Eleanor Parker
Birthday: Born in 1922-06-26 in Cedarville, Ohio, USA
Deathday: 2013-12-09
Eleanor Jean Parker (June 26, 1922 – December 9, 2013) was an American actress. She was nominated for three Academy Awards for her roles in the films Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951), and Interrupted Melody (1955), the first of which won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She was also known for her roles in the films Of Human Bondage (1946), Scaramouche (1952), The Naked Jungle (1954), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), A Hole in the Head (1959), The Sound of Music (1965), and The Oscar (1966). Description above from the Wikipedia article Eleanor Parker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Murder, She Wrote
Character: Maggie Tarrow
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases....
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Character: Dorian Smith
Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall specials once monthly. Como's production company, Roncom Films, also produced Kraft Suspense Theatre. Writer, editor, critic and radio playwright Anthony Boucher served as consultant on the series. Later syndicated under the title Crisis, it was one of the few suspense series te...
Hawaii Five-O
Character: Constance Kincaid
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett...
Hotel
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Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May 5, 1988 in the timeslot following Dynasty. Based on Arthur Hailey's 1965 novel of the same name, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling and set in the elegant and fictitious St. Gregory Hotel in San Francisco. Establishing shots of the hotel were filmed in front of The Fairmont San Francisco atop the Nob Hill neighborhood. Episodes followed the activities of passing guests, as well as the personal ...
The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time....
Vega$
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Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC between 1978 and 1981. It was produced by Aaron Spelling. The series was filmed in its entirety in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is believed to be the first television series produced entirely in Las Vegas. The show stars Robert Urich as private detective Dan Tanna, who drove around the streets of Las Vegas in a red 1957 Ford Thunderbird solving crimes and making Las Vegas a better place for residents and tourists alike....
Bracken's World
Character: Sylvia Caldwell
Behind the scenes at the fictitious Century Studios in Hollywood, headed by the (initially) unseen John Bracken....
Vanished
Character: Sue Greer
Government agencies investigate the mysterious disappearance of a powerful presidential adviser....
The Oscars
Character: Self
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar....
Ghost Story
Character: Paula Burgess
Ghost Story is an American television anthology series that aired for one season on NBC from 1972 to 1973. Executive-produced by William Castle, it initially featured supernatural entities such as ghosts, vampires, and witches. By mid-season, low ratings led to a shift -- for the most part -- away from paranormal themes and a title change to Circle of Fear....
Checkmate
Character: Marion Bannion/Gussie Hill
Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS Television from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes and was produced by Jack Benny's production company, "JaMco Productions" in co-operation with Revue Studios. Guest stars included Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, and Lee Marvin, among many other commensurately prominent performers....
Finder of Lost Loves
Character: Nora Spencer
The Finder of Lost Loves TV show was a 60 minute drama series on ABC about a private investigator who specialized in finding lost loves from the past for his heartbroken clients....
The Love Boat
Character: Alicia Fairchild Bradbury
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins....
The Love Boat
Character: Rosie Strickland
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins....
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The Man with the Golden Arm
Character: Zosch Machine
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits....
Detective Story
Character: Mary McLeod
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter....
Home for the Holidays
Character: Alexandra Morgan
An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him....
It's a Great Feeling
Character: Eleanor Parker (uncredited)
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her....
How to Steal the World
Character: Margitta Kingsley
Secret agent Napoleon Solo fights to stop a top-secret plot to conquer the world....
Between Two Worlds
Character: Ann Bergner
Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got onboard or where they are going. Soon it becomes apparent that they all have something in common....
A Hole in the Head
Character: Eloise Rogers
An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son....
Scaramouche
Character: Lenore
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder....
Caged
Character: Marie Allen
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison....
The Sound of Music
Character: The Baroness
In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home....
The Woman in White
Character: Laura Fairlie / Ann Catherick
A young painter stumbles upon an assortment of odd characters at an English estate where he has been hired to give art lessons to beautiful Laura Fairlie. Among them are Anne Catherick, a strange young woman dressed in white whom he meets in the forest and who bears a striking resemblance to Laura; cunning Count Fosco, who hopes to obtain an inheritance for nobleman Sir Percival Glyde, whom he plans to have Laura marry; Mr. Fairlie, a hypochondriac who can't stand to have anyone make the slighte...
