Lee Remick
| Lee Remick | ||
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| Background information | ||
| Born | Dec 14, 1935 | |
| Born as | Lee Ann Remick | |
| Died | Jul 2, 1991 - age 56 | |
Los Angeles, CA USA 
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| Spouse(s) | Bill Colleran (1957-1968) Kip Gowans (1970-1991) | |
| Awards | Best TV Actress 1975 Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill Best TV Actress - Drama 1974 The Blue Knight 1976 Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill | |
Lee Ann Remick (December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991) was an Academy Award- and Tony Award-nominated American film and television actress. Among her best-known films are Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), and The Omen, as Katherine Thorn (1976).
Early life
Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, the daughter of Margaret Patricia (née Waldo), an actress, and Francis Edwin "Frank" Remick, who owned a department store. She attended the Swaboda School of Dance and studied acting at Barnard College and the Actors Studio, making her Broadway theatre debut in 1953 with Be Your Age.
Career
Remick made her film debut in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957). When they were filming the movie in Arkansas, Remick lived with a local family and practiced baton twirling so that she would be believable as the teenager who wins the heart of Lonesome Rhodes (played by Andy Griffith).
After appearing as Lula Varner, the hot-blooded daughter-in-law of Will Varner (Orson Welles) in 1958's The Long, Hot Summer, Remick came to prominence as a rape victim whose husband is tried for killing her attacker in Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder (1959).
In 1962, she was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actress for her performance as the alcoholic wife of Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses.
Remick appeared in the 1964 Broadway musical Anyone Can Whistle, written by Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents; the highly unconventional show ran for only a week, although Remick's performance is captured on the popular original cast recording. This began a lifelong friendship between Remick and Sondheim, and she later appeared in the landmark 1985 concert version of his musical Follies. Remick received a Tony Award nomination in 1966 for her role as a blind woman terrorized by drug smugglers in the hit play Wait Until Dark (the character played by Audrey Hepburn in the film version).
She co-starred with Gregory Peck in the 1976 horror film The Omen, in which her adopted son turns out to be the Anti-Christ.
Remick starred in several made-for-TV movies or miniseries (for which she earned seven Emmy nominations). Most were of a historical nature, including two noted miniseries in which she portrayed Kay Summersby and Robert Duvall played General Dwight Eisenhower:
- QB VII - (1974; Lady Margaret Alexander Weidman)
- Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill - (1974; Jennie Jerome)
- Ike: The War Years - (1978; Kay Summersby)
- Wheels - (1978; Erica Trenton)
- Ike - (1979; Kay Summersby, Eisenhower's driver & aide)
- Mistral's Daughter - (1984)
Remick has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6104 Hollywood Boulevard. [edit] Personal life Remick's first husband was Bill Colleran, an American television producer, with whom she had a son and daughter. Her second husband was British film producer Kip Gowans.
Remick died in 1991 at age 55 in Los Angeles, California, of kidney and liver cancer.
Filmography
Movies
- A Face in the Crowd (1957)
- The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
- Wild River (1960)
- Experiment in Terror (1962) - Bad guy Ross Martin terrorizes Remick in an effort to rob the bank where she works but is protected by an FBI agent played by Glenn Ford
- Days of Wine and Roses (1962) (nominated for an Oscar)
- The Running Man (1963)
- The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
- The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
- Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
- No Way to Treat a Lady (1967)
- The Detective (1968) - Remick plays a rich flirtatious celebrity to Frank Sinatra's hard police detective persona
- Hard Contract (1969)
- Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
- A Delicate Balance (1973) - Julia
- The Omen (1976)
- The Medusa Touch (1978)
- Telefon (1977) - Barbara
- The Europeans (1979)
- The Competition (1980)
- Tribute (1980)
- Passport to Terror (1989)
Stage plays
- Be Your Age (1953)
- Anyone Can Whistle (1964)
- Wait Until Dark (1966)
External links
- "Remembering Lee Remick" Website ( X Site down 04/21 R/ )
- Lee Remick at the Internet Movie Database
- Lee Remick at the Internet Broadway Database
A Personal Note from Robin
Experiment in Terror was a 1962 film that was sexy as it was scary. Personal advice: read more about this film.
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