Susan Anspach

Susan Anspach

Born: November 23, 1942
Died: April 2, 2018
in New York City, New York, U.S.
Susan Florence Anspach (November 23, 1942 – April 2, 2018) was an American actress.

Movies for Susan Anspach...

Inversion
Title: Inversion
Character: Edna Boswell
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Wild About Harry
Title: Wild About Harry
Character: Martha
Released: July 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Set in 1973 and inspired by true events, 'Wild About Harry' follows the havoc wreaked in a teen girl’s life when she discovers that her widowed father is gay. Alternately comic and tragic and anchored by an impressive ensemble cast, the film captures both the freedoms and the homophobia of the time – all set against the backdrop of small town America on Cape Cod. British widower Harry Goodhart decides to make a fresh start and moves with his teenage daughters to Cape Cod in 1973. But Harry can't leave behind the secret that threatens to tear his family apart. Adjusting to their new lives proves difficult for the girls when they discover that the connection between their dad and his partner is more than just a working relationship.
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Dancing at the Harvest Moon
Title: Dancing at the Harvest Moon
Character: Julia
Released: October 20, 2002
Type: Movie
A betrayed wife, whose husband leaves her after 25 years, returns to the lake where she first fell in love and begins an affair with the son of her first love.
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Cagney & Lacey: The Return
Title: Cagney & Lacey: The Return
Character: Deborah Nelson
Released: November 6, 1994
Type: Movie
1994. Cagney, now a Lieutenant, re-teams with Lacey, who has left the force, to search for a cache of missing firearms.
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The Rutanga Tapes
Title: The Rutanga Tapes
Character: Kate Simpson
Released: November 20, 1990
Type: Movie
A U.S. agent saves a journalist and her son from an East German-Libyan chemical warfare plot in Africa.
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Blood Red
Title: Blood Red
Character: Widow
Released: August 18, 1989
Type: Movie
Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industrialists.
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Back to Back
Title: Back to Back
Character: Madeline Hix
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Modern day western about two very different brothers, who join forces to clear their family name, from the shadow of their dead brother's blame for a bloody unsolved robbery.
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Title: Empty Nest
Character: Dr. Diane Hardy
Released: October 8, 1988
Type: TV
Widowed pediatrician Harry Weston is a miracle worker when it comes to dealing with his young patients, but he's more challenged by the other people surrounding him: daughters Barbara and Carol; his wisecracking office assistant, nurse LaVerne Todd; and obnoxious neighborhood mooch Charley Dietz. Thank goodness he always finds a friendly shoulder (and a warm, wet tongue) in Dreyfuss, his enormous dog.
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Into the Fire
Title: Into the Fire
Character: Rosalind Winfield
Released: September 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Out of work and driving aimlessly, a man pulls into the "Wolf Lodge" and ends up with a job. When he wakes nightly to the sounds of icy voices and screams he decides he can no longer be an innocent bystander.
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Blue Monkey
Title: Blue Monkey
Character: Dr. Judith Glass
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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Heaven and Earth
Title: Heaven and Earth
Character: Karen McKeon
Released: February 10, 1987
Type: Movie
Mady McKeon, a 10-year-old girl living in a farm town, is deeply affected by the death of a schoolteacher and her grandfather. Her father sells part of the family farm to the Air Force. The Air Force starts building a missile base. Mady watches a TV show that describes the devastation of missile attacks during World War II, and she runs away from home. Her parents reconcile and find her, and the entire town is brought together.
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Title: Space
Character: Elinor Grant
Released: April 14, 1985
Type: TV
Space is a television mini-series. It is based on a novel of the same name by James A. Michener published in 1982.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Lois Fricksey
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Gone Are the Dayes
Title: Gone Are the Dayes
Character: Phyllis Daye
Released: May 6, 1984
Type: Movie
After the Days family witnesses a gang shooting in a Japanese restaurant, the police persuades them to testify against mobster Delgado. Detective Mitchell gets the job to hide the four until the trial. But how shall he keep two nervous adults and their two teenage kids under control?
