
Marian Seldes
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Marian Hall Seldes (August 23, 1928 – October 6, 2014) was an American actress. A five-time Tony Award nominee, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for A Delicate Balance in 1967, and received subsequent nominations for Father's Day (1971), Deathtrap (1978–82), Ring Round the Moon (1999), and Dinner at Eight (2002). She also won a Drama Desk Award for Father's Day. Her other Broadway credits include Equus (1974–77), Ivanov (1997), and Deuce (2007). She was inducted into t...
Known For
Filmography

Marian
2017
as Self

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
2012
as Mabel Billingsly

The Extra Man
2010
as Vivian Cudlip

Home
2009
as Peggy

The Toe Tactic
2009
as Eunice (voice)

The Visitor
2008
as Barbara

The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment
2008
as The Duchess of Krakenthorp

Murnau, Borzage and Fox
2008
as Self

Leatherheads
2008
as Clerk

August Rush
2007
as The Dean

Suburban Girl
2007
as Margaret Paddleford

Miriam
2007
as Mrs. H.T. Miller

In from the Night
2006
as Nora Cantata

Big Day
2006

The Book of Daniel
2006
as Helen

Ballets Russes
2005
as Narrator

Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision
2004
as Narrator (voice)

Plainsong
2004
as Iva Stearns

Clubhouse
2004

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
as Self

Mona Lisa Smile
2003
as President Jocelyn Carr

Hollywood Ending
2002
as Alexandra

Town & Country
2001
as Eugenie's Mother

A Nero Wolfe Mystery
2001
as Louise Grantham Robilotti

A Nero Wolfe Mystery
2001
as Mrs. Louise Grantham Robilotti

1961
2000
as Abby Hedley

If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
as Abby Hedley

Duets
2000
as Harriet Gahagan

The Haunting
1999
as Mrs. Dudley

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Peggy Kendall

Celebrity
1998
as Datloff Party Guest

Affliction
1998
as Alma Pittman

Sex and the City
1998
as Mrs. Big

Digging to China
1997
as Leah Schroth

Home Alone 3
1997
as Mrs. Hess

Remember WENN
1996
as Miss Frye

Clarissa
1995
as Lillian Banion

Truman
1995
as Eleanor Roosevelt

Tom and Huck
1995
as Widow Douglas

Central Park West
1995

In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
1994
as Justice Susie Sharp

Frasier
1993
as Betty

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1992
as Margaret Armstrong

Good & Evil
1991
as Charlotte Sandler

Law & Order
1990
as Suzanne

Wings
1990
as Eleanor Kingsbury

Zits
1988
as Miss Maple

Murphy Brown
1988
as Murphy's Aunt Brooke

Gertrude Stein and a Companion!
1987
as Alice B. Toklas

Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Lydia Winthrop

Kate & Allie
1984

Fingers
1978
as Ruth

Kate McShane
1975
as Secretary

Mannix
1967
as Ida Colby

The Star Wagon
1966
as Marian

The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
as Herodias

Branded
1965
as Neela

Crime and Punishment USA
1959
as Debbie Cole

The Big Fisherman
1959
as Arnon

The Light in the Forest
1958
as Kate Owens

The Plot to Kill Stalin
1958
as Mme. Molotov

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958

The Texan
1958
as Cora Laird

The Rifleman
1958
as Hazel / The Vision

Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958
as Widow Enga

The Young Stranger
1957
as Mrs. Morse (uncredited)

The True Story of Jesse James
1957
as Rowena Cobb

Perry Mason
1957
as Mary K. Davis

M Squad
1957
as Martha Wicklow
The Court of Last Resort
1957

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
as Mollie Stanton

Suspicion
1957

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
as Christie Smith

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Alicia Jolland

Gunsmoke
1955
as Mrs. Cullen

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Lydia Brailing

The Millionaire
1955
as Dorothy 'Dot' McAllister

Matinee Theater
1955
The Lonely Night
1954
as Caroline

Climax!
1954
as Betty

General Electric Theater
1953
as Persis Hughes

General Electric Theater
1953
as Adelaide Baines

General Electric Theater
1953
as Leah

Omnibus
1952

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Emily

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Iva Stearns

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Nora Cantata
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as May
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Anne
Hands of Murder
1949

Studio One
1948
as Anna Zenger

The Philco Television Playhouse
1948

Studio One
1948
as Mary Widdicomb

Studio One
1948
as Belle Giles

The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Emilia

Studio One
1948
as Anna Zeger

Kraft Television Theatre
1947