Jessie Royce Landis

Jessie Royce Landis

Born: November 25, 1896
Died: February 2, 1972
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Jessie Royce Landis (November 25, 1904 – February 2, 1972) was an American actress.

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Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Title: Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 8, 1987
Type: Movie
A biography of American actress Grace Kelly from her early days as an aspiring actress to her death as Princess of Monaco.
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Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones
Title: Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones
Character: Grandmother Greher
Released: November 16, 1971
Type: Movie
Two high school seniors try to adjust to adult responsibilities when an unexpected pregnancy forces them into marriage.
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Title: Columbo
Character: Mrs. Chadwick
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
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Airport
Title: Airport
Character: Harriet DuBarry Mossman
Released: May 29, 1970
Type: Movie
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
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Title: Ironside
Released: March 28, 1967
Type: TV
When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.
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Title: Valentine's Day
Character: Mrs. Edwina Pierce
Released: September 18, 1964
Type: TV
Valentine's Day is a 1964 comedy television series that appeared on ABC's schedule. The series starred Tony Franciosa as Valentine Farrow, a swinging Manhattan publishing executive, and Jack Soo, later of Barney Miller as Rocky Sin, Farrow's poker-playing con-artist valet. The show was created by Hal Kanter and lasted only one season. One noteworthy episode was produced as a tie-in to the movie Rio Conchos, in which Franciosa co-starred; he played both Valentine and his Mexican character from the feature.
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Gidget Goes to Rome
Title: Gidget Goes to Rome
Character: Albertina Blythe
Released: August 7, 1963
Type: Movie
Francis, now 17, is still in love with Moondoggy. She can persuade her parents to allow them a journey to Rome, together with two of her and two of his friends. However they have to take an adult with them, so they choose Peter's eccentric aunt. In Rome they get the beautiful guide Daniela, who's fascinating the guys and making especially Gidget jealous. She starts looking elsewhere herself.
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Critic's Choice
Title: Critic's Choice
Character: Charlotte Orr aka Charlie
Released: February 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage.
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Boys' Night Out
Title: Boys' Night Out
Character: Ethel Williams
Released: June 21, 1962
Type: Movie
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.
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Bon Voyage!
Title: Bon Voyage!
Character: Countessa 'La Comtesse' DuFresne
Released: May 17, 1962
Type: Movie
The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana travels abroad for the once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris, France. Harry Willard believes that the greatest problem will be avoiding tap water, but bringing his three children will prove to be more troublesome
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Goodbye Again
Title: Goodbye Again
Character: Mrs. Van der Besh
Released: May 23, 1961
Type: Movie
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier resists the advances of Philip Van der Besh, the 24-year-old son of one of her clients. But when her longtime paramour, Roger Demarest, begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman, Paula decides that two can play that game. However, it seems that society looks differently at May-December romances when the woman is the older partner.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Mrs. Kilburn
Released: September 13, 1960
Type: TV
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.
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Title: Adventures in Paradise
Character: Madame Vachet
Released: October 5, 1959
Type: TV
Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.
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A Private's Affair
Title: A Private's Affair
Character: Elizabeth T. Chapman
Released: August 14, 1959
Type: Movie
Luigi, Jerry, and Mike are in boot camp when they are presented with a chance to represent their unit in competition on a national television show. The three guys are up to the challenge, which begins a chain of unusual circumstances that not only have them singing and dancing at the proper times, but also running into a trio of alluring young women.
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North by Northwest
Title: North by Northwest
Character: Clara Thornhill
Released: July 8, 1959
Type: Movie
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
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I Married a Woman
Title: I Married a Woman
Character: Mrs. Blake
Released: March 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion model Janice Blake.
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My Man Godfrey
Title: My Man Godfrey
Character: Angelica Bullock
Released: October 11, 1957
Type: Movie
The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and noticing his obviously good manners, gets him the job. He proves a great success, but keeps his past to himself. When an old flame turns up Irene's sister Cordelia starts making waves.
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The Girl He Left Behind
Title: The Girl He Left Behind
Character: Mrs. Madeline Shaeffer
Released: October 26, 1956
Type: Movie
A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David Butler's 1956 film stars '50s teen favorites Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood, with supporting roles played by Jim Backus, Jessie Royce Landis, Murray Hamilton, Henry Jones, James Garner, Alan King, Ernestine Wade, David Janssen and Raymond Bailey.
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The Swan
Title: The Swan
Character: Princess Beatrix
Released: April 26, 1956
Type: Movie
Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe for a bride and he's bored by the whole courtship routine. He is more interested in the estate's dairy than Alexandra's rose garden. And then he starts playing football with the tutor and Alexandra's brothers. Invite the tutor to the ball that night and watch how gracefully Alexandra dances with him.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Claire Crane
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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To Catch a Thief
Title: To Catch a Thief
Character: Jessie Stevens
Released: August 3, 1955
Type: Movie
An ex-thief is accused of enacting a new crime spree, so to clear his name he sets off to catch the new thief, who’s imitating his signature style.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Olivia Chesney
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Title: The United States Steel Hour
Released: October 27, 1953
Type: TV
The United States Steel Hour is an anthology series which brought hour-long dramas to television from 1953 to 1963. The television series and the radio program that preceded it were both sponsored by the United States Steel Corporation.
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Main Street to Broadway
Title: Main Street to Broadway
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1953
Type: Movie
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
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Meet Me Tonight
Title: Meet Me Tonight
Character: Olive Lloyd Ransome (segment "Ways and Means")
Released: September 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.
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Mother Didn't Tell Me
Title: Mother Didn't Tell Me
Character: Mrs. Wright
Released: March 3, 1950
Type: Movie
Jane Morgan (Dorothy McGuire) marries handsome doctor William Wright (William Lundigan), despite warnings from a host of other doctor's wives that she will be neglected and lonely, thanks to his career. Based on the novel The Doctor Has Three Faces by Mary Bard and billed as a movie with "all the answers" for new wives, this dated little film follows Jane's struggles to adapt her life to better suit her husband's needs.
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My Foolish Heart
Title: My Foolish Heart
Character: Martha Winters
Released: January 19, 1950
Type: Movie
After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers her time with her true love, Walt Dreiser, at the beginning of the Second World War. She recalls the events that lead up to her split with Mary Jane, and how Lew married Eloise rather than Mary Jane.
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It Happens Every Spring
Title: It Happens Every Spring
Character: Mrs. Greenleaf
Released: June 10, 1949
Type: Movie
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
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Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
Title: Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
Character: Mrs. Chase
Released: April 15, 1949
Type: Movie
A middle-aged genius goes to college for the first time.
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Derelict
Title: Derelict
Character: Helen Lorber
Released: November 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Two rival seamen fight for both a promotion to a captaincy in their shipping line and the attentions of a Havana saloon singer. Sparks fly as they both try to out do each other in obtaining what they know their opposite is after. In the end they will need to work together in order to save the day.