Priscilla Pointer
Also Known As: Pricilla Pointer, پریسیلا پوینتر
Biography: Priscilla Marie Pointer (May 18, 1924 – April 28, 2025) was an American actress. She began her career in the theater in the late 1940s, including productions on Broadway. Later, Pointer moved to Hollywood and made appearances on television beginning in the early 1950s. Pointer was the mother of actress and singer Amy Irving, making her the former mother-in-law of filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Bruno Barreto. Description above from the Wikipedia article Priscilla Pointer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 18, 1924
Age: 101 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: April 28, 2025
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Blue Velvet
Overview: The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-19
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Overview: During a hallucinatory incident, Kristen Parker has her wrists slashed by dream-stalking monster, Freddy Krueger. Her mother, mistaking the wounds for a suicide attempt, sends her to a psychiatric ward, where she joins a group of similarly troubled teens.
Genres: Horror Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-27
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Inferno
Overview: Eddie Lomax is a drifter who has been in a suicidal funk since the death of his close friend Johnny. Riding his motorcycle into a small desert town where Johnny once lived, Lomax is confronted by a gang of toughs, who beat him and steal his bike. However, Lomax is not a man to take an injustice lying down, and soon he begins exacting a violent revenge on the men who stole his motorcycle, with local handyman Jubal Early lending a hand and several area ladies offering aid and comfort.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-25
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A Killing Affair
Overview: A white female detective is partnered with a black male detective to find the person who is committing a series of particularly vicious murders. During the course of the investigation the two begin to develop an attraction to each other, but the situation is complicated by the fact that he is married.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-21
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Carrie
Overview: Withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-03
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Acting 'Carrie'
Overview: In this documentary, director Brian De Palma and the stars from his film "Carrie" (such as Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, Piper Laurie, William Katt, Nancy Allen and others) share stories about the making of the classic horror film 25 years after its release.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-28
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A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story
Overview: Tracy Thurman was married to a man who abused her. But he continues to harass her after she gets a restraining order, and the police do little to help. When he brutally beats her and slashes her throat in front of police, she sues the city and the police department for failing to protect her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-02
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The Onion Field
Overview: An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-09
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Carried Away
Overview: Based on Jim Harrison's book, "Farmer". 47-year-old Joseph Svenden lives on the family farm with his dying mother and teaches at a two room schoolhouse with Rosealee, his lover and his best friend's widow. Joseph, who lacks a college degree, learns that he will lose his teaching job at the end of the year when the school district expands into his town. Meanwhile, he is seduced by 17-year-old Catherine, a new student in his class. His affair with Catherine and losing his teaching job forces Joseph to take a look at his previously dull life and to decide how he wants to live the rest of it.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Overview: A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she begins to engage in a pattern of dangerous sexual activity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-19
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Mommie Dearest
Overview: Renowned film star Joan Crawford's abuse towards Christina, her adopted daughter, intensifies as her professional and romantic relationships turn sour.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-16
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The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
Overview: Candy and Ellie Jo are a pair of sexy bank robbers who blast their way into small-town banks with a carload of dynamite! When they take Slim hostage, it begins a thrill-packed crime spree across the state of Texas.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-01
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Rumpelstiltskin
Overview: A musical version of the classic story about a miller's daughter who recieves help from a mischievous dwarf, then ends up over her head. Now, she and a mute servant girl may be the only hope for her baby son, John.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-01
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C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
Overview: A military experiment to create a race of super-warriors goes awry, as legions of murderous zombies are unleashed upon a suburban neighborhood.
Genres: Horror Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-05
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Disturbed
Overview: 10 years ago the perverse Dr. Russell couldn't resist the beauty of a young patient in his mental clinic and raped her one night. When she plunged herself from the roof shortly after, he described it as consequence of her heavy depressions. Now the same urge overcomes him with his new patient Sandy. He doesn't know that she's the daughter of his previous victim and that she's come for revenge.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-16
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Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
Overview: U.S. President Harry S Truman and his commander in the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur, disagree on war strategy. Their conflict comes to a head when Truman relieves the insubordinate MacArthur from command.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-04
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Nickelodeon
Overview: In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, they soon team up with the filmmakers and become important players in the show business industry. Leo learns he has a talent for directing, and Buck's cowboy persona quickly earns him leading-man status — but both men fall for beautiful starlet Kathleen Cooke, leading to a heated personal rivalry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-21
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The Flash
Overview: A laboratory accident endows a police scientist with the ability to move at superhuman speed which he uses to battle a menacing gang as a superhero.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-04
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Death Takes a Holiday
Overview: Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-23
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Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition
Overview: In the middle of the desert, a solipsistic Japanese-American woman, along with her elderly and paralysed friend Barbara, runs the Desert Rose Cafe. Things liven up with the arrival of a mafia henchman (whose boss is hiding out at a nearby ranch), a battered Japanse man (who turns out to be a terrific chef, but who also triggers Barbara's memories of internment during WWII), and an attack on the mob boss' camp.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-29
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Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
Overview: The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-13
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
Overview: An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"—and one original story, "Time Out."