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Misunderstood
Title: Misunderstood
Character: Lilly
Released: March 30, 1984
Type: Movie
A workaholic father becomes sole parent to his two young sons, and finds it hard to relate to them, consumed as he is with his own grief.
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Title: The Hitchhiker
Character: Claudia Reynolds
Released: November 1, 1983
Type: TV
A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.
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Title: The Yellow Rose
Character: Grace McKenzie
Released: October 2, 1983
Type: TV
The Yellow Rose is an American television series. It was broadcast on the NBC network during the 1983-1984 season. It was produced by Paul Freeman. The series was at least partly inspired by the more coltish elements of the soap opera Dallas, and dealt with the intrigues of the Texas-based ranch-owning Champion family. The show's cast included Sam Elliott, David Soul, Edward Albert, Cybill Shepherd, Chuck Connors, Noah Beery, Jr., Ken Curtis, Robin Wright and Jane Russell. The Yellow Rose was canceled after one season of twenty-two episodes. In the summer of 1990, the series was rerun again on NBC along with the short-lived Bret Maverick starring James Garner.
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Deadly Encounter
Title: Deadly Encounter
Character: Chris
Released: December 19, 1982
Type: Movie
A veteran pilot finds himself knee-deep in trouble when his ex-girlfriend shows up at his doorstep in a terrible state. She knows the whereabouts of an immense fortune, and the Mafia is hot on her trail.
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The First Time
Title: The First Time
Character: Lucy Dillon
Released: November 8, 1982
Type: Movie
An emotionally troubled teenage girl drops out of high school and travels with her boyfriend to San Diego, while the girl's mother enlists the help of an old U.S. Navy friend to help find her daughter.
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Montenegro
Title: Montenegro
Character: Marilyn Jordan
Released: October 9, 1981
Type: Movie
Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she crawls under the dining table to sing. While detained at airport customs for carrying pruning shears, she meets a young Yugoslav woman and goes with her to a Gypsy enclave where she's fought over, takes a lover, helps with the sordid entertainment at a bar, and returns home more dangerous than before. The film also tells parallel stories of Marilyn's daughter becoming a junior homemaker as the young immigrant practices her striptease.
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Gas
Title: Gas
Character: Jane Beardsley
Released: July 24, 1981
Type: Movie
Susan Anspach stars in this comedy as a news reporter who investigates a story about stolen milk causing milk and gas prices to rise. During the course of her investigation, other people become involved, culminating in a multiple car chase.
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The Devil and Max Devlin
Title: The Devil and Max Devlin
Character: Penny Hart
Released: March 6, 1981
Type: Movie
When Max dies in an accident, he goes straight to Hell. But the Devil Barney makes him an offer: if he manages to get three innocent youths to sell him their souls in the next two months, he may stay on Earth. Max accepts, and returns to Earth, equipped with special powers. However, his task is harder than expected, especially when seven year old Tobi demands that he marry his mother.
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Portrait of an Escort
Title: Portrait of an Escort
Character: Jordan West
Released: October 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Jordan West is a divorcée who moonlights at a professional dating service to make ends meet. But her secret job causes gossip among her neighbors and trouble at the real estate office where she works in the daytime, while her teenage daughter is the only one who remains oblivious to her mother's night job. When Jordan tries to quit her escort profession, she finds herself harassed by her boss/madam, Mrs. Kennedy, and then stalked by an unknown former client.
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Running
Title: Running
Character: Janet
Released: October 30, 1979
Type: Movie
An Olympic hopeful marathon runner hopes his success will be the answer to his marriage woes and other personal problems.
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The Last Giraffe
Title: The Last Giraffe
Character: Betty Leslie-Melville
Released: June 7, 1979
Type: Movie
An engaging tale of the efforts of a real-life American wildlife photographer and her safari guide husband to save the endangered Rothschild giraffe of Kenya by adopting an orphaned animal whose mother had been slain by a notorious poacher.
