Elizabeth Wilson
Birthday: Born in 1921-04-04 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Deathday: 2015-05-09
Elizabeth Welter Wilson (April 4, 1921 – May 9, 2015) was an American actress. In 1972 she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role in Sticks and Bones.
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All in the Family
Character: Amelia DeKuyper
Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day....
Delta
Character: Rosiland Dupree
Delta is a short-lived U.S television sitcom series produced by ABC starring Delta Burke. Burke plays a woman who leaves her life behind to pursue her dream as a country music singer. Burke, most popular for her role as Suzanne Sugarbaker in the popular CBS sitcom Designing Women, reportedly utilized her own singing talents for the role of Bishop, and dyed her familiar brunette hair blonde to play the role. The series premiered September 15, 1992, to healthy ratings following the ABC blockbuster...
Omnibus
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Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series....
Tucker's Witch
Character: Jewel Porter
Rick and Amanda Tucker own and operate their private detective agency in Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles. Amanda's psychic powers become an asset in solving cases but also tend to get the spouses into various troubles....
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Mary Fremus
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, ...
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Lucille Mobrey
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes....
Interpol Calling
Character: Michele
The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery....
East Side/West Side
Character:
East Side/West Side is an American drama series starring George C. Scott, Elizabeth Wilson, Cicely Tyson, and later on, Linden Chiles. The series aired for only one season and was shown Monday nights on CBS. TV Guide ranked it #6 on their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon"....
The Detectives
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The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The series, starring motion picture star Robert Taylor, was produced by Four Star Television. Captain Matt Holbrook (Robert Taylor) is head of the detective division of a large metropolitan police force—a man whose devotion to duty, professional brilliance, and quick judgment are reflected in his 20-year career on the force. His aides, Lt. Johnny Russo (Ti...
Scarlett
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Scarlett O’Hara’s flight from the scrutiny of Atlanta society takes her on a journey to Savannah and Charleston, to England, and to Ireland, where she discovers her family's roots....
Tony Awards
Character: Self - Nominee
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....
Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder
Character: Berenice Bradshaw
A sociopathic socialite plots her father's murder....
Murder, She Wrote
Character: Serena Haynes
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases....
Movie Credits
The Birds
Character: Helen Carter
Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks....
The Boys Next Door
Character: Mary Fremus
Kind-hearted social worker Jack Palmer feels guilty about not spending enough time with his wife due to the pressures of his job taking care of four developmentally disabled men: obsessive-compulsive Norman, bipolar Arnold, childlike Lucien, and schizophrenic Barry. When Jack announces his decision to leave his job, his four charges react quite unexpectedly to the news....
The Goddess
Character: Harding
A woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself....
The Addams Family
Character: Abigail Craven / Dr. Greta Pinder-Schloss
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life....
Nobody's Fool
Character: Vera (uncredited)
A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young wife. As his estranged son returns, he faces new family responsibilities, while a banker plots to evict him from his home....
Quiz Show
Character: Dorothy Van Doren
Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-One.' However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out the show as rigged. Lawyer Richard Goodwin steps in and attempts to uncover the orchestrated deception behind the scenes....
Burning Bridges
Character: Freda
Fact-based story of a woman who suffered a nervous breakdown after having an extra-marital affair....
The Believers
Character: Kate Maslow
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths....
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Character: Dr. Ruth Ruth
After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone....
Little Murders
Character: Marge Newquist
A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s....
The Graduate
Character: Mrs. Braddock
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter....
Skylark
Character: Harriet Wheaton
Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm....
The Tunnel of Love
Character: Miss MacCracken
A series of misunderstandings leaves a married man believing he has impregnated the owner of an adoption agency, and that she will be his and his wife's surrogate....
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Character: Pauline
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave....
Patterns
Character: Marge Fleming
Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Briggs, the long-time vice president, but it soon becomes apparent that Walter Ramsey, who has inherited the position of CEO, is grooming Staples to replace Briggs. Ramsey will not fire Briggs, instead doing everything he can to humiliate and sabotage Briggs until he resigns....
You Can't Take it With You
Character: Penny Sycamore
A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family....
Man on a Swing
Character: Dr. Anna Willson
When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief Lee Tucker can find no clues pointing to her killer. Flamboyant self-proclaimed psychic Franklin Wills offers his help to the skeptical policeman, and, when his supposed visions about the case begin to reveal clues and information that only the killer could possibly have known, he becomes a suspect himself....
The Lie
Character: Miss Pratt
An Ingmar Bergman script. Produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" (1970) and for BBC as "The Lie" (1971). An American couple is trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno....
The Million Dollar Infield
Character: Sally Ephron
Four wealthy Long Islanders play for an amateur softball team. All four men suffer from profound personal and professional problems, thus the weekly ball game becomes a method of working out their frustrations. So adept do they become at this cathartic activity that their team makes it to the statewide championship — which leads to yet another crisis....
Patterns
Character: Marge Fleming
"Patterns" was an American television play broadcast live on January 12, 1955, remade as a film the next year with some of the same cast. Fred Staples is the newest executive in a large firm. He strikes up a friendship with Andy Sloane, the Vice President to whom he nominally reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, som...
Where Are the Children?
