Shirley Jo Finney

Shirley Jo Finney

Born: July 14, 1949
Died: October 10, 2023
in Merced, California, USA
Shirley Jo Finney was a theater director and actor known for the 1975 TV biopic “Wilma.”

Movies for Shirley Jo Finney...

Title: Where I Live
Released: March 5, 1993
Type: TV
Where I Live is an American sitcom that premiered in 1993 as part of ABC's TGIF lineup. The series was created and executive produced by Michael Jacobs and Ehrich Van Lowe.
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Laker Girls
Title: Laker Girls
Character: Brenda
Released: April 3, 1990
Type: Movie
Three hopefuls — a college grad, a dance teacher from Watts, and an incognito heiress — vie for a spot on the Los Angeles Lakers cheerleading team.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Character: Aunt Chloe
Released: June 14, 1987
Type: Movie
The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.
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Echo Park
Title: Echo Park
Character: Gloria
Released: November 5, 1985
Type: Movie
In the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, everybody is somebody else. May, a single mother who delivers strip-O-grams, dreams of being an actress. She rents one of her rooms out to a pizza-man cum songwriter named Jonathan. Meanwhile, in the next apartment, August, an Austrian bodybuilder, fancies himself the next Arnold Schwarzenegger. As the pressures of everyday life in LA mount, Jonathan and August vie for May's love.
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Title: Night Court
Character: Mrs. Williams
Released: January 4, 1984
Type: TV
Night Court is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984 to May 31, 1992. The setting was the night shift of a Manhattan court, presided over by the young, unorthodox Judge Harold T. "Harry" Stone. It was created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, who had previously worked on Barney Miller in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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Hey Good Lookin'
Title: Hey Good Lookin'
Character: Chaplin (voice)
Released: October 1, 1982
Type: Movie
An outrageous, affectionate look at coming of age in the Eisenhower era in Brooklyn.
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Thornwell
Title: Thornwell
Character: Lt. Stone
Released: January 28, 1981
Type: Movie
The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to force him to confess to stealing secret documents while stationed in Orleans, France, in 1961, led Congress to award him $625,000 in damages nearly 20 years later.
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Wilma
Title: Wilma
Character: Wilma Rudolph
Released: December 19, 1977
Type: Movie
The story of American track sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who overcame physical handicaps to win three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics.
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The River Niger
Title: The River Niger
Character: Gail
Released: April 14, 1976
Type: Movie
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.
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Nashville Girl
Title: Nashville Girl
Character: Frisky
Released: March 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A Kentucky-born maiden realizes her dream of becoming a country music star. However, she discovers that her single-minded determination has caused her to lose things far more precious than fame or money when she gets involved with a group of corrupt music executives.