- Born Name: Jo Van Fleet
- Birthday: 1914-12-30 (Year-Month-Day)
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- Spouse(s): William Bales (1946-1990) (his death)
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- Medium: Actress
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Jo Van Fleet, Jo Van Fleet (December 30, 1914 – June 10, 1996) was an American theatre and film actress.Van Fleet established herself as a notable dramatic actress on Broadway over several years, winning a Tony Award in 1954 for her skill in a difficult role, playing an unsympathetic, even abusive character, in Horton Footes The Trip to Bountiful with Lillian Gish and Eva Marie Saint.Her first film role was playing the mother of James Deans character in East of Eden (1955). This debut performance earned Van Fleet an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her subsequent film work was steady through 1960, then very sporadic, and included such films as The Rose Tattoo, Ill Cry Tomorrow (both 1955), The King and Four Queens (1956), and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957).In 1958, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for her performance in Look Homeward, Angel on Broadway.Other films are Wild River (1960), Rodgers and Hammersteins Cinderella (1965), Cool Hand Luke (1967), and I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968).Her television work included Alfred Hitchcock Presents.Van Fleet was married to William Bales from 1946 until his death in 1990, and was survived by her son Michael Bales, and grandson, Arden Rogow-Bales. She died in Queens, New York of undisclosed causes at the age of 81.She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard.[edit] External linksWikimedia Commons has media related to: Jo Van FleetJo Van Fleet at Find a GraveJo Van Fleet at the Internet Broadway DatabaseJo Van Fleet at Internet Off-Broadway DatabaseJo Van Fleet at the Internet Movie DatabaseJo Van Fleet at TV.comv · d · eAcademy Award for Best Supporting ActressMary Astor (1941) · Teresa Wright (1942) · Katina Paxinou (1943) · Ethel Barrymore (1944) · Anne Revere (1945) · Anne Baxter (1946) · Celeste Holm (1947) · Claire Trevor (1948) · Mercedes McCambridge (1949) · Josephine Hull (1950) · Kim Hunter (1951) · Gloria Grahame (1952) · Donna Reed (1953) · Eva Marie Saint (1954) · Jo Van Fleet (1955) · Dorothy Malone (1956) · Miyoshi Umeki (1957) · Wendy Hiller (1958) · Shelley Winters (1959) · Shirley Jones (1960)Complete list · (1928–1940) · (1941–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001-present)v · d · eTony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a PlayPatricia Neal (1947) · Shirley Booth (1949) · Maureen Stapleton (1951) · Marian Winters (1952) · Beatrice Straight (1953) · Jo Van Fleet (1954) · Patricia Jessel (1955) · Una Merkel (1956) · Peggy Cass (1957) · Anne Bancroft (1958) · Julie Newmar (1959) · Anne Revere (1960) · Colleen Dewhurst (1961) · Elizabeth Ashley (1962) · Sandy Dennis (1963) · Barbara Loden (1964) · Alice Ghostley (1965) · Zoe Caldwell (1966) · Marian Seldes (1967) · Zena Walker (1968) · Jane Alexander (1969) · Blythe Danner (1970) · Rae Allen (1971) · Elizabeth Wilson (1972) · Leora Dana (1973) · Frances Sternhagen (1974) · Rita Moreno (1975)Complete list: (1947–1975) · (1976–2000) · (2001–present)PersondataNameFleet, Jo VanAlternative namesShort descriptionActressDate of birthDecember 30, 1914Place of birthOakland, California, U.S.Date of deathJune 10, 1996Place of deathJamaica, Queens, New York City, New York, U.S.Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Van_FleetCategories: 1914 births | 1996 deaths | American film actors | American stage actors | American people of Dutch descent | Best Supporting Actress Academy Award winners | People from Oakland, California | University of the Pacific alumniHidden categories: Articles lacking sources from January 2011 | All articles lacking sources | Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesAragonésCatalàDeutschEspañolFrançaisHrvatskiItalianoNederlands日本語Norsk (bokmål)PolskiPortuguêsРусскийСрпски / SrpskiSuomiTagalog This page was last modified on 10 February 2011 at 15:18.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimers if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha(); if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();