Julie Harris

Julie Harris

1925-12-02 Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, USA 76 Credits

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Julia Ann Harris (December 2, 1925 – August 24, 2013) was an American actress. Renowned for her classical and contemporary stage work, she received five Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Play. Harris debuted on Broadway in 1945, against the wishes of her mother, who wanted her to be a society debutante. Harris was acclaimed for her performance as an isolated 12-year-old girl in the 1950 play The Member of the Wedding, a role she reprised in the 1952 film o...

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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

2021

as Self

Acting

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who ...

The Lightkeepers

The Lightkeepers

2009

as Mrs. Deacon

6.0
Acting

Set in the year 1912 on Cape Cod, a lighthouse keeper who has disavowed any association with females, must deal with the appearance of two attractive ...

The Golden Boys

The Golden Boys

2008

as Melodeon Player

5.5
Acting

Three retired sea captains living together in genteel squalor. They scheme to improve their fortunes by having one of them solicit a bride through an ...

The Beatles: Help!

The Beatles: Help!

2007

as Self

6.5
Acting

30 minute documentary about the making of the film Help! with Richard Lester, the cast and crew. Includes exclusive behind the scenes footage of The B...

East of Eden: Art in Search of Life

2005

as Herself

6.0
Acting
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

2003

as Self

7.0
Acting

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award...

The First of May

The First of May

1999

as Carlotta

7.2
Acting

Cory is a foster child nobody wants. Carlota is an elderly woman the world has forgotten. Together, they find friendship and family when they join a t...

Ellen Foster

Ellen Foster

1998

as Leonora Nelson

6.0
Acting

After her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to f...

Bad Manners

1998

as Professor Harper

5.0
Acting

Wes and Nancy are a married academics couple. One day they host Nancy's long-ago lover Matt and his current sexy girlfriend Kim. Matt is a musician an...

Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough

Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough

1997

as Self

6.5
Acting

A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.

The Christmas Tree

The Christmas Tree

1996

as Sister Anthony

6.1
Acting

A story about a forming friendship between an elderly nun, Sister Anthony, and New York's Rockefeller Center's head landscape architect Richard Reilly...

Little Surprises

Little Surprises

1996

6.0
Acting

A gathering of friends and parents the night before a wedding provides a very unexpected turn of events. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best...

Passaggio per il paradiso

Passaggio per il paradiso

1996

as Martha

Acting
Carried Away

Carried Away

1996

as Joseph's Mother

5.5
Acting

Based on Jim Harrison's book, "Farmer". 47-year-old Joseph Svenden lives on the family farm with his dying mother and teaches at a two room schoolhous...

Secrets

Secrets

1995

as Caroline Phelan

6.0
Acting

Etta Berter is a doctor's wife in 1905 who has been unable to have children. The couple has one adopted daughter but she has always wanted more childr...

James Dean and Me

James Dean and Me

1995

as Self (uncredited)

8.7
Acting

A documentary about James Dean. People who knew him or had worked with him reminisce.

One Christmas

One Christmas

1994

as Sook

5.4
Acting

Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet tale of a young boy's adventures with the father he's never known in New Orleans in the 1930s..

When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn

When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn

1993

as Alice

1.0
Acting

A woman places an ad in the "Soldier of Fortune" magazine to hire a contract killer.

The Dark Half

The Dark Half

1993

as Reggie DeLesseps

6.0
Acting

Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides...

Vanished Without a Trace

Vanished Without a Trace

1993

as Odessa Ray

8.1
Acting

Three young men decide to make easy money by mass kidnapping. After careful preparations, they hijack the school bus and take 26 children and the driv...

Housesitter

Housesitter

1992

as Edna Davis

6.1
Acting

After building his dream house, architect Newton Davis proposes marriage to his girlfriend, only to be summarily rejected. He seeks solace in a one-ni...

Anthony Quinn: An Original

Anthony Quinn: An Original

1990

as Self

6.5
Acting

Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an accident. Thus began the story of a man who had a thousand ...

Single Women, Married Men

Single Women, Married Men

1989

as Lucille Frankel

Acting

A divorced psychotherapist forms a support group for single women whose lovers are married men.

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

1989

as Herself

Acting

A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was founded in 1931 by Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman and ...

