Grayson Hall

Movie Actress

Grayson Hall was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States on September 18th, 1922 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 62, Grayson Hall biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

Date of Birth
September 18, 1922
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Death Date
Aug 7, 1985 (age 62)
Zodiac Sign
Virgo
Profession
Actor, Film Actor, Stage Actor, Television Actor
Grayson Hall Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 62 years old, Grayson Hall has this physical status:

Height
168cm
Weight
Not Available
Hair Color
Not Available
Eye Color
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Build
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Measurements
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Grayson Hall Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
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Hobbies
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Education
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Grayson Hall Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Bradbart "Ted" Brooks, ​ ​(m. 1946; div. 1949)​, Sam Hall ​(m. 1952⁠–⁠1985)​
Children
1
Dating / Affair
Not Available
Parents
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Grayson Hall Career

Hall had an active stage career in New York City. Her theater credits include roles in off-Broadway productions of influential avant-garde plays, including Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello (Phoenix Theatre, 1955). She also performed in the first New York production of The Balcony by Jean Genet for more than a year at Circle in the Square Theatre Downtown in Greenwich Village. In The Balcony she portrayed Irma, the madam of a most irregular bordello in the midst of a revolutionary uprising. It was the longest-running off-Broadway play for many decades. After first playing "The Penitent", Hall succeeded Nancy Marchand as Irma later in the run.

Having guest starred on various television programs during the mid-1950s, Hall made her film debut in 1961 in Run Across the River. Hall also made Satan in High Heels, starring Meg Myles, in which Hall portrayed a cabaret club owner named Pepe. She later disavowed the film.

In September 1963, Hall traveled to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to play the role of Judith Fellowes in John Huston's version of The Night of the Iguana, based on the original play by Tennessee Williams. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Fellowes, a latent lesbian women's college instructor. In the original play, the character was not sympathetic but Huston rewrote the character, wanting more complexity and sympathy.

She was featured as a kidnapped bank teller in Walt Disney's That Darn Cat! in 1965. In 1967, she played a high-profile middle-aged literary editor who becomes a Thrush agent on the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., in an episode written by Harlan Ellison.

Hall's best-known television role was as Dr. Julia Hoffman, on Dark Shadows, where she portrayed the loyal confidant and friend of the vampire, Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid). Other key roles that she played on the show were Countess Natalie Dupres; Magda Rakosi, a Gypsy; Hoffman, a Mrs. Danvers-type housekeeper; Julia Collins; and Constance Collins, sister of Brutus Collins. She also appeared in both Dark Shadows feature films: House of Dark Shadows, again as Dr. Julia Hoffman, and Night of Dark Shadows, as a new character, housekeeper Carlotta Drake.

After Dark Shadows ended in 1971, she had a brief stint as reporter Marge Grey on All My Children (1973). She continued acting on stage as Warda in Jean Genet's The Screens (1971–72) and The Lady in Gray/The Fly in Happy End (1977) which co-starred Meryl Streep and Christopher Lloyd.

In the 1970s she performed in several television films. She appeared in Gargoyles (ABC), filmed in New Mexico with Cornel Wilde, and the Dan Curtis television film The Great Ice Rip-Off (ABC) opposite Lee J. Cobb and Gig Young. She starred in the mystery film The Two Deaths of Sean Doolittle (ABC) which was written by her husband, Sam Hall.

She appeared in the Broadway premiere of The Suicide (1980) with Derek Jacobi, and appeared opposite Geraldine Page, Carrie Nye, and Madeleine Sherwood in an off-Broadway revival of The Madwoman of Chaillot.

Her last onscreen role was as Euphemia Ralston (Delila's scheming mother) in the soap opera One Life to Live from July 1982 until April 1983.

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