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Anderson made a film career as a supporting character actress in several significant films including Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940), for which she was Oscar nominated for Best Supporting Actress. She worked with director Otto Preminger in Laura (1944) , then with René Clair in And Then There Were None (1945) .
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- Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Early Life
- Career
- Spoken Word and Radio
- Return to Australia
- Later Career
- Personal Life
- Death
- Honours
- Sources
- Further Reading
Frances Margaret Anderson was born in 1897 in Adelaide, South Australia,the youngest of four children born to Jessie Margaret (née Saltmarsh; 19 October 1862 – 24 November 1950), a former nurse, and Scottish-born James Anderson Anderson, a sharebroker and pioneering prospector. She attended a private school, Norwood, where her education ended befor...
Early acting
She made her professional debut (as Francee Anderson) in 1915, playing Stephanie at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, in A Royal Divorce. Leading the company was the Scottish actor Julius Knight whom she later credited with laying the foundations of her acting skills. She appeared alongside him in adaptations of The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Three Musketeers, Monsieur Beacauire and David Garrick. In 1917 she toured New Zealand.
Early years in America
Anderson was ambitious and wanted to leave Australia. Most local actors went to London but the war made this difficult so she decided on the US.She travelled to California but was unsuccessful for four months, then moved to New York, with an equal lack of success. After a period of poverty and illness, she found work with the Emma Bunting Stock Company at the Fourteenth Street Theatrein 1918–19. She then toured with other stock companies.
Broadway and film
She made her Broadway debut in Up the Stairs (1922) followed by The Crooked Square (1923) and she went to Chicago with Patches (1923). She appeared in Peter Weston(1923), which only had a short run. One year later, she had changed her acting forename (albeit not for legal purposes) to Judith and had her first triumph with the play Cobra (1924) co-starring Louis Calhern, which ran for 35 performances. Anderson then went on to The Dove(1925) which went for 101 performances and really establishe...
She also recorded many spoken word record albums for Caedmon Audio from the 1950s to the 1970s, including scenes from Macbeth with Maurice Anderson (Victor, in 1941), an adaption of Medea, Robert Louis Stevenson verses, and readings from the Bible. She received a Grammy nomination for her work on the Wuthering Heightsrecording. Radio broadcasts
Anderson returned briefly to Australia. She guest-starred in Matlock Police and was in the film Inn of the Damned(1974). Her other credits that decade included The Borrowers (1973) and The Chinese Prime Minister(1974)
In 1982, she returned to Medea, this time playing the Nurse opposite Zoe Caldwell in the title role. Caldwell had appeared in a small role in the Australian tour of Medea in 1955–56. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. In 1984, she appeared in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock as the VulcanHi...
Anderson was married twice and declared that "neither experience was a jolly holiday": 1. Benjamin Harrison Lehmann (1889–1977), an English professor at the University of California at Berkeley;they wed in 1937 and divorced in August 1939. By this marriage she had a stepson, Benjamin Harrison Lehmann Jr. (born 1918). 2. Luther Greene (1909–1987), a...
Anderson spent much of her life in Santa Barbara, California, where she died of pneumoniain 1992, aged 94.
Anderson was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1960 and thereafter was often billed as "DameJudith Anderson". On 10 June 1991, in the 1991 Australian Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia(AC), "in recognition of service to the performing arts".
Dame Judith Anderson papers, at the University of California, Santa BarbaraLibrary; accessed 19 August 2014.Dame Judith Anderson prompts Archived 13 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine, at the National Library of Australiawebsite; accessed 19 August 2014.Dame Judith Anderson at the National Film and Sound ArchiveAlistair, Rupert (2018). "Judith Anderson". The Name Below the Title : 65 Classic Movie Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age (softcover) (First ed.). Great Britain: Independently published....Deacon, Desley (2019), Judith Anderson: Australian Star, First Lady of the American Stage, Kerr Publishing, ISBN 978-1-875703-18-0Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Judith Anderson. Refine Actress. Sort by: View: 1 to 50 of 145 titles | Next » 1. Wagon Train (1957–1965) TV-PG | 75 min | Western. 7.5. Rate this.
Judith Anderson. Dame Judith Anderson, eigentlich Frances Margaret Anderson (* 10. Februar 1897 in Adelaide, South Australia; † 3. Januar 1992 in Santa Barbara, Kalifornien ), war eine australische Schauspielerin .
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25. März 2024 · Welcome to our movie roundup of Judith Anderson’s timeless performances on the silver screen. Journey with us as we take a closer look at the legendary actress’s illustrious career and explore her unforgettable roles that continue to captivate audiences today.
3. Jan. 1992 · Anderson made a film career as a supporting character actress in several significant films including Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940), for which she was Oscar nominated for Best Supporting Actress. She worked with director Otto Preminger in Laura (1944), then with René Clair in And Then There Were None (1945). Her remarkable ...
