* 26.06.1922, Cedarville, Ohio, USA † 09.12.2013, Palm Springs, California, USA

erste Bühnenerfahrungen in Schulaufführungen und in summer stock [Sommertheater] – Besuch des Rice Summer Theatre auf Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts * 1940-41 Schauspielausbildung an Pasadena Playhouse, California * 1941 Vertrag bei Warner Bros. * 1942 Filmdebüt – danach in ein paar low-budget Produktionen * 1944 erste "richtige" Hauptrolle in Between Two Worlds * 1946-57 Höhepunkt ihrer Karriere * 1948 am Broadway in Where's Charley ? * 1969-71 in TV-Serie Bracken's World – danach (fast) ausschließlich in TV-Filmen

FILMS

Busses Roar (1942-USA * D. Ross Lederman / Norma)
The Mysterious Doctor (1942/43-USA * Ben/jamin Stoloff / Letty Carstairs) 57m
Mission to Moscow (Botschafter in Moskau, 1943-USA * Michael Curtiz / Emlen Davies)
The Last Ride (1944-USA * D. Ross Lederman / Kitty Kelly) 56m
Crime by Night (1944-USA * William Clemens / Irene Carr)
Between Two Worlds (Zwischen zwei Welten, 1944-USA * Edward A. Blatt / Ann Bergner)
The Very Thought of You (1944-USA * Delmer Daves / Janet Wheeler)
Hollywood Canteen (Hollywood-Kantine, 1944-USA * Delmer Daves / cameo/sie selbst)
Pride of the Marines (1945-USA * Delmer Daves / Ruth Hartley)
Of Human Bondage (1946-USA * Edmund Goulding / Mildred Rogers)
Never Say Goodbye (1946-USA * James V. Kern / Ellen Gayley)
Escape Me Never (1946/47-USA * Peter Godfrey / Fionella MacLean)
# The Woman in White (Das Geheimnis der Frau in Weiß, 1946/47-USA * Peter Godfrey ... Laura Fairlie/Ann Catherick) (Roman von Wilkie Collins) (09-02; 4805)
The Voice of the Turtle / One for the Book (1947-USA * Irving Rapper / Sally Middleton)
# Chain Lightning (Des Teufels Pilot, 1949-USA * Stuart Heisler ... Jo Holloway) (04?05-07; 5002)
Three Secrets (Frauengeheimnis, 1949/50-USA * Robert Wise / Susan Connors Chase)
Caged (Frauengefängnis, 1950-USA * John Cromwell / Marie Allen)
Valentino (Valentino - Liebling der Frauen, 1950/51-USA * Lewis Allen / Joan Carlisle)
A Millionaire for Christy (1951-USA * George Marshall / Christy Sloane)
Detective Story (Polizeirevier 21, 1951-USA * William Wyler / Mary McLeod)
Scaramouche (Scaramouche, der galante Marquis, 1951-USA; R: George Sidney, B: R. Millar, G. Froeschel, K: Charles Rosher, M: Victor Young, D: Stewart Granger, EP-Lenore, Janet Leigh, Mel Ferrer) 114/8m-Abenteuer /Roman von Rafael Sabatini/
Above and Beyond (Die letzte Entscheidung, 1952-USA * Melvin Frank, Norman Panama / Lucy Tibbets)
Escape from Fort Bravo (Verrat im Fort Bravo, 1953-USA * John Sturges / Carla Forester)
The Naked Jungle (Wenn die Marabunta droht, 1953/54-USA * Byron Haskin / Joanna Leiningen)
Valley of the Kings (Das Tal der Könige, 1954-USA * Robert Pirosh / Ann Mercedes)
Many Rivers to Cross (Ein Mann liebt gefährlich, 1954/55-USA * Roy Rowland / Mary Stuart Cherne)
Interrupted Melody (Unterbrochene Melodie, 1955-USA * Curtis Bernhardt / Marjorie Lawrence)
# The Man with the Golden Arm (1955-USA * Otto Preminger ... Zosh) (Roman von Nelson Algren)
# The King and Four Queens (1956-USA * Raoul Walsh ... Sabina McDade) (05-?; 5612)
Lizzie (1957-USA * Hugo Haas / Elizabeth Richmond)
# The Seventh Sin (Hongkong war ihr Schicksal, 1956/57-USA * Ronald Neame ... Carol Carwin) (Roman von W. Somerset Maugham) (10-02; 5706)
A Hole in the Head (Eine Nummer zu groß, 1959-USA * Frank Capra / Eloise Rogers)
Home from the Hill (Das Erbe des Blutes, 1959-USA * Vincente Minnelli / Hannah Hunnicutt)
Return to Peyton Place (Rückkehr nach Peyton Place, 1960-USA * José Ferrer / Connie Rossi)
Madison Avenue (1961-USA * H. Bruce Humberstone / Anne Temaine)
Panic Button (1962-USA * George Sherman / Louise Harris)
# The Sound of Music (Meine Lieder - meine Träume, 1964-USA * Robert Wise ... Baronin) (6503)
The Oscar (...denn keiner ist ohne Schuld, 1965-USA * Russell Rouse / Sophie Cantaro)
An American Dream (Mord aus zweiter Hand, 1966-USA * Robert Gist / Deborah Kelly Rojack)
Warning Shot (Der Todesschuß, 1966-USA * Buzz Kulik / Doris Ruston)
Il tigre (1967-I * Dino Risi / Esperia Vincenzini)
How to Steal the World (Wie stehle ich die Welt ?, 1967-USA * Sutton Roley / Margitta)
Eye of the Cat (Grüne Augen in der Nacht, 1968-USA * David Lowell Rich / Danny)
Sunburn (Sunburn, 1978/79-USA * Richard C. Sarafian / Mrs. Thoren)

AWARD

Coppa Volpi (beste Darstellerin) für Caged [Filmfestspiele Venedig 1950]

BOOK

Douglas McClelland: Eleanor Parker: Woman of a Thousand Faces. Metuchen/London: Scarecrow Press, 1989