The King and Four Queens
Character: Sabina McDade
Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold....
Interrupted Melody
Character: Marjorie Lawrence
Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence. She’s a foremost Wagnerian, equal to the vocal and physical demands of the composer’s oeuvre. And she’s a beacon of triumph to anyone who fights back when personal tragedy strikes....
Three Secrets
Character: Susan Chase
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son....
Never Say Goodbye
Character: Ellen Gayley
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip starts a correspondence with a Marine, sending a picture of her beautiful mother as the author of Flip's flirtatious letters. When the Marine shows up to meet his pen pal, Ellen takes the opportunity to make her ex-husband jealous....
The Naked Jungle
Character: Joanna Leiningen
The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants....
Hollywood Canteen
Character: Self
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place....
Above and Beyond
Character: Lucey Tibbets
The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it can do tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll resulting from it will be huge. He is reluctant to be the person who will end so many lives, but as time goes on, the pressure upon him only increase....
Many Rivers to Cross
Character: Mary Stuart Cherne
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798....
Pride of the Marines
Character: Ruth Hartley
Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife....
Madison Avenue
Character: Anne Tremaine
An adman and an adwoman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House....
Fantasy Island
Character: Eunice Hollander Baines
Mr. Roarke and his assistant Tattoo greet a former reporter in World War II who wants to relive a brief romance that took place in London 30 years ago, a big-game hunter who, for once, wants to be the hunted and a wealthy businesswoman who wants to be a secret and silent observer at her own funeral....
Escape from Fort Bravo
Character: Carla Forester
A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort....
The Oscar
Character: Sophie Cantaro
An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win....
The Tiger and the Pussycat
Character: Mme Vincenzini
A middle-aged businessman finds himself in thirst for romance adventure, and it seems that a proper partner is not far away....
The Mysterious Doctor
Character: Letty Carstairs
The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine....
Chain Lightning
Character: Joan "Jo" Holloway
Former World War II flying ace Matt Brennan takes a position as a test pilot for a commercial aircraft corporation and bumps into his old girlfriend, Jo Holloway, who now works as a receptionist for the company....
Warning Shot
Character: Mrs. Doris Ruston
Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case....
Home from the Hill
Character: Hannah Hunnicutt
The wealthiest man in a Texas town decides to teach his teenage son how to hunt to make a man out of him....
Eye of the Cat
Character: Aunt Danny
A man and his girlfriend plan to rob the mansion of the man's eccentric but wealthy aunt. However, the aunt keeps dozens of cats in her home, and the man is deathly afraid of cats....
Busses Roar
Character: Norma
A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields....
Escape Me Never
Character: Fenella MacLean
A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée....
Once Upon a Spy
Character: The Lady
Computer genius and chess champion Ted Danson is lured into service by secret agent Eleanor Parker and becomes a reluctant hero thanks to a number of exploits with villainous Christopher Lee and his army of lethal blue-eyed blonde women....
Return to Peyton Place
Character: Connie Rossi
Residents of the small town of Peyton Place aren't pleased when they realize they're the characters in local writer Allison MacKenzie's controversial first novel. A sequel to the hit 1957 film....
An American Dream
Character: Deborah Kelly Rojack
Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personality. During a vicious argument with his wife, Deborah, Stephen snaps and pushes her from his high-rise apartment to her death. He manages to convince the authorities that she killed herself, then reignites an old affair with singer Cherry McMahon -- which doesn't sit well with her jealous mobster boyfriend, Nicky....
Crime by Night
Character: Irene Carr
A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy....
Lizzie
Character: Elizabeth Richmond
A psychiatrist treats a woman of three faces: neurotic Elizabeth, wanton Lizzie, and charming Beth....
Valley of the Kings
Character: Ann Barclay Mercedes
Hard-boiled archeologist Mark Brandon is searching for ancient tombs in Egypt when he is approached by beautiful Ann Mercedes, who convinces him to help her fulfill her deceased father's life's ambition - to provide solid proof of the biblical Joseph's travels in ancient Egypt. As an ex-pupil of Ann's father, Mark accepts and the two embark on a search for the tomb of the Pharoah Ra Hotep, said to have had some connection with Joseph. The trail to the tomb is fraught with intrigue, betrayal, mur...
