Helen Hayes
Known for Acting · 74 credits
- Born
- 1900-10-09
- Died
- 1993-03-17
- Place of birth
- Washington, District of Columbia, USA
- Also known as
- Helen Hayes Brown · Хелен Хейс Макартур · Хелен Хейс · Helen Hayes MacArthur
Biography
Helen Hayes was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In 1988 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is the namesake of the annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in the greater Washington, D.C. area since 1984. Perhaps the ultimate respect to be paid to any actor by a producer - of having a theater christened in their name - became a reality for Ms. Hayes in 1955 when the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City's Broadway theater district was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre. When that venue was torn down in 1982 (along with five other neighboring theaters), the operators of the Little Theatre, another standing theater two blocks away on 44th Street, renamed that house in her name, which it has retained ever since.
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Known For
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
The Love Boat
1977
as Agatha Winslow
Hawaii Five-O
1968
as Aunt Clara
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Accepting Award for Apa-Phoenix / Self - Nominee / Self - Winner / Self - Presenter / Self - Previous Winner / Self (archive footage)
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Queen Victoria
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
TV Shows (28)
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
The Love Boat
1977
as Agatha Winslow
Hawaii Five-O
1968
as Aunt Clara
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Accepting Award for Apa-Phoenix / Self - Nominee / Self - Winner / Self - Presenter / Self - Previous Winner / Self (archive footage)
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Queen Victoria
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
What's My Line?
1950
as Self
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
Highway to Heaven
1984
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
Omnibus
1952
as Bessie Arlington / Mrs. Dearth / Mrs. Howard V. Larue III
Here's Lucy
1968
as Kathleen Brady
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
The Jack Benny Program
1950
as Helen Hayes
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
as Self - Host
Tarzan
1966
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959
as Self
Ghost Story
1972
as Miss Gilden
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Essie / The Vicaress / Veta Louise Simmons
Play of the Week
1959
as Mother Hildebrand
The Snoop Sisters
1973
as Ernesta Snoop
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Honora Canderay (woman)
MGM: When the Lion Roars
1992
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
1976
as Dr. McCartney
Pride and Prejudice
1952
as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Old Friends... New Friends
1978
as Self
Movies (46)
Airport
1970
as Ada Quonsett
Herbie Rides Again
1974
as Mrs. Steinmetz
A Farewell to Arms
1932
as Catherine Barkley
Anastasia
1956
as Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
Murder Is Easy
1982
as Lavinia Fullerton
Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
Candleshoe
1977
as Lady St. Edmund
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
as Self
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
as Self (archive footage)
Harvey
1972
as Veta Louise Simmons
Night Flight
1933
as Madame Fabian
Arrowsmith
1931
as Leora Tozer Arrowsmith
Victory at Entebbe
1976
as Etta Grossman-Wise
Stage Door Canteen
1943
as Helen Hayes
Murder with Mirrors
1985
as Miss Jane Marple
My Son John
1952
as Lucille Jefferson
Main Street to Broadway
1953
as Self
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
1975
as Hettie
A Caribbean Mystery
1983
as Miss Jane Marple
Third Man on the Mountain
1959
as Hotel guest (uncredited)
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
1998
as Self (archive footage)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931
as Madelon Claudet
The White Sister
1933
as Angela Chiaromonte
The Female Instinct
1972
as Ernesta Snoop
The Bat
1960
as Cornelia Van Gorder
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938
as Self
Airports
2025
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
1971
as Sophie Tate Curtis
Another Language
1933
as Stella Hallam
What Every Woman Knows
1934
as Maggie Wylie
Crime Without Passion
1934
as Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
A Family Upside Down
1978
as Emma Long
Riders of the Range
1923
as Inez
The Son-Daughter
1932
as Lian Wha
Arsenic and Old Lace
1969
as Abby Brewster
The Ten-Year Lunch
1987
as Herself - Participant
The Challenge of Ideas
1961
as Narrator
Bill Cosby: Walking Free
2022
as Self (archive footage)
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
1979
as Self
Vanessa: Her Love Story
1935
as Vanessa Paris
A.N.T.A. Album of 1955
1955
as Self
Hopper's Silence
1981
as Herself
The Dancing Town
1928
as Olive Pepperall
The Weavers of Life
1917
as Peggy
Divine Mercy No Escape
1994
Four Women in Black
1957
as Sister Theresa
About Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In 1988 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is the namesake of the annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in the greater Washingt… With 74 credits spanning from 1917 to 2025, Helen Hayes has appeared in 46 films and 28 TV shows.
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- Airport (1970) — as Ada Quonsett
- Herbie Rides Again (1974) — as Mrs. Steinmetz
- A Farewell to Arms (1932) — as Catherine Barkley
- Anastasia (1956) — as Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
- Murder Is Easy (1982) — as Lavinia Fullerton
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