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Kim Hunter

Acting

Born November 12, 1922 · Detroit, Michigan, USA

Died September 11, 2002

Also known as Janet Cole

Biography

Kim Hunter (November 12, 1922 – September 11, 2002) was an American film, theatre, and television actress. She won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, each as Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Stella Kowalski in the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire. Decades later she received a Daytime Emmy Award for her work on the long running soap The Edge of Night. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kim Hunter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

  • Academy AwardBest Supporting Actress · 1952
  • Golden Globe AwardBest Supporting Actress – Motion Picture · 1951
  • Donaldson Awards
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
  • Academy AwardBest Supporting Actress · 1952 · nominated

Filmography42 titles

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

2008as Self

Columbo

1971as Edna Matthews

Requiem for a Heavyweight

1956as Grace Carney

Night Gallery

1969

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962as Adelaide Winters

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

2024as (archive footage)

Planet of the Apes

1968as Zira

The Rockford Files

1974as Mrs. Brockelman

Mission: Impossible

1966

A Streetcar Named Desire

1951as Stella Kowalski

Murder, She Wrote

1984as Beatrice Vitello

Bonanza

1959as Ada Halle

The Swimmer

1968as Betty Graham

L.A. Law

1986as Natalie Schoen

Police Story

1973

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

as Mary Easty

Ironside

1967as Athena Champion

Mannix

1967as Louise Dubrio

Mad About You

1992as Millie Barton

Gunsmoke

1955as Bea Colter

Lux Video Theatre

as Lina

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

2010as Self – Interviewee

Cross of Fire

as Mrs. Oberholtzer

The Seventh Victim

1943as Mary Gibson

Bad Ronald

1974as Elaine Wilby

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

1971as Dr. Zira

Lilith

1964as Dr. Bea Brice

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

1997as Betty Harty

Born Innocent

1976as Mrs. Parker

When Strangers Marry

1944as Millie Baxter

Two Evil Eyes

1990as Gloria Pym

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

1970as Zira

The Kindred

1987as Amanda Hollins

The Young Stranger

1957as Helen Ditmar

The Hiding Place

2000as Muriel

Dark August

1976as Adrianna Putnam

Naked City

1958as Edna Daggett

A Price Above Rubies

1998as Rebbitzn

Suspense

as Emily

Drop-Out Mother

1988as Leona

Blue Moon

1999as Sheila Keating

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

1985as Mary Easty