Priscilla Pointer

Born: 1924-05-18

Priscilla Marie Pointer is an American stage, film, and television character actress. She began her career in the theater, including productions on Broadway. Later, Pointer moved to Hollywood to act in films and on television.


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Carrie

as Mrs. Snell
Released: 1976-11-03

Withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse...

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Inferno

as Mrs. Henry Howard
Released: 1999-09-25

Eddie Lomax is a drifter who has been in a suicidal funk since the death of his close friend...

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Blue Velvet

as Mrs. Beaumont
Released: 1986-09-19

Clean-cut Jeffrey Beaumont realizes his hometown is not so normal when he discovers a human ear...

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

as Dr. Elizabeth Simms
Released: 1987-02-27

During a hallucinatory incident, Kristen Parker has her wrists slashed by dream-stalking...

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Twilight Zone: The Movie

as Miss Cox
Released: 1983-06-24

An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick...

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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

as Self
Released: 2010-05-04

For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters,...

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The Falcon and the Snowman

as Mrs. Lee
Released: 1985-01-25

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood...

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The Onion Field

as Chrissie Campbell
Released: 1979-09-09

An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal...

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Mommie Dearest

as Mrs. Chadwick
Released: 1981-09-16

Renowned film star Joan Crawford's abuse towards Christina, her adopted daughter, intensifies as...

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The Flash

as Nora Allen
Released: 1990-11-04

A laboratory accident endows a police scientist with the ability to move at superhuman speed...

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Micki + Maude

as Diana Hutchison
Released: 1984-12-21

TV reporter Rob Salinger longs for a baby. But his career-minded wife, Micki, is too busy for...

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The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics

as Woman in cinema (segment "The Theatre")
Released: 1994-05-19

James Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the...

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Nickelodeon

as Mabel
Released: 1976-12-21

In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an...

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Looking for Mr. Goodbar

as Mrs. Dunn
Released: 1977-10-19

A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she...

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C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud

as Dr. Berlin
Released: 1989-05-05

A military experiment to create a race of super-warriors goes awry, as legions of murderous...

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The Competition

as Mrs. Donellan
Released: 1980-12-03

The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last...

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A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story

as Tracey's Mother
Released: 1989-10-02

Tracy Thurman was married to a man who abused her. But he continues to harass her after she gets...

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Carried Away

as Lily Henson
Released: 1996-01-26

Based on Jim Harrison's book, "Farmer". 47-year-old Joseph Svenden lives on the family farm with...

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Honeysuckle Rose

as Rosella
Released: 1980-07-18

Buck Bonham is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and...

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From the Hip

as Mrs. Martha Williams
Released: 1987-02-06

Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must...

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The Failing of Raymond

as History Teacher
Released: 1971-09-27

On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years...

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Rumpelstiltskin

as Queen Grizelda
Released: 1987-04-01

A musical version of the classic story about a miller's daughter who recieves help from a...

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Death Takes a Holiday

as Marion Chapman
Released: 1971-10-23

Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to...

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A Show of Force

as Alice Ryan
Released: 1990-05-11

In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two...

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The Great Texas Dynamite Chase

as Miss Harris
Released: 1976-07-01

Candy and Ellie Jo are a pair of sexy bank robbers who blast their way into small-town banks...

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Alone

as Susan Hight
Released: 1997-12-21

John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He...

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Generation

as Ellen Breed
Released: 1985-05-24

Futuristic prospective series pilot, a distant cousin the 1975 theatrical violent sport movie...

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The Gift of Life

as Rosalee Boyer
Released: 1982-03-15

A young woman is faced with local disapproval and strain on her marriage when she agrees to...

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The Magic Bubble

as Grandma
Released: 1992-01-01

A middle-aged woman frees herself from the spirit-crushing influence of her husband by refusing...

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Sweet Nothing in My Ear

as Sally (voice)
Released: 2008-04-20

Family drama about a deaf and hearing couple who struggle to decide whether or not to give their...

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Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage

as Mrs. Beaumont
Released: 2011-11-08

Fifty-three minutes of deleted scenes and alternate takes assembled by David Lynch.

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The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire

as Hawk Lady
Released: 1981-04-12

A rugged warrior is on a quest to avenge his father's brutal slaying and in search of a...

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Disturbed

as Sr. Francine
Released: 1990-11-16

10 years ago the perverse Dr. Russell couldn't resist the beauty of a young patient in his...

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A Killing Affair

as Judge Cudahy
Released: 1977-09-21

A white female detective is partnered with a black male detective to find the person who is...

