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Mildred Dunnock
Highest Rated: 100% Death of a Salesman (1951)
Lowest Rated: 47% Butterfield 8 (1960)
Birthday: Jan 25, 1901
Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
When Mildred Dunnock quietly demanded that "Attention must be paid" to Willy Loman in the 1949 Broadway premiere of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opposite Lee J. Cobb, her indelible performance as Linda Loman became the embodiment of Miller's idealized mother figure: loving, supportive mother and wife and the family's moral balast. She repeated her landmark performance in the disappointing 1951 Laslo Benedek film opposite Fredric March (winning her first Oscar nomination) and again opposite Cobb in the brilliant 1966 TV adaptation (directed by Alex Segal) and for the Caedmon recording in the 1960s.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 58% | 37% | The Pick-Up Artist | Nellie (Character) | $11.6M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Isabel's Choice | Helen (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Patricia Neal Story | Self | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | And Baby Makes Six | Serena Fox (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | One Summer Love | Miss Barrow (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | The Spiral Staircase | Mrs. Sherman (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder or Mercy | Lois Harelson (Character) | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Brand New Life | Mother (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Summer Without Boys | Mrs. LaCava (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice? | Miss Tinsley (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death of a Salesman | Linda Loman (Character) | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Youngblood Hawke | Mrs. Sarah Hawke (Character) | - | 1964 |
| 90% | 70% | Behold a Pale Horse | Pilar (Character) | - | 1964 |
| 74% | 72% | Sweet Bird of Youth | Aunt Nonnie (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 50% | 42% | Something Wild | Mrs. Gates (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | The Power and the Glory | Spinster (Character) | - | 1961 |
| 47% | 56% | Butterfield 8 | Mrs. Wandrous (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | The Story on Page One | Mrs. Ellis (Character) | - | 1959 |
| 84% | 81% | The Nun's Story | Sister Margharita (Mistress of Postulants) (Character) | - | 1959 |
| 65% | 73% | Peyton Place | Miss Elsie Thornton (Character) | - | 1957 |
| 83% | 81% | Baby Doll | Aunt Rose Comfort (Character) | - | 1956 |
| 58% | 64% | Love Me Tender | Martha Reno (Character) | - | 1956 |
| 88% | 73% | The Trouble With Harry | Mrs. Wiggs (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hansel and Gretel | Mother (Voice) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | The Jazz Singer | Mrs. Ruth Golding (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 56% | 76% | Viva Zapata! | Senora Espejo (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Girl in White | Dr. Marie Yeomans (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | I Want You | Sarah Greer (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 100% | 77% | Death of a Salesman | Linda Loman (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 89% | 76% | Kiss of Death | Rizzo's mother (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 76% | The Corn Is Green | Miss Ronberry (Character) | - | 1945 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thriller | Unknown (Character) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Tom Ewell Show | Mrs. Stecket (Guest Star) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Martha Collins (Character) | 1956-1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Studio One | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Alcoa Hour | Grace Westman (Character) | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Suspense | Unknown (Character) | 1953 |