Barbara Harris

Barbara Harris

Born: July 25, 1935
Died: August 21, 2018
in Evanston, Illinois, USA
Barbara Densmoor Harris (July 25, 1935 – August 21, 2018) was an American actress. She appeared in such movies as A Thousand Clowns, Plaza Suite, Nashville, Family Plot, Freaky Friday, Peggy Sue Got Married, and Grosse Pointe Blank. Harris won a Tony Award and was nominated for an Academy Award. She also received four Golden Globe Award nominations.

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Broadway's Lost Treasures
Title: Broadway's Lost Treasures
Character: Ella and Passionella (segment "The Apple Tree")
Released: August 10, 2003
Type: Movie
The golden age of the annual Tony Awards ceremony lasted from 1967 to 1986 — the period during which Alexander H. Cohen and his wife, Hildy Parks, were the producers of the show. This film offers a compilation of performances from Tony Award broadcasts during those years. They are presented with color-corrected footage and digitally re-mastered sound.
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Babe: Pig in the City
Title: Babe: Pig in the City
Character: Additional Character Voices (voice)
Released: November 25, 1998
Type: Movie
Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
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Grosse Pointe Blank
Title: Grosse Pointe Blank
Character: Mary Blank
Released: April 11, 1997
Type: Movie
Martin Blank is a hitman for hire. When he starts to develop a conscience, he botches a couple of routine jobs. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he decides to attend his ten-year high school reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Title: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Character: Fanny Eubanks
Released: December 14, 1988
Type: Movie
Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can be the first to swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000.
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Nice Girls Don't Explode
Title: Nice Girls Don't Explode
Character: Mom
Released: February 1, 1987
Type: Movie
April has a problem. Whenever she gets anything like passionate with a guy all sorts of things seem to spontaneously combust. The only men she meets more then once are firefighters. Actually, it's Mom's way of trying to keep her little girl to herself, but new boyfriend Andy is having none of such nonsense. So the heat's on. Unfortunately it's Fluffy the cat who keeps getting caught in the middle.
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Peggy Sue Got Married
Title: Peggy Sue Got Married
Character: Evelyn Kelcher
Released: October 10, 1986
Type: Movie
Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
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Second-Hand Hearts
Title: Second-Hand Hearts
Character: Dinette Dusty
Released: May 8, 1981
Type: Movie
A boozy drifter tries to get to know the widow he married while on a bender.
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The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Title: The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Character: Ellie
Released: August 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well as further straining his already part-time family life. But it could be a big boost to his career, so he takes it on. Helping him prepare the case is pretty southern researcher Karen Traynor, and their developing relationship further complicates and compromises his life.
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The North Avenue Irregulars
Title: The North Avenue Irregulars
Character: Vickie
Released: February 9, 1979
Type: Movie
When crooks set up operations in a traditional town, a minister and a group of church ladies are willing to do anything, no matter how wacky, to get them out.
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Movie Movie
Title: Movie Movie
Character: Trixie Lane ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")
Released: November 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Three movie genres of the 1930s, boxing films, WWI aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals, are satirized using the same cast.
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A Doonesbury Special
Title: A Doonesbury Special
Character: Joanie Caucus
Released: November 27, 1977
Type: Movie
Garry Trudeau's classic characters (Mike Doonesbury, Zonker, etc.) examine how their lifestyles, priorities, and concerns have changed since the end of their idealistic college days in the 1960s. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
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Freaky Friday
Title: Freaky Friday
Character: Ellen Andrews
Released: December 17, 1976
Type: Movie
School girl Annabel is hassled by her mother, and Mrs. Andrews is annoyed with her daughter, Annabel. They both think that the other has an easy life. On a normal Friday morning, both complain about each other and wish they could have the easy life of their daughter/mother for just one day and their wishes come true as a bit of magic puts Annabel in Mrs. Andrews' body and vice versa. They both have a Freaky Friday.
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Family Plot
Title: Family Plot
Character: Blanche Tyler
Released: April 9, 1976
Type: Movie
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
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Nashville
Title: Nashville
