Biography
Elizabeth Welter Wilson (April 4, 1921 – May 9, 2015) was an American actress. In 1972 she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role in Sticks and Bones.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Hyde Park on Hudson
2012
as Mrs. Roosevelt
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the ...
Rocky Road
2001
as Grandma Louise
This modern dramedy explores the problems and prejudices one interracial couple experiences from their families and society.
Special Report: Journey to Mars
1996
as President Elizabeth Richardson
When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV-network GNN begins its live coverage of the last two hours of the mission and the...
The Boys Next Door
1996
as Mary Fremus
Kind-hearted social worker Jack Palmer feels guilty about not spending enough time with his wife due to the pressures of his job taking care of four d...
Nobody's Fool
1994
as Vera (uncredited)
A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young wif...
Spring Awakening
1994
as Mrs. Pierson
The failing economic fortunes of a small turn-of-the-century Nebraska town interrupt a blossoming romance between a pair of star-crossed lovers.
Quiz Show
1994
as Dorothy Van Doren
Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-...
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
1994
as Annie Klenner
After a very messy divorce, a man starts suspecting his ex-wife and her new boyfriend of various crimes.
Skylark
1993
as Harriet Wheaton
Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the chil...
The Addams Family
1991
as Abigail Craven / Dr. Greta Pinder-Schloss
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely h...
Regarding Henry
1991
as Jessica, Henry's Secretary
Respected lawyer Henry Turner survives a convenience-store shooting only to find he has lost his memory, and has serious speech and mobility issues. A...
Burning Bridges
1990
as Freda
Fact-based story of a woman who suffered a nervous breakdown after having an extra-marital affair.
Nora's Christmas Gift
1989
as Madeline Mumford
Nora spends her time feeling sorry for herself as she faces hearing problems and blindness. But at the Bennington Christmas Pageant, Nora receives a s...
A Conspiracy of Love
1987
as Lilly Woldarski
A woman's husband apparently has deserted her and their daughter. So she decides to get on with her life which might include dissolving their union an...
The Believers
1987
as Kate Maslow
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly...
Where Are the Children?
1986
as Dorothy Prentiss
In Cape Cod, Missy and Michael, the two children of Nancy Eldridge, are kidnapped by a man who has disturbing intentions for them. Local police chief ...
Grace Quigley
1985
as Emily Watkins
Grace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. On the day she's being evicted, she witnesses a murder being com...
You Can't Take it With You
1984
as Penny Sycamore
A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
The Million Dollar Infield
1982
as Sally Ephron
Four wealthy Long Islanders play for an amateur softball team. All four men suffer from profound personal and professional problems, thus the weekly b...
Morning's at Seven
1982
as Aaronetta "Arry" Gibbs
In a small Midwestern town in the 1920s, four sisters' lives are turned upside down when one sister's son brings his fiancée home to meet his eccentri...
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
1981
as Dr. Ruth Ruth
After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warm...
Nine to Five
1980
as Roz Keith
Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.
Once Upon a Family
1980
as Judge Norma Solomon
A father tries to make it as a single parent when his wife walks out on him and the children.
Sanctuary of Fear
1979
as Mrs. Glidden
A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents sh...
All's Well That Ends Well
1978
as Countess
Video recording of a 1978 New York Shakespeare Festival performance. Directed for stage by Wilford Leach and videotaped by Jaime Caro.
The Happy Hooker
1975
as Mrs. Gordon
Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and starts li...
The Easter Promise
1975
as Mrs. Coyle
Addie and her friends are excited over the visit of a celebrity, a local woman who became a successful Broadway actress and has returned home for a sh...
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975
as Pauline
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
Miles To Go Before I Sleep
1975
as Kate Stanton
A lonely old man (Martin Balsam) finds his life beginning to have some meaning when he helps a teenager living in a rehab center.
Man on a Swing
1974
as Dr. Anna Willson
When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief Lee Tucker can find no clues pointing to her kill...
The Day of the Dolphin
1973
as Mrs. Rome
Dr. Jake Terrell, who has been training a pair of dolphins for many years, has had a breakthrough. He has taught his dolphins to speak and understand ...
The Lie
1973
as Miss Pratt
An Ingmar Bergman script. Produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" (1970) and for BBC as "The Lie" (1971). An American couple is trapped in the...
Little Murders
1971
as Marge Newquist
A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and ethnic-...
Catch-22
1970
as Mother
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a craz...
Jenny
1970
as Mrs. Marsh
An unwed mother-to-be marries a total stranger so he can avoid the draft. She now has a father for her child and he doesn't have to go to Vietnam. But...
Let Me Hear You Whisper
1969
as Miss Moray
A scrub-woman attempts to rescue a dolphin who will talk to no one but her from a research laboratory.
The Graduate
1967
as Mrs. Braddock
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
The Tiger Makes Out
1967
as Receptionist
During a typically disaster-filled day, Ben Harris, an angry and frustrated bachelor mailman living in a cluttered Greenwich Village basement, learns ...
The Birds
1963
as Helen Carter
Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
A Child Is Waiting
1963
as Miss Fogarty
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her lif...
Too Hot to Handle
1960
as Jacki
A French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner a...
Happy Anniversary
1959
as Millie
An accidental slip reveals that a happily married couple were intimate before marriage.
The Tunnel of Love
1958
as Miss MacCracken
A series of misunderstandings leaves a married man believing he has impregnated the owner of an adoption agency, and that she will be his and his wife...
The Goddess
1958
as Harding
A woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself.
Patterns
1956
as Marge Fleming
Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Br...
Picnic
1955
as Christine Schoenwalder
Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a for...
Patterns
1955
as Marge Fleming
"Patterns" was an American television play broadcast live on January 12, 1955, remade as a film the next year with some of the same cast. Fred Staples...
Notorious
1946
as Woman at Party (uncredited)
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war c...