1. Ruth Elizabeth Warrick was an American singer, actress and political activist, best known for her role as Phoebe Tyler Wallingford on All My Children, which she played regularly from 1970 until her death in 2005.
18 Facts About Ruth Warrick
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Ruth Warrick made her film debut in Citizen Kane, and years later celebrated her 80th birthday by attending a special screening of the film.
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Ruth Warrick was born June 29,1916, in Saint Joseph, Missouri, to Frederick Roswell Warrick and Annie Louise Warrick, nee Scott.
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Ruth Warrick was expecting her first child during the filming of Kane, which prevented her being cast in The Magnificent Ambersons; but she worked on a 1942 episode of Welles's radio series, and Welles hired her again for Journey into Fear.
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Ruth Warrick appeared in The Corsican Brothers, The Iron Major, Mr Winkle Goes to War, and Guest in the House.
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Ruth Warrick received an Emmy Award nomination for her work on this show in 1967, the same year she left the show.
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Ruth Warrick had created her own show, One Life to Live, in 1968.
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Ruth Warrick received Daytime Emmy Award nominations in 1975 and 1977.
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Ruth Warrick broke her hip while on vacation in Greece in 2001 and thenceforth used a wheelchair.
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Ruth Warrick had a brief re-emergence in 2002 when Phoebe made a return appearance at a hospital board meeting and later attended a society function with niece Brooke.
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Ruth Warrick was seldom on screen, but did appear on All My Children's 35th anniversary show on January 5,2005.
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Ruth Warrick published her autobiography, The Confessions of Phoebe Tyler in 1980, the same year she won a Soapy Award.
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Ruth Warrick received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was on hand to receive her Daytime Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2004.
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Ruth Warrick replied, telling her that if he had hired her as a speechwriter, he would have been reelected.
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In 1991, Ruth Warrick received a certification as a licensed metaphysical teacher from a Unity school in Lee's Summit, Missouri.
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Ruth Warrick died of complications related to pneumonia on January 15,2005, aged 88, at her home in Manhattan.
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Ruth Warrick was included in the memorial tribute at the 11th Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Ruth Warrick's family donated her 2004 Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award to a museum in her hometown of Saint Joseph, Missouri.