Paula Trueman
Birthday: Born in 1897-04-25 in New York City, New York, USA
Deathday: 1994-03-23
Paula Trueman (April 25, 1897 – March 23, 1994) was an American film, stage and television actress.
TV Credits
Tales from the Darkside
Character: Great Grandma
Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. The series' episodes spanned the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and some episodes featured elements of black comedy or more lighthearted themes....
Billy
Character:
Billy is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from February to April 1979. The series was based on Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall's 1960 British play Billy Liar....
Tales from the Darkside
Character: Aunt Teresa
Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. The series' episodes spanned the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and some episodes featured elements of black comedy or more lighthearted themes....
Kojak
Character: Celia Moore
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City....
The Equalizer
Character: Mrs. Hammerschmidt
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....
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Dirty Dancing
Character: Mrs. Sylvia Schumacher
Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love....
The Last Tenant
Character: Woman in Home
Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which particularly affects the eldest son's life, placing his impending marriage in jeopardy....
Can't Stop the Music
Character: Stick-Up Lady
A loose biography of seminal disco hit-makers The Village People and their composer Jacques Morali....
Homebodies
Character: Mattie
When a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. What starts as an attempt to discourage the developers soon escalates into wholesale murder of both the developers and the construction workers....
Sweet Lorraine
Character: Mrs. Falkman
Serio-comic look at the residents and staff of a Catskill Mountains resort during its final days....
Classified Love
Character: Grandma
Three ad agency buddies, who cannot seem to find fulfilling love, decide to place personal ads to find new romance. The resulting blind dates and ultimate results are about what one would expect....
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Character: Grandma Sarah
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected....
OHMS
Character: Wheeler's Mother
A conservative, Midwestern farmer rallies his neighbors against a power company planning to erect huge towers across their land, and a political activist schoolteacher helps them organize into an effective bloc....
The Electric Grandmother
Character: Old Agatha
To a family whose children are traumatized by the death of their mother, help comes in a most bizarre way. They receive three pieces, that when joined together, give a recording for an offer for an electric grandmother. They go to a bizarre factory, where they customize their new grandmother, and within a short time, she arrives. The android is equipped with everything needed as a parent and the boys are charmed. The daughter, however, still misses her mother and she bears no welcome for this in...
Zelig
Character: Woman on Telephone
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others....
Annie Hall
Character: Street Stranger
New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall....
How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
Character: Old Lady
A kid strives to be perfect, and in the end realizes that individuality is more fun....
The Anderson Tapes
Character: Nurse
Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is being recorded on audio and video, although he is not the subject of any surveillance....
Mrs. Soffel
Character: Mrs. Stevenson
Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada....
Moonstruck
Character: Lucy
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who blames his brother for the loss of his hand, has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls for Ronny, she lear...
Grace Quigley
Character: Dorothy Trugert
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....
Crime Without Passion
Character: Buster Malloy (uncredited)
Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance with Carmen, she is so distraught that she becomes suicidal. Seizing the gun from Carmen, he accidentally shoots her, and thinking she's dead, concocts a series of increasingly outlandish alibis to cover his tracks under the guidance of a ghostly apparition that is his alter ego....
The Stepford Wives
Character: Welcome Wagon Lady
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents....
Paint Your Wagon
Character: Mrs. Fenty
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining....
Better Late Than Never
Character: Alke Elam
Harry Landers is a feisty senior citizen who refuses to abide by the rules in a stodgy retirement home run by a dour Ms. Davis, in which Harry leads a revolt by the other goated senior citizen residents against the establishment....
One Foot in Heaven
Character: Miss Peabody (uncredited)
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another....
Seize the Day
Character: Woman #1
Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but caught in a downward spiral, he must, in addition, face the father who never really understood him, while trying to balance his newly precarious existence....