Isadora Duncan: Movement from the Soul

Isadora Duncan: Movement from the Soul

1989

as Isadora Duncan (voice)

Acting

This portrait of the complex and charismatic "Mother of Modern Dance" traces the life and artistic development of San Francisco-born Isadora Duncan (1...

The Christmas Wife

The Christmas Wife

1988

as Iris

4.7
Acting

An aging and recent widower, not wanting to spend his first Christmas alone, responds to an ad in the newspaper which reads: "You are not alone. We ma...

Too Good to Be True

Too Good to Be True

1988

as Margaret Berent

3.3
Acting

A self-entitled woman is determined to keep her new man to herself at all costs.

Gorillas in the Mist

Gorillas in the Mist

1988

as Roz Carr

7.0
Acting

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

The Woman He Loved

The Woman He Loved

1988

as Alice

10.0
Acting

In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around t...

Forever James Dean

Forever James Dean

1988

as Herself

7.0
Acting

The life and times of one of Hollywood's brightest stars.

The Cat That Drank and Used Too Much

The Cat That Drank and Used Too Much

1987

as Narrator

Acting

Educational short film about Pat the Cat, a cat struggling with addiction.

Nutcracker: The Motion Picture

Nutcracker: The Motion Picture

1986

as Clara (Voice)

6.5
Acting

In this Pacific Northwest Ballet performance, it is Christmas Eve and festivities are underway. Clara is excited when her godfather arrives with a bag...

Night of 100 Stars II

Night of 100 Stars II

1985

as Self

8.0
Acting

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was t...

The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God

The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God

1984

as (voice)

6.8
Acting

They called themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, but because of their ecstatic dancing, the world called them Shak...

Brontë

Brontë

1983

as Charlotte Brontë

Acting

Julie Harris performs her one-woman show based on the life of Charlotte Brontë.

Night of 100 Stars

Night of 100 Stars

1982

as Self

6.7
Acting

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City ...

The Voyage of Odysseus

The Voyage of Odysseus

1982

as Narrator

Acting

The voyage section of Homer's classic tale is retold by the voice of a muse, actor Julie Harris, who recalls the essence of the adventure. A remarkabl...

Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge

1981

as Emily Roebling (voice)

7.6
Acting

Today it's a symbol of strength and vitality. 135 years ago, it was a source of controversy. This documentary examines the great problems and ingeniou...

The Gift

The Gift

1979

as Anne Devlin

Acting

A sailor on Christmas leave visits his boozing, one-legged father and dreamer mother in 1950s Brooklyn.

The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar

1979

as Mrs. Greenwood

3.8
Acting

Details a young woman's summer in New York working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, return home to New England, and subsequent breakdown all amidst t...

Stubby Pringle's Christmas

Stubby Pringle's Christmas

1978

as Georgia Henderson

Acting

Ranch hand Stubby Pringle journeys to a Christmas dance, hoping to find his true love, and learns a valuable lesson about the spirit of the holiday al...

Voyage of the Damned

Voyage of the Damned

1976

as Alice Fienchild

5.9
Acting

A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

1976

as Mary Todd Lincoln

Acting

The Last of Mrs. Lincoln depicts the final seventeen years of Mary Todd Lincoln's life, following her husband's assassination.

The Belle of Amherst

The Belle of Amherst

1976

as Emily Dickinson

7.6
Acting

Portrait of 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson based on her poems, letters and notes. This is a taped broadcast of a live one-woman performanc...

Long Way Home

Long Way Home

1975

as Elizabeth Holvak

Acting

The Holvak family house the escaped convict named Craw that the son befriends. Reverend Holvak's faith is tested and young Ramey faces a choice betwee...

The Hiding Place

The Hiding Place

1975

as Betsie ten Boom

6.6
Acting

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-World War II Holland. Their uneventful lives are d...

The Greatest Gift

The Greatest Gift

1974

as Elizabeth Holvak

2.0
Acting

Reverend Holvak, a weak rural preacher from the 1940s, fights stiff-necked church deacons along with a violent, bullying sheriff whilst protecting his...

Home for the Holidays

Home for the Holidays

1974

as Elizabeth Hall Morgan

5.5
Acting

An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.

Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones

Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones

1971

as Charity Jones

Acting

Jai, the orphaned boy adopted by the Monkey Man, helps missionary Charity Jones bring an organ to a friendly tribe, but they are captured by hostile n...

How Awful About Allan

How Awful About Allan

1970

as Katherine

5.8
Acting

After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him...

