Ruth Gordon

Ruth Gordon was born on Oct 30, 1896 in USA. Ruth Gordon's big-screen debut came with Madame Butterfly directed by Sidney Olcott in 1915. Ruth Gordon is known for My Bodyguard directed by Tony Bill, Chris Makepeace stars as Clifford and Adam Baldwin as Linderman. Ruth Gordon has got 6 awards and 16 nominations so far. The most recent award Ruth Gordon achieved is Women in Film Crystal Awards. The upcoming new movie Ruth Gordon plays is Maxie which will be released on Sep 27, 1985.

When Ruth Gordon convinced her father, a sea captain, to let her pursue acting she came to New York and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She acted in a few silents made at Fort Lee, New Jersey, in 1915. She made her Broadway debut in "Peter Pan" as Nibs the same year. The next 20 years she spent on stage, even appearing at the Old Vic in London in the successful run of "The Country Wife" in 1936. Nearly 25 years after her film debut, she returned to movies briefly. Her most memorable role during this period in the early 1940s was as Mary Todd in Abraham Lincoln (1940).She left Hollywood to return to theater. Back in New York, she married Garson Kanin in 1942 (her first husband Gregory Kelly, a stage actor, died in 1927). She began writing plays, and, later, her husband and she collaborated on screenplays for Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, whose screen relationship was modeled on their own marriage. She returned to film acting during the 1960s. It is during this last period of her career that she became a movie star, with memorable roles in Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Harold et Maude (1971). She wrote several books during the mid-1970s and appeared on TV. She won an Emmy for her role on Taxi (1978) in 1979.