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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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Highest rated movies

100% 77% Death of a Salesman
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90% 70% Behold a Pale Horse
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89% 77% Kiss of Death
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88% 73% The Trouble With Harry Watchlist
85% 81% The Nun's Story
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83% 80% Baby Doll
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83% 67% Seven Women
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74% 72% Sweet Bird of Youth
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65% 73% Peyton Place
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58% 37% The Pick-Up Artist Watchlist

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 27% 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 100% Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice? Miss Tinsley (Character) - 1969
83% 67% Seven Women Jane Argent (Character) - 1966
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% 41% 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
85% 81% The Nun's Story Sister Margharita (Mistress of Postulants) (Character) - 1959
65% 73% Peyton Place Miss Elsie Thornton (Character) - 1957
83% 80% 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 26% Bad for Each Other Mrs. Mary Owen (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hansel and Gretel Mother (Voice) - 1954
No Score Yet 0% The Jazz Singer Mrs. Ruth Golding (Character) - 1953
53% 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 36% I Want You Sarah Greer (Character) - 1951
100% 77% Death of a Salesman Linda Loman (Character) - 1951
89% 77% Kiss of Death Rizzo's mother (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet 77% The Corn Is Green Miss Ronberry (Character) - 1945

TV

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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 87% 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