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Betty Thomas

Highest Rated: 73% Private Parts (1997)

Lowest Rated: 8% Surviving Christmas (2004)

Birthday: Jul 27, 1948

Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, USA

A former public school art teacher, actress Betty Thomas turned a side job as waitress at Chicago's Second City improv club into an acting career that brought her an Emmy on "Hill Street Blues" (NBC, 1981-87) as dedicated officer Lucy Bates. Thomas later found even greater success as a director for television and features, including such top-grossing films as "The Brady Bunch Movie" (1995), "Private Parts" (1997) and "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel." If critics occasionally dismissed her movies as lightweight fluff, there was no denying that they brought audiences to theaters and drew sizable profits, which in turn made Thomas one of the most accomplished female directors in Hollywood.

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Highest-Rated Movies

73% 69% Private Parts
Watchlist 68% 45% Charlie's Angels Watchlist 64% 47% The Brady Bunch Movie Watchlist 43% 35% Dr. Dolittle Watchlist 42% 63% Can't Hardly Wait Watchlist 41% 49% Guess Who Watchlist
33% 50% 28 Days
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28% 69% John Tucker Must Die
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21% 49% Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
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15% 33% I Spy
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Betty Thomas

Betty Thomas JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE, Director Betty Thomas, on set, 2006, TM & Copyright (c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. 28 DAYS, Sandra Bullock, director Betty Thomas, on set, 2000. ©Columbia Pictures DR. DOLITTLE, director Betty Thomas, on set, 1998. TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE, director Betty Thomas, 1995, (c)Paramount DR. DOLITTLE, director Betty Thomas, Ossie Davis, Eddie Murphy, on set, 1998. TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved PRIVATE PARTS, Howard Stern, director Betty Thomas on set, 1997, (c)Paramount TROOP BEVERLY HILLS, Betty Thomas, 1989, (c)Columbia Pictures USED CARS, Kurt Russell, Betty Thomas, 1980, (c) Columbia View more photos

Filmography

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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel 21% 49% 2009 Director Dallas 82% 2009 Director John Tucker Must Die 28% 69% 2006 Director Guess Who 41% 49% 2005 Producer Surviving Christmas 8% 30% 2004 Producer I Spy 15% 33% 2002 Director, Producer Charlie's Angels 68% 45% 2000 Executive Producer 28 Days 33% 50% 2000 Director Dr. Dolittle 43% 35% 1998 Director Can't Hardly Wait 42% 63% 1998 Producer Private Parts 73% 69% 1997 Director The Late Shift 57% 1996 Director The Brady Bunch Movie 64% 47% 1995 Director My Breast 1994 Director Only You 36% 1992 Director Troop Beverly Hills 14% 62% 1989 Velda Plendor Actor Prison for Children 1987 Angela Brannon Actor When Your Lover Leaves 1983 Maude Actor Homework 6% 1982 Reddog's Secretary Actor Jackson County Jail 38% 1976 Waitress Actor Tunnelvision 1976 Bridgit Bert Richards Actor The Last Affair 1976 Actor
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