Gale Sondergaard

Acting Feb 12, 1899 Aug 14, 1985 (aged 86) Litchfield, Minnesota, USA

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Gale Sondergaard (February 15, 1899 – August 14, 1985) was an American actress.

Sondergaard began her acting career in theatre, and progressed to films in 1936. She was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film debut in Anthony Adverse (1936). She played supporting roles in various films during the late 1930s and early 1940s, including The Cat and the Canary (1939), The Mark of Zorro (1940) and The Letter (1940). She was nominated for a second Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Anna and the King of Siam (1946) but by the end of the decade her film appearances were fewer.

Married to the director Herbert Biberman, Sondergaard supported him when he was accused of communism and named as one of the Hollywood Ten in the early 1950s, and her film career was destroyed as a result. She moved with Biberman to New York City and worked in theatre, and acted in film and television occasionally from late 1960s. She moved back to Los Angeles where she died from cerebrovascular thrombosis.

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50 Acting Credits

Acting

Get Smart

as Hester Van Hooten

1965

Gale Sondergaard

Acting

Get Smart

The Letter

The Mark of Zorro

The Fall Guy

The Life of Emile Zola

Night Gallery

The Spider Woman

The Cat and the Canary

The Invisible Man's Revenge

The Return of a Man Called Horse

The Time of Their Lives

The Blue Bird

Road to Rio

The Black Cat

Anna and the King of Siam

Christmas Holiday

Anthony Adverse

The Climax

Juarez

East Side, West Side

My Favorite Blonde

Savage Intruder

Police Story

A Night to Remember