Brooke Adams

Brooke Adams

Born: February 8, 1949
in New York City, New York, USA
Brooke Adams (born February 8, 1949) is an American actress known for her compelling performances in film, television, and theatre. She gained recognition for her roles in movies like "Days of Heaven" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," showcasing her acting depth and versatility. Adams' talent and dedication to her craft have earned her acclaim in the entertainment industry. On television, she has appeared in Thirtysomething (1987), Moonlighting (1985), Family (1976), The Lion of Africa (1987), Special People (1984), the miniseries Lace (1984) and Lace II (1985), 5 episodes of Monk (2002), BrainDead (2016) on CBS and she was writing, producing, directing, and starring in a web-series called "All Downhill from Here." (2015).

Movies for Brooke Adams...

Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie
Title: Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie
Character: Beth
Released: December 8, 2023
Type: Movie
Monk steps out of retirement as his stepdaughter's wedding turns tragic when her fiancé dies in a bungee jumping accident.
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Title: Stars in the House
Character: Self
Released: March 16, 2020
Type: TV
In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and theatres across the world closing their curtains indefinitely, SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky and his husband, producer James Wesley have created Stars in the House, a daily live streamed series to support The Actors Fund and its services.
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Snapshots
Title: Snapshots
Character: Patty
Released: August 14, 2018
Type: Movie
Rose spends her days fishing near the beautiful lake house she’s called home for 50 years. She’s not getting any younger and her daughter Patti worries about Rose being all alone, but the stubborn matriarch will not sell. There are memories here that she doesn’t want to leave. These come flooding back one weekend during a visit from Patti and granddaughter Allison, when a long-forgotten roll of film reminds Rose of the summer she met and fell in love with the bold and beautiful Louise.
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Breakable You
Title: Breakable You
Character: Ruth Frank
Released: January 7, 2017
Type: Movie
A divorced playwright and his therapist ex deal with new relationships and their daughter.
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For the Love of Spock
Title: For the Love of Spock
Character: Elizabeth Driscoll (archive footage)
Released: September 9, 2016
Type: Movie
The life of Star Trek's Mr. Spock — as well as that of Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played Mr. Spock for almost fifty years —written and directed by his son, Adam.
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Guns for Hire
Title: Guns for Hire
Character: Secretary
Released: October 20, 2015
Type: Movie
Beatle is a quirky loner who refuses to live by society's rules. Her business cards read "Towing/Assassination," and she even has a hit man infomercial to go along with it. Her only human contact is with her psychiatrist and the stripper/hooker she employs once a week. Everything changes the night she meets Athena Klendon, a suicidal blonde with a secret. With a demented killer on their tail, courtesy of Athena's crooked former employer, the two quickly strike a bargain. Athena will change her life insurance policy to reflect Beatle as the beneficiary in exchange for her own execution. And while they wait for the paperwork to come through, Beatle will provide room and board and get some extra help on her infomercial. The two have no idea that Detective Holt has been on their case reviewing their every move. Just when he thinks he's got Beatle pinned beyond a shadow of a doubt, this comedic mystery takes a wild and unexpected turn.
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Sole Survivor: Interview with Star Brooke Adams
Title: Sole Survivor: Interview with Star Brooke Adams
Character: Herself
Released: November 20, 2014
Type: Movie
An interview with Brooke Adams on her first role in the film, Shock waves.
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Hemingway & Gellhorn
Title: Hemingway & Gellhorn
Character: Madrid Woman (uncredited)
Released: August 27, 2012
Type: Movie
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
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The Accidental Husband
Title: The Accidental Husband
Character: Carolyn
Released: February 29, 2008
Type: Movie
Emma, a radio host, is about to be married to Richard, her perfect match. But right before her wedding, she learns she's already married to Patrick, a charming but irresponsible fireman. Furthermore, Patrick has a secret: he has arranged this little trick because Emma advised Patrick's ex-fiancée to end their relationship. However, Patrick may find that the trick is on him, for he soon begins to fall in love with his uptight adversary.
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The Politics of the Dead Zone
Title: The Politics of the Dead Zone
Character: Self
Released: September 26, 2006
Type: Movie
A discussion on the politics behind the 1983 David Cronenberg thriller, The Dead Zone.
