Ann Dusenberry

Ann Dusenberry

Born: September 13, 1953
in Tucson, Arizona, USA
Ann Dusenberry (born September 13, 1953) is an American film, television, and stage actress. As a young child Ann’s desire to work in the theatre was deeply nurtured at the local YWCA in Tucson, Arizona where she studied classical theatre with Mary MacMurtrie, performing in plays twice a year until she was 14. She came west to Los Angeles to complete her bachelor’s degree in theatre arts at Occidental College. With 8 years of summer repertory theatre at Occidental and her degree in hand Ann made her foray into Hollywood. She auditioned at Universal Studios and secured a position as an actor under contract there. Between 1976 and 1980 Ann was seen in most every television show Universal made, including ‘Remington Steele’, ‘Simon and Simon’, ‘Murder She Wrote’ and ‘Matlock’. Ann starred in Universal’s made for television mini-series “Little Women” and several other films for TV. While under contract with the studio Ann co-starred in “Jaws II”, and was loaned out to other studios to star in their films. Those films include “Cutter’s Way” with Jeff Bridges and “Heartbeat” with Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek. Her most memorable television series was “Life with Lucy” in which she played Lucille Ball’s daughter. While in L.A., Ann starred at the Los Angeles Theatre Company in Israel Horowitz’ “Strong Man’s Weak Child”, and Derek Walcott’s “Viva Detroit”.

Before moving to Santa Barbara Ann went back to school to study psychology and received her MA in Marriage and Family Therapy. Ann then put her career on hold, married Brad Fiedel, a film composer, and became mother to two girls, Alixandra and Zoe.

As her children have grown, Ann has ventured back into the theatre in Santa Barbara performing at the Garvin Theatre in “You Can’t Take It with You”, and at the Jerkowitz Theatre in “Anton in Show Business”. Ann has enjoyed working with young people in the theatre here in Santa Barbara. She has directed and produced plays at the Waldorf School that include “Romeo and Juliet”, “The Importance of Being Ernest”, “Much Ado About Nothing”, A Comedy of Errors” among others. Ann is currently serving as Artistic Director of Actors’ Conservatory Theatre in Santa Barbara where she lives.

Movies for Ann Dusenberry...

