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Shirley Knight

Shirley Knight

ActingJuly 5, 1936(died age 83)Goessel, Kansas, USA

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Shirley Enola Knight (July 5, 1936 – April 22, 2020) was an American stage, screen, and television actress. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in 1960 for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and in 1962 for Sweet Bird of Youth.

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Filmography (158)

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

2018·Leanne Cross

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

The Missing Girl

2015·Mrs. Colvins

Mercy

2014·Mercy

2013·Jane Redding

Redwood Highway

Our Idiot Brother

2011·Ilene Rochlin

Listen to Your Heart

2010·Grandma Sam

Hot in Cleveland

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

2009·Dot Nadeau

Paul Blart: Mall Cop

2009·Millie Carlson

The Other Side of the Tracks

Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time

Love and Debate

Desperate Housewives

2004·Phyllis Van De Kamp

2004·Georgia Adams

Mrs. Ashboro's Cat

2003·Mrs. Ashboro

A House on a Hill

2003·Mercedes Mayfield

2003·Miss Christina

2002·Mrs. Finch

2002·Nancy Plummer

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

2002·Necie Kelleher

P.S. Your Cat is Dead!

2002·Aunt Claire

2001·Elanora Davis

My Louisiana Sky

2001·Jewel Ramsey

Crossing Jordan

2001·Frances Littleton

75 Degrees in July

2000·Jo Beth Anderson

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999·Dr. Wharton

A Father for Brittany

1998·Donna Minkowitz

1998·Gram (Miss Caroline)

A Marriage of Convenience

1998·Harriet Winslow

Significant Others

1998·Estelle Winters

As Good as It Gets

1997·Beverly Connelly

Little Boy Blue

1997·Doris Knight

1997·Helen Apple

1996·Edie Danziger

If These Walls Could Talk

1996·Mary Donnelly

Somebody Is Waiting

A Promise to Carolyn

1996·Jolene Maggart

Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story

1996·Joan Hart

Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden

1996·Sally Ann

Stuart Saves His Family

Indictment: The McMartin Trial

1995·Peggy Buckey

Dad, the Angel & Me

1995·Dr. Hearst

1995·Loretta Bennett

Children of the Dust

1995·Aunt Bertha

The Secret Life of Houses

1994·Aunt Fergie

1994·Edith Niedelmeyer

A Part of the Family

Death in Venice, CA

1994·Mona Dickens

The Yarn Princess

1994·Mrs. Burke

A Mother's Revenge

1993·Bess Warden

When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn

1993·Edna Larson

1993·Edie Wren Cox

1993·Agnes Cantwell

Shadow of a Doubt

1991·Helen Potter

Bump in the Night

1991·Katie Leonard

To Save a Child

1991·Rinda Larson

1990·Melanie Cullen

thirtysomething

1986·Belinda Collins

1986·Phyllis Todd

With Intent to Kill

1984·Edna Reinecker

The Sweet Scent of Death

1984·Ann Fairfax Denver

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

1984·Ann Denver

Murder, She Wrote

1984·Grace Fenton

Kennedy's Children

1981·Sylvia Dennis

Playing for Time

1980·Frau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

1979·Hannah Meredith

Champions: A Love Story

1979·Barbara Harlich

Tales of the Unexpected

1979·Elizabeth Bourdon

The Defection of Simas Kudirka

1978·Genna Kudirka

21 Hours at Munich

1976·Anneliese Graes

Return to Earth

1976·Joan Aldrin

1975·Phyllis Lenahan

Friendly Persuasion

1975·Eliza Birdwell

Please Stand by for Murder

1974·Barbara Banister

The Country Girl

1974·Georgie Elgin

1973·Kay Lewiston

That Quiet Earth

1972·The Woman

The Streets of San Francisco

Alias Smith and Jones

The Rain People

1969·Natalie Ravenna

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

1969·Marci Boyle

The Counterfeit Killer

1968·Angie Peterson

Shadow Over Elveron

1968·Joanne Tregaskis

1968·Self (uncredited)

1968·Emily Castleton

1967·Peggy Leydon

1967·Margaret Cook

Flight from Ashiya

1964·Caroline Gordon / Stevenson

1963·Jane Washburn

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

The Outer Limits

1963·Noelle Anderson

Arrest and Trial

1963·Rhoda Waggner

Sweet Bird of Youth

1962·Heavenly Finley

1962·Terry Ames

1962·Erica Hayden

1962·Susan Morrow

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Target: The Corruptors!

1961·Bethany Windell

1960·Grace Kennedy

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

1960·Reenie Flood

The Shape of the River

1960·Susy Clemens

The Roaring 20's

Five Gates to Hell

1959·Sister Maria

Bourbon Street Beat

Johnny Staccato

1959·Jennie Cooper

1958·Kathy Meigs

1958·Mrs. Newcomb

77 Sunset Strip

1958·Mari Ellen Taylor

1958·Tendis Weston

The Restless Gun

1957·Heide Ritter

1957·Nancy Powers

1956·Self - Winner

Matinee Theater

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951·Georgie Elgin

The Bob Hope Show

Golden Globe Awards

1944·Self - Nominee