Barbara Bel Geddes

Barbara Bel Geddes

Barbara Bel Geddes (October 31, 1922 – August 8, 2005) was an American actress, artist and children's author. She is best known for her role in the television drama series Dallas as matriarch Eleanor "Miss Ellie" Ewing. Bel Geddes also starred in the original Broadway production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof in the role of Maggie, and also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958). She was the...

Known For

Vertigo

as Marjorie 'Midge' Wood

Blood on the Moon

as Amy Lufton

Cast Credits

Our Town

as Mrs. Webb

The Todd Killings

as Mrs. Todd

Summertree

as Ruth

By Love Possessed

as Clarissa Winner

The Five Pennies

as Wila Stutsman

Vertigo

as Marjorie 'Midge' Wood

Fourteen Hours

as Virginia Foster

Caught

as Leonora Eames

Blood on the Moon

as Amy Lufton