Mission to Moscow
Character: Emlen Davies
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism....
Sunburn
Character: Mrs. Thoren
A model and a private eye help a New York insurance investigator on a deadly case in Acapulco....
Of Human Bondage
Character: Mildred Rogers
A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for help....
The Voice of the Turtle
Character: Sally Middleton
An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City....
Hans Brinker
Character: Dame Brinker
Melodrama on ice...
The Seventh Sin
Character: Carol Carwin
In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with Paul. Her physician husband Walter discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to China (where he will fight a cholera epidemic) or face the scandal of a public divorce. She persuades him to reconsider and he proposes an alternative. If Paul's wife will agree to a divorce and he marries Carol within one week Walter will obtain a quiet divorce. Carol presents Walter's 'deal' to Paul, who regretfully declines, citi...
A Millionaire for Christy
Character: Christabel 'Christy' Sloane
Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle has died and left him $2 million. Christy, who's in financial straits, decides to try to snag Peter. Zany hijinks ensue and romantic sparks fly....
The Last Ride
Character: Kitty Kelly
A police lieutenant is determined to bust the gang of crooks selling defective automobile tires....
The Very Thought of You
Character: Janet Wheeler
Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory....
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Character: Claire Miller
Dennie has returned from a year among the hippies to her superficial, image-conscious suburban family. She must face their disapproval of her actions. They refuse to even try to understand. She must also deal with an ex-lover, and a beloved young sister who is following in her footsteps, wanting the idealistic hippie life but making some rash decisions in the process....
She's Dressed to Kill
Character: Regine Danton
A fashion designer gives a private showing at her mansion over a weekend, but someone starts killing off the models....
Valentino
Character: Joan Carlisle / Sarah Gray
Italian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling between his career and the woman he loves....
Dead on the Money
Character: Catherine Blake
An actress is persuaded by a charming man to join him in a scheme of revenge against his cousin....
The Great American Beauty Contest
Character: Peggy Lowery
The pursuit by America's loveliest girls for a coveted beauty crown is threatened by a scandal which implicates a judge, a former winner, and one of the five finalists....
The Bastard
Character: Lady Amberly
Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved in the events leading to the American Revolution. (Episodes 1 and 2 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)...
Warning Shot
Character: Doris Ruston
Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case....
Panic Button
Character: Louise
A businessman comes up with a scheme to make money by financing a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" that's destined to fail, thus giving him some major tax breaks....
Always Together
Character: Eleanor Parker (uncredited)
An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors....
The Big Shot
Character: Telephone Operator (voice)
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery....
Destination Tokyo
Character: Mike's Wife on Record (voice) (uncredited)
During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in advance of the planned bombing of Tokyo. Along the way, the crew learn about each other as they face the enemy and some of them lose their lives....
Vaudeville Days
Character: Colleen (song "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling")
A narrator provides very brief info on the beginnings and history of Vaudeville while Vaudeville acts are staged by impersonators and contemporary performers....
Atlantic City
Character: Bathing Beauty (uncredited)
In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon"....
Madame X
Character: Katherine Richardson
Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her daughter. The daughter, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court....
Soldiers in White
Character: Nurse Ryan
A young intern is drafted and placed in the Army Medical Corps as a buck private and is none too happy about it. Injured, he is placed in the hospital where a Major comes by and explains how army doctors make important advances in medical science. The private is inspired and promises to make a good soldier. He is even more inspired when a nurse becomes his superior officer....
Men of the Sky
Character: Mrs. Frank Bickley
A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots receiving their wings from Lt. General H.H. Arnold. An off-screen narrator introduces four of them to us; we see them before the war, during flight training, and in their first assignments as pilots....
Blow-Ups of 1946
Character: Self
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1946....
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Character: Zosch Machine (archive footage) (uncredited)
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes co...
Frank Capra's American Dream
Character: Self (archive footage)
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard....
Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner
Character: Self (archive footage)
Portrait of Julia Jean Turner, from her childhood to her rise of fame as Lana Turner, to her last role....