Character: Dorothy Prentiss
In Cape Cod, Missy and Michael, the two children of Nancy Eldridge, are kidnapped by a man who has disturbing intentions for them. Local police chief Ed Coffin wrongfully suspects that Nancy is behind the disappearances....
Once Upon a Family
Character: Judge Norma Solomon
A father tries to make it as a single parent when his wife walks out on him and the children....
Regarding Henry
Character: Jessica, Henry's Secretary
Respected lawyer Henry Turner survives a convenience-store shooting only to find he has lost his memory, and has serious speech and mobility issues. After also losing his job—where he no longer 'fits in'—his loving wife and daughter give him all their love and support....
Jenny
Character: Mrs. Marsh
An unwed mother-to-be marries a total stranger so he can avoid the draft. She now has a father for her child and he doesn't have to go to Vietnam. But this marriage-of-convenience leads to a romance between the two....
Special Report: Journey to Mars
Character: President Elizabeth Richardson
When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV-network GNN begins its live coverage of the last two hours of the mission and then the problems start. The landing-computer malfunctions, the captain Eugene Slader gets very sick and back on Earth it is discovered that big financial corporations have an interest in the failure of the mission - and we, the viewers, can see it all live on television....
Nora's Christmas Gift
Character: Madeline Mumford
Nora spends her time feeling sorry for herself as she faces hearing problems and blindness. But at the Bennington Christmas Pageant, Nora receives a special gift - a sure knowledge that Jesus Christ lives and loves her....
Miles To Go Before I Sleep
Character: Kate Stanton
A lonely old man (Martin Balsam) finds his life beginning to have some meaning when he helps a teenager living in a rehab center....
A Conspiracy of Love
Character: Lilly Woldarski
A woman's husband apparently has deserted her and their daughter. So she decides to get on with her life which might include dissolving their union and seeing someone else. However, her in-laws, her husband's parents feel that she's acting very hastily, so she leaves their home with her daughter whom they love very much. She decides to limit their access to her daughter, but grandfather and granddaughter see each other on the sly....
Nine to Five
Character: Roz Keith
Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him....
Hyde Park on Hudson
Character: Mrs. Roosevelt
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York....
Notorious
Character: Woman at Party (uncredited)
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover....
All's Well That Ends Well
Character: Countess
Video recording of a 1978 New York Shakespeare Festival performance. Directed for stage by Wilford Leach and videotaped by Jaime Caro....
The Day of the Dolphin
Character: Mrs. Rome
Dr. Jake Terrell, who has been training a pair of dolphins for many years, has had a breakthrough. He has taught his dolphins to speak and understand English, although they do have a limited vocabulary. When the dolphins are stolen, he discovers they're to be used in an assassination attempt. Now he is in a race to discover who is the target, and where the dolphins are, before the attempt is carried out....
Happy Anniversary
Character: Millie
An accidental slip reveals that a happily married couple were intimate before marriage....
The Tiger Makes Out
Character: Receptionist
During a typically disaster-filled day, Ben Harris, an angry and frustrated bachelor mailman living in a cluttered Greenwich Village basement, learns he has been paying rent to a woman who hasn't owned his building in 6 years. No longer able to endure the injustices of society, he decides to activate the ferocious tiger within himself by abducting a helpless female and dragging her back to his lair....
Too Hot to Handle
Character: Jacki
A French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner and star of a famous club....
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
Character: Annie Klenner
After a very messy divorce, a man starts suspecting his ex-wife and her new boyfriend of various crimes....
Grace Quigley
Character: Emily Watkins
Grace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. On the day she's being evicted, she witnesses a murder being committed by a top hit-man, Seymour Flint. She proposes to blackmail him into killing her, however, she has one or two friends she wants him to get rid of first....
Spring Awakening
Character: Mrs. Pierson
The failing economic fortunes of a small turn-of-the-century Nebraska town interrupt a blossoming romance between a pair of star-crossed lovers....
Sanctuary of Fear
Character: Mrs. Glidden
A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents she can't explain, and her complaints to the police have gone ignored....
Catch-22
Character: Mother
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation....
Picnic
Character: Christine Schoenwalder
Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a former college classmate and son of the richest man in town....
Morning's at Seven
Character: Aaronetta "Arry" Gibbs
In a small Midwestern town in the 1920s, four sisters' lives are turned upside down when one sister's son brings his fiancée home to meet his eccentric family for the first time....
A Child Is Waiting
Character: Miss Fogarty
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, suspiciously regards Dr. Clark's stern training methods. She becomes emotionally involved with 12-year-old Reuben Widdicombe, who has been abandoned by his divorced parents....
The Happy Hooker
Character: Mrs. Gordon
Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and starts liberally sampling the local male talent. After a while she decides to make her pleasure her business too, and as her reputation grows she graduates to a high-class bordello. Soon she realises she has the right talents to make a real success of a place of her own....
The Easter Promise
Character: Mrs. Coyle
Addie and her friends are excited over the visit of a celebrity, a local woman who became a successful Broadway actress and has returned home for a short time following the death of her mother. She brings the woman home for the family Easter celebration, and the little girl's concern and kindness help the woman see the promise of better days ahead....
Let Me Hear You Whisper
Character: Miss Moray
A scrub-woman attempts to rescue a dolphin who will talk to no one but her from a research laboratory....