Joan Van Ark
Born: 1943-06-16 in New York City, New York, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
Joan Van Ark (born June 16, 1943) is an American actress, most notable for her role as Valene Ewing, which she originated on the CBS hit series Dallas and continued for thirteen seasons on its long-running spin-off, Knots Landing. Van Ark has also received a Theatre World Award and been nominated for a Tony Award for her stage work. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Van Ark, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2019
- Doom Patrol as Mrs. Franklin
2017
- Psycho Wedding Crasher as Aunt Daisy
2013
- Watercolor Postcards as Momma
2009
- RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Guest Judge
- Archer as Ruth (voice)
- Celebrity Ghost Stories as Self
2008
- Channels as Megan Phillips
2005
- My Name Is Earl as Janine
- Diamond Zero as The Hemingway Diamond
2002
- Tornado Warning as Mayor McAnders
2001
- UP, Michigan! as Deborah Michaels
2000
- Son of the Beach
- Held for Ransom as Nancy Donavan
- It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown as Secretary (voice)
1999
- Twice in a Lifetime as Camilla Bianco / Anna
1998
- Loyal Opposition as Vice President Elizabeth Lane
1997
- Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac as Valene Ewing
1996
- Adventures from the Book of Virtues as Queen Esther (voice)
1995
- Cybill as Joan Van Ark
- Dumb and Dumber as Aunt Bea (voice)
- Santo Bugito as Amelia (voice)
- Women of the House as Self
- When the Dark Man Calls as Julianne Kaiser
1994
- Touched by an Angel as Kim Carpenter
- Boys Will Be Boys as Susan Cooper
- A Mother's Deception as Nora McGill
1993
- The Nanny as Margo Lange
- Intimate Portrait as Self
- In the Shadows, Someone's Watching
- Tainted Blood as Mrs. Drew
1992
- Terror on Track 9 as Leslie Renner
1990
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as Jewel Pemberton
- Night of 100 Stars III as Self
- Menu for Murder as Julia Alberts
- Always Remember I Love You as Martha Mendham
1988
- My First Love as Claire Thomas
- Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz as Joan Van Ark
- Shakedown on the Sunset Strip as Brenda Allen
1987
- Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
1986
- All Star Party for Clint Eastwood as Self (uncredited)
1985
- Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1981
- Red Flag: The Ultimate Game as Marie Rivers
1980
- Thundarr the Barbarian as Captain Corden (voice)
1979
- Knots Landing as Valene Ewing
- Spider-Woman as Spider-Woman / Jessica Drew (voice)
1978
- Dallas as Valene Ewing
- Vega$
- The Waverly Wonders
- Tarzan and the Super 7 as Moray
1977
- The Love Boat as Kris Hayley
- The Last Dinosaur as Francesca Banks
- We've Got Each Other as Dee Dee Baldwin
- Testimony of Two Men as Jane Robson
1976
1975
- Wonder Woman as Cassandra Loren
- Joe Forrester
- Medical Story as Peggy Fowler
- Barbary Coast as Eleanor Graham
- The Last of the Mohicans as Cora Munro (voice)
- Shell Game as Shirley
- The Rules of the Game as Silvia Gala
1974
- The Rockford Files as Barbara Kelbaker
- The Six Million Dollar Man as Valerie Sheffield
- Rhoda
- Petrocelli
- The Manhunter
- Cyrano as Roxanne (voice)
- Firehouse as Cynthia
- Big Rose as Nina
1973
- Kojak as Det. Josephine Long
1972
- M*A*S*H as Lt. Erika Johnson
- ABC Afterschool Special ... (Director)
- Temperatures Rising as Annie Carlisle
- Frogs as Karen Crockett
- The Judge and Jake Wyler as Alicia Dodd
1971
- Great Performances as Silvia Gala
- Cannon as Francine Dexter
1970
- Night Gallery as Sondra Blanco (as Joan van Ark)
- The Odd Couple as Trudy
- The Silent Force
- Matt Lincoln as Katherine
1969
- Love, American Style as Jelen
- Medical Center
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Freda Cowan
- The Mod Squad
1966
1965
- The F.B.I. as Cynthia Scott
- Run for Your Life as Donna Hayward
1963
- Miss USA as Self - Host
1959
- Bonanza as Annie Laurie Adams
1955
- Gunsmoke as Sarah Jean Stryker
- Miss Universe as Host