Barbara Harris (I) (1935–2018) |
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Barbara Harris began acting while still a teenager in Chicago, playing small parts in the Playwrights Theatre Club (whose other players included such youngsters as Edward Asner, Mike Nichols and Elaine May). She was also in "The Compass Players", the first ongoing improvisational theater troupe in America, directed by her then-husband Paul Sills (...
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Born:in Evanston, Illinois, USADied:(age 83) in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA |
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Actress (28 credits)
Actress (28 credits)
1964
The Doctors and the Nurses
(TV Series)
Elaine Radnitz / Anna Faye
Elaine Radnitz / Anna Faye
- So Some Girls Play the Cello
(1964)
... Elaine Radnitz
- White on White
(1964)
... Anna Faye
1964
The Defenders
(TV Series)
Margit Wolsung
Margit Wolsung
- Claire Cheval Died in Boston
(1964)
... Margit Wolsung
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Soundtrack (8 credits)
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Self (8 credits)
Self (8 credits)
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Archive footage (6 credits)
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She acted in Aristophanes' play, "Lysistrata," in a Playwrights Theatre Club Production at the Studebaker Theatre in Chicago, Illinois with Vicki Cummings (Lysistrata), Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Severn Darden, Andrew Duncan, and Jeffrey Sweet in the cast. Paul Sills and Bernie Sahlins were directors. See more »Height:
5' 4½" (1.64 m)
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[on appearing in Family Plot (1976)] Alfred Hitchcock was a wonderful man. He always wanted emotionless people in his movies. There was a scene in our film, where Karen Black was acting, acting, acting -- all that Lee Strasberg human-struggle stuff. And it took her so long to get those tears going, and Mr. Hitchcock turned to the cameraman and said, "We will just photograph the actors' feet in ... See more »Trivia:
Along with Elaine May, she is generally acknowledged to be one of the pioneering women in the field of improvisational theatre. Scenes she created with Alan Arkin, Severn Darden, Paul Sand and other celebrated members of the Second City and Compass companies are studied as masterpieces of the form. Most famous scenes: "Museum Piece" (with Arkin) and "First Affair" (with Darden). See more »Star Sign:
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