Jessica Walter
Also Known As: Джессика Уолтер
Biography: Jessica Walter (January 31, 1941 – March 24, 2021) was an American actress, known for appearing in the films Play Misty for Me (1971), Grand Prix and The Group (both 1966), her role as Lucille Bluth on the sitcom Arrested Development, and providing the voice of Malory Archer on the FX animated series Archer. Walter studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City. Walter was a series regular for the first half of season one of 90210, provided the voice of Fran Sinclair on the series Dinosaurs, and starred as the title character of the series Amy Prentiss, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Walter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: January 31, 1941
Deathday: March 24, 2021
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Gender: Female
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Grand Prix
Overview: The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship. After a spectacular wreck in the first of a series of races, American wheelman Pete Aron is dropped by his sponsor. Refusing to quit, he joins a Japanese racing team. While juggling his career with a torrid love affair involving an ex-teammate's wife, Pete must also contend with Jean-Pierre Sarti, a French contestant who has previously won two world titles.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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Victory at Entebbe
Overview: The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Entebbe Airport (now Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda.
Genres: Action Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-22
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Miracle on Ice
Overview: The story of the 1980 United States Olympic hockey players, a group of amateurs from around the country who were whipped into a cohesive unit by controversial coach Herb Brooks to win a gold medal at Lake Placid during the winter games.
Genres: Action Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-01
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Home for the Holidays
Overview: An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-13
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The Flamingo Kid
Overview: Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the posh Flamingo Club. He spurns his father in favor of the patronage of smooth-talking Phil Brody and is seduced by the ample bikini charms of club member Carla Samson. But thanks to a couple of late-summer hard lessons, the teen eventually realizes that family should always come first.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-21
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Tapeheads
Overview: The story of Ivan and Josh, two dimwitted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company. They soon learn the ins and outs of the business in LA, and with some help from Mo Fuzz, they soon become hot property. But not all goes smoothly when they try to resurrect the career of their favorite R&B duo, the Swanky Modes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-21
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Ghost in the Machine
Overview: After a freak, fatal accident, the soul Karl—aka The Address Book Killer—ends up trapped in the electrical grid. He targets Terry and her son for his next victims, turning home technology against them as deadly weapons.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-20
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Lilith
Overview: Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric facility for wealthy people where he meets Lilith Arthur, a charming young woman suffering from schizophrenia, whose fragile beauty captivates all who meet her.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-01
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My Best Friend's Wife
Overview: Two friends are about to learn that they are "Grownups."
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-12
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Play Misty for Me
Overview: A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-01
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Bending The Rules
Overview: Detective Nick Blades is a New Orleans cop on trial for corruption. Assistant District Attorney Theo Gold is the man in charge of putting him behind bars. When these two unlikely partners from opposite sides of the law stumble onto a criminal plot, they’ll need to rely on luck – and patience – to take down a dangerous killer without killing each other first.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-09
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Dummy
Overview: An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-12
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Dr. Strange
Overview: A psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past.
Genres: TV Movie Action Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-06
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Bye Bye Braverman
Overview: One day, Morroe Rieff learns that his friend and fellow writer, Leslie Braverman, has died. After meeting Leslie's widow, Inez, who is more flirtatious than grieving, Morroe joins up with three other writer friends, Barnet, Felix, and Holly to attend funeral services. However, the quartet faces numerous obstacles that could keep them from paying their respects.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-21
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The Group
Overview: It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, and shows, in a serialized style, their romances and marriages, their searches for careers or meaning in their lives, their highs and their lows.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-04
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Going Ape!
Overview: When his father - who owned a circus - dies, Oscar inherits 5 million dollars - and 3 orangutans. However there's a condition connected to the money: if he gives away the apes or just one gets sick or dies during the next 3 years, the zoologic society will get all the money. So he not only has to deal with 3 apes and an annoyed girlfriend, but also with a greedy zoologic society's president.
