Lee Grant
Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, during the mid-1920s) is an American actress, documentarian, and director. She made her film debut in 1951 as a young shoplifter in William Wyler's Detective Story, co-starring Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker. This role earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress as well as winning the Best Actress Award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. In 1952, she was blacklisted from most acting jobs for the next 12 years. Grant was able to find only occasional work onstage or as a teacher during this period. It also contributed to her divorce. During this time, Grant appeared in plays on stage. She was removed from the blacklist in 1963 and started to rebuild her on-screen acting career. She starred in 71 TV episodes of Peyton Place (1965–1966), followed by lead roles in films such as Valley of the Dolls and In the Heat of the Night...
Filmography
Titles and credit roles
Director credits
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A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series- THThe Gun Deadlock
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
The Loretta Claiborne Story- COConfronting the Crisis: Childcare in America
- SASay It, Fight It, Cure It
Broadway Brawler
Reunion
Following Her Heart
Seasons of the Heart
No Place Like Home
Staying Together
Down and Out in America
Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale
What Sex Am I?
A Matter of Sex
When Women Kill
The Willmar 8
Tell Me a Riddle
The Stronger
Actor credits
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Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Killian & the Comeback Kids
Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor
Hal
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'- TRTribute To Burgess Meredith
Going Shopping
Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
The John Garfield Story
The Omen Legacy
The Amati Girls
Dr. T & the Women
Poor Liza
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
The Substance of Fire
It's My Party
Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
Under Heat
Earth and the American Dream
Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
Defending Your Life
She Said No- SASanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
Hello Actors Studio
Calling the Shots
The Big Town
Mussolini: The Untold Story
Teachers
A Billion for Boris
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Visiting Hours
A Crime to Fit the Punishment
Thou Shalt Not Kill
For Ladies Only
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
Little Miss Marker
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
The Good Doctor
The Swarm
Damien - Omen II
The Mafu Cage
Airport '77
The Spell
Voyage of the Damned
Perilous Voyage
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
Shampoo
The Internecine Project
Partners in Crime
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
Ransom for a Dead Man
Portnoy's Complaint
Plaza Suite
There Was a Crooked Man...
The Landlord
Marooned
The Big Bounce
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
Valley of the Dolls
In the Heat of the Night
Divorce American Style
Pie in the Sky
An Affair of the Skin
The Balcony
Middle of the Night
Storm Fear
Detective Story