Gale Sondergaard
Actor
- Born
- February 12, 1899 · Litchfield, Minnesota, USA
- Died
- August 14, 1985 (age 86)
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Gale Sondergaard (February 15, 1899 – August 14, 1985) was an American actress.
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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.
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Known for
The Letter
November 21, 1940
The Mark of Zorro
November 8, 1940
The Life of Emile Zola
September 9, 1937
The Spider Woman
December 10, 1943
The Cat and the Canary
October 27, 1939
The Invisible Man's Revenge
June 9, 1944
The Return of a Man Called Horse
June 28, 1976
The Time of Their Lives
August 13, 1946
The Blue Bird
January 15, 1940
Road to Rio
December 25, 1947
The Black Cat
May 2, 1941
Anna and the King of Siam
August 11, 1946
Acting44
- 1982Echoes as Mrs. Edmunds
- 1976The Return of a Man Called Horse as Elk Woman
- 1973The Cat Creature as Hester Black
- 1970Tango
- 1970Savage Intruder as Leslie
- 1969Slaves as New Orleans lady
- 1949East Side, West Side as Nora Kernan
- 1947Road to Rio as Catherine Vail
- 1947Pirates of Monterey as Señorita de Sola
- 1946The Time of Their Lives as Emily