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The Legend of Lucy Keyes
Title: The Legend of Lucy Keyes
Character: Samantha Porter
Released: February 3, 2006
Type: Movie
Guy moves to an old farm in Princeton with his wife Jeanne Cooley and their two daughters, Molly and Lucy to build eight windmills to generate clean power to the city. The Cooley family has a cold reception in town, and while voting for the approval of the project, the old woman Gretchen Caswell votes against the construction with many followers and mentions the historic importance of the spot and the name of Martha. Jeanne researches and discloses that two hundred and fifty years ago, a girl called Lucy Keyes got lost in the woods and in spite of the efforts of her mother Martha Keyes and the locals, she was never found. When the ghost of Martha comes to the fields around their property calling for Lucy, Jeanne realizes that the legend is true and that there are many hidden secrets in that location.
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Title: Monk
Character: Sheriff Margie Butterfield
Released: July 12, 2002
Type: TV
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
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Title: Monk
Character: Abigail Carlyle
Released: July 12, 2002
Type: TV
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
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Title: Monk
Character: Leigh Harrison
Released: July 12, 2002
Type: TV
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
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Title: Monk
Character: Edith Capriani
Released: July 12, 2002
Type: TV
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
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Made-Up
Title: Made-Up
Character: Elizabeth James Tivey
Released: March 1, 2002
Type: Movie
A look at how our cultural obsession with youthful good looks affects women who are told their value is dependent on their appearance.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Margo
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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The Baby-Sitters Club
Title: The Baby-Sitters Club
Character: Elizabeth Thomas Brewer
Released: August 18, 1995
Type: Movie
Seven junior-high-school girls organize a daycare camp for children while at the same time experiencing classic adolescent growing pains.
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Probable Cause
Title: Probable Cause
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1994
Type: Movie
A series of cop murders plagues the city. The remaining officers on the force are increasingly worried as the deaths increase with no leads. As the department's finest must solve the case before the killer strikes again.
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The Fire This Time
Title: The Fire This Time
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Social conditions of Los Angeles are considered in drawing parallels between Watts riots and those in 1992.
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Title: Touched by an Angel
Character: Susana
Released: September 21, 1994
Type: TV
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.
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Title: Frasier
Character: Marilyn (voice)
Released: September 16, 1993
Type: TV
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.
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The Last Hit
Title: The Last Hit
Character: Anna Dunne
Released: March 31, 1993
Type: Movie
A retired asassin tries to make himself at home in New Mexico.
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Gas Food Lodging
Title: Gas Food Lodging
Character: Nora
Released: July 10, 1992
Type: Movie
Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls' absent father returns.
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Sometimes They Come Back
Title: Sometimes They Come Back
Character: Sally Norman
Released: May 7, 1991
Type: Movie
Desperate for a job to help him support his family, Jim Norman takes a position teaching high school in the town where his brother was murdered in front of him by teenage bullies twenty-seven years before. The teens who committed the crime are long dead, but now the kids in Jim's new class keep dying and being replaced by new students who look like the deceased hoodlums.
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The Unborn
Title: The Unborn
Character: Virginia Marshall
Released: March 29, 1991
Type: Movie
A couple who cannot have children joins an in-vitro fertilization program. While she is with child, she finds strange occurrences happening within her body. The horror surrounding the child comes to light when the parents find that their child has been part of a mad experiment.
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Bridesmaids
Title: Bridesmaids
Character: Pat
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Four very different women, best friends during high school many years earlier, gather in the small town where they grew up for a reunion as bridesmaids in preparation for a wedding for a fifth friend.
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Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
Title: Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
Released: December 5, 1987
Type: Movie
Paul Reiser brings his sophisticated observational humor to home video in this rare showcase of his acclaimed talent as both actor and stand-up comedian. Reiser goes out on a whim searching for "The Main Thing" in a unique blend of live stand-up comedy and an uprorious out-of-body experience feautring cameo appearances by Teri Garr, Elliott Gould, Carrie Fisher, Michael J. Pollard, Desi Arnaz Jr., Woody Harrelson, Carol Kane, and many others! Join Paul Reiser for his unique perspective on such subjects as exact change, dogs, valet parking, potato chips, "They" & "The Guy", Larry Storch and much more! Go out on a whime with Paul Reiser - you'll be beside yourself with laughter.
