Helen Hughes

Helen Hughes

Born: January 8, 1918
Died: April 3, 2018
in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for Helen Hughes...

Harlan County War
Title: Harlan County War
Character: Aunt Melva Jones
Released: May 19, 2000
Type: Movie
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
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Title: Storm of the Century
Character: Roberta Coign
Released: February 14, 1999
Type: TV
When a blizzard hits an isolated island town it brings with it a mysterious stranger intent on terrorizing the people for a sinister purpose.
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Locked in Silence
Title: Locked in Silence
Character: Grandma
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A story of a young boy who becomes an elective mute after witnessing what he believes to be the killing by his older brother of a teenage boy. The young boy's brother then tells him not to say anything because of the trouble it would cause in the family... so he doesn't say anything again. The problem is that the young boy so enjoys his acceptance by others of his mutism that it brings his family, a loving and caring farm family, to the brink of financial ruin in medical and psychological costs to cure him. Based on a true story, this is the intelligent telling of a family in crisis, and the work of doctors in dealing with this mental illness.
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Evidence of Blood
Title: Evidence of Blood
Character: Betty Raines
Released: April 13, 1998
Type: Movie
When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst fears.
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Moonlight Becomes You
Title: Moonlight Becomes You
Character: Greta Shipley
Released: January 11, 1998
Type: Movie
At a party in Manhattan, Maggie Holloway—one of the fashion world’s most successful photographers—is thrilled to be reunited with her beloved stepmother. A widow now, Nuala Moore is equally delighted to see her long-lost stepdaughter, and she invites Maggie to spend a few weeks at her home in Newport, Rhode Island. But when Maggie arrives, she finds Nuala murdered, apparently by a burglar. Heartbroken, Maggie is stunned to learn she had inherited Nuala’s stunning Victorian home...and horrified when she begins to suspect that Nuala’s death was not random, but part of a diabolical plot conceived by a twisted mind.
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Never Too Late
Title: Never Too Late
Character: Eunice
Released: August 26, 1996
Type: Movie
Four old friends reunite to investigate the death of a good friend.
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Night of the Twisters
Title: Night of the Twisters
Character: Grandma Belle Hatch
Released: February 18, 1996
Type: Movie
A coming-of-age story, adapted from Irv Ruckman's 1984 novel, about a teenager who bonds with his stepfather while the Blainsworth, Nebraska farm family battles a series of killer twisters.
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Title: Goosebumps
Character: Grandma Rose
Released: October 27, 1995
Type: TV
Anything can turn spooky in this horror anthology series based on the best-selling books by master of kid horror, R.L. Stine. In every episode, see what happens when regular kids find themselves in scary situations, and how they work to confront and overcome their fears.
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Tommy Boy
Title: Tommy Boy
Character: Boardroom Lady
Released: March 31, 1995
Type: Movie
To save the family business, two ne’er-do-well traveling salesmen hit the road with disastrously funny consequences.
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Billy Madison
Title: Billy Madison
Character: 2nd Grade Teacher
Released: February 10, 1995
Type: Movie
Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his father's empire, but only if he can make it through all 12 grades, 2 weeks per grade, to prove that he has what it takes to run the family business.
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Title: Due South
Character: Mrs. Tucci
Released: September 22, 1994
Type: TV
Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.
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Rapture
Title: Rapture
Character: Kitty
Released: March 11, 1993
Type: Movie
A computer software designer becomes obsessed with his now-married high-school crush of 20 years before.
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Giant Steps
Title: Giant Steps
Character: High School Teacher
Released: September 12, 1992
Type: Movie
A boy with an alcoholic father befriends a jazz musician.
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Last Wish
Title: Last Wish
Character: Emma
Released: January 12, 1992
Type: Movie
A woman with cancer seeks the assistance of her daughter in fulfilling her last wish - a wish to die with dignity.
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Falling Over Backwards
Title: Falling Over Backwards
Character: Rose
Released: August 23, 1990
Type: Movie
All Melvyn Rosenbloom wants is to go back to the days when things were simpler and people were kinder -- the good old days. Deciding to renounce women altogether, he finds a house in his old neighbourhood and persuades his elderly crotchety father Harvey to move in with him. Harvey is something of a comic and, as Mel rediscovers, none too easy to live with. To add to the friction, there's the landlady, Jackie. From Mel's point of view as an aspiring celibate, she's all wrong: far too intelligent, attractive and unconventional. But, strangely enough, Jackie becomes the focus of the Rosenblooms' refashioned lives.
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The Amityville Curse
Title: The Amityville Curse
Character: Mrs. Moriarty
Released: May 7, 1990
Type: Movie
After purchasing a property in Amityville, New York, Debbie and her husband invite three of their closest friends to help renovate. Immediately uneasy in her new surroundings, she begins experiencing shockingly vivid nightmares.
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Sorry, Wrong Number
Title: Sorry, Wrong Number
Character: Ms. Jennings
Released: October 11, 1989
Type: Movie
Based on a famous play, follows a bedridden wife who overhears a murder plan on her phone. She tries to piece the puzzle together and prevent it.
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Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird
Title: Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird
Character: Mrs. Mandel
Released: August 12, 1989
Type: Movie
In the 1950s, a teenage boy struggles as his happy family is broken apart when the father he idolizes develops cancer.
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Andrea Martin... Together Again
Title: Andrea Martin... Together Again
Released: July 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Nightclub performer makes a comeback.
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Title: War of the Worlds
Character: Kate Barrows
Released: October 7, 1988
Type: TV
Humanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation following their defeat in the 1950s. The fate of Earth may very well rest in the hands of a small yet courageous band: astrophysicist Harrison Blackwood, paraplegic computer wizard Norton Drake, microbiologist Suzanne McCullough and military man Paul Ironhorse.
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Hot Paint
Title: Hot Paint
Released: March 20, 1988
Type: Movie
Two losers rob a rich guy and discover that, among the loot, they've taken a rare painting worth $2.8 million. John Larroquette plays his usual rude, selfish character-here named Gus - and he suckers Willy (Gregory Harrison) into his scheme to rob the mansion. The two losers have to try to figure out how to sell the valuable but high-profile item without getting busted. They travel the world looking for potential buyers but always end up short. Everyone can see that they are novices in the art world and buffoons in general.
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Blue Monkey
Title: Blue Monkey
Character: Marwella
Released: September 25, 1987
Type: Movie
While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency room where the doctors diagnose him as suffering from an unknown bacteria, and a strange parasite which emerges from his mouth as a large slimy wormlike creature. Soon, there are more cases of bacterial infection, but the more immediate problem for the hospital is the wormlike creature which after accidental exposure to a genetic growth stimulant grows to monstrous proportions and starts a reign of terror and bloodshed in the hospitals abandoned wing.
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The Kidnapping of Baby John Doe
Title: The Kidnapping of Baby John Doe
Character: Aunt Helen
Released: July 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A mother gives birth to an infant with Down Syndrome. The doctor advises that the child has multiple medical problems and advises that she "allow nature to take it's course". The child's crib is pushed into a closet because the hospital staff can no longer stand his screams as he is not being fed. One of the nurses smuggles him out of the hospital and has an intern come to do the minor but lifesaving corrective surgery on her kitchen table.
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The Peanut Butter Solution
Title: The Peanut Butter Solution
Character: Mary
Released: December 6, 1985
Type: Movie
Peanut butter is the secret ingredient for magic potions made by two friendly ghosts. Eleven-year-old Michael loses all of his hair when he gets a fright and uses the potion to get his hair back, but too much peanut butter causes things to get a bit hairy.
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My Father, My Rival
Title: My Father, My Rival
Character: Gussie
Released: March 3, 1985
Type: Movie
A student with a crush on his teacher becomes even more frustrated when his widowed father begins going out with the woman.
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The Suicide Murders
Title: The Suicide Murders
Character: Sophie Cooperman
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
The apparent suicide of a politician he was hired to follow drags private detective Benny Cooperman into a whirlwind of hard boiled double crosses and psychotherapy whose roots lie in a decades-old unsolved murder.
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For Those I Loved
Title: For Those I Loved
Character: Martin's Grandmother
Released: October 12, 1983
Type: Movie
Polish Martin Gray recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife and family.
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Till Death Do Us Part
Title: Till Death Do Us Part
Released: June 18, 1982
Type: Movie
Three troubled couples attend a two day marital retreat in hopes of saving their marriages. Unbeknownst to them, their psychiatrist is not who they think he is.
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The Lucky Star
Title: The Lucky Star
Character: Rose Goldberg
Released: May 28, 1982
Type: Movie
In the war-torn Netherlands, a local Jewish boy has vivid escapist fantasies of being in a Hollywood western where good always triumphs.
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Visiting Hours
Title: Visiting Hours
Character: Louise Shepherd
Released: May 21, 1982
Type: Movie
A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.
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Incubus
Title: Incubus
Character: Agatha Galen
Released: February 24, 1982
Type: Movie
In the small New England town of Galen, a young teenage boy claims he has dreams of young women being brutally raped and murdered. A doctor and the local sheriff discover that the boy's dreams are real and that a sinister occult might be behind the brutal murders. They must track down the vicious killer, who may be the indestructible incarnation of a demon spawned from hell.
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The Princess and the Cabbie
Title: The Princess and the Cabbie
Character: Woman in Bar
Released: November 3, 1981
Type: Movie
A young woman works to overcome her dyslexia with the help of a good-hearted cab driver.
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Suzanne
Title: Suzanne
Character: Mrs. Callaghan
Released: September 18, 1981
Type: Movie
An unhappy married woman has an affair with a violent criminal. She gets pregnant with his baby, but he gets arrested and goes to prison. Now what?
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Evil Stalks This House
Title: Evil Stalks This House
Character: Maggie
Released: July 12, 1981
Type: Movie
Jack Palance stars as a self-serving, abusive boor who becomes stranded (along with his two children) by a thunderstorm, forcing them to take shelter in an isolated country estate owned by a group of mysterious and wealthy old dowagers. Seeing a golden opportunity, Palance soon turns to plundering their estate, but his plans collide with the secret activities of a Satanic snake-cult who carry out ritual sacrifices in the attic.
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Middle Age Crazy
Title: Middle Age Crazy
Character: Ruth
Released: July 25, 1980
Type: Movie
A married man is turning forty and that's when the midlife crisis hits ...
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Wild Horse Hank
Title: Wild Horse Hank
Character: Mrs. Webley
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A teenage girl tries to save a herd of wild horses from a local gang intending on capturing and selling them for dog meat. Unfortunately the nearest Federal land where the horses will be safe lies one hundred and fifty miles away, over badlands and a mountain range.
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Outrageous!
Title: Outrageous!
Character: Mrs. Connors
Released: July 31, 1977
Type: Movie
Gay hair stylist Robin Turner does a lot of work for drag queens, all the while dreaming that he'll someday find the courage to perform in drag himself. When his schizophrenic friend, Liza, turns up looking for a place to stay, the two form an increasingly tight bond, Robin helping Liza through an unplanned pregnancy and Liza pushing Robin to develop a successful nightclub act.