Polly Bergen

Polly Bergen

Born 07/14/1930
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

Died 09/20/2014 (84 years old)
Southbury, Connecticut, USA

Biography (1)

Polly Bergen has enjoyed an illustrious career spanning five decades of appearances on stage, screen, television, radio and recordings. She received an Emmy nomination for her role as Stella Wingfield (Felicity Huffman's mother) on the hit ABC-TV series, Desperate Housewives. She co-starred opposite Geena Davis and Donald Sutherland on the ABC-TV drama series, Commander-in-Chief as well as starred in Hallmark Hall of Fame's Candles on Bay Street and The Sopranos. … (more)

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Actress

Movies
2012

Struck by Lightning

2006

Candles on Bay Street (TV movie)

 

Road to Paradise

 

Very Serious Person, A

2005

Early Bird (TV movie)

1996

For Hope (TV movie)

 

In the Blink of an Eye (TV movie)

1995

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

 

Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored

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The Surrogate (TV movie)

1994

Leave of Absence (TV movie)

1993

Arly Hanks (TV movie)

 

Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal (TV movie)

1992

Lady Against the Odds (TV movie)

1991

Lightning Field (TV movie)

1990

Cry-Baby

 

Steel Magnolias (TV movie)

1989

Haunting of Sarah Hardy, The (TV movie)

 

My Brother's Wife (TV movie)

1988

Addicted to His Love (TV movie)

 

She Was Marked for Murder (TV movie)

1987

Making Mr. Right

1984

Velvet (TV movie)

1982

Born Beautiful (TV movie)

1981

The Million Dollar Face (TV movie)

1978

How to Pick Up Girls! (TV movie)

1977

Telethon (TV movie)

1975

Murder on Flight 502 (TV movie)

1974

Death Cruise (TV movie)

1967

A Guide for the Married Man

1964

Kisses for My President

1963

Move Over, Darling

 

The Caretakers

1962

Belle Sommers (TV movie)

 

Cape Fear

1953

Arena

 

Cry of the Hunted

 

Escape from Fort Bravo

 

Fast Company

 

Half a Hero

1952

The Stooge

1951

That's My Boy

 

Warpath

1950

At War with the Army

 

The Men

1949

Across the Rio Grande

 

Champion

Series
2011

Desperate Housewives

 

Flashback (S07E14)

 

I'm Still Here (S07E13)

2009

Desperate Housewives

 

Connect! Connect! (S05E12)

 

Home Is the Place (S05E11)

2007

Desperate Housewives

 

Getting Married Today (S03E23)

 

Distant Past (S04E08)

 

You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover (S04E07)

  more episodes (3)
2006

Commander in Chief

 

Unfinished Business (E18)

 

Happy Birthday, Madam President (E17)

 

The Elephant in the Room (E16)

  more episodes (6)
2005

Commander in Chief

 

The Mom Who Came to Dinner (E09)

2004

The Sopranos

 

In Camelot (S05E07)

1999

Twice in a Lifetime

1994

Burke's Law

 

Touched by an Angel

1992

Baby Talk

 

Scenes from a Marriage (S02E23)

 

Wedding Bell Blahs (S02E22)

 

Pop Goes the Question (S02E21)

  more episodes (9)
1991

Baby Talk

 

Away in a Manger (S02E11)

 

Jingle Fever (S02E10)

 

Cold Turkey (S02E09)

  more episodes (8)
1990

Jake and the Fatman

 

By Myself (S03E18)

1988

My Two Dads

 

Joey's Mother-in-Law (S01E13)

 

War and Remembrance

1985

Murder, She Wrote

 

School for Scandal (S02E04)

1983

Hotel

 

The Winds of War

1977

Fantasy Island

 

Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue

 

The Love Boat

1975

Ellery Queen

1973

The Wide World of Mystery

 

Thriller

1967

The Danny Thomas Hour

1963

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

1961

Dr. Kildare

 

The Dick Powell Show

1959

Startime

1958

Lux Playhouse

1957

Wagon Train

1956

Playhouse 90

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

 

Appointment with Adventure

 

Star Stage

1954

The Elgin Hour

1953

General Electric Theater

 

The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse

 

The United States Steel Hour

1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1948

Studio One

Documentaries
2004

War & Remembrance: Behind the Scenes

1991

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

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