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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% 63% The Escape Artist
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80% 82% Support Your Local Sheriff!
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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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Assignment to Kill
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Flicks
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Class of '63
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Filmography

Movies

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Flicks Capt. Grace (Character) - 1983
80% 63% The Escape Artist Aunt Sibyl (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Paper Dolls Julia Blake (Character) - 1982
63% 75% Only When I Laugh Toby (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Long Summer of George Adams Norma (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Long Days of Summer Millie Cooper (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 50% One-Trick Pony Lonnie Fox (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Pleasure Cove Martha Harrison (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Who Killed the Centerfold Model? Jessica Hilliard (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet 34% Dead of Night Mother (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet 25% The Possessed Louise Gelson (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? Jessica Hilliard (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet 48% Treasure of Matecumbe Lauriette Paxton (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet 80% MacKintosh and T.J. Maggie Jenkins (Character) - 1975
50% 39% The Terminal Man Dr. Janet Ross (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Reflections of Murder Claire Elliott (Character) - 1974
90% 84% The Last of Sheila Lee (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Class of '63 Louise Swerner (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet 20% Rivals Christine (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Five Desperate Women Dorian (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Killing Affairs Unknown (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet 29% How Awful About Allan Olive (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Other Man Kathy Maitland (Character) - 1970
80% 82% Support Your Local Sheriff! Prudy Perkins (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Assignment to Kill Dominique Laurant (Character) - 1968
93% 75% Will Penny Catherine Allen (Character) - 1968
75% 59% The Group Dottie (Character) - 1966

TV

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Tales of the Unexpected Brenda (Character) 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trapper John, M.D. Unknown (Guest Star) 1979
No Score Yet 67% Taxi Charlotte Reiger (Guest Star) 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bonanza Unknown (Guest Star) 1965 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alias Smith and Jones Unknown (Guest Star) 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dan August Nancy Williams (Guest Star) 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Daniel Boone Unknown (Guest Star) 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Name of the Game Unknown (Guest Star) 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ben Casey Molly Hill (Guest Star) 1961 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alfred Hitchcock Hour Unknown (Character) 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Combat! Unknown (Guest Star) 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gunsmoke Mady Arthur (Guest Star) 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dr. Kildare Unknown (Guest Star) 1962
92% 96% The Twilight Zone Esther Fortune (Character) 1962
No Score Yet 87% Alfred Hitchcock Presents Sylvia Colton (Character) 1961