Character: Winifred / Albuquerque
Released: June 11, 1975
Type: Movie
The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.
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The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
Title: The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
Character: Miss Helen Fredericks
Released: March 7, 1975
Type: Movie
Film noir parody with a private eye trying to solve the murder of his milkman.
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Mixed Company
Title: Mixed Company
Character: Kathy Morrison
Released: October 18, 1974
Type: Movie
Kathy Morrison (Harris), mother of three, who helps run a "color-blind" adoption program, wants to have another biological child. Her husband, Pete (Bologna), the head coach of the Phoenix Suns, finds out he can't produce another child. Kathy thinks about adopting a boy, Frederic "Freddie" Wilcox, and Pete does not want to adopt a boy who happens to be black. When he relents, Freddie's arrival causes an upheaval in the Morrison's neighborhood, their school, and family. Kathy's answer is to adopt another child, in this case two, a war-traumatized half-Vietnamese girl, Quan Tran, and a Hopi boy, Joe. The new extended family must now learn to live together.
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The War Between Men and Women
Title: The War Between Men and Women
Character: Terry Kozlenko
Released: June 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A sarcastic near-sighted cartoonist, averse to commitment, falls for a single mother of three — the only woman who can stand his strong anti-feminist opinions.
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Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
Title: Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
Character: Allison Densmore
Released: June 15, 1971
Type: Movie
A hit pop songwriter, who cannot love himself or others, spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him.
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Plaza Suite
Title: Plaza Suite
Character: Muriel Tate
Released: May 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for what he stands for. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and try to get their uncertain-of-herself daughter out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding.
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Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad
Title: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad
Character: Rosalie
Released: February 15, 1967
Type: Movie
A woman brings her son and husband to a tropical vacation spot for a little rest and relaxation. The only problem is that the husband has been dead for quite some time, and his wife had him stuffed and carries him everywhere with her. Complications ensue.
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The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner
Title: The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner
Character: Herself
Released: February 21, 1966
Type: Movie
Hosted by Cyril Ritchard, with performances by Florence Henderson, Barbara Harris, Stanley Holloway, John Cullum, Patricia McBride and Edward Villella. Songs include; On A Clear Day, The Heather On The Hill, Wait Till Were Sixty-Five, Wouldnt It Be Loverly?, Camelot, Why Cant A Woman Be More Like A Man?, How Could You Believe Me?, I Remember It Well, Without You, Gigi, Im Getting Married In The Morning, Hurry, Its Lovely Up Here, Melinda, On The S.S. Bernard Cohn, What Did I have That I Dont Have?, Ive Grown Accustomed To Her Face, Its Almost Like Being In Love, Bonnie Jean, Waltz At Maxims (She Is Not Thinking Of Me), I Could Have Danced All Night, On The Street Where You Live, and Come Back To Me.
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A Thousand Clowns
Title: A Thousand Clowns
Character: Sandra
Released: December 13, 1965
Type: Movie
Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a social worker, who falls in love with Murray and a bit in love with Nick. As the child welfare people try to force Murray to become a conventional man (as the price they demand for allowing him to keep Nick), the nephew, who until now has gloried in his Uncle's iconoclastic approach to life, tries to play mediator. But when he succeeds, he is alarmed by the uncle's willingness to cave in to society in order to save the relationship.
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Title: Channing
Character: Sophie Kannakos
Released: September 18, 1963
Type: TV
Professor Joe Howe is a Korean War veteran who is hired to teach English at Channing College. The dean Fred Baker is his mentor as Howe is writing a novel about his experiences. They are frequently involved in the student's lives. Channing, a production of Revue Studios, aired during the same time frame as the first season of NBC's somewhat similar offering, Mr. Novak.
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Title: The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
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Title: The Defenders
Character: Margit Wolsung
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: Naked City
Character: Helga Royd
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 - Nominee / Performer
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.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Beth
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.