- Data di nascita
- Data di morte2 marzo 2004 · La Jolla, San Diego, California, Stati Uniti (imprecisato)
- Nome alla nascitaCarlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge
- Soprannome
- Mercy
- Altezza1,60 m
- Mercedes McCambridge è nata il 16 marzo 1916. Luogo di nascita: Usa. È conosciuta come attrice. È celebre per aver partecipato a Il gigante (1956), Tutti gli uomini del re (1949) e L'esorcista (1973). È stata sposata con Fletcher Markle e William Fifield. Morì il 2 marzo 2004. Luogo di morte: Usa.
- ConiugiFletcher Markle(19 febbraio 1950 - 1962) (divorziato, 1 bambino)William Fifield(18 agosto 1939 - 1946) (divorziato, 1 bambino)
- GenitoriJohn Patrick McCambridgeMarie Mahaffry
- Strong and sometimes fierce voice
- Often played manly, cruelly-disposed women
- During filming of Johnny Guitar (1954) she and Joan Crawford' fought both on and off the set. One night, in a drunken rage, Crawford scattered the costumes worn by McCambridge along an Arizona highway. Cast and crew had to collect the outfits.
- Suffered from bronchitis for the most part of her life. She later revealed she was able to use this to her advantage for the chilling, unearthly breathing of the demon in L'esorcista (1973).
- She was originally not credited for her voice work on L'esorcista (1973) after director William Friedkin assured her that she would be. An appeal by her to the Screen Actors Guild rectified this matter, and a new print of the film was made with her name in the credits.
- The hat she wore in Il gigante (1956) was given to her by Gary Cooper.
- Had one son, John Lawrence Fifield (DOB: December 25, 1941, in Hollywood, California), who was later adopted by his stepfather Fletcher Markle and took his last name. On November 16, 1987 he killed his wife, both of his children and then himself in Little Rock, Arkansas after being fired from his job on November 13, 1987 for an embezzlement scheme involving accounts belonging to his mother.
- One of the most destructive things in my life was the kind of parts I played in pictures. I studied Shakespeare and the classics, and I end up shooting Joan Crawford and killing a horse that Elizabeth Taylor was in love with. I'm serious. I played the worst harridans, the most hard-bitten women, the absolute heavies, and it just about did me in.
- [on Nicholas Ray]: I think his films probably showed his great restlessness, his moroseness, his vulnerability, the rawness of his nature, the occasional tenderness, which was very profound - but that that's just my observation of watching a man walk around the set.
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