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Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur

as Jean MacArthur
Released: 1976-01-04

U.S. President Harry S Truman and his commander in the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur,...

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The 3,000 Mile Chase

as Emma Dvorak
Released: 1977-06-16

Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife...

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The Keegans

as Helen Hunter McVey
Released: 1976-05-03

A professional football player is accused of murdering the man who attacked his sister. His...

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Mysterious Two

as She
Released: 1982-05-31

Two Aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them.

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Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition

as Barbara
Released: 1994-01-29

In the middle of the desert, a solipsistic Japanese-American woman, along with her elderly and...

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Runaway Father

as Mary Bennett
Released: 1991-09-22

A woman's husband leaves her and their three daughters. Years later she sets out to find him and...

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Good-bye Cruel World

as Myra
Released: 1983-01-02

The story involves newscaster Rodney Pointsetter (Shawn) who is so depressed between his job and...

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Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night

as Laura Atherton
Released: 1977-10-05

A disturbed young mother with some serious psychological problems begins to take them out on her...

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Acting 'Carrie'

as Self
Released: 2001-08-28

In this documentary, director Brian De Palma and the stars from his film "Carrie" (such as Sissy...

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Dallas

as Rebecca Barnes Wentworth
First aired: 1978-04-02

The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all....

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Dallas

as Rebecca Barnes Wentworth (credit only)
First aired: 1978-04-02

The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all....

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The A-Team

as Tracy Richter's Mother
First aired: 1983-01-23

A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune...

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ER

as Mrs. Abernathy
First aired: 1994-09-19

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by...

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Quincy, M.E.

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-10-03

Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.

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Quincy, M.E.

as Nurse Kathy Benson
First aired: 1976-10-03

Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.

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St. Elsewhere

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-10-26

St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from...

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Cold Case

as Lillian Vine (2006)
First aired: 2003-09-28

The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned...

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Knots Landing

as Beatrice Handleman
First aired: 1979-12-27

The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a...

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Adam-12

as Jacqueline Carey
First aired: 1968-09-21

Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police...

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Amazing Stories

as Charlie
First aired: 1985-09-29

A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and...

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Amazing Stories

as woman on train (cameo)
First aired: 1985-09-29

A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and...

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Judging Amy

as Margaret Palmer
First aired: 1999-09-19

Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through...

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Touched by an Angel

as Elizabeth Carpenter
First aired: 1994-09-21

Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who...

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Cannon

as uncredited
First aired: 1971-09-14

Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26,...

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The Rockford Files

as Helen Morris
First aired: 1974-09-13

Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con...

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ABC Afterschool Special

as Ruth Meredith
First aired: 1972-10-04

Dramatically presented situations, often controversial, of interest to children and teenagers....

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L.A. Law

as Judge Dorothy M. Pehlman
First aired: 1986-09-15

L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from...

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Newhart

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-10-02

Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in...

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The High Chaparral

as Mrs.Colton
First aired: 1967-09-10

The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and...

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Kojak

as Regina
First aired: 1973-10-24

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New...

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McCloud

as uncredited
First aired: 1970-02-17

Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the...

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Police Woman

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-09-13

Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los...

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Police Woman

as Adele French
First aired: 1974-09-13

Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los...

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Where the Heart Is

as uncredited
First aired: 1969-09-08

Where the Heart Is was an American soap opera telecast on the CBS television network from...

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Lou Grant

as uncredited
First aired: 1977-09-20

The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his...

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Harry O

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-09-12

After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego...

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The Flash

as Nora Allen
First aired: 1990-09-20

When a bolt of lightening crashes through a police crime lab, a mix of electrically charged...

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What Really Happened To the Class Of '65?

as uncredited
First aired: 1977-12-08

Sam Ashley, a graduate of 1965 class of Bret Harte High School, who was now a teacher at the...

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Mrs. Columbo

as uncredited
First aired: 1979-02-26

Mrs. Kate Columbo, wife of the famous lieutenant, solves crimes as a reporter, while raising her...

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City of Angels

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-02-03

City of Angels is a 1976 television series created by Stephen J. Cannell and Roy Huggins, who...

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Joe Forrester

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-09-09

Joe Forrester is an American Crime/Drama TV series, starring Lloyd Bridges.

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China Smith

as uncredited
First aired: 1952-01-01

China Smith was a 1950s television adventure series starring Dan Duryea. The television show...

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Stone

as uncredited
First aired: 1980-01-14

Stone is an American police drama that aired on NBC on Monday nights between January 14 and...

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