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Ruth Gordon

Highest Rated: 97% Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Lowest Rated: 0% Maxie (1985)

Birthday: Oct 30, 1896

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Birthplace: Quincy, Massachusetts, USA

A distinguished stage actress through much of the first half of the century, Gordon was also a prolific playwright and screenwriter. Married to writer-director Garson Kanin in 1942, she collaborated with him on several George Cukor films, including the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn classics "Adam's Rib" (1949) and "Pat and Mike" (1952).

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Highest rated movies

97% 87% Rosemary's Baby Watchlist
96% 86% Adam's Rib
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86% 93% Harold and Maude
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86% 70% Abe Lincoln in Illinois
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85% 69% Pat and Mike
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82% 69% Where's Poppa?
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79% 70% My Bodyguard
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78% 64% A Double Life
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70% 72% Lord Love a Duck
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64% 57% The Big Bus
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Zombie Bloodbath 3: Zombie Armageddon Tiffany (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 17% The Trouble With Spies Mrs. Arkwright (Character) $57.0K 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Delta Pi Mugsy (Character) - 1985
0% 27% Maxie Mrs. Lavin (Character) $2.6M 1985
No Score Yet 53% Voyage of the Rock Aliens Sheriff (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jimmy the Kid Bernice (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet 69% Don't Go to Sleep Bernice (Character) - 1982
79% 70% My Bodyguard Gramma (Character) - 1980
20% 45% Any Which Way You Can Senovia 'Ma' Boggs (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hardhat and Legs Screenwriter - 1980
No Score Yet 74% Scavenger Hunt Arvilla Droll (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Boardwalk Becky Rosen (Character) - 1979
42% 56% Every Which Way But Loose Ma (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Perfect Gentlemen Mrs. Cavagnaro (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Prince of Central Park Mrs. Miller (Character) - 1977
64% 57% The Big Bus Old Lady (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rosemary's Baby II Minnie Castevet (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Great Houdinis Cecilia Weiss (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet 12% Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby Minnie Castevet (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Isn't It Shocking? Marge Savage (Character) - 1973
86% 93% Harold and Maude Maude (Character) - 1971
82% 69% Where's Poppa? Mrs. Hocheiser (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet 100% Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice? Mrs. Dimmock (Character) - 1969
97% 87% Rosemary's Baby Minnie Castevet (Character) - 1968
70% 72% Lord Love a Duck Mrs. Barnard (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Blithe Spirit Madame Arcati (Character) - 1966
29% 51% Inside Daisy Clover Mrs. Clover (Character) - 1965
60% 51% The Actress Writer,
Screenwriter
- 1953
63% 56% The Marrying Kind Writer - 1952
85% 69% Pat and Mike Screenwriter - 1952
96% 86% Adam's Rib Writer - 1949
78% 64% A Double Life Writer - 1947
No Score Yet 72% Action in the North Atlantic Mrs. Sarah Jarvis (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 78% Edge of Darkness Anna Stensgard (Character) - 1943
30% 25% Two-Faced Woman Miss Ruth Ellis, Larry's Secretary (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 70% Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet Mrs. Ehrlich (Character) - 1940
86% 70% Abe Lincoln in Illinois Mary Todd Lincoln (Character) - 1940

TV

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Newhart Unknown (Guest Star) 1983-1984
No Score Yet 67% Taxi Dee Wilcox (Guest Star) 1979
No Score Yet 81% Columbo Abigail Mitchell (Guest Star) 1977
No Score Yet 57% Saturday Night Live Host 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rhoda Unknown (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kojak Miss Eudora Temple (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Adam's Rib Writer 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Alcoa Hour Writer 1957