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Joan Hackett

Highest Rated: 93% Will Penny (1968)

Lowest Rated: 50% The Terminal Man (1974)

Birthday: Mar 1, 1934

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Slender, gentle-featured lead and supporting actress of the 1960s and 70s, most typically in nonglamorous roles. After experience as a model and acting training under Lee Strasberg and others, Hackett gained notice off-Broadway with her award-winning work in "Call Me by My Rightful Name" (1961). She became prominent in TV work soon thereafter, copping an Emmy nomination for an episode of "Ben Casey" and playing Robert Reed's girlfriend on the first season of the popular father-and-son lawyer drama, "The Defenders." Hackett's quiet intensity suited her well for a TV adaptation of "Rebecca" (1962) in which she played the mousy second Mrs. DeWinter. By 1964 she was playing leads in two feature-length installments of "The Bob Hope Chrysler Theatre," "Echo of Evil" and "The Highest Fall of All."

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Highest-Rated Movies

93% 75% Will Penny
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90% 84% The Last of Sheila
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80% 82% Support Your Local Sheriff!
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80% 63% The Escape Artist
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75% 59% The Group
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63% 75% Only When I Laugh
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50% 39% The Terminal Man
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Flicks
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Assignment to Kill
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Five Desperate Women
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Flicks 1983 Capt. Grace Actor The Escape Artist 80% 63% 1982 Aunt Sibyl Actor Paper Dolls 1982 Julia Blake Actor Only When I Laugh 63% 75% 1981 Toby Actor The Long Summer of George Adams 1981 Norma Actor The Long Days of Summer 1980 Millie Cooper Actor One-Trick Pony 50% 1980 Lonnie Fox Actor Pleasure Cove 1979 Martha Harrison Actor Who Killed the Centerfold Model? 1977 Jessica Hilliard Actor Dead of Night 34% 1977 Mother Actor The Possessed 25% 1977 Louise Gelson Actor Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? 1977 Jessica Hilliard Actor Treasure of Matecumbe 48% 1976 Lauriette Paxton Actor MacKintosh and T.J. 80% 1975 Maggie Jenkins Actor The Terminal Man 50% 39% 1974 Dr. Janet Ross Actor Reflections of Murder 1974 Claire Elliott Actor The Last of Sheila 90% 84% 1973 Lee Actor Class of '63 1973 Louise Swerner Actor Rivals 20% 1972 Christine Actor Five Desperate Women 1971 Dorian Actor The Killing Affairs 1971 Actor How Awful About Allan 29% 1970 Olive Actor The Other Man 1970 Kathy Maitland Actor Support Your Local Sheriff! 80% 82% 1969 Prudy Perkins Actor Assignment to Kill 1968 Dominique Laurant Actor
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