Priscilla Pointer
Born: 1924-05-18 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 2025-04-28
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2011
- Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage as Mrs. Beaumont
2010
2008
- Sweet Nothing in My Ear as Sally (voice)
2003
- Cold Case as Lillian Vine (2006)
2001
- Acting 'Carrie' as Self
1999
- Judging Amy as Margaret Palmer
- Inferno as Mrs. Henry Howard
1997
- Alone as Susan Hight
1996
- Carried Away as Lily Henson
1994
- ER as Mrs. Abernathy
- Touched by an Angel as Elizabeth Carpenter
- Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition as Barbara
- The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics as Woman in cinema (segment "The Theatre")
1993
- The Magic Bubble as Grandma
1991
- Runaway Father as Mary Bennett
1990
- The Flash as Nora Allen
- A Show of Force as Alice Ryan
- The Flash as Nora Allen
- Disturbed as Sr. Francine
1989
- C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud as Dr. Berlin
- A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story as Tracey's Mother
1987
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors as Dr. Elizabeth Simms
- From the Hip as Mrs. Martha Williams
- Rumpelstiltskin as Queen Grizelda
1986
- L.A. Law as Dorothy Pehlman
- Blue Velvet as Mrs. Beaumont
1985
- Amazing Stories as Charlie
- The Falcon and the Snowman as Mrs. Lee
- Generation as Ellen Breed
1984
- Call to Glory as Lillie
- Micki & Maude as Diana Hutchison
1983
- The A-Team as Tracy Richter's Mother
- Twilight Zone: The Movie as Miss Cox
1982
- St. Elsewhere as Marie Halloran
- Newhart as Clara Whitscomber
- Mysterious Two as She
- The Gift of Life as Rosalee Boyer
- Good-bye Cruel World as Myra
1981
- Mommie Dearest as Mrs. Chadwick
- The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire as Hawk Lady
1980
- Stone
- The Competition as Mrs. Donellan
- Honeysuckle Rose as Rosella
1979
- Knots Landing as Beatrice Handleman
- Mrs. Columbo as Mrs. Prior
- The Onion Field as Chrissie Campbell
1978
- Dallas as Rebecca Barnes Wentworth
1977
- Lou Grant as Elizabeth Driscoll
- What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar as Mrs. Dunn
- Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years as Missy LeHand
- A Killing Affair as Judge Cudahy
- The 3,000 Mile Chase as Emma Dvorak
- Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night as Laura Atherton
1976
- Quincy, M.E. as Nurse Kathy Benson
- Carrie as Mrs. Snell
- City of Angels as Mrs. Macklin
- Nickelodeon as Mabel
- The Keegans as Helen Hunter McVey
- Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur as Jean MacArthur
- The Great Texas Dynamite Chase as Miss Harris
1975
- Kate McShane as Mrs. Inerson
1974
- The Rockford Files as Helen Morris
- Police Woman as Adele French
- Harry O as Constance Faraday
1973
- Barnaby Jones as Nancy Moore
- Kojak as Regina
1972
- ABC Afterschool Special as Ruth Meredith
1971
- Cannon as Dr. Janet Cochran
- Death Takes a Holiday as Marion Chapman
- The Failing of Raymond as History Teacher
1970
- McCloud as Shirley
1968
- Adam-12 as Jacqueline Carey
- The Name of the Game as Miss Dalton
1967
- The High Chaparral as Mrs.Colton
1952
- China Smith as Iris Clark