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Tallulah Bankhead

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Actress

United StatesActorsLived 1902 to 1968 · aged 66
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Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was an American actress. Primarily an actress of the stage, Bankhead also appeared in several films including an award-winning performance in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944). She also had a brief but successful career on radio and made appearances on television.

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Photos 12

Bankhead, aged 15 (second from left), with grandfather John H. Bankhead (left), father William B. Bankhead, and sister Eugenia, circa 1917Bankhead, aged 15 (second from left), with grandfather John H. Bankhead (left), father William B. Bankhead, and sister Eugenia, circa 1917Sunset, the Bankhead house in Jasper, Alabama, where Bankhead and her sister grew upSunset, the Bankhead house in Jasper, Alabama, where Bankhead and her sister grew upBankhead (left) with her father and stepmother in his office as Speaker of the House, 1937Bankhead (left) with her father and stepmother in his office as Speaker of the House, 1937Lobby card for FaithlessLobby card for FaithlessDevil and the Deep 1932 ad in The Film DailyDevil and the Deep 1932 ad in The Film Daily

Filmography 25

Lifeboat1944 · ★ 7.4
Fanatic1965 · ★ 6.7
A Royal Scandal1945
Stage Door Canteen1943
The Cheat1931
Devil and the Deep1932
The Daydreamer1966
Complicated Women2003
My Sin1931
Faithless1932
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind1988
Tarnished Lady1931
Make Me a Star1932
Main Street to Broadway1953
The Casting Couch1995
Hollywood on Parade No. A-61933
Thunder Below1932
The Trap1919
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files1992
Who Loved Him Best?1918
His House in Order1928
Thirty a Week1918
When Men Betray1918
The Boy Who Owned a Melephant1959
Her Cardboard Lover1929

37 credits on file

Television 12

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962
Batman1966
What's My Line?1950
The Merv Griffin Show1962
The Ed Sullivan Show1948
The Colgate Comedy Hour1950
The Steve Allen Show1956
The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour1957
The World of Hammer1994
General Electric Theater1953
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars1951
The Big Party1959

Awards 2

1981Alabama Women's Hall of Fame
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

In their orbit 2

Connected to Tallulah 6

Hume CronynAlso in Lifeboat (1944)Stefanie PowersAlso in Fanatic (1965)Eva GaborAlso in A Royal Scandal (1945)Ethel WatersAlso in Stage Door Canteen (1943)Victor BorgeAlso in The Daydreamer (1966)Gypsy Rose LeeAlso in Stage Door Canteen (1943)

About this person

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was an American actress. Primarily an actress of the stage, Bankhead also appeared in several films including an award-winning performance in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944). She also had a brief but successful career on radio and made appearances on television. In all, Bankhead amassed nearly 300 film, stage, television and radio roles during her career. She was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1972 and the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1981.

Country
United States
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1902 to 1968 · aged 66
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30 languages

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