Elizabeth Hartman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Elizabeth Hartman

actress

Date of Birth: 23-Dec-1943

Place of Birth: Youngstown, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 10-Jun-1987

Profession: stage actor, voice actor, television actor, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Mary Elizabeth Hartman (December 23, 1943 – June 10, 1987) was an American actress of the stage and screen.
She is best known for her debut performance in the 1965 film A Patch of Blue, playing a blind girl named Selina D'Arcy, opposite Sidney Poitier, a role for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award.
The next year, she appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's You're a Big Boy Now as Barbara Darling, for which she was nominated for a second Golden Globe Award.
Hartman also starred opposite Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page in Don Siegel's The Beguiled, and the 1973 box office smash and cult favourite Walking Tall.
On stage, Hartman was best known for her interpretations of Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, and Emily Webb in the Broadway production of Our Town.A sensitive and shy individual marred by mental health issues, in which she was institutionalized 19 times, Hartman quit acting in 1982 after voicing the character of Mrs.
Brisby in Don Bluth's well received first animated feature The Secret of NIMH (1982).
She committed suicide five years later by jumping from her apartment window in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
"I can’t wait until I’m 45 and get all those great parts", she had said in a 1971 interview.