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The Big Fix
Title: The Big Fix
Character: Lila Shay
Released: October 6, 1978
Type: Movie
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results.
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Mad Bull
Title: Mad Bull
Character: Christina Sebastiani
Released: December 21, 1977
Type: Movie
An embittered professional wrestler, convinced that his life has no meaning outside the ring, meets a beautiful woman. Unlike most of the women he has known, she seems to be interested in him for himself rather than his fame or his money, and he finds himself becoming attracted to her.
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Rosetti and Ryan: Men Who Love Women
Title: Rosetti and Ryan: Men Who Love Women
Character: Beverly Dresden
Released: May 19, 1977
Type: Movie
A couple of resourceful, free-wheeling criminal attorneys with an eye for the ladies confront a no-nonsense judge while trying to clear an heiress in the slaying of her husband, although her explanation of a mysterious intruder provides them with a rather weak case.
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The Secret Life of John Chapman
Title: The Secret Life of John Chapman
Character: Wilma
Released: December 27, 1976
Type: Movie
The true story of John Chapman, a college president who took a sabbatical and went out and got a job as a general laborer, to try to experience life outside his well-ordered but insulated college environment.
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I Want to Keep My Baby!
Title: I Want to Keep My Baby!
Character: Donna Jo Martelli
Released: November 19, 1976
Type: Movie
A 15-year-old girl becomes pregnant by her boyfriend and decides to keep the baby and raise her on her own, instead of initially choosing abortion at the insistence of her boyfriend, or raising the baby at home with her meddling mother.
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For the Use of the Hall
Title: For the Use of the Hall
Character: Terry
Released: January 2, 1975
Type: Movie
A penniless heiress, a disillusioned nun, the suicidal playwright they both love, a hapless art forger and the playwright's wife converge on the empty Long Island home of an aging matriarch and squabble among themselves about their relative success or failure.
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Blume in Love
Title: Blume in Love
Character: Nina Blume
Released: June 17, 1973
Type: Movie
Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife.
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Play It Again, Sam
Title: Play It Again, Sam
Character: Nancy
Released: May 4, 1972
Type: Movie
A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca (1942) attempts to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.
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Five Easy Pieces
Title: Five Easy Pieces
Character: Catherine Van Oost
Released: September 12, 1970
Type: Movie
A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
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The Landlord
Title: The Landlord
Character: Susan Enders
Released: May 20, 1970
Type: Movie
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.
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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Title: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Character: Herself / Actress Testing for Alice (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1968
Type: Movie
In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pairs of actors. It's a confrontation between a couple: he demands to know what's wrong, she challenges his sexual orientation. Cameras shoot the exchange, and another camera records Greaves and his crew. Sometimes we watch the crew discussing this scene, its language, and the process of making a movie. Is there such a thing as natural language? Are all things related to sex? The camera records distractions - a woman rides horseback past them; a garrulous homeless vet who sleeps in the park chats them up. What's the nature of making a movie?
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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 Journey of the Fifth Horse
Title: The Journey of the Fifth Horse
Character: Miss Gruboy / Elizaveta
Released: October 14, 1966
Type: Movie
Dustin Hoffman stars in this television adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's tale about Dmitri Zoditch, a simple manuscript reader at a publishing house whose grand dreams don't square with his dead-end job and miserable apartment. When he's assigned to read the diary of a nobleman, he finds bitter parallels between his own pathetic existence and the wasted life described in the journal. Michael Tolan and Charlotte Rae co-star.
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Title: The Patty Duke Show
Released: September 18, 1963
Type: TV
The Patty Duke Show is an American sitcom which ran on ABC from September 18, 1963 to April 27, 1966, with reruns airing through August 31, 1966. The show was created as a vehicle for rising star Patty Duke. A total of 104 episodes were produced, most written by Sidney Sheldon.
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Title: The Defenders
Character: Jackie Dowling
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.