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Jo Van Fleet is a Actor American born on 30 december 1914 at California (USA)
Catherine Josephine "Jo" Van Fleet (December 29, 1915 – June 10, 1996) was an American theatre and film actress. Known primarily for playing roles older than she was, her career spanned over three decades, and she won an Academy Award as well as a Tony Award.
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Birth name Catherine Josephine Van Fleet
Nationality USA
Birth 30 december 1914 at California (USA)
Death 10 june 1996 (at 81 years) at New York City (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nationality USA
Birth 30 december 1914 at California (USA)
Death 10 june 1996 (at 81 years) at New York City (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Biography
Van Fleet was married to William Bales from 1946 until his death in 1990. Van Fleet died in a Jamaica, Queens hospital from undisclosed causes at the age of 80. Her interment was at Flushing Cemetery. She was survived by her son Michael Bales, and a grandson, Arden Rogow-Bales.She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Seize the Day (1986)
, 1h33Directed by Fielder Cook
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Robin Williams, Jerry Stiller, Louis Guss, John Fiedler, Joseph Wiseman, Richard B. Shull
Roles Mrs. Einhorn
Rating57%
After losing his job, his girlfriend, and his sanity, Salesman Tommy Wilhelm (Williams) packs up for New York City to try to repair the pieces of his broken life. His skill as a salesman comes naturally, but his strained relationship with his father (Joseph Wiseman) certainly does not. Tommy must face the father he never really knew while trying to balance the new life that he attempts to carve out for himself.
The Tenant (1976)
, 2h5Directed by Roman Polanski
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson, Lila Kedrova, Claude Dauphin
Roles Madame Dioz
Rating76%
Trelkovsky (Roman Polanski), a quiet and unassuming man, rents an apartment in Paris whose previous tenant, Egyptologist Simone Choule, attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself out the window and