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Kim Hunter

Kim Hunter (born Janet Cole) was an American film, theatre, and television actress. She won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, each as Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Stella Kowalski in the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire. Decades later, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her work on the soap opera The Edge of Night. She also portrayed the character of chimpanzee Zira in the first three installments of the original film adaptation Planet of the Apes.

English

Backstairs at the White House

1979
as Mrs. Ellen Wilson

The Young Loner

1968
as Freda Williams

Money, Women and Guns

1958
as Mary Johnston Kingman

Anything Can Happen

1952
as Helen Watson

Tender Comrade

1943
as Doris Dumbrowski

Deadline - U.S.A.

1952
as Nora Hutcheson

Out of the Cold

2001
as Elsa Lindepu

A Streetcar Named Desire

1951
as Stella Kowalski

Two Evil Eyes

1990
as Gloria Pym

The Seventh Victim

1943
as Mary Gibson

Storm Center

1956
as Martha Lockridge

The Golden Gate Murders

1979
as Sister Superior

Alas, Babylon

1960
as Helen Bragg

Bermuda Affair

1956
as Fran West

The Comedian

1957
as Julie Hogarth

When Strangers Marry

1944
as Millie Baxter

Reconnaissance Pilot

1943
as Catherine Cummings

In Search of America

1971
as Cora Chandler

Lilith

1964
as Bea Brice

Skokie

1981
as Bertha Feldman

The Kindred

1987
as Amanda Hollins

A Streetcar on Broadway

2006
as Self (archive footage)

The Young Stranger

1957
as Helen Ditmar

You Came Along

1945
as Frances Hotchkiss

Born Innocent

1974
as Mrs. Parker

Bad Ronald

1974
as Elaine Wilby

The Swimmer

1968
as Betty Graham

Dark August

1976
as Adrianna Putnam

Producer

Movie Party Crasher: My Bloody Birthday 2000

Guest Star

Episode Adventures in Paradise
The Haunted
1959
Episode Playhouse 90
The Comedian
1957
Episode Playhouse 90
Interviews with Cast of The Comedian
1970
Episode Night Gallery
The Late Mr. Peddington
1972
Episode Ironside
The Lost Cotillion
1974
Episode Gunsmoke
The Legend
1971
Episode The Rockford Files
Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job (2)
1979
Episode Naked City
The Face of the Enemy
1962
Episode The Lineup
The Strange Return of Army Armitage
1959
Episode Hallmark Hall Of Fame
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
1978
Episode Mannix
Deja Vu
1970
Episode Screen Directors Playhouse
Midsummer Daydream
1955
Episode Breaking Point
Crack in an Image
1963
Episode Columbo
Suitable for Framing
1971
Episode The Magician
The Magician (pilot)
1973
Episode General Electric Theater
Try To Remember
1956
Episode Rawhide
Incident of the Misplaced Indians
1959
Episode Mannix
The Name Is Mannix
1967
Episode Murder, She Wrote
Trials and Tribulations
1990
Episode The Magician
The Magician (pilot)
1973
Episode Ellery Queen
Too Many Suspects (pilot)
1975
Episode Playhouse 90
Requiem For A Heavyweight
1956
Episode Suspense
The Man in the House
1949
Episode The Oregon Trail
The Waterhole
1977
Episode Mission: Impossible
Incarnate
1973
Episode Playhouse 90
The Dark Side of the Earth
1957
Episode American Playhouse
Three Sovereigns For Sarah (Part 1)
1985
Episode American Playhouse
Three Sovereigns For Sarah (Part 3)
1985
Episode Cannon
Girl in the Electric Coffin
1971
Episode Baretta
Crazy Annie
1976
Episode The Education of Max Bickford
Who Is Breckenridge Long?
2001
Episode Ironside
A Taste of Ashes
1974
Episode The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Evil of Adelaide Winters
1964
Episode The Rockford Files
Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job (1)
1979