Joan Hackett

Joan Hackett

Born: March 1, 1934
Died: October 8, 1983
in East Harlem, New York City, New York, U.S.
Joan Ann Hackett (March 1, 1934 – October 8, 1983) was an American actress.

Movies for Joan Hackett...

Flicks
Title: Flicks
Character: Capt. Grace
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A parody of Saturday afternoon matinee's, including coming attractions and a cartoon.
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The Escape Artist
Title: The Escape Artist
Character: Aunt Sibyl
Released: May 28, 1982
Type: Movie
The young and self-confident Danny bluffs at the local police-station that he will escape from prison within an hour. What follows is a flashback showing his childhood with his uncle and aunt, who are 'vaudeville'-artists themselves.
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Paper Dolls
Title: Paper Dolls
Character: Julia Blake
Released: May 24, 1982
Type: Movie
Pilot for the TV series introduces the mothers of teenage fashion models who market their daughters for a powerful agent.
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The Long Summer of George Adams
Title: The Long Summer of George Adams
Character: Norma
Released: January 18, 1982
Type: Movie
A middle-age man, in small-town Middle America, lives a momentous year in the mid-20th century.
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Only When I Laugh
Title: Only When I Laugh
Character: Toby
Released: September 25, 1981
Type: Movie
A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze.
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One Trick Pony
Title: One Trick Pony
Character: Lonnie Fox
Released: October 3, 1980
Type: Movie
An aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's struggling to save his failing marriage.
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The Long Days of Summer
Title: The Long Days of Summer
Character: Millie Cooper
Released: May 23, 1980
Type: Movie
In this sequel to his 1978 "When Every Day Was the Fourth of July" (and a pilot to a prospective series), producer/director Dan Curtis recalls more of his youth during the late '30, and follows a fictionalized family where the father has jeopardized a promising law career to defend a Jewish immigrant against the prejudices of a staid New England town.
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Title: Trapper John, M.D.
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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Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
Title: Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
Character: Self (voice)
Released: September 20, 1979
Type: Movie
Mike O'Donoghue's parody of "Mondo Cane" showcases curious performers, strange musicians, celebrity mutations and unusual short films, including Thomas Alva Edison's "Elephant Electrocution". In the tradition of films like Groove Tube (1974), The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), and Saturday Night Live.
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Brenda
Released: March 24, 1979
Type: TV
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
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Title: Sweepstakes
Released: January 26, 1979
Type: TV
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Pleasure Cove
Title: Pleasure Cove
Character: Martha Harrison
Released: January 3, 1979
Type: Movie
The story of a posh seaside vacation resort, and the lives and adventures of its guests and staff.
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Title: Mourning Becomes Electra
Character: Christine Mannon
Released: December 6, 1978
Type: TV
In a Greek tragedy updated to the 1860s, young New Englanders exact vengeance after the murder of their father.
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Title: Taxi
Character: Charlotte Reiger
Released: September 12, 1978
Type: TV
Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied and strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his “cage,” they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.
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Title: Another Day
Released: April 8, 1978
Type: TV
Another Day is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from April 8, 1978 to April 29, 1978. The series stars David Groh and Joan Hackett as a married couple, both of whom hold down full-time jobs, and their family.
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Title: The Love Boat
Character: Tina Phillips
Released: September 24, 1977
Type: TV
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
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The Possessed
Title: The Possessed
Character: Louise Gelson
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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Dead of Night
Title: Dead of Night
Character: Mother
Released: March 29, 1977
Type: Movie
This anthology tells three stories: a man buys a car that takes him back and forth through time; a tale of vampires; and a distraught mother asks for her drowned son to come back to life and gets more than she bargained for.
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Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
Title: Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
Character: Jessica Hilliard
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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Treasure of Matecumbe
Title: Treasure of Matecumbe
Character: Lauriette
Released: July 1, 1976
Type: Movie
In post-Civil War Kentucky, young David Burnic becomes the unexpected heir to the family secret, a map leading to buried treasure on the Florida isle of Matecumbe.
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The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
Title: The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
Character: Belva Lockwood
Released: May 20, 1976
Type: Movie
Developed from Anne Grant's book, Our North American Foremothers, this film recreates historical moments and women who fought for equality and freedom over the span of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
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Mackintosh and T.J.
Title: Mackintosh and T.J.
Character: Maggie
Released: November 21, 1975
Type: Movie
Roy is a ranch hand and a drifter. He takes a young man into his care and helps him to grow up.
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Reflections of Murder
Title: Reflections of Murder
Character: Claire Elliott
Released: November 24, 1974
Type: Movie
The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy's school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the school and await for it to surface. After several days, some unusual circumstances point to clues that he is not dead after all.
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The Terminal Man
Title: The Terminal Man
Character: Dr. Janet Ross
Released: June 19, 1974
Type: Movie
As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. The procedure is not entirely successful.
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The Last of Sheila
Title: The Last of Sheila
Character: Lee
Released: June 14, 1973
Type: Movie
A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game — but the game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
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Class of '63
Title: Class of '63
Character: Louise Swerner
Released: March 14, 1973
Type: Movie
A jealous husband uses a college reunion to gauge whether or not his wife is still in love with her old flame.
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Rivals
