Pamela Reed

Pamela Reed

Born: April 2, 1949
in Tacoma, Washington, USA
Pamela Reed (born April 2, 1949) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her TV roles as Roberta Deeks on NCIS: LA, Marlene Griggs-Knope on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, matriarch Gail Green on Jericho, Judge Sydney J. Solomon on the sitcom The Home Court, Denise Lerner on the sitcom Family Album, Janice Pasetti on the sitcom Grand, Mary Welsh on the miniseries Hemingway, T.J. Cavanaugh on the miniseries Tanner '88, and Sandy Farrell on The Andros Targets.

Her best known film roles are as Arnold Schwarzenegger's hypoglycemic partner Phoebe O'Hara in Kindergarten Cop, Judge Lambrey in Why Do Fools Fall in Love?, Alison Langley in Bean, Angela in Junior, Carol Cruise in Bob Roberts, Tina in Cadillac Man, Gigi Hightower in The Best of Times, Trudy Cooper in The Right Stuff, and Belle Starr in The Long Riders.

Movies for Pamela Reed...

The Burial
Title: The Burial
Character: Annette O'Keefe
Released: October 6, 2023
Type: Movie
When a handshake deal goes sour, funeral home owner Jeremiah O'Keefe enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary to save his family business. Tempers flare and laughter ensues as the unlikely pair bond while exposing corporate corruption and racial injustice.
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Language Arts
Title: Language Arts
Character: Sister Giorgia
Released: September 6, 2021
Type: Movie
The film follows Allison Forche-Marlow, a beautiful, bright, determined, and organized woman, who never gives up trying to heal her autistic son, whom she fiercely loves, no matter what it demands of everyone.
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The Long Dumb Road
Title: The Long Dumb Road
Character: Dotty
Released: November 9, 2018
Type: Movie
Two guys serendipitously meet at a time when they both find themselves at personal crossroads and decide to embark on an unplanned road trip across the American Southwest.
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Outside In
Title: Outside In
Character: Aunt Bette
Released: March 30, 2018
Type: Movie
An ex-con struggling to readjust to life in his small town forms an intense bond with his former high-school teacher.
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Savannah Sunrise
Title: Savannah Sunrise
Character: Loraine Miles
Released: July 15, 2016
Type: Movie
Joy and her family fly to help her mother-in-law Loraine with the difficult move from her home in Louisville, Kentucky 600 miles away to a retirement community near the family in Savannah, Georgia. But after a mixed-up flight reservation, Joy reluctantly agrees to take the trip in Loraine's Oldsmobile. Despite their many differences with adventures at every turn and trapped in the car together, they both discover they each may be the best friend they never knew they needed. And realize the love of family is all you need to bridge life's many seasons.
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The Architect
Title: The Architect
Character: Colin's Mother
Released: May 20, 2016
Type: Movie
When a couple sets out to build their dream house, they enlist the services of an uncompromising modernist architect, who proceeds to build HIS dream house instead of theirs.
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Title: Perception
Character: Mrs. Penderhalt
Released: July 9, 2012
Type: TV
Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist and professor, is recruited to help the federal government crack difficult cases. His intimate knowledge of human behavior and masterful understanding of the mind give him an extraordinary ability to read people, but his eccentric view of the world and less-than-stellar social skills can often interfere with his work.
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Title: NCIS: Los Angeles
Character: Roberta Deeks
Released: September 22, 2009
Type: TV
The exploits of the Los Angeles–based Office of Special Projects (OSP), an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service that specializes in undercover assignments.
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Title: Parks and Recreation
Character: Marlene Knope
Released: April 9, 2009
Type: TV
In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.
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Title: Eli Stone
Released: January 31, 2008
Type: TV
Many lawyers consider themselves prophets, but Eli Stone may be the real deal. Eli has built a successful career at a top law firm in San Francisco representing only the biggest and richest corporations that make a habit of screwing over the little guy. But after experiencing a series of odd hallucinations, Eli seeks to find a deeper meaning to life while trying not to lose his job and destroy his relationship with the bosses' daughter. When Eli discovers an aneurysm in his brain, he wonders if his condition is truly medical or if perhaps he now has a higher calling.
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Title: Jericho
Character: Gail Green
Released: September 20, 2006
Type: TV
Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.
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Title: Pepper Dennis
Released: April 4, 2006
Type: TV
Pepper Dennis is a reporter hoping to move into the anchor chair. She may or may not have helped her career ambitions by having a one-night stand with the guy who turns out to be her new boss.
