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Catherine Josephine Van Fleet (December 30, 1914 – June 10, 1996) was an American stage, film, and television actress. During her long career, which spanned over four decades, she often played characters much older than her actual age. Van Fleet won a Tony Award in 1954 for her performance in the Broadway production The Trip to Bountiful, and the next year she won an Oscar for her supporting role in East of Eden.
Jo Van Fleet Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jo Van Fleet |
| Also Know | Catherine Josephine Van Fleet |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Oakland, California, USA |
| Date of Birth | December 30, 1914 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 81 |
| Deathday | 1996-06-10 |
Jo Van Fleet Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! | Mother | 1968-10-06 | Harold Fine is a self-described square – a 35-year-old Los Angeles lawyer who’s not looking forward to middle age nor his upcoming wedding. His life c… |
| Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | Kate Fisher | 1957-05-30 | Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corr… |
| Wild River | Ella Garth | 1960-05-26 | A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition fro… |
| The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight | Big Momma | 1971-12-22 | A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals…. |
| 80 Steps to Jonah | Nonna | 1969-12-01 | Wayne Newton stars as an accused thug hiding out at a camp for blind children…. |
| I’ll Cry Tomorrow | Katie Roth | 1955-12-25 | Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her… |
| The King and Four Queens | Ma McDade | 1956-12-21 | Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hid… |
| This Angry Age | Mme. Dufresne | 1957-10-31 | Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed moth… |
| East of Eden | Kate Trask | 1955-04-10 | In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their fath… |
| Cinderella | Stepmother | 1965-02-22 | After the success of the live 1957 Cinderella on CBS (with Julie Andrews), the network decided to produce another television version. The new script … |
| The Rose Tattoo | Bessie | 1955-12-12 | A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her…. |
| Satan’s School for Girls | Headmistress | 1973-09-19 | Satan’s School for Girls is set within the grim walls of Fallbridge College for Girls. Hoping to learn the truth behind the “suicide” of her younger s… |
| Concerning a Woman of Sin | 1949-03-24 | An unscrupulous agent is able to sell a story by an unknown authoress to a Hollywood studio chief for big money. But he has to conceal the fact that t… | |
| The Family Rico | Mama Rico | 1972-09-13 | A Mafia chief is torn between his brother, who has defected from the family, and his loyalty to the organization…. |
| Cool Hand Luke | Arletta | 1967-06-22 | When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn’t play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the… |
| The Tenant | Madame Dioz | 1976-05-26 | A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia…. |
| Seize the Day | Mrs. Einhorn | 1986-09-09 | Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as … |
| The Trip to Bountiful | 1953-03-01 | … | |
| Power | Mother Vanda | 1980-01-14 | Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leade… |
Credit: TMDB
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