Genres: Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-10
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I Do (But I Don't)
Overview: Lauren is a divorced wedding-planner who falls for the groom-to-be.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-13
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Number One
Overview: A former football hero cannot accept his career is over. He loses himself in alcohol and women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-21
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Spring Fever
Overview: Two girls competing in a tennis match suddenly decide to spend 24 hours doing every wild and crazy thing they ever dreamed of. The girls' wacky escapade ends up producing unexpected results.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-30
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Hurricane
Overview: Two hurricane hunters track a huge, violent hurricane that is bearing down on a Gulf Coast town.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-10
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She's Dressed to Kill
Overview: A fashion designer gives a private showing at her mansion over a weekend, but someone starts killing off the models.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-10
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Three's a Crowd
Overview: An airline pilot tries to balance two wives he has in two separate cities.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-02
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The Immortal
Overview: A professional race-car driver discovers that there are certain properties in his blood that will make him, basically, immortal. A dying multi-millionaire also finds out about the racer's blood, and is determined to get it to keep himself alive. This pilot film preceded the later TV series.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-30
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Women in Chains
Overview: A parole officer goes undercover to investigate prison brutality but is trapped when the only person on the outside who knows why she's there is killed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-25
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Vampire
Overview: Vampire Anton Voytek's lair is disturbed by the ground breaking for a new church. Anton attempts to start a modern life using his hoarded wealth, but finds it's been confiscated by the authorities. He takes revenge on the architect responsible, who in turn, aided by a retired detective, tries to hunt down and destroy Anton.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-07
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Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions
Overview: A short making of feature about the 1966 John Frankenheimer movie Grande Prix
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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Doomsday Rock
Overview: Dr. Paul Sorenson, a noted astronomer, believes that an approaching comet will collide with earth based on his study of an ancient civilization's prophetic timeline. Frustrated by his inability to convince other scientists of the threat, Sorenson and a band of followers take over a nuclear missile silo. The FBI enlists the help of Sorenson's daughter Katherine, who is also a respected scientist, with the hope she can convince her father to surrender the missile silo. Katherine's research supports her father's thesis. She enlists the help of Paul, an FBI agent assigned to keep her under guard, in her quest to convince the scientific community of the imminent threat to the planet. Written by Dennis Lewis
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-23
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Mother Knows Best
Overview: A woman urges her daughter to get married. And when her daughter does, she doesn't think that she made a good choice. So she goes out and hires a killer to kill her son-in-law.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-13
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Slums of Beverly Hills
Overview: In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-14
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Scruples
Overview: Sequel to the 1980 mini-series, taking up the plot where it -- and Judith Krantz's source novel -- left off. Billy Ikehorn (Shelley Smith) is the owner of a chic Beverly Hills boutique against which romantic, corporate and political power plays unfold in the classic soap opera tradition. It was the pilot to a prospective series.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-22
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PCU
Overview: Nervous high school senior Tom Lawrence visits Port Chester University, where he gets a taste of politically correct college life when he's guided by fraternity wild man Droz and his housemates at The Pit. But Droz and his pals have rivals in nasty preppy Rand McPherson and the school's steely president. With their house threatened with expulsion, Droz and company decide to throw a raging party where the various factions will collide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-29
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They Call It Murder
Overview: A small-town district attorney is saddled with several major investigations, including a gambler's murder and a possible insurance scam.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-17
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The Execution
Overview: The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their horror they learn that he has already been tried as a war criminal and has served but a few years for his crimes. They decide that they will "execute" him, drawing lots to determine which one will perform the act, without letting the others know who it is.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-14
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Just A Regular Kid: An AIDS Story
Overview: Teenaged boy discovers he has been afflicted with AIDS after a blood transfusion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-09
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Thursday's Child
