Ruth Gordon

Also Credited As:

Ruth Gordon Jones
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Biography

Married to writer-director Garson Kanin in 1942, she collaborated with him on several George Cukor films, including the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn classics "Adam's Rib" (1949) and "Pat and Mike" (1952).

Though relatively inactive in the 1950s and 60s, her career picked up again in 1968 after her infamously diabolical role as Minnie Castavets in "Rosemary's Baby", for which she won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. Gordon is perhaps best …

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Job Title

Actor, Writer

Born

January 1, 1970

LATEST CREDITS

Boardwalk

Becky Rosen

Delta Pi

Mugs

Harold and Maude

Maude

The Prince of Central Park

Mrs Miller

Where's Poppa?

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Perfect Gentlemen

Mama Cavagnaro

Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice?

Mrs Dimmock

Rosemary's Baby

Minnie Castevet

Secret World of the Very Young

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The Great Houdinis

Cecilia Weiss

The Trouble With Spies

Mrs Arkwright

Every Which Way But Loose

Ma

Maxie

Mrs Lavin

Isn't It Shocking?

Marge Savage

Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby

Minnie Castavet

My Bodyguard

Gramma

Action in the North Atlantic

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Inside Daisy Clover

The Dealer

Lord Love a Duck

Stella Barnard

The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table

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Two-Faced Woman

Actor

Any Which Way You Can

Ma

Voyage of the Rock Aliens

Sheriff

Jimmy the Kid

Bernice Kelp

Don't Go to Sleep

Grandma Bernice