Kate Wilkinson

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name = Kate Wilkinson


imagesize = 180px
caption = Kate Wilkinson in a screencap from "Another World"
birthdate = birth date|1916|10|25|mf=y
location = San Francisco, California, U.S.
deathdate = death date and age|1993|2|9|1916|10|25|mf=y
deathplace = New York, NY
birthname = Kate Wilkinson
notable role = Mrs. McCollough "Last of Mrs. Lincoln" (stage version) 1972-1973; film version 1976,
Viola Stapleton "Guiding Light" 1976-1981,
Clara Hudson "Another World", 1987-1989,
Clairee, "Steel Magnolias" (stage version) 1987 - 1990

Kate Wilkinson (born October 25, 1916, San Francisco, California; died February 9, 1993, New York, New York) was a TV and stage actress in the United States, best known for her roles as Viola Stapleton in the CBS soap opera "Guiding Light", a role she played from 1976 to 1981, and Clara Hudson on the NBC soap opera "Another World", which she played from 1987 to 1989.

In addition to making many guest appearances in supporting roles on television as well as a number of films, she also was a regular on theatre. Among the roles she played on the stage were Mrs. McCollough in 1972-73's "Last of Mrs. Lincoln" (she also reprised her role in the 1976 film version), and Clairee in the original stage version of "Steel Magnolias" in 1987 (a role Olympia Dukakis would play in the film version). She died in 1993 at the age of 76. Her last role was a 1990 guest appearance in the drama "Law & Order".

Filmography

# "Edge of Night" - Mrs. Perkins (1966)
# "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" - Sister Irene (1973)
# "Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon" - Kate Mayo (1973)
# "F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Last of the Belles" (1974)
# "First Ladies Diaries: Martha Washington" - Mrs. Chamberlayne (1975)
# "Guiding Light" - Viola Stapleton (November 1976 - 81)
# "Last of Mrs. Lincoln" (1976)
# "Diary of the Dead" - Ethel Dean (1976)
# "Another World" - Mrs. Franklin (1983); Alice Nixon (1986); Clara Hudson (1987 - 89)
# "A Mistaken Charity" (made-for-TV movie) - Charlotte (1986)
# "See You in the Morning" - Aunt Matilda (1989)
# "Law & Order: "Prescription for Death" - Grey haired lady (1990)

tage credits

# "Danton's Death" - (October 21 1965 - November 1965)
# "The Rimers of Eldritch" - Martha Truit (February 20 - March 19 1967)
# "Watercolor & Criss-Crossing" - (January 21 1970 - January 24 1970)
# "Postcards" - (March 16 1970 - March 28 1970)
# "A Doll's House" - Anne Marie (January 13 1971 - June 26 1971)
# "Hedda Gabler" - (February 17 1971 - June 19 1971)
# "Ring Around the Bathtub" - Nurse Sampson (April 29 1972 - 29 April 1972)
# "Last of Mrs. Lincoln" - Mrs. McCollough (December 12 1972 - February 4 1973)
# "Our Town" - Mrs. Gibbs (August 3 - 7, 1976)
# "The Shadow Box" - August 1 - 5, 1978
# "Man and Superman" - Mrs. Whitefield (December 14, 1978 - February 18 1979)
# "Camino Real" - The Gypsy June 28 - July 7, 1979
# "The Matchmaker" - Miss Flora Van July 10 - 14, 1979
# "The Man Who Came to Dinner" - (June 26 1980 - September 7 1980)
# "Frankenstein" - Frau Mueller (January 4 - 14, 1981)
# "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" - Grace August 11 - 22, 1985
# "Steel Magnolias" - Clairee (March 28 1987 - February 25 1990)
# "Inherit the Wind" - Mrs. Brady (July 24 - August 4, 1990)