Alice Hirson
Also Known As: Alice C. Thorsell
Biography: Alice Hirson (March 10, 1929 – February 14, 2025) was an American actress best known for her roles on television. She began her career on stage, before roles on daytime soap operas. She was best known for her roles as Mavis Anderson in the CBS prime time soap opera Dallas and as Lois Morgan, the mother of the title character on the ABC sitcom Ellen.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: March 10, 1929
Deathday: February 14, 2025
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Gender: Female
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Blind Date
Overview: When bachelor Walter Davis is set up with his sister-in-law's pretty cousin, Nadia Gates, a seemingly average blind date turns into a chaotic night on the town. Walter's brother, Ted, tells him not to let Nadia drink alcohol, but he dismisses the warning and her behaviour gets increasingly wild. Walter and Nadia's numerous incidents are made even worse as her former lover David relentlessly follows them around town.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-27
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Being There
Overview: A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-19
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Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force
Overview: The true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant who, in 1975, publicly divulged his homosexuality and fought to remain in service.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-21
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Psycho IV: The Beginning
Overview: When he hears talk radio host Fran Ambrose discussing the topic of matricide, Norman calls in under a false name to tell his story.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-10
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Miss All-American Beauty
Overview: After winning a beauty contest in Texas, a teenage girl is unprepared for the demands of travel, press conferences and interviews that go with winning the title and participating in a national beauty pageant.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-27
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Nightwing
Overview: Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in Arizona.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-22
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Mass Appeal
Overview: A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-14
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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Overview: A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-22
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Bride of Boogedy
Overview: In this sequel to the made-for-television Disney family classic, Mr. Boogedy, the Davis family deals with the return of Mr. Boogedy and his never-ending hunt for Widow Marion as well as a rival gag-store competitor who really has it out for Carleton. Meanwhile, the town of Lucifer Falls is planning a big carnival which the mean Mr. Lynch seeks to ruin- if Boogedy doesn't see to that first.
Genres: Horror Family Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-12
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Psyko Ferret
Overview: Jackie and Jill swill have an unusual pet called a "psyko ferret"; a unidentified species of weasel,. Together they try to keep it secret.
Genres: Animation Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Loose Change
Overview: Three girlfriends -- an author, an artist, and a political activist -- mature and change during the turbulent 1960s.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-26
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Stepmonster
Overview: Todd Dougherty has an imagination driven by comic books. So when he accuses his soon-to-be stepmother of being a monster, no one believes him. When neighbors start turning up dead, it becomes a race against time for Todd to stop this hideous, carnivorous creature from marrying his dad and ruining his life.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-24
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Revenge of the Nerds
Overview: At Adams College, the jocks rule the school from their house on high, the Alpha Beta fraternity. So when a group of socially-challenged misfits try to go Greek, they're instantly rejected by every house on campus. Deciding to start their own fraternity to protect their outcast brothers, the campus nerds soon find themselves in a battle royale as the Alpha Betas try to crush their new rivals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-20
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Private Benjamin
Overview: A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-06
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The Big Picture
Overview: Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his first feature, but once production gets rolling, corporate reality begins to intervene: Nick is unable to control a series of compromises to his high-minded vision, and it's all he can do to maintain his integrity in the midst of filmmaking chaos.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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Starstruck
Overview: Pop star Christopher Wilde has fame, fortune and a big-budget Hollywood movie awaiting him. But after meeting Jessica Olson, a down-to-earth girl from the Midwest, he is faced with following his heart or doing what's best for his career.
Genres: Romance Comedy TV Movie Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-14
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Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
Overview: A turn-of-the-century investigator named Kate Bliss goes to the wide-open spaces of the wild west to capture a gang of outlaws led by a charming "Robin Hood of the plains," leading a band of dispossessed ranchers against a stuffy English land baron who has cheated them out of their property.
Genres: Western Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-26
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Particular Men
Overview: A fictitious but powerful look at the dawn of the nuclear age, this stage performance follows several government scientists as they develop the atomic bomb, grapple with the morality of their work, and confront major problems with their superiors. Written by award-winning playwright Loring Mandel, this riveting production stars Stacy Keach, Alice Drummond, Lois Smith, Clifton James and Verna Bloom.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-04-15
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The Lost
Overview: A charismatic psycho suspected of killing two innocent campers in a cold-blooded double homicide grows increasingly unstable as his suburban empire starts to crack at the foundations.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-11
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Having Babies II
Overview: The story of various couples who get caught up in the personal and emotional crises of birth, adoption and hospitalization, and also of the hospital and health care workers who take care of them.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-28
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Diary of a Perfect Murder
Overview: This legal whodunit movie served as a pilot for the television series Matlock.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-03
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Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
Overview: In this sequel to Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, Alexander's story is told in both the past and the present. Alexander's parents send him away from home for being too sensitive and not helping enough on their farm. He goes to Los Angeles in hopes of going to art school, but when he can't find a job as a minor, he turns to prostitution. After being arrested, he wants to head to Arizona to marry Dawn, but he falls into a lucrative job/relationship with a gay football star.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-16
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The Death of Richie
Overview: A sensitive but confused teenager feels pressure from all directions and turns to drugs, which causes problems for him in school and at home.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-10
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If Things Were Different
Overview: A woman tries to cope with her husband's emotional instability while also juggling a career as a local TV show director, her motherly duties, and an extramarital affair.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-16
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The Glass House
Overview: When Ruby and Rhett's parents are killed in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenly shattered. Moving to an incredible house in Malibu with the Glasses', old friends of the family, seems to be the beginning of a new life for them.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-14
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The Rules of Marriage
Overview: A seemingly perfect marriage disintegrates, as both husband and wife become involved in a series of affairs.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-10
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