Play Nice
Title: Play Nice
Character: Pam Crichmore
Released: November 11, 1992
Type: Movie
A serial killer is on the loose, and a cop must track him (or her) down.
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Title: Life with Lucy
Character: Margo McGibbon
Released: September 20, 1986
Type: TV
Life With Lucy is an American sitcom starring Lucille Ball. The show ran on the ABC network in 1986 not on the CBS network as her previous shows had and unlike Ball's previous programs, it was a critical and ratings flop. Only eight out of the thirteen episodes that were filmed aired before ABC cancelled the series. It is the very last sitcom she starred in before her death in 1989.
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The Men's Club
Title: The Men's Club
Character: Page
Released: September 19, 1986
Type: Movie
Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.
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Long Time Gone
Title: Long Time Gone
Character: Marilyn
Released: May 23, 1986
Type: Movie
A "world-class screw-up" private eye finds his world and his attention changed when he is reunited with his estranged 11-year old son.
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Basic Training
Title: Basic Training
Character: Melinda
Released: November 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Melinda comes to Washington DC to visit her friend Debbie, and to find a job in government, where she hopes to do her part to make it better. She gets a lower echelon administrative position at the Pentagon, and finds things pretty slack. Her boss seems to be more interested in getting into her pants than trying to find lost data on the Russians. Melinda resists his advances and begins working her way up in the Pentagon, finding subtle ways of getting her policies implemented by manipulating the slovenly males that populate the Pentagon, including finding a way to defuse the mounting conflict with the Russians
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Title: MacGruder and Loud
Character: Elaine Kinney
Released: January 21, 1985
Type: TV
MacGruder and Loud is an American crime drama from Aaron Spelling Productions that aired on ABC in 1985. The series stars John Getz and Kathryn Harrold as married police officers Malcolm MacGruder and Jenny Loud in a Los Angeles Police Department-styled police agency. They fought a battle every day to keep it a closely guarded secret from their boss, Sgt. Hanson. Malcolm and Jenny lived in a duplex-type apartment complex where there was a secret door behind the grandfather clock in her apartment, where Malcolm could sneak in and enjoy her company. This was one of the few failures from Aaron Spelling's production company in its history, since it was picked by ABC to debut right after the Super Bowl in 1985 and was heavily promoted during the game. The promotion resulted in high ratings at first, but following a quick decline, the series was cancelled three months into its run, after ranking 40th out of 104 programs that aired that season with an average 15.76 household rating, according to TVTango.com. Because of the frequent commercials during the Super Bowl, the following night Johnny Carson ask rhetorically during his monologue on The Tonight Show: "Did you see that new show, 'Frequent and Loud'?"
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He's Not Your Son
Title: He's Not Your Son
Character: Holly Barnes
Released: October 3, 1984
Type: Movie
Two couples face the possibility that their infant sons, both born on the same day, were inadvertently switched at the hospital, and a chain of revelations and decisions threatens both families.
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Lies
Title: Lies
Character: Robyn Wallace
Released: June 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Struggling actress accepts high paying job to play a rich heiress committed in a lunatic asylum, not knowing she's really being set up as a surrogate for the real girl who'd been murdered.
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Confessions of a Married Man
Title: Confessions of a Married Man
Character: Jennifer
Released: January 31, 1983
Type: Movie
A middle-aged man suffering from boredom selfishly walks out on his wife and family in search of excitement and adventure. Before he snaps out of his male-menopause moment, he has a brief affair with a much-younger woman named Jennifer.
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Title: Remington Steele
Character: Tracy Crockett / Roxie Tyler
Released: October 1, 1982
Type: TV
Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.
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National Lampoon's Movie Madness
Title: National Lampoon's Movie Madness
Character: Dominique Corsaire ("Success Wanters")
Released: April 23, 1982
Type: Movie
A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.
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Killjoy
Title: Killjoy
Character: Joy Morgan / Elaine Steel
Released: August 24, 1981
Type: Movie
A romantic rivalry leads to an innocent woman's murder. Or is it a hoax crime, part of a cunning deception? At City General Hospital, two young doctors engage in a move-and-countermove rivalry over Laury Medford. It may be more than Laury's beauty that motivates the men. Her father is the hospital's chairman of the board. Marrying her would be an inside track to the chief of staff post. Meanwhile, a senior hospital staffer, who is the mother of one of the two doctors, plots to enhance her son's chances, a mysterious outsider who says he knew the dead woman tails the two men, and Laury may be more than she appears. Murder? Hoax? The answer isn't revealed till the final freeze-frame.
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Cutter's Way
Title: Cutter's Way
Character: Valerie Duran
Released: March 19, 1981
Type: Movie
Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.
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Elvis and the Beauty Queen
Title: Elvis and the Beauty Queen
Character: Jeannie LeMay
Released: March 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young beauty pageant contestant who was his live-in girlfriend and traveling companion for the last four years of his life. The story begins with their first meeting and traces their years together when Thompson tried to keep Presley off drugs in the last years of his career.
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Title: Magnum, P.I.
Character: Katrina Tremaine
Released: December 11, 1980
Type: TV
A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.
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The Secret War of Jackie's Girls
Title: The Secret War of Jackie's Girls
Character: Donna
Released: November 29, 1980
Type: Movie
This prospective pilot to a series tells the improbable story of five American female pilots recruited into the British RAF, before the USA joined the war, to fly a new top-secret aircraft -- the helicopter.
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Heart Beat
Title: Heart Beat
Character: Stevie
Released: April 25, 1980
Type: Movie
An exploration of the relationship between Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and Cassady's wife, Carolyn.
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Title: Trapper John, M.D.
Character: Maggie Nolan
Released: September 23, 1979
Type: TV
Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable doctor who became a mentor and father figure in San Francisco, California. The show ran on CBS from September 23, 1979, to September 4, 1986.
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Title: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Character: Ariela Dyne
Released: September 20, 1979
Type: TV
20th-century astronaut Buck Rogers awakens in the 25th century after a freak accident puts him in suspended animation for 500 years. Upon returning to Earth and discovering the planet is recovering from a nuclear war, Buck uses his combat skills and ingenuity to protect Earth and fight evil throughout the galaxy alongside starfighter pilot Colonel Wilma Deering and robot companion Twiki.
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Desperate Women
Title: Desperate Women
Character: Joanna Dance
Released: October 25, 1978
Type: Movie
A laconic ex-hired gun in the Old West teams up with three scrappy female prisoners abandoned in the desert, two orphaned children, an army deserter, and a group of cantankerous animals, all of whom try to outsmart and outshoot a ratty gang of desperadoes trying to retrieve their boss' girlfriend and the saddle-tramp's secret cargo.
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Title: Little Women
Character: Amy March
Released: October 2, 1978
Type: TV
The two part miniseries chronicles the lives and loves of the four March sisters – Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth – growing up during the American Civil War. While their father leaves for battle, the sisters must rely on each other for strength in the face of tragedies both large and small.
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Jaws 2
Title: Jaws 2
Character: Tina Wilcox
Released: June 16, 1978
Type: Movie
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
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Goodbye, Franklin High
Title: Goodbye, Franklin High
Character: Sharon Browne
Released: April 7, 1978
Type: Movie
Comic melodrama following the day-to-day life of high school senior Will, a promising but naive athlete struggling with choices that could determine his future, romance and family difficulties.
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Tarzana
Title: Tarzana
Character: Thelma
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A private detective takes on a strange case.
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The Possessed
Title: The Possessed
Character: Weezie Sumner
Released: May 1, 1977
Type: Movie
A former priest, now an exorcist, battles the satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.
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Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
Title: Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
Character: Amory Osborn, alias Angel Collins
Released: January 16, 1977
Type: Movie
A female private detective goes undercover as a porno actress to find a millionaire's missing daughter.
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Title: Captains and the Kings
Character: Anne-Marie
Released: September 30, 1976
Type: TV
Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant in late 1800s based on the novel by Taylor Caldwell.
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White Line Fever
Title: White Line Fever
Character: Barmaid
Released: July 16, 1975
Type: Movie
An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.
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Title: The Six Million Dollar Man
Character: Clerk
Released: January 18, 1974
Type: TV
Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent, employed by the OSI, under the command of Oscar Goldman and supervised by the scientist who created his cybernetics, Rudy Wells. Steve uses the superior strength and speed provided by his bionic arm and legs, and the enhanced vision provided by his artificial eye, to fight enemy agents, aliens, mad scientists, and a wide variety of other villains.
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Title: Emergency!
Character: Candy Striper
Released: January 22, 1972
Type: TV
The crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and Rampart Hospital respond to emergencies in their operating area.
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Title: McCloud
Character: Peggy
Released: February 17, 1970
Type: TV
Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator.