Carole Shelley

Carole Shelley was born on Aug 16, 1939 in UK. Carole Shelley's big-screen debut came with Give Us This Day directed by Edward Dmytryk in 1949. Carole Shelley is known for Hercules directed by Ron Clements, Barbara Barrie stars as Alcmene and Roger Bart as Young Hercules. The upcoming new movie Carole Shelley plays is Bewitched which will be released on Jun 24, 2005.

Though English-born, Carole Shelley spent almost her entire award-winning career in the theatre in America, becoming one of Broadway's mainstays and a true pioneer of the American theatre.Shelley was born in London, England, to Deborah (Bloomstein), an opera singer, and Curtis Shelley, a composer. A naturalized U.S. citizen, Carole stayed busy on all fronts in the entertainment industry in films, television and, of course, the live stage. Her Broadway credits include "The Odd Couple" (her Broadway debut) playing the hilarious Gwendolyn Pigeon, the intended blind date for the hapless Felix, a role she reprised for the film Drôle de couple (1968) and in the later television series (The Odd Couple (1970). Also on Broadway, she starred in "The Miser", "Stepping Out" (Tony nomination), "The Elephant Man" (Tony Award, Best Actress), "Hay Fever", "The Norman Conquests" (LADCC Award), "Absurd Person Singular" (Tony nomination) and "Loot".Her national tours include "Broadway Bound", "The Royal Family" and "Noises Off". She also worked off-Broadway, in plays including "The Film Society", "London Suite", "The Destiny of Me", "Richard II" (New York Shakespeare Festival), "Later Life" (Drama Desk nomination), "Cabaret Verboten", "What the Butler Saw", "Little Murders", "Twelve Dreams" (Obie award), "Tartuffe".Returning to London, she replaced Maggie Smith in "Lettuce and Lovage" (she had gone to America to star in the Broadway run of the play) in the West End. Always interested in remaining busy, she never turned down a good opportunity for work and acquitted herself admirably, stepping into such long running hits as "Cabaret", "Show Boat", "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" and "Noises Off".She kept busy in films, too, appearing in Quiz Show (1994), Aux bons soins du Dr Kellogg (1994), Un Indien à New York (1997), Le proprio (1991), and provided some delightful vocal characterizations for many Disney animated features: Hercule (1997), Les Aristochats (1970), Le bossu de Notre-Dame (1996) and Robin des Bois (1973).Carole Shelley died on August 31, 2018, in Manhattan, New York City.In honor of Shelley's work on Broadway the marquee lights of The Gershwin Theatre, The Walter Kerr Theatre, The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, and The Imperial Theatre were dimmed on September 5, 2018 at 6:45 PM for one minute in her memory.