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Patricia Neal (1926-2010) was an Oscar®-winning American actress. She was best known for her film roles in 1951’s The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1961’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s and in her Oscar winning role in 1963’s Hud. Her IMDb page shows 73 acting credits from 1949-2009. This page will rank 25 Patricia Neal movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos, and bit parts were not included in the rankings.
Patricia Neal Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Patricia Neal Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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Possibly interesting facts about Patricia Neal
1. Patsy Louise Neal was born in Packard, Whitley County, Kentucky in 1926.
2. Patricia Neal studied drama at Northwestern University. Her classmates included Cloris Leachman, Paul Lynde, Charlotte Rae, Charlton Heston, Martha Hyer and Agnes Nixon.
3. In 1947, Patricia Neal won the inaugural Tony® award for Best Actress in Another Part of the Forest.
4. During the filming of The Fountainhead (1949), Neal began an affair with her married co-star, Gary Cooper, whom she had met in 1947 when she was 21 and he was 46. We generally stick to movie talk here at UMR. But there is much more to this story if you do some digging.
5. Patricia Neal married author Roald Dahl in 1953. They had 5 children together. Sadly they lost one (Olivia 1955-1962) of their children to measles encephalitis and another one (Theo 1960-) was seriously injured at the age of 4 months. Neal and Dahl divorced in 1983.
6. While pregnant in 1965, Neal suffered three burst cerebral aneurysms and was in a coma for three weeks. She survived with the assistance of Dahl and a number of volunteers, who developed a grueling style of therapy that fundamentally changed the way stroke patients were treated.
7. Glenda Jackson played Patricia Neal in the television movie The Patricia Neal Story (1981). The movie looked at the profound challenges faced by Neal and her husband after Neal suffered the stroke in Fact #5. Dirk Bogarde played Roald Dahl. Both Jackson and Bogarde earned Golden Globe® nominations for their work in the movie.
8. Patricia Neal played Olivia Walton in 1971’s The Homecoming: A Christmas Story. That was the pilot episode for the television show, The Waltons (1971-1981). She was supposed to continue the role but her health problems prevented this.
9. Patricia Neal never appeared in a film nominated for the Best Picture Oscar®.
10. Check out Patricia Neal‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Patricia Neal is TCM’s Star of the Month for January. Her films air every Tuesday night starting at 8pm eastern.
Hey Flora…thanks for the information on Patricia Neal and her Star of the Month honor on TCM. Great stuff.