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Title: Criminal Minds
Character: Mary Bidwell
Released: September 22, 2005
Type: TV
An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU who returns to help the team solve new cases.
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Title: Grey's Anatomy
Character: Mrs. Banks
Released: March 27, 2005
Type: TV
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
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Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't
Title: Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't
Character: Fran Henkel
Released: February 18, 2005
Type: Movie
The Declaration Of Independence is stolen while on display in a Los Angeles Bank. The NSA with the assistance of a puzzle slover Code Name Jane Doe becomes involved and solves the mystery.
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Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Title: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Character: Esther Shapiro
Released: January 2, 2005
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes of Aaron Spelling's nighttime soap opera.
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Life of the Party
Title: Life of the Party
Character: Evelyn
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A group of friends plan an intervention to help their pal address his drinking problem. Things go awry when the shrink they hired fails to show up
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Title: Tanner on Tanner
Character: T.J. Cavanaugh
Released: October 5, 2004
Type: TV
Sixteen years ago, Jack Tanner's bid for the White House ended at the 1988 Democratic convention. Now the former congressman is the subject of a documentary film directed by his daughter Alex focusing on the toll paid by failed contenders.
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Proof of Life
Title: Proof of Life
Character: Janis Goodman
Released: December 8, 2000
Type: Movie
Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Character: Donna Hoppe
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: TV
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
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Title: Judging Amy
Character: Sarah
Released: September 19, 1999
Type: TV
Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character is a judge who serves in a family court, and in addition to the family-related cases that she adjudicates, many episodes of the show focus on her own experiences as a divorced mother, and on the experiences of her mother, a social worker who works in the field of child welfare. This series was based on the life experiences of Brenneman's mother.
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Standing on Fishes
Title: Standing on Fishes
Character: Janice
Released: August 7, 1999
Type: Movie
Set in contemporary LA, the twisted journey of a sculptor unfolds, in his never-ending battle to maintain artistic integrity and still make a living.
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Why Do Fools Fall In Love
Title: Why Do Fools Fall In Love
Character: Judge Lambrey
Released: August 28, 1998
Type: Movie
In the mid-80s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager, Morris Levy. One is an L.A. singer, formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philly; one teaches school in a small Georgia town. Each claims to be the widow of long-dead doo-wop singer-songwriter Frankie Lyman, and each wants years of royalties due to his estate, money Levy has never shared. During an ensuing civil trial, flashbacks tell the story of each one's life with Lyman, a boyish, high-pitched, dynamic performer, lost to heroin. Slowly, the three wives establish their own bond.
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Carriers
Title: Carriers
Character: Holly Parker
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A military woman and a worried mother travel overseas and to New Mexico to investigate a deadly virus.
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Bean
Title: Bean
Character: Alison Langley
Released: July 3, 1997
Type: Movie
Childlike Englishman, Mr. Bean, is an incompetent watchman at the Royal National Gallery. After the museum's board of directors' attempt to have him fired is blocked by the chairman, who has taken a liking to Bean, they send him to Los Angeles to act as their ambassador for the unveiling of a historic painting to humiliate him. Fooled, Mr. Bean must now successfully unveil the painting or risk his and a hapless Los Angeles curator's termination.
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Santa Fe
Title: Santa Fe
Character: Nancy Vigil
Released: June 25, 1997
Type: Movie
A cop finds that his wife and daughter are involved in a New Age cult when he returns home after eight months.
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Critical Choices
Title: Critical Choices
Character: Arlene Dickens
Released: December 8, 1996
Type: Movie
A Milwaukee Women's Health Clinic becomes the battleground between pro-choice activists and right-to-life demonstrators over and Easter Sunday weekend and involves three different women, each representing different sides of the issue.
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The Man Next Door
Title: The Man Next Door
Character: Wanda Gilmore
Released: January 18, 1996
Type: Movie
Residents of a small town struggle when a paroled rapist moves into the area.
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Title: The Home Court
Character: Judge Sydney J. Solomon
Released: September 30, 1995
Type: TV
The Home Court is an American sitcom that aired from September 30, 1995 to June 22, 1996 on NBC. The series starred Pamela Reed as a judge and mother who tried to juggle her home and professional lives.