Title: Rivals
Character: Christine
Released: August 16, 1972
Type: Movie
A boy with an unhealthy and pathological attachment to his mother becomes increasingly jealous of the new man in her life. After his mother remarries, his rage and misery overwhelm him and he plots to kill his stepfather.
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Lights Out
Title: Lights Out
Character: Sabina the Dollmaker
Released: January 15, 1972
Type: Movie
A toymaker develops a method to create dolls that kill. This was a pilot for a proposed but unrealized TV series to be titled "Light Out!," based on the much earlier radio program of the same name.
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Five Desperate Women
Title: Five Desperate Women
Character: Dorian
Released: September 28, 1971
Type: Movie
Five young women find themselves at the mercy of a mysterious killer while vacationing on an isolated island.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Self
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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Title: Alias Smith and Jones
Released: January 5, 1971
Type: TV
Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of cousin outlaws trying to reform. The governor offers them a conditional amnesty, as he wants to keep the pact under wraps for political reasons. The condition is that they will still be wanted— until the governor can claim they have reformed and warrant clemency.
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The Other Man
Title: The Other Man
Character: Kathy Maitland
Released: October 19, 1970
Type: Movie
The neglected wife of an ambitious district attorney starts an affair with an ex-convict he had sent to prison. When her lover is found murdered, she begins to suspect that her husband did it.
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How Awful About Allan
Title: How Awful About Allan
Character: Olive
Released: September 22, 1970
Type: Movie
After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.
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The Young Country
Title: The Young Country
Character: Clementine Hale
Released: March 17, 1970
Type: Movie
An adventurous young gambler searches for the owner of a mysterious fortune.
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Support Your Local Sheriff!
Title: Support Your Local Sheriff!
Character: Prudy Perkins
Released: March 26, 1969
Type: Movie
In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.
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Title: The Name of the Game
Character: Jean Thorndyke
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
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Title: The Dick Cavett Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 6, 1968
Type: TV
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
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Assignment to Kill
Title: Assignment to Kill
Character: Dominique Laurant
Released: May 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.
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Will Penny
Title: Will Penny
Character: Catherine Allen
Released: December 19, 1967
Type: Movie
Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start developing a deep love for one another.
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Title: Judd for the Defense
Released: September 8, 1967
Type: TV
High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases throughout the U.S.
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The Group
Title: The Group
Character: Dottie
Released: March 4, 1966
Type: Movie
It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, and shows, in a serialized style, their romances and marriages, their searches for careers or meaning in their lives, their highs and their lows.
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Title: Run for Your Life
Character: Diana Murrow
Released: September 13, 1965
Type: TV
Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had previously explored the "man on the move" concept with The Fugitive.
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Title: Daniel Boone
Character: Theodora
Released: September 24, 1964
Type: TV
Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.
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Title: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Released: October 4, 1963
Type: TV
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
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Title: The Great Adventure
Character: Sister Blandina
Released: September 27, 1963
Type: TV
The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, narrated each week by Van Heflin, and featuring theme music by Richard Rodgers, presented a weekly one-hour dramatization of the lives of famous Americans and important historical events in American History.
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Title: Combat!
Character: Gabrielle de Gontran
Released: October 2, 1962
Type: TV
Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders.
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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: Helen Clarvoe
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: TV
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
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Theatre 62: Rebecca
Title: Theatre 62: Rebecca
Character: The Second Mrs. de Winter
Released: April 8, 1962
Type: Movie
A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.
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Title: The New Breed
Character: Angie
Released: October 3, 1961
Type: TV
The New Breed is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from October 3, 1961 to June 5, 1962, with thirty-six episodes.
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Title: Ben Casey
Released: October 2, 1961
Type: TV
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.
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Title: Dr. Kildare
Character: Karen Welby
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: TV
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
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Title: The Defenders
Character: Joan Miller
Released: September 16, 1961
Type: TV
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Title: Bonanza
Character: Margarita Miguel
Released: September 12, 1959
Type: TV
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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Title: Bonanza
Character: Judith Corman
Released: September 12, 1959
Type: TV
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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Title: Young Doctor Malone
Released: December 29, 1958
Type: TV
Young Doctor Malone is an American soap opera, created by Irna Phillips, which had a long run on radio and television from 1939 to 1963. The producer was Betty Corday, who also produced Pepper Young's Family and later was a co-creator with husband Ted Corday of NBC Daytime's Days of our Lives. Sponsored by General Foods and Post Cereals, the radio serial began on the Blue Network on November 20, 1939. The 15-minute program aired daily at 11:15am, continuing until April 26, 1940. Without a break, it moved to CBS on April 29, 1940, where it was heard for two decades, first airing at 2:00pm weekdays and then 1:30pm. In 1945, Procter & Gamble assumed sponsorship of the program.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Sylvia Colton
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Mady Arthur
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.