Genres: Horror Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-24
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The Failing of Raymond
Overview: On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previously is out to kill her.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-27
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The Keegans
Overview: A professional football player is accused of murdering the man who attacked his sister. His brother, an investigate reporter, sets out to prove his brother's innocence.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-03
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Mysterious Two
Overview: Two Aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Mystery Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-31
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A Show of Force
Overview: In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two radical Puerto Rican activists, whom she begins to believe may have been framed and murdered by undercover American agents.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-11
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Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
Overview: Fifty-three minutes of deleted scenes and alternate takes assembled by David Lynch.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-08
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The Magic Bubble
Overview: A middle-aged woman frees herself from the spirit-crushing influence of her husband by refusing to remember what her age is.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Alone
Overview: John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rarely sees his daughters, Jacqueline and Grace Ann, and his only company is Grey, the farm's longtime overseer. John's solitude is interrupted by his nephews, Carl and Gus Jr., who have been approached about drilling for oil on the farm. Tensions rise as John clashes with his opportunistic family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-21
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Good-bye Cruel World
Overview: The story involves newscaster Rodney Pointsetter (Shawn) who is so depressed between his job and his family that he tries to make a film about his life, which he intends to culminate with his own suicide. It is often interrupted with irrelevant comic sketches that an emcee claims that the audience prefers to see.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-02
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The Falcon and the Snowman
Overview: The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-25
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The Gift of Life
Overview: A young woman is faced with local disapproval and strain on her marriage when she agrees to serve as a surrogate mother.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-15
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Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night
Overview: A disturbed young mother with some serious psychological problems begins to take them out on her toddler daughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-05
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The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
Overview: A rugged warrior is on a quest to avenge his father's brutal slaying and in search of a legendary sorcerer who can help him. Joining him on his mission is a beautiful enchantress who is also searching for the sorcerer; pursuing him is a malevolent wizard who wants him dead.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-12
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Generation
Overview: Futuristic prospective series pilot, a distant cousin the 1975 theatrical violent sport movie "Rollerball," revolves around a turn-of-the-millennium family on the Great Eve (the night before the year 2000 begins) planning for a reunion. Son Richard Beymer is an inventor working with prosthetic devices to help young athlete brother Drake Hogestyn perfect his game of combat hockey to maintain his skills as a national hero, and Cristina Raines is a socially conscious doctor who wants nothing to do with their prideful father, Bert Remsen, to the distress of their loving mother, Priscilla Pointer.
Genres: Crime Drama Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-24
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Sweet Nothing in My Ear
Overview: Family drama about a deaf and hearing couple who struggle to decide whether or not to give their deaf son a cochlear implant.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-20
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Runaway Father
Overview: A woman's husband leaves her and their three daughters. Years later she sets out to find him and get him to pay back child support.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-22
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Honeysuckle Rose
Overview: Buck Bonham is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-18
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From the Hip
Overview: Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a promotion in his firm, and he must now defend a college professor who is appearantly guilty of murder.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-06
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The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Overview: James Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the stories of the original 'The Twilight Zone' (1959) series. In "The Theatre," a young woman attends a movie only to find that her life story is being revealed on the screen. In "Where the Dead Are," a Boston surgeon in 1868 searches for a scientist who may have the answer to a medical mystery.
Genres: Fantasy Thriller Mystery Horror Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-19
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The Competition
Overview: The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her teacher, Greta, or will she condemn Paul to obscurity?
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-03
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Micki & Maude
Overview: TV reporter Rob Salinger longs for a baby. But his career-minded wife, Micki, is too busy for motherhood. A romantic fling with a seductive cellist, Maude, leads to her pregnancy. Rob receives another shock when Micki announces that she's also expecting! In love with both women, he marries Maude and starts leading a double life full of complicated and riotous situations.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-21
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The 3,000 Mile Chase
Overview: Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife from San Francisco to a trial in New York. They have to cover 3,000 dangerous miles, because the drug mob wants to kill them at any price.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-16
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Overview: For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-04
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