Sandy Dennis

Sandy Dennis

Born: April 27, 1937
Died: March 2, 1992
in Hastings, Nebraska, USA
Sandra Dale "Sandy" Dennis (April 27, 1937 – March 2, 1992) was an American actress. She made her film debut in the drama Splendor in the Grass (1961). For her performance in the comedy-drama film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Dennis appeared in the films The Three Sisters (1966), Up the Down Staircase (1967), That Cold Day in the Park (1969), The Out-of-Towners (1970), God Told Me To (1976), The Four Seasons (1981), Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982), and Another Woman (1988). Her final film appearance came in the crime drama film The Indian Runner (1991).

Dennis had a successful career on stage, appearing in the original stage production of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. For her performance in the play A Thousand Clowns, she received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. For her performance in the play Any Wednesday, she received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

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The Indian Runner
Title: The Indian Runner
Character: Mrs. Roberts
Released: September 20, 1991
Type: Movie
Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things which his brother desperately tries to point out to him.
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Parents
Title: Parents
Character: Millie Dew
Released: January 27, 1989
Type: Movie
Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950s suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on the grill outside, but has trouble explaining his fears to his new-found friend Sheila, or the school's social worker.
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976-EVIL
Title: 976-EVIL
Character: Aunt Lucy
Released: December 9, 1988
Type: Movie
A bullied unpopular high school student named Hoax finds an ad for 976-EVIL, a number that provides daily 'horrorscopes'. But when he calls the number he gains demonic powers, which he uses to seek vengeance against those who bullied him.
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Another Woman
Title: Another Woman
Character: Claire
Released: October 13, 1988
Type: Movie
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
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Title: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Helen
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Kay Wesley
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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The Execution
Title: The Execution
Character: Elsa Spahn
Released: January 14, 1985
Type: Movie
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their horror they learn that he has already been tried as a war criminal and has served but a few years for his crimes. They decide that they will "execute" him, drawing lots to determine which one will perform the act, without letting the others know who it is.
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Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Title: Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Character: Mona
Released: November 12, 1982
Type: Movie
On the 20th anniversary of his death, the members of a James Dean fanclub gather at a five-and-dime for a reunion.
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The Animals Film
Title: The Animals Film
Released: October 1, 1981
Type: Movie
The film offers a comprehensive examination of the exploitation of animals in modern society.
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The Four Seasons
Title: The Four Seasons
Character: Anne Callan
Released: May 22, 1981
Type: Movie
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
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Wilson's Reward
Title: Wilson's Reward
Character: Martha James
Released: June 21, 1980
Type: Movie
A missionary in the West Indies tries to change the ways of a drunken womanizer.
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Perfect Gentlemen
Title: Perfect Gentlemen
Character: Sophie Rosenman
Released: March 14, 1978
Type: Movie
Women whose husbands are incarcerated decide to band together to rob a hotel safe.
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Nasty Habits
Title: Nasty Habits
Character: Sister Winifred
Released: January 28, 1977
Type: Movie
In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.
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God Told Me To
Title: God Told Me To
Character: Martha Nicholas
Released: October 22, 1976
Type: Movie
A repressed Catholic NYPD detective uncovers a netherworld of deranged faith, alien insemination and his own unholy connection to a homicidal messiah with a perverse plan for the soul of mankind.
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Mr. Sycamore
Title: Mr. Sycamore
Character: Jane Gwilt
Released: December 12, 1975
Type: Movie
Jason Robards is a man who decides he'd rather be a tree.
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Title: Police Story
Released: March 20, 1973
Type: TV
Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a major step forward in the realistic depiction of police work and violence on network TV. Although it was an anthology, there were certain things that all episodes had in common; for instance, the main character in each episode was a police officer. The setting was always Los Angeles and the characters always worked for some branch of the LAPD. Notwithstanding the anthology format, there were recurring characters. Scott Brady appeared in more than a dozen episodes as "Vinnie," a former cop who, upon retirement, had opened a bar catering to police officers, and who acted as a sort of Greek chorus during the run of the series, commenting on the characters and plots.
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Something Evil
Title: Something Evil
Character: Marjorie Worden
Released: January 21, 1972
Type: Movie
A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants to take possession of the wife.
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The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
Title: The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
Character: Dr. Enid Bingham
Released: December 16, 1970
Type: Movie
A famous heart surgeon finds out that a medical research foundation is being used for shady and illegal purposes.
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The Out-of-Towners
Title: The Out-of-Towners
Character: Gwen Kellerman
Released: May 28, 1970
Type: Movie
George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.
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A Touch of Love
Title: A Touch of Love
Character: Rosamund
Released: September 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader. Against the advice of her best friend, Lydia, Rosamund chooses to keep the baby and adjusts her life to include both her studies and her pregnancy. However, when the baby is born, an unforeseen complication threatens the self-sufficient life Rosamund plans for herself.
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That Cold Day in the Park
Title: That Cold Day in the Park
Character: Frances Austen
Released: June 8, 1969
Type: Movie
Frances Austen, a young, wealthy spinster, invites a mute teenager into her apartment after finding him freezing in the park next to where she lives. Despite her best efforts, their lack of communication only increases her sense of loneliness, as her possessiveness spirals into frightening new realms.
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A Hatful of Rain
Title: A Hatful of Rain
Character: Celia Pope
Released: March 3, 1968
Type: Movie
A 1968 made-for-television remake of the 1957 film, based on the disturbing 1956 Michael V. Gazzo play, as performed by members of The Actors' Studio on ABC (American Broadcasting Company) television.
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Sweet November
Title: Sweet November
Character: Sara Deever
Released: February 8, 1968
Type: Movie
A woman refuses to let her romances last longer than one month.
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The Fox
Title: The Fox
Character: Jill Banford
Released: December 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Jill Banford and Ellen March have built a good life together on a hardscrabble Canadian farm. Then handsome Paul Grenfell enters their isolated world, and sets friend against friend. But is Paul the real trouble between Jill and Ellen? Or has his presence merely awakened the unspoken, unexplored sexual tension that always existed between the women?
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Up the Down Staircase
Title: Up the Down Staircase
Character: Sylvia Barrett
Released: June 28, 1967
Type: Movie
Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork. The following days go from bad to worse as Sylvia struggles to reach her most troubled students.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Title: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Character: Honey
Released: June 22, 1966
Type: Movie
A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.
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The Three Sisters
Title: The Three Sisters
Character: Irina
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters and their brother live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful. But for now they exist in a malaise of dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife. Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes.
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Title: The Fugitive
Character: Cassie Bolin
Released: September 17, 1963
Type: TV
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
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Title: Arrest and Trial
Released: September 15, 1963
Type: TV
Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m. Eastern.
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Splendor in the Grass
Title: Splendor in the Grass
Character: Kay
Released: October 10, 1961
Type: Movie
A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
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Title: Naked City
Character: Eleanor Ann Hubber
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.
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Title: Naked City
Character: Lorraine Kershwood
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.
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Title: Tony Awards
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: TV
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.