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Acting

Shelley Winters

Career: Active from 1944 to 1999, busiest in 1954 and 1979 with 6 main titles each.

Leading roles: 72
top three billing

Average score: 58/100

Highest rated: The Night of the Hunter
89/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 101 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Shelley Winters Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.6, average 5.4
Tech & Humanity
1.0, average 1.6
Wonder
2.9, average 3.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Social Commentary 9
Character-Driven 8
Moral Ambiguity 8
Psychological Drama 7
Character Study 6
Psychological Thriller 6
Cult Classic 5
Historical Setting 4
Classic Cinema 4
Nostalgic 4
Slow Burn 3
Supernatural Horror 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

162

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

1 title · average score 78

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

78

as (archive footage)

1990s

16 titles · average score 44

La bomba

56

as Prof. Summers

Gideon

64

as Mrs. Willows

The Portrait of a Lady

57

as Mrs. Touchett

Heavy

69

as Dolly Modino

Backfire!

22

as The Good Lieutenant

Raging Angels

24

as Grandma Ruth

Mrs. Munck

39

as Aunt Monica

The Silence of the Hams

23

as Mrs. Motel (The Mother)

The Pickle

29

as Yetta

Politically Incorrect

62

TV show

Stepping Out

65

as Mrs. Fraser

Touch of a Stranger

as Lily

1980s

18 titles · average score 54

An Unremarkable Life

as Evelyn McEllany

Purple People Eater

52

as Rita

Roseanne

71

TV show · as Nana Mary

Witchfire

as Lydia

Very Close Quarters

as Galina

The Delta Force

41

as Edie Kaplan

Déjà Vu

43

as Olga Nabokova

Ellie

31

as Cora Jackson

Over the Brooklyn Bridge

45

as Becky

Fanny Hill

46

as Mrs. Cole

Hotel

65

TV show · as Adele Ellsworth

Looping

as Carmen

1970s

43 titles · average score 58

Elvis

69

as Gladys Presley

City on Fire

40

as Nurse Andrea Harper

King of the Gypsies

49

as Queen Rachel

Black Journal

54

as Lea

Tentacles

29

as Tillie Turner

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

67

as Faye Lapinsky

Poor Pretty Eddie

47

as Bertha

Cleopatra Jones

54

as Mommy

The Poseidon Adventure

74

as Belle Rosen

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?

57

as Mrs Rosie Forrest / 'Auntie Roo'

What's the Matter with Helen?

54

as Helen

Bloody Mama

39

as 'Ma' Kate Barker

1960s

28 titles · average score 61

The Mad Room

49

as Mrs. Armstrong

The Scalphunters

66

as Kate

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

65

as Shirley Newman

Wild in the Streets

60

as Mrs. Max Flatow (Frost)

Alfie

57

as Ruby

A Patch of Blue

73

as Rose-Ann D'Arcey

Time of Indifference

54

as Lisa

A House Is Not a Home

53

as Polly Adler

Wives and Lovers

52

as Fran Cabrell

Lolita

82

as Charlotte Haze

The Chapman Report

42

as Sarah Garnell

Let No Man Write My Epitaph

68

as Nellie Romano

1950s

34 titles · average score 66

The Diary of Anne Frank

70

as Petronella Van Daan

The Night of the Hunter

89

as Willa Harper

I Died a Thousand Times

62

as Marie Garson

Saskatchewan

62

as Grace Markey

Phone Call from a Stranger

61

as Binky Gay

My Man and I

59

as Nancy

A Place in the Sun

80

as Alice Tripp

He Ran All the Way

79

as Peggy Dobbs

The Raging Tide

57

as Connie Thatcher

Behave Yourself!

50

as Katherine "Kate" Denny

Winchester '73

84

as Lola Manners

Frenchie

71

as Frenchie Fontaine

1940s

22 titles · average score 61

Take One False Step

58

as Catherine Sykes

Johnny Stool Pigeon

64

as Terry

The Great Gatsby

41

as Myrtle Wilson

Cry of the City

84

as Brenda Martingale

Larceny

42

as Tory

Red River

88

as Wagon Train Member (uncredited)

A Double Life

77

as Pat Kroll

Kraft Television Theatre

78

TV show · as Helen

A Thousand and One Nights

55

as Handmaiden

Tonight and Every Night

50

as Bubbles (uncredited)

Knickerbocker Holiday

55

as Ulda Tienhoven

Sailor's Holiday

as Gloria Flynn