also featured Lonny Chapman
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1968· 2 entries
Appeared as Ada Halle in the NBC TV Western series Bonanza in the episode "The Price of Salt"
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Hunter took on the role of Zira, the sympathetic chimpanzee scientist in the science fiction film Planet of the Apes, as well as two of its sequels
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1959· 1 entry
Appeared in Rawhide in "Incident of the Misplaced Indians" as Amelia Spaulding
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1956· 1 entry
With the HUAC's influence subsiding, she co-starred in Rod Serling's Peabody Award-winning teleplay on Playhouse 90, "Requiem for a Heavyweight"
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1952· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for A Streetcar Named Desire (1952).
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Hunter became Humphrey Bogart's leading lady in Deadline USA
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1951· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).
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1948· 1 entry
Had already joined with Streetcar co-stars Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, and 47 others, to become one of the first members accepted by the newly created Actors Studio
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1947· 1 entry
Was Stella Kowalski on stage in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire
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1922· 1 entry
Born 1922-11-12.
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