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Acting

Helen Hayes

Career: Active from 1917 to 1992, with a break from 1936 to 1951, busiest in 1933 with 3 main titles.

Leading roles: 28
top three billing

Average score: 65/100

Highest rated: Anastasia
81/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

Academy Awards · Actress in a Supporting Role
1971 · Won · 43rd Academy Awards
Airport
Source: Wikidata
Primetime Emmy Awards · Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
1953 · Won · 5th Primetime Emmy Awards
Source: Wikidata
Academy Awards · Actress in a Leading Role
1932 · Won · 5th Academy Awards
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Source: Wikidata

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 29 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Helen Hayes Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.5, average 5.4
Violence
2.2, average 4.1
Coming of Age
1.6, average 3.0
Dark Humor
1.4, average 2.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Cozy Mystery 4
Classic Whodunit 3
Witty Dialogue 2
Character-Driven 2
Historical Drama 2
Agatha Christie Adaptation 2
British Mystery 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

49

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1990s

1 title · average score 80

MGM: When the Lion Roars

80

TV show

1980s

4 titles · average score 62

Murder with Mirrors

56

as Miss Jane Marple

Highway to Heaven

73

TV show

A Caribbean Mystery

59

as Miss Jane Marple

Murder Is Easy

60

as Lavinia Fullerton

1970s

13 titles · average score 64

A Family Upside Down

as Emma Long

Candleshoe

70

as Lady St. Edmund

The Love Boat

53

TV show · as Agatha Winslow

Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers

55

TV show · as Dr. McCartney

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

61

as Hettie

Herbie Rides Again

62

as Mrs. Steinmetz

The Snoop Sisters

76

TV show · as Ernesta Snoop

Harvey

71

as Veta Louise Simmons

The Female Instinct

72

as Ernesta Snoop

Ghost Story

75

TV show · as Miss Gilden

Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate

62

as Sophie Tate Curtis

Airport

60

as Ada Quonsett

1960s

7 titles · average score 64

Arsenic and Old Lace

70

as Abby Brewster

Hawaii Five-O

48

TV show · as Aunt Clara

Here's Lucy

68

TV show · as Kathleen Brady

Tarzan

70

TV show

The Challenge of Ideas

as Narrator

The Bat

as Cornelia Van Gorder

The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries

TV show · as Cornelia Van Gorder

1950s

10 titles · average score 68

Play of the Week

TV show · as Mother Hildebrand

Third Man on the Mountain

70

as Hotel guest (uncredited)

Four Women in Black

as Sister Theresa

Anastasia

81

as Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna

My Son John

42

as Lucille Jefferson

Omnibus

75

TV show · as Mrs. Dearth / Mrs. Larue

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as The Vicaress / Essie

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

73

TV show · as Honora Canderay (woman)

The Jack Benny Program

54

TV show · as Helen Hayes

Robert Montgomery Presents

TV show · as Queen Victoria

1940s

1 title · average score 62

Stage Door Canteen

62

as Helen Hayes

1930s

10 titles · average score 65

Vanessa: Her Love Story

61

as Vanessa Paris

What Every Woman Knows

71

as Maggie Wylie

Crime Without Passion

78

as Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

Night Flight

45

as Madame Fabian

The White Sister

57

as Angela Chiaromonte

Another Language

66

as Stella Hallam

A Farewell to Arms

74

as Catherine Barkley

The Son-Daughter

60

as Lian Wha

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

62

as Madelon Claudet

Arrowsmith

72

as Leora Tozer Arrowsmith

1920s

2 titles

The Dancing Town

as Olive Pepperall

Riders of the Range

as Inez

1910s

1 title

The Weavers of Life

as Peggy