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Title: thirtysomething
Released: September 29, 1987
Type: TV
Thirtysomething is an American television drama about a group of baby boomers in their late thirties. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick for MGM/UA Television Group and The Bedford Falls Company, and aired on ABC. It premiered in the U.S. on September 29, 1987. It lasted four seasons, with the last of its 85 episodes airing on May 28, 1991. The title of the show was designed as thirtysomething by Kathie Broyles, who combined the words of the original title, Thirty Something. In 1997, "The Go Between" and "Samurai Ad Man" were ranked #22 on TV Guide′s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. In 2002, Thirtysomething was ranked #19 on TV Guide′s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, and in 2013 TV Guide ranked it #10 in its list of The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time.
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Man on Fire
Title: Man on Fire
Character: Jane
Released: September 4, 1987
Type: Movie
Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swanky villa on the shores of Lake Como.
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The Lion of Africa
Title: The Lion of Africa
Character: Grace Danet
Released: June 28, 1987
Type: Movie
Brooke Adams plays a woman who has to put up with Brian Dennehy's character if she wants to get across a desolate section of Africa. They fight and naturally sparks fly.
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Lace 2
Title: Lace 2
Character: Pagan Trewlawny
Released: September 1, 1985
Type: Movie
While in the first part, Lili searched for her mother, she now questions her mom on the identity of her father.
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Key Exchange
Title: Key Exchange
Character: Lisa
Released: August 14, 1985
Type: Movie
A young woman wants to get her boyfriend to commit to her, but the most she can get him to do is exchange apartment keys.
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The Stuff
Title: The Stuff
Character: Stuff Commercial Spokeswoman
Released: June 14, 1985
Type: Movie
Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!
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Title: Lace II
Character: Pagan Tralone
Released: May 5, 1985
Type: TV
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Almost You
Title: Almost You
Character: Erica Boyer
Released: March 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Alex and Erica Boyer are a young couple in crisis. Alex, despite his loving wife, beautiful home and high-paying job, feels trapped. When Erica has an accident that leaves her temporarily confined to a wheelchair and requiring the services of a private nurse, the beautiful Lisa enters the Boyers' lives. A complicated situation develops as Alex sees Lisa as the cure for his own problems as well as his wife's.
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Title: Moonlighting
Character: Terri Knowles
Released: March 3, 1985
Type: TV
After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.
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Terror in the Aisles
Title: Terror in the Aisles
Character: Elizabeth Driscoll (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1984
Type: Movie
A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.
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Special People
Title: Special People
Character: Diane Dupuy
Released: September 11, 1984
Type: Movie
Brooke Adams is the real-life Diane Dupuy, the Canadian woman whose vision and drive molded a group of developmentally-challenged young adults into the Famous People Players, a professional puppet troupe that has become world-renowned, having performed Radio City Music Hall and Las Vegas (Liberace's opening act in 1975) to the People's Republic of China.
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Vengeance Is Mine
Title: Vengeance Is Mine
Character: Jo
Released: March 19, 1984
Type: Movie
Unsuccessfully trying to close old family wounds on a trip back to the Rhode Island home of her miserable childhood, a troubled young woman finds her new friendship with a neighbor has her stuck in another family drama.
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Title: Lace
Character: Jennifer 'Pagan' Trelawney
Released: February 26, 1984
Type: TV
A young actress gathers three former school friends to find out which one is her natural mother, who gave her up for adoption as a newborn.
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The Dead Zone
Title: The Dead Zone
Character: Sarah Bracknell
Released: October 21, 1983
Type: Movie
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
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Utilities
Title: Utilities
Character: Marion Edwards
Released: June 15, 1983
Type: Movie
One of Bob Hunt's neighbours' electricity is cut off because she cannot pay the bill. She is assisted by contributions, and the bill is paid entirely in pennies, though the clerk is belatedly told that payment is not accepted in such a large quantity of coins. Unfortunately, the electric company fails to reconnect the power due to a communications snafu, and the elderly woman is taken to hospital suffering hypothermia. Hunt sets off on a vendetta of revenge, sabotaging assorted support systems.
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The Innocents Abroad
Title: The Innocents Abroad
Character: Julia Newell
Released: May 12, 1983
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the Mark Twain novel.
