- Nacimiento
- Defunción2 de marzo de 2004 · La Jolla, San Diego, California, Estados Unidos (causa no comunicada)
- Nombre de nacimientoCarlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge
- Alias
- Mercy
- Altura1.60 m
- Mercedes McCambridge nació el 16 de marzo de 1916 en Joliet, Illinois, Estados Unidos. Fue una actriz, conocida por Gigante (1956), Decepción (1949) y El exorcista (1973). Estuvo casada con Fletcher Markle y William Fifield. Murió el 2 de marzo de 2004 en San Diego, California, Estados Unidos.
- CónyugesFletcher Markle(19 de febrero de 1950 - 1962) (divorciado, 1 niño)William Fifield(18 de agosto de 1939 - 1946) (divorciado, 1 niño)
- PadresJohn Patrick McCambridgeMarie Mahaffry
- Strong and sometimes fierce voice
- Often played manly, cruelly-disposed women
- During filming of Mujer pasional (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 El exorcista (1973).
- She was originally not credited for her voice work on El exorcista (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 Gigante (1956) was given to her by Gary Cooper.
- Although she passed away in 2004, she is listed in the 2018 film The Other Side of the Wind. The filming of this movie was begun in the seventies and shelved for many years, after which it was completed.
- 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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