Actress Ruth Warrick, 88
Posted: Tuesday, January 18th, 2005 10:23 amNEW YORK - She played the icy first wife of Orson Welles in “Citizen Kane” and a mysterious housekeeper on “Peyton Place,” but one role seemed to resonate the most with Ruth Warrick — that of Phoebe Tyler Wallingford, an inveterate busybody on “All My Children.” …
Warrick, who was honored last May with a Daytime Emmy Award for lifetime achievement, died at her New York home Saturday of complications from pneumonia, ABC-TV said Monday. She was 88.
In “All My Children,” which debuted in 1970, Warrick played the grande dame of the fictitious affluent town of Pine Valley. She portrayed the meddlesome and over-the-top personality so believably that her fans often had trouble distinguishing between the stylish actress and her equally sophisticated character. …
Besides her acting, Warrick had a strong commitment to the arts in education. She taught at Julia Richman High School in New York as part of former President Carter’s City in Schools program and was a dropout prevention consultant for the Department of Labor under former President Kennedy and for former President Johnson’s Job Training Corps.
Warrick, who married five times, is survived by three children, a grandson and six great-grandchildren. … Read full obituary
