Cynthia Harris
Birthday: Born in 1934-08-09 in
Deathday: 2021-10-03
TV Credits
Murder, She Wrote
Character: Phyllis Thurlow
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases....
Mad About You
Character: Sylvia Buchman
Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in the '90s....
Now and Again
Character:
Now and Again is an American television series that aired in the US from September 24, 1999 until May 5, 2000 on CBS. The story revolves around the United States government engineering the perfect human body for use in espionage, but not being able to yet perfect the brain. In an attempt to get the project up and running, they take the brain of overweight family man Michael Wiseman, who is killed by a train. Given a new life, Michael is kept in an apartment where he is trained by government exp...
Law & Order
Character: Defense Attorney Adele Diamond
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place....
Kate & Allie
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Kate & Allie is an American television situation comedy which ran from March 19, 1984, to May 22, 1989. Kate & Allie first aired on CBS as a midseason replacement series and only six episodes were initially commissioned, but the favorable response from critics and viewers alike easily convinced CBS to commit to a full season in the fall of 1984. The series was created by Sherry Coben....
L.A. Law
Character: Iris Hubbard
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay right...
Quincy, M.E.
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Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations....
Knots Landing
Character: Jana Kilman
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community....
Kojak
Character: Helen Fielding
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City....
Three's Company
Character: Mrs. Layton
Three's Company is an American television sitcom that aired for eight seasons on ABC from March 15, 1977, to September 18, 1984. Developed by Don Nicholl, Michael Ross and Bernie West, it is based on the British sitcom Man About the House created by Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer. The story revolves around three single roommates: Jack Tripper, Janet Wood, and Chrissy Snow, who all platonically live together in a Santa Monica, California apartment complex owned by Stanley and Helen Roper. The ...
The Equalizer
Character: Judge Paula G. Walsh
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them....
Rescue Me
Character: Mike's Mom
Rescue Me revolves around the lives of the men in a New York City firehouse, the crew of 62 Truck. Examining the fraternal nature and relationships of firefighters, the series tackles the daily drama of the life-and-death situations associated with being a firefighter, while exploring the ways the men use dark humor to protect their true emotions....
Another World
Character:
Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC for 35 years from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. Set in the fictional town of Bay City, the show in its early years opens with announcer Bill Wolff intoning its epigram, “We do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand other worlds,” which Phillips said represented the difference between “the world of events we live in, and the world of feelings and dreams that we strive for.” Another World focused less on the conventional d...
Edward and Mrs Simpson
Character: Wallis Warfield Simspon
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intention to marry her....
Everything's Relative
Character: Gwen Spaulding
The Beeby brothers – Julian, a divorced, hard-working 33-year-old businessman and Scott, a single 25-year-old womanizing construction worker – share a loft apartment in the SoHo section of lower Manhattan despite their different lifestyles, values, careers and social lives....
Nurse
Character: Barbara Scholfield
Nurse is an American medical drama that aired on CBS from April 2, 1981 to May 1982. Series star Michael Learned won an Emmy in 1982 for her role on the show....
Murder, She Wrote
Character: Lauren Delagre
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases....
Mad About You
Character: Sylvia Buchman
A revival of the 1990s sitcom centering on the trials and tribulations of a married couple living in New York....
The Geena Davis Show
Character:
The Geena Davis Show is an American sitcom starring Geena Davis. The show lasted one season on ABC....
Law & Order
Character: Gifford
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place....
The Bob Newhart Show
Character: Diane Nugent
The Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired 142 original episodes on CBS from September 16, 1972, to April 1, 1978. Comedian Bob Newhart portrays a psychologist having to deal with his patients and fellow office workers. The show was filmed before a live audience....
Hart to Hart
Character: Amanda
Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives....
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Up the Sandbox
Character: Stella
Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty....
The Secret of Anastasia
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The Secret of Anastasia is an American 1997 direct-to-video animated musical film, about Anastasia and her quest to find her identity....
Allison Sydney Harrison
Character: Clarisse Spencer
The story, set in San Francisco, depicts the adventures of Allison Sydney Harrison, a high-school student who teams with her wealthy private-detective father David Harrison to solve crimes. In the pilot, Allison and David team to solve the murder of a beautiful woman. The prime suspect is their chauffeur, Pat Rosetti....
Tempest
Character: Cynthia
A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek island where he hopes to conjure meaning into his life - trying the patience of his new girlfriend and angst-ridden teenage daughter....
I Do & I Don't
Character: Emily Murphy
A screwball comedy about a young couple that must endure premarital counseling and the horrific married couple they are assigned to....
Passion's Way
Character: Adelaide
Set in early 1900s France, a widow renews a former romantic interest until it is discovered that he has had a past fling with one of her new employees, a nanny. This sets the two women into many well-mannered accusations and conversations, but no modern brawling, and puts him in the middle or possibly on the outside....
Izzy & Moe
Character: Dallas Carter
The adventures of two retired vaudeville performers who become two of the best prohibition agents in the 1920's....
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Character: Wallis Warfield Simpson
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her....
Mannequin Two: On the Move
Character: Mom / Queen
Although Jason works as a department store clerk, he is also a reincarnated prince. Long ago, his beloved Jessie was snatched away from him by an evil wizard who used his powers to transform her into wooden statue. Now Jessie is in Jason's department store as a mannequin. When he encounters her, she awakens from her thousand-year sleep. They quickly revive their romance, but the evil wizard has been reincarnated as well, and he's up to no good....
Pancho Barnes
Character: Mrs. Lowe
Bored socialite Florence Pancho Barnes decides to learn to fly....
The Princess and the Cabbie
Character: Barbara Cunningham
A young woman works to overcome her dyslexia with the help of a good-hearted cab driver....
Breaking Up
Character: Edie
JoAnn Hammil faces a harrowing fight to rediscover her personal identity when her husband of 15 years announces that he is leaving her and their children to search for the indefinable joy he feels he is missing from his life....
I Could Never Have Sex with Any Man Who Has So Little Regard for My Husband
Character: Laura
In this sex farce, two middle-aged pairs of aspiring swingers rent a summer cottage. There they sit around discussing the pros and cons of having affairs....
Isadora
Character: Mary Desti
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time....
Reuben, Reuben
Character: Bobby Springer
A drunken Scottish poet who has not written a word in years feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman....
A Special Friendship
Character: Mrs. Van Lew
During the American Civil War, two women, a wealthy white woman and a freed black slave, join forces to fight for freedom and the abolition of slavery....
3 Men and a Baby
Character: Mrs. Hathaway
Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends....
Doctor Franken
Character: Anita Franken
This variation of the Frankenstein legend, set in a brownstone in present-day Manhattan, has Robert Vaughn as a determined New York surgeon bringing "parts" home from work -- the hospital where he does experimental research -- to painstakingly rebuild the shattered body of an anonymous patient with organs from various donors....
Coffee, Tea or Me?
Character: Dee Dee
An airline stewardess juggles a life that includes a husband in Los Angeles and another one in London....
The Distinguished Gentleman
Character: Vera Johnson
A Florida con man uses the passing of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a name with, to get elected to his version of paradise- Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists....
The Women's Club
Character: Women's Club Lady
Patrick is a struggling screenwriter who takes a second job as a male prostitute. He is supposed to write by day and do right by his lonely clientele at night, but he develops writer's block. When Patrick decides to draw from his amorous experiences as inspiration for his next screenplay, the women conspire to prevent it....
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Character: Beth
Free-thinking student tries to put up with life at a straight-laced college in 1958....