Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1899-02-12
Day of Death
1985-08-14
Place of Birth
Litchfield, Minnesota, USA
Gale Sondergaard
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gale Sondergaard (February 15, 1899 – August 14, 1985) was an American actress. Sondergaard began her acting career in theatre, and progressed to films in 1936. She was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film debut in Anthony Adverse (1936). She played supporting roles in various films during the late 1930s and early 1940s, including The Cat and the Canary (1939), The Mark of Zorro (1940) and The Letter (1940). She was nominated for a second Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Anna and the King of Siam (1946) but by the end of the decade her film appearances were fewer. Married to the director Herbert Biberman, Sondergaard supported him when he was accused of communism and named as one of the Hollywood Ten in the early 1950s, and her film career was destroyed as a result. She moved with Biberman to New York City and worked in theatre, and acted in film and television occasionally from late 1960s. She moved back to Los Angeles where she died from cerebrovascular thrombosis. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gale Sondergaard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography (44)
Echoes
1982
The Return of a Man Called Horse
1976
The Cat Creature
1973Tango
1970
Savage Intruder
1970
Slaves
1969
East Side, West Side
1949
Road to Rio
1947
Pirates of Monterey
1947
The Time of Their Lives
1946
Anna and the King of Siam
1946
Night in Paradise
1946
The Spider Woman Strikes Back
1946
Enter Arsène Lupin
1944