Overview: Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked to find out that he has a life-threatening heart disease. Sam has trouble dealing with his illness, but he pretends to still be a joyful teenager to not have his parents worrying even more than they already do. His health is deteriorating, though, and it is eventually revealed that he needs a heart transplant if he wants to survive. This is the beginning of a long journey, which is mentally and physically exhausting. Sam has countless operations, and tests. The search for a donor seems endless to him. Even before the final operation, Sam is forced to deal with several setbacks in his life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-01
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Unaccompanied Minors
Overview: Five disparate kids snowed in at the airport on Christmas Eve learn some lessons about friendship when they launch a bid to get back to their families and outsmart a disgruntled airport official who wants to keep them grounded.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-08
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Leave of Absence
Overview: A man asks his wife for a 'leave of absence' in order to care for his mistress who is dying of cancer.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-11
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Keep the Change
Overview: When aspiring filmmaker David is mandated by a judge to attend a social program at the Jewish Community Center, he is sure of one thing: he doesn't belong there. But when he's assigned to visit the Brooklyn Bridge with the vivacious Sarah, sparks fly and his convictions are tested. Their budding relationship must weather Sarah's romantic past, David's judgmental mother, and their own pre-conceptions of what love is supposed to look like.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-16
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Undercover Grandpa
Overview: When the girl he likes goes missing, Jake enlists the help of his grandpa and Grandpa's former special ops buddies.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-07
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Temptress
Overview: Karin brings a statue home from her travels to Asia and it soon begins to have a strange effect on her. She has an insatiable sexual appetite and develops strange fetishes such as pain and death. Soon, she gets out of control and only her boyfriend Matt has the power in his love to exorcise the demon spirits from Karin's body.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Goldengirl
Overview: A neo-Nazi Doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised & Conditioned since she was a child to run in the Olympics.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-06
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Killer in the Mirror
Overview: A woman's truly evil twin steals her sister's wealthy beloved and marries him. After his death, she fakes her own demise and returns from the "dead" to claim her sister's identity--and to frame her for the murder of her husband.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-31
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Black Market Baby
Overview: A young college girl becomes pregnant, and she and the baby's father are targeted by a black-market adoption ring that is out to get the baby.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-18
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Play It Again: A Look Back at 'Play Misty for Me'
Overview: Clint Eastwood tells us how he yearned to be a director from the time he was on "Rawhide" to finally obtaining the approval of his mentor, Don Siegel. He then asked Lew R. Wasserman, a Universal executive, if he could direct a story called "Play Misty For Me." Lew said yes but that he wouldn't be paid as the director. Clint agreed and began to locate the cast and crew he desired.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-18
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Rediscovering Christmas
Overview: A talented department store window designer helps her sister design the decor for the annual Snowflake Festival Christmas Eve dance and clashes with the stubborn grandson of the founders of the festival.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-15
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Secrets of Three Hungry Wives
Overview: When a millionaire playboy is murdered, suspicion falls on three married women, best friends, whom he had tried to play against each other in a game of divide and conquer.
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-09
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Wild and Wooly
Overview: A Western adventure — a "Charlie's Angels" on horseback — involving three comely females who meet in a territorial prison, engineer a daring escape, and find themselves in a race against time to prevent the assassination of Teddy Roosevelt.
Genres: Western TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-20
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The Mimic
Overview: Based on a true story, ‘the Narrator’ is befriended by his young new neighbor, after he joins the local newspaper team. Obsessed with the idea that ‘the Kid’ may be a sociopath, ‘the Narrator’ goes to extreme lengths to uncover the truth about him. After unsettling rendezvous, the truth he finds is anything but what he expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-05
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Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
Overview: A look at the life and career of actor/director Clint Eastwood, including scenes from his past film and television work and interviews with friends, fellow actors and crew members who have worked with him over the years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-11
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Having Babies
Overview: The story of four couples who are about to have children using the Lamaze method.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-17
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The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.
Overview: Marcus Welby is back, and he has a few problems. First he is trying to bridge the gap between an old friend of his who gave up practicing medicine in favor of being the hospital administrator, and his son who is now a doctor and who is currently treating and romancing a woman who has kidney problems. And one of his patients an expectant mother is in an accident along with her husband and her husband dies. She blames Mark and is refusing to bond with her new baby. And the hospital that he has been serving faithfully for years is considering letting some of their elderly staff members go and Mark is on top of the list.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-16
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