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Grayson Hall (born Shirley Grossman; September 18, 1922 – August 7, 1985) was an American television, film and stage actress. She was widely regarded for her avant-garde theatrical performances from the 1960s to the 1980s. Hall was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe Award for the John Huston film The ...
Grayson Hall. Actress: The Night of the Iguana. Grayson Hall was an American actress of Jewish descent. She is better known for her role as Dr. Julia Hoffman in Gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows" (1966-1971). She was once nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1922, Hall was born Shirley Grossman in Philadelphia.
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Grayson Hall. Actress: The Night of the Iguana. Grayson Hall was an American actress of Jewish descent. She is better known for her role as Dr. Julia Hoffman in Gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows" (1966-1971). She was once nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1922, Hall was born Shirley Grossman in Philadelphia. Her father Joseph Grossman was from Latvia, and her mother ...
- September 18, 1922
- August 7, 1985
Grayson Hall (September 18th 1922 – August 7th 1985), born Shirley Grossman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was an American Oscar-nominated actress (1964 - The Night of the Iguana). She joined the cast of the original Dark Shadows in the middle of 1967 as Dr Julia Hoffman and became one of the show's more prolific stars. She remained on the program until the series end in 1971, playing ...
Grayson was a tall, slender, fair-skinned, red headed woman, with gravity-defying cheekbones, wide transfixing eyes, full lips and a 150-grit sandpaper voice—though “no butt and no boobs” to quote the actress herself. Another co-star, Alexandra Moltke Isles, compared Grayson’s style to “Auntie Mame meets the Addams Family.”.
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Grayson Hall was an American television, film and stage actress. She was widely regarded for her avant-garde theatrical performances from the 1960s to the 1980s. Hall was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe Award for the John Huston film The Night of the Iguana (1964).
Sam Hall. Husband. Screenwriter. Retired; head writer for "Dark Shadows" and "One Life to Live" when Hall appeared on the serials; married in 1956. Actor Grayson Hall appeared on the big screen many times over the course of his Hollywood career. In 1961, he had a featured role in the Broadway musical "Subways Are For Sleeping."