The People Next Door

The People Next Door

1970

as Gerrie Mason

6.1
Acting

A married couple struggle with the realities of their imperfect marriage as they fight to save and rehabilitate their teenage daughter from a life of ...

House on Greenapple Road

House on Greenapple Road

1970

as Leona Miller

6.0
Acting

A promiscuous housewife has been murdered and hardboiled detective Dan August has to find the motive...and the body.

The Split

The Split

1968

as Gladys

6.7
Acting

A group of thieves attempt a daring robbery of a football stadium.

Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army

Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army

1968

as Charity Jones

Acting

Tarzan has to deal with slave traders who are making raids into African villages to get slaves.

Reflections in a Golden Eye

Reflections in a Golden Eye

1967

as Alison Langdon

6.5
Acting

Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.

You're a Big Boy Now

You're a Big Boy Now

1966

as Miss Nora Thing

6.1
Acting

Post-teen virgin moves to New York City, falls for a cold-hearted beauty, then finds true love with a loyal lass.

Harper

Harper

1966

as Betty Fraley

6.7
Acting

Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved alo...

The Holy Terror

The Holy Terror

1965

as Florence Nightingale

Acting

A television dramatization based on the life and work of Florence Nightingale. The story, set in 1856, relates the incidents in her life following the...

Hamlet

Hamlet

1964

as Ophelia

Acting

Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark, and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whethe...

Little Moon of Alban

Little Moon of Alban

1964

as Brigid Mary Mangan

Acting

Irish Brigid Mary blames the English for the deaths of her fiance, brother, and father. Becoming a nurse following WWI she finds herself caring for wh...

The Haunting

The Haunting

1963

as Eleanor Lance

7.1
Acting

Dr. John Markway invites three distinct individuals to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate gu...

The Power and the Glory

The Power and the Glory

1963

as Maria (Priest's Mistress)

Acting

Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant ...

Pygmalion

Pygmalion

1963

as Eliza Doolittle

Acting

Can Professor Higgins transform cockney flower girl Eliza Dolittle into a lady by teaching her to speak properly?

The War Lover

The War Lover

1962

Costume Design

6.0

Buzz Rickson is a dare-devil World War II bomber pilot with a death wish. Failing at everything not involving flying, Rickson lives for the most dange...

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Requiem for a Heavyweight

1962

as Grace Miller

7.2
Acting

Mountain Rivera is a veteran heavyweight and near-champion who suddenly finds himself washed up in the only trade he knows—prizefighting. Yet, threate...

Victoria Regina

Victoria Regina

1961

as Queen Victoria

Acting

1961 adaptation of "Victoria Regina".

Sally's Irish Rogue

1960

as Sally Hamil

Acting

Sally's Irish Rogue also known as The Poachers Daughter.

A Doll's House

A Doll's House

1959

as Nora

10.0
Acting

A wealthy woman's attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded.

Johnny Belinda

1958

as Belinda

Acting

In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf and mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scanda...

Little Moon of Alban

Little Moon of Alban

1958

as Brigid Mary Mangan

Acting

Irish Brigid Mary blames the English for the deaths of her fiance, brother, and father. Becoming a nurse following WW I she finds herself caring for w...

The Truth About Women

The Truth About Women

1957

as Helen Cooper

5.9
Acting

A man recalls his relationships with the women he loved as he tries to help another man try to understand them as well.

The Lark

1957

as Joan of Arc

Acting

Adaptation of Jean Anouilh's 1952 play about Joan of Arc, the young girl who led the French to victory against the English in the Hundred Years' War.

A Wind from the South

A Wind from the South

1955

as Shevawn

5.7
Acting

Set in Ireland, the story centers on a day in the life of Shevawn, an innocent, 30-year-old dreamer who is domineered by her innkeeper brother. An Ame...

I Am a Camera

I Am a Camera

1955

as Sally Bowles

6.0
Acting

Just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin, Chris, an aspiring novelist from England, meets flamboyant cabaret entertainer Sally Bowles and an un...

East of Eden

East of Eden

1955

as Abra Bacon

7.6
Acting

In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their fath...

The Member of the Wedding

The Member of the Wedding

1952

as Frances 'Frankie' Addams

6.2
Acting

Tomboy, Frances 'Frankie' Addams, dreams of running away with her brother and new fiancée away from the Deep South.