Actor dealt with many illnesses and misfortunes in her life, finally succumbing to lung cancer
Patricia Neal, the actor who won an Academy Award in 1963 and then survived several strokes to continue acting, died yesterday. She was 84.
Neal had lung cancer and died at her home in Edgartown, Massachusetts, on Martha's Vineyard.
The actor, who was married to Roald Dahl for 30 years, was already an award-winning Broadway actor when she won her Oscar for her role in Hud as a housekeeper to the Texan father (Melvyn Douglas) locking horns with his selfish, amoral son (Paul Newman).
Less than two years later, in 1965, she suffered a series of strokes. She was only 39. Her struggle to be able to walk and talk again were well documented – especially in a 1991 biopic starring Glenda Jackson – and she returned to the screen to earn another Oscar nomination and three Emmy nominations.
The Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Centre,...
Patricia Neal, the actor who won an Academy Award in 1963 and then survived several strokes to continue acting, died yesterday. She was 84.
Neal had lung cancer and died at her home in Edgartown, Massachusetts, on Martha's Vineyard.
The actor, who was married to Roald Dahl for 30 years, was already an award-winning Broadway actor when she won her Oscar for her role in Hud as a housekeeper to the Texan father (Melvyn Douglas) locking horns with his selfish, amoral son (Paul Newman).
Less than two years later, in 1965, she suffered a series of strokes. She was only 39. Her struggle to be able to walk and talk again were well documented – especially in a 1991 biopic starring Glenda Jackson – and she returned to the screen to earn another Oscar nomination and three Emmy nominations.
The Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Centre,...
- 8/9/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Patricia Neal has died at her home on Martha's Vineyard, of lung cancer. She was 84. Neal started out strong as a Hollywood leading lady, a beautiful and powerful character actress in such films as The Fountainhead, co-starring her lover Gary Cooper, The Day the Earth Stood Still, A Face in the Crowd and Hud, for which she won the best actress Oscar in 1964. Married to author Roald Dahl, she gave birth to five children. One was brain-damaged in a 1960 taxi accident when he was a baby, another succumbed to measles in 1962. Tessa Dahl and her daughter Sophie both became screenwriters. Neal went on to suffer three strokes in 1964 and had to relearn, badgered by her husband, how to walk and talk. ...
- 8/9/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
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