Ruth Warrick

Biography

Dame Ruth Elizabeth Warrick (June 29, 1916 – January 15, 2005), DM, was a long-time American singer, Hollywood Golden-Age actress and political activist, best known for her role as Phoebe Tyler on All My Children, which she played regularly from 1970 until her death in 2005. She celebrated her 80th birthday by attending a special screening of Citizen Kane to a packed, standing-room-only audience, to which she spoke afterward. (She made her film debut as Kane's first wife.) Over the years, she collected several books about Orson Welles and Citizen Kane, in which she would write "Property of Ruth Warrick, Mrs. Citizen Kane". She served as a Licensed Unity Teacher. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ruth Warrick, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Known For

Citizen Kane

as Emily Norton Kane

Song of the South

as Sally

Perry Mason

as Mrs. Winlock

Gunsmoke

as Clara Benteen

Journey into Fear

as Mrs. Stephanie Graham

Daisy Kenyon

as Lucille O'Mara

Arch of Triumph

as Kate Bergstroem

Daniel Boone

as Wise Woman

The Battle Over Citizen Kane

as Self

All My Children

as Phoebe Tyler