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Deadly Whispers
Title: Deadly Whispers
Character: Carol Acton
Released: May 10, 1995
Type: Movie
Tom Acton: a strict but loving father whose only wish is for a safe, kind world for his family. His main worry: his l9·year old daughter, Kathy, a pretty and flirtatious girl who thinks nothing of having an affair with a married man. Even worse, she suspects that an old boyfriend is stalking her. Then one day, Kathy goes missing. Tom and his wife, Carol, are convinced that Kathy has been abducted and are devastated when the police find a body, shot to death and horribly mutilated. The Actons refuse to believe it could be Kathy, but as the police detective assigned to the case begins to dig deeper, he confronts Carol with a terrible possibility, that the truth behind the killing could lie very close to home.
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Junior
Title: Junior
Character: Angela
Released: November 22, 1994
Type: Movie
A research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man in order to test a drug he and a colleague have designed for expectant women. To carry out the trial, he has an embryo implant, believing that he will only carry the baby for three months – hardly expecting to face the prospect of giving birth.
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Title: The Critic
Released: January 26, 1994
Type: TV
The Critic is an American prime time animated series created by writing partners Al Jean and Mike Reiss, who had previously worked as writers and showrunners on The Simpsons. The show follows the life of a 36-year-old film critic from New York named Jay Sherman, voiced by Jon Lovitz. 23 episodes were produced, first broadcast on ABC in 1994 and finishing its original run on Fox in 1995.
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Title: Family Album
Character: Denise Lerner
Released: September 24, 1993
Type: TV
Family Album is an American sitcom that aired from September 24 until November 12, 1993.
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Born Too Soon
Title: Born Too Soon
Character: Elizabeth Mehren
Released: April 25, 1993
Type: Movie
American television film about the life of Emily Butterfield, a baby girl who was born prematurely and died 53 days after her birth.
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Bob Roberts
Title: Bob Roberts
Character: Anchor, Carol Cruise
Released: September 4, 1992
Type: Movie
Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the filmmakers follow his campaign, Robbins gives needle-sharp insight into the way candidates manipulate the media.
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Passed Away
Title: Passed Away
Character: Terry Scanlan Pinter
Released: April 24, 1992
Type: Movie
Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving eccentric Scanian clan are drawn together in a test of familial endurance that soon has them at each other's throats.
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Woman With a Past
Title: Woman With a Past
Character: Dee Johnson
Released: March 2, 1992
Type: Movie
A woman lives a normal life with her second husband and her two sons of the first marriage. One day she is caught by her past and the film reveales in flashbacks her stations of life until the day the police found her in her new life: First marriage, alcohol addiction, robberies, prison, escape from prison, search for work, second marriage, fight for the children,... In the end she has not only to fight for her freedom but also for the respect and love of her betrayed children and husband.
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Kindergarten Cop
Title: Kindergarten Cop
Character: Det. Phoebe O'Hara
Released: December 21, 1990
Type: Movie
Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord while at the same time protecting the man's young son. Pitted against a class of boisterous moppets whose antics try his patience and test his mettle, Kimble may have met his match … in more ways than one.
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Title: The Civil War
Character: Various
Released: September 23, 1990
Type: TV
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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Cadillac Man
Title: Cadillac Man
Character: Tina
Released: May 18, 1990
Type: Movie
Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two-timing), a missing teenage daughter and an ex-wife.
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Caroline?
Title: Caroline?
Character: Grace Carmichael
Released: April 29, 1990
Type: Movie
Hallmark Hall of Fame presents the story of a mysterious woman claiming to be the deceased daughter of a rich man tries to solve the problems of his untrusting son and supposedly physically and mentally handicaped daughter. But one question stands in her way: is she really Caroline?
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Chattahoochee
Title: Chattahoochee
Character: Earlene
Released: April 20, 1990
Type: Movie
In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.
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Title: Grand
Character: Janice Pasetti
Released: January 18, 1990
Type: TV
In the piano-making town of Grand, Pennsylvania, Janice Pasetti keeps house for factory owner Harris Weldon, his newlywed niece and her husband, while raising her teenage daughter.
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Title: The Simpsons
Character: Ruth Powers (voice)
Released: December 17, 1989
Type: TV
Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.
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Title: Hemingway
Character: Mary Welsh
Released: April 25, 1988
Type: TV
Ernest Hemingway attained celebrity at the age of twenty-five. Some of his novels are among the greatest bestsellers of American literature. His life is a legend woven with countless passions, encounters and experiences. This colossus of a man was a novelist, journalist polemicist, playwright, hunter, fisherman, adventurer... A globetrotter with a hermit's soul, he went through three wars, had a life-long romance with danger, and made death his closest companion and his main source of inspiration. The son of a Puritan family, he was also a pleasure seeker. A self-confessed male chauvinist, he thought of Woman as a muse, a worshipper, a second mother. His four wives- Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gellhorn and Mary Welsh - represented both his mirror and his straight man, seeking to appease his torments and contradictions and to accompany him to the end of his dreams.
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Title: Tanner '88
Character: T.J. Cavanaugh
Released: February 15, 1988
Type: TV
In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize–winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran him alongside the other hopefuls during the primary season, and presented their media campaign as a cross between a soap opera and TV news. The result was the groundbreaking Tanner ’88, a piercing satire of media-age American politics.
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Rachel River
Title: Rachel River
Character: Mary Graving
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A divorced mother pursues her career as a radio personality in rural Minnesota.
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Title: L.A. Law
Character: Norma Heisler
Released: September 15, 1986
Type: TV
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
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The Best of Times
Title: The Best of Times
Character: Gigi Hightower
Released: January 31, 1986
Type: Movie
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.
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The Clan of the Cave Bear
Title: The Clan of the Cave Bear
Character: Iza
Released: January 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Natural changes have the clans moving. Iza, medicine woman of the "Clan of the Cave Bear" finds little Ayla from the "others"' clan - tradition would have the clan kill Ayla immediately, but Iza insists on keeping her. When the little one finds a most needed new cave, she's allowed to stay - and thrive.
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Scandal Sheet
Title: Scandal Sheet
Character: Helen Grant
Released: January 21, 1985
Type: Movie
The publisher of a celebrity gossip tabloid sets out to destroy an aging actor, whose career is foundering and who is also facing a battle with alcoholism.
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The Goodbye People
Title: The Goodbye People
Character: Nancie Scot
Released: September 11, 1984
Type: Movie
An elderly man is determined to reopen the Coney Island boardwalk hot dog stand he closed twenty-two years earlier for renovation, despite the fact he's recovering from a severe heart attack and it's the middle of February.
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Heart of Steel
Title: Heart of Steel
Character: Valerie
Released: December 4, 1983
Type: Movie
A steel factory that employs most of the town shuts down, leaving a man desperate to keep his family and friends together while alcohol consumes him in this depressing drama.
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The Right Stuff
Title: The Right Stuff
Character: Trudy Cooper
Released: October 20, 1983
Type: Movie
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings forth momentous challenges.
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I Want to Live
Title: I Want to Live
Character: Edie Bannister
Released: May 9, 1983
Type: Movie
The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her participation in a hold up in which a person was killed.
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Young Doctors in Love
Title: Young Doctors in Love
Character: Nurse Norine Sprockett
Released: July 16, 1982
Type: Movie
An 'Airplane!'-style spoof of hospital soap operas—a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight of blood; a doctor romances the head nurse in order to get the key to the drugs cabinet; and there's a mafioso on the loose disguised as a woman.
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Inmates: A Love Story
Title: Inmates: A Love Story
Character: Sunny
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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Eyewitness
Title: Eyewitness
Character: Linda Mercer
Released: February 13, 1981
Type: Movie
NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued when she shows up to cover a story at his workplace. There's been a murder in the office building, and Tony suspects that Daryll may have insight into the crime, a notion that he furthers to stay close to her. However, when those behind the killing begin to think that he really knows something, they target the pair to keep their secrets hidden.
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Melvin and Howard
Title: Melvin and Howard
Character: Bonnie Dummar
Released: September 19, 1980
Type: Movie
The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.
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The Long Riders
Title: The Long Riders
Character: Belle Starr
Released: May 16, 1980
Type: Movie
The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.
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All's Well That Ends Well
Title: All's Well That Ends Well
Character: Helena
Released: October 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Video recording of a 1978 New York Shakespeare Festival performance. Directed for stage by Wilford Leach and videotaped by Jaime Caro.
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Title: The Andros Targets
Character: Sandi Farrell
Released: January 31, 1977
Type: TV
James Sutorious star as Mike Andros, a newspaper investigative reporter who seeks out corruption and injustice in this this action-drama series.
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Title: Spencer's Pilots
Released: September 17, 1976
Type: TV
Spencer's Pilots is an American adventure series that aired on CBS from September 17 to November 19, 1976. The series stars Gene Evans as Spencer Parish, the owner of Spencer Aviation.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Grace Carmichael
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.