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Ruth Warrick
Biography
Dame Ruth Elizabeth Warrick (June 29, 1916 – January 15, 2005), DM, was a long-time American singer, Hollywood Golden-Age actress and political activist, best known for her role as Phoebe Tyler on All My Children, which she played regularly from 1970 until her death in 2005. She celebrated her 80th birthday by attending a special screening of Citizen Kane to a packed, standing-room-only audience, to which she spoke afterward. (She made her film debut as Kane's first wife.) Over the years, she collected several books about Orson Welles and Citizen Kane, in which she would write "Property of Ruth Warrick, Mrs. Citizen Kane". She served as a Licensed Unity Teacher. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ruth Warrick, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Citizen Kane
as Emily Norton Kane
Song of the South
as Sally
Guest in the House
as Ann Proctor
The Great Dan Patch
as Ruth Treadwell
Three Husbands
as Jane Evans
Arch of Triumph
as Kate Bergstroem
One Too Many
as Helen Mason
The Great Bank Robbery
as Mrs. Applebee
Journey into Fear
as Mrs. Stephanie Graham
Forever and a Day
as Lesley Trimble