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Tell Me a Riddle
Title: Tell Me a Riddle
Character: Jeannie
Released: December 15, 1980
Type: Movie
Touching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their granddaughter Jeannie in San Francisco. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
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Cuba
Title: Cuba
Character: Alexandra Lopez de Pulido
Released: December 21, 1979
Type: Movie
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
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Nero Wolfe
Title: Nero Wolfe
Character: Sarah Dacos
Released: December 19, 1979
Type: Movie
Gourmet Nero Wolfe interrupts his orchid-tending to take on the case of a lady tycoon who wants to know why she's under investigation by the FBI, only to find himself enmeshed in a puzzling murder-mystery. TV movie based on Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series.
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A Man, a Woman and a Bank
Title: A Man, a Woman and a Bank
Character: Stacey Bishop
Released: September 28, 1979
Type: Movie
Two novice thieves are plotting to rob a bank in Vancouver. A photographer snaps a shot of one thief as he is carrying the bank building's blueprints. The would-be thief then begins a relationship with the photographer and attempts to retrieve the photos. Meanwhile, the thieves' plot consists of this: one man will enter the bank building after dark, while the other man sits in a van and uses a computer to unlock the building's doors. The final step involves transporting the cash to a freight ship waiting on the docks, for transportation to a money launderer in Macau.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Title: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Character: Elizabeth Driscoll
Released: December 20, 1978
Type: Movie
The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.
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Days of Heaven
Title: Days of Heaven
Character: Abby
Released: September 13, 1978
Type: Movie
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
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Shock Waves
Title: Shock Waves
Character: Rose
Released: July 15, 1977
Type: Movie
Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of zombie soldiers.
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Title: Family
Released: March 9, 1976
Type: TV
The lives of the middle-class Lawrence family in Pasadena, California.
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James Dean
Title: James Dean
Character: Beverly
Released: February 17, 1976
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the story of legendary movie actor James Dean. The film's writer, William Bast, had roomed with Dean in the early '50s, when both were trying to break into films as actors, and was his lover for a time.
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Murder on Flight 502
Title: Murder on Flight 502
Character: Vera Franklin
Released: November 21, 1975
Type: Movie
On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.
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Song of the Succubus
Title: Song of the Succubus
Character: Olive Deems / Gloria Chambers
Released: March 7, 1975
Type: Movie
The leader of a rock group is haunted by the ghost of a music star who took her own life at the turn of the century.
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Who Is the Black Dahlia?
Title: Who Is the Black Dahlia?
Character: Diane Fowler
Released: March 1, 1975
Type: Movie
In 1947 Los Angeles, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short.
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The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return
Title: The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return
Character: Mae
Released: January 28, 1975
Type: Movie
A crusty old rancher hires three young women to pose as his daughters. However, the real father of one of the daughters finds out about it, and kidnaps her to hold her for ransom--which the rancher can't pay.
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Black Bart
Title: Black Bart
Character: Jennifer
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A television series titled Black Bart was produced for CBS based on Andrew Bergman's original story for Blazing Saddles (Black Bart was the movie's original title). It featured Lou Gossett, Jr. as Bart and Steve Landesberg as his drunkard sidekick, a former Confederate officer named "Reb Jordan". The Humour was much more toned down than it's feature film predecessor Other cast members included Millie Slavin and Noble Willingham. Bergman is listed as the sole creator. CBS aired the pilot once on April 4, 1975 as a CBS Special Presentation. The pilot featured guest appearances by Gerrit Graham and Brooke Adams and was written by Michael Elias and Rich Eustis. Elias and Eutis later created and executive produced the ABC sitcom Head of the Class (1986-1991).
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Minestrone
Title: Minestrone
Character: Announcer
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A paranoid filmmaker is tortured by his taste for the titular Italian soup
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Title: Police Woman
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.
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The Great Gatsby
Title: The Great Gatsby
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: March 27, 1974
Type: Movie
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
Title: F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
Character: Kitty Preston
Released: January 7, 1974
Type: Movie
A semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the army and stationed in Alabama in 1919.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Julie Winston
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: TV
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
Title: Murders in the Rue Morgue
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: July 21, 1971
Type: Movie
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Julia Newell
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: O.K. Crackerby
Character: Cynthia Crackerby
Released: September 16, 1965
Type: TV
A wealthy Oklahoma widower enlists the help of an unemployed Harvard graduate to tutor his brood on becoming more refined in a stale sitcom that's notable only because it was created by Abe Burrows and Cleveland Amory.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.