Priscilla Pointer
An actor who came to the fore in prominent supporting roles in film and TV relatively late in life, Pointer did her professional best typecast as concerned wives and mothers, assured career women and the occasional stern villain. Trained for the stage, she first performed in a touring company of "Kiss and Tell"; Broadway work over the years would include original productions and revivals of "The Country Wife," "Condemned of Altona" and "A Streetcar Named Desire." Married to actor turned TV producer-director Jules Irving from 1947 until his death in 1979, Pointer devoted much of her energy to raising their three children, one of whom is actress Amy Irving. Work in TV, in fact, only got underway for Pointer in the early 1970s as she approached age 50. She played a doctor in the daytime soap "Where the Heart Is," a history teacher in "The Failing of Raymond" (1971), Gen. Douglas MacArthur's (Henry Fonda) wife in "Collision Course" (1976) and a deaf parent in the ABC Afterschool Special "Mom and Dad Can't Hear Me" (1978).
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Priscilla Pointer
Filmography
Movies
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0% |
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Desert Heat | Mrs. Henry Howard (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Coyote Moon | Mrs. Henry Howard (Character) | - | 1999 |
65% |
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Carried Away | Lily Henson (Character) | $155.6K | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics | Woman In Cinema (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet |
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Un-Becoming Age | Grandma (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Painted Desert | Barbara (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Amazing Stories: The Movie VI | Older Charlie (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Runaway Father | Mary Bennett (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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The Flash | Nora Allen (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet |
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Disturbed | Nurse Francine (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet |
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A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story | Tracey's Mother (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet |
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Rumpelstiltskin | Queen Grizelda (Character) | $142.8K | 1987 |
68% |
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Dr. Elizabeth Simms (Character) | $44.1M | 1987 |
95% |
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Blue Velvet | Mrs. Beaumont (Character) | $8.6M | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Generation | Ellen Breed (Character) | - | 1985 |
70% |
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Micki & Maude | Diana Hutchison (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Follow Me If You Dare | She (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Gift of Life | Rosalee Boyer (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mysterious Two | She (Character) | - | 1982 |
48% |
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Mommie Dearest | Mrs. Chadwick (Character) | - | 1981 |
67% |
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The Competition | Mrs. Donellan (Character) | - | 1980 |
60% |
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Honeysuckle Rose | Rosella Ramsey (Character) | - | 1980 |
87% |
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The Onion Field | Chrissie Campbell (Character) | - | 1979 |
61% |
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Mrs. Dunn (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet |
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Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years | Missy LeHand (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The 3,000 Mile Chase | Emma Dvorak (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Behind the Badge | Judge Cudahy (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night | Laura Atherton (Character) | - | 1977 |
94% |
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Carrie | Mrs. Snell (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Rip-Off | Lucy Meredith (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Keegans | Helen Hunter McVey (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet |
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Death Takes a Holiday | Marion Chapman (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Failing of Raymond | History Teacher (Character) | - | 1971 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 95% | Cold Case | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Judging Amy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Touched by an Angel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
No Score Yet | 85% | ER | Mrs. Abernathy (Guest Star) | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Newhart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 82% | Amazing Stories | Unknown (Character) | 1985 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dallas | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barnaby Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 1976-1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harry O | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cannon | Edith Cunningham (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kojak | Regina (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McCloud | Shirley (Guest Star) | 1971 |