Penelope Allen

Penelope Allen


in USA
Penelope Allen, also known as Penny Allen, is an American stage and film actress and acting coach. She is best known as the head bank teller being held hostage in the film Dog Day Afternoon. She also played Annie, the wife of Francis Lionel "Lion" Delbuchi in the film Scarecrow.

Movies for Penelope Allen...

37
Title: 37
Character: Wino
Released: August 8, 2014
Type: Movie
A rocker makes a pact to kill himself on his 37th birthday. 12 weeks before the release of his final album and the end of his life, he meets and falls in love with a woman who has a dark secret of her own.
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Passenger Side
Title: Passenger Side
Character: Henrietta
Released: October 28, 2009
Type: Movie
Two brothers spend the day driving around Los Angeles county looking for the meaning of their lives, or cheap street drugs, depending on who you happen to believe.
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Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Title: Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Rosy-Fingered Dawn is a film on Terrence Malick. It is about the making of BADLANDS, DAYS OF HEAVEN, THE THIN RED LINE and the personal involvement of some of the most representative figures of the American culture itself. This medley of voices has given origin to a journey throughout the whole United States, from California to Colorado, from Virginia to Minnesota, passing by New York and Los Angeles. Every stop represents an ideal set in which all the characters of the films come to life once again giving place to a growing flow of memories. The narrative dimension of Malick's cinema resounds and opens a new horizon on the visible contradictions of the American culture; no easy judgement but a critical consciousness is what emerges from this coral speech, together with a definite need: the necessity of art. A need that Terrence Malick was able to satisfy.
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Three Days of Rain
Title: Three Days of Rain
Character: Helen
Released: May 12, 2002
Type: Movie
Six Anton Chekhov short stories set in modern day Cleveland during a three day rain storm.
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Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Title: Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Character: Nancy (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
Released: May 27, 2000
Type: Movie
In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpected ways. Dr. Elaine Keener, the sole caretaker for her aging mother, turns to tarot card reader Christine for spiritual aid. Christine grapples with her own angst due to her lover's debilitating illness. Meanwhile, a bank manager deals with an unwanted pregnancy, two sisters pursue romantic interests and a housewife gets back into the dating game.
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Hurlyburly
Title: Hurlyburly
Character: Dry Cleaner
Released: December 25, 1998
Type: Movie
Hollywood movers and shakers dissect their own personal lives when everything seems to clash together.
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The Thin Red Line
Title: The Thin Red Line
Character: Witt's Mother
Released: December 23, 1998
Type: Movie
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.
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The War at Home
Title: The War at Home
Character: Marjoree
Released: November 20, 1996
Type: Movie
Jeremy Collier is a Vietnam veteran who has returned home and is struggling to cope with the war experiences that haunt him. He is also at odds with his family, who cannot begin to understand what he has been through. Jeremy's battles with his family finally spiral out of control on Thanksgiving Day, when a bitter secret is revealed
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Looking for Richard
Title: Looking for Richard
Character: Self / Queen Elizabeth
Released: October 11, 1996
Type: Movie
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."
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The Crossing Guard
Title: The Crossing Guard
Character: Woman On Bus
Released: November 15, 1995
Type: Movie
Unable to move on from the loss of his daughter, Freddy, now a shell of the person he was before, swears to kill the man responsible for her death.
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Schemes
Title: Schemes
Character: DMV Lady
Released: July 7, 1994
Type: Movie
In this intricate tale of deception, extortion, and murder, a successful architect learns that although beautiful strangers may be dangerous, it is friends who are deadly. Devastated by his wife's death, Paul begins to emerge from depression when he meets a new woman, Laura. But his newfound happiness is destroyed when his best friend, Evelyn, learns that Laura is a con-artist. Regretting her treachery and trying to redeem herself, Laura discovers Evelyn's violent obsession with Paul. Fighting blackmail and threats by Evelyn and a ruthless former lover, Laura courageously reveals the explosive news that Paul's wife was really murdered. -
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Bad Lieutenant
Title: Bad Lieutenant
Character: Doctor
Released: November 20, 1992
Type: Movie
While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
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The Bedroom Window
Title: The Bedroom Window
Character: Judge
Released: January 16, 1987
Type: Movie
Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim is saved. But that same night another girl is found murdered.
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Inmates: A Love Story
Title: Inmates: A Love Story
Character: Gloria
Released: February 13, 1981
Type: Movie
Accountant Roy is sentenced to prison because he cooked up balances. He hopes that his companions, who profited from his cheat, will help him to a revision of his judgment. Meanwhile he has to adapt to a life in jail - which works out quite well, especially when he meets the self-conscious convicted thief Jane and falls in love. He starts to woo her. But then, while working in the prison's accounting department, he discovers that the prisoners' accounts are not properly kept. The director tries to keep him in her prison as long as possible.
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A Time for Miracles
Title: A Time for Miracles
Character: The Farmer's Wife
Released: December 21, 1980
Type: Movie
Elizabeth Bayley Seton, America's first native-born saint and founder of the Sisters of Charity, is the subject of this inspiring biopic. After the tragic death of her husband, Seton converts to Catholicism. Once again, she suffers terrible loss when two of her children die, but goes on to found the American Sisters of Charity and the first American Catholic schools. Seton died in 1826 and was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1975.
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Resurrection
Title: Resurrection
Character: Ellie
Released: September 26, 1980
Type: Movie
The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an unwitting celebrity, the hope of those in desperate need of healing, and a lightning rod for religious beliefs and skeptics.
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On the Nickel
Title: On the Nickel
Character: Rose
Released: May 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Sam, a recovering alcoholic, feels dissatisfied with his life of sobriety and goes back in search of the good times he enjoyed with his wino friends on "the Nickel" of Los Angeles' skid row.
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Title: The Scarlet Letter
Character: Mistress Hibbins
Released: March 3, 1979
Type: TV
The Scarlet Letter is a 1979 miniseries based on the novel of the same name that aired on WGBH from March 3, 1979 to March 24, 1979. The series is four episodes long, 60 minutes each. Part 2 won the 1979 Emmy Award for Outstanding Video Tape Editing for a Limited Series or Special for film editors Ken Denisoff, Janet McFadden, and Tucker Wiard. In 1979, when most literary programs were being produced in the United Kingdom, Boston public television station WGBH decided to produce a homegrown literary classic of its own. The result is this epic version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's enduring novel of Puritan America in search of its soul. Hester Prynne overcomes the stigma of adultery to emerge as the first great heroine in American literature. Hawthorne's themes, the nature of sin, social hypocrisy, and community repression, still reverberate through American society. Meg Foster brings a quiet strength to the role of Hester, the adulteress condemned to wear a scarlet "A" for the rest of her life. As her partner in crime, the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, John Heard writhes in private torment most convincingly. Kevin Conway completes this grim triangle as the mysterious, maleficent Roger Chillingworth. The costumes and scenery are simple, so as not to detract from the dialogue as each character grapples with the meaning of sin, forgiveness, and redemption.
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The Gardener's Son
Title: The Gardener's Son
Character: Mrs. McEvoy
Released: January 6, 1977
Type: Movie
Based on true events which took place in the mill town of Graniteville, South Carolina in 1876, the story follows the rich Greggs, who run the mill, and the poor McEvoys, who work there. The animosity between their sons leads to tragedy.
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Title: Sybil
Character: Miss Penny
Released: November 14, 1976
Type: TV
A young woman whose childhood was so harrowing to her that she developed at least 13 different personalities.
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Dog Day Afternoon
Title: Dog Day Afternoon
Character: Sylvia 'Mouth'
Released: September 21, 1975
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.
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Scarecrow
Title: Scarecrow
Character: Annie
Released: April 11, 1973
Type: Movie
Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.
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It Ain't Easy
Title: It Ain't Easy
Character: Jenny
Released: November 10, 1972
Type: Movie
Randy has PTSD from the Army. After extreme treatment he is released into the world to make it on his own. He goes to Winnipeg to race his snowmobile cross country to St. Paul.
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Doc
Title: Doc
Character: Mattie Earp
Released: August 1, 1971
Type: Movie
A revisionist western, "Doc" is Frank Perry's attempt to accurately portray the lives and persons of Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, and the now-legendary events that took place in the town of Tombstone, starring Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway and Harris Yulin.
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Oh! What a Lovely War
Title: Oh! What a Lovely War
Character: Solo Chorus Girl
Released: March 10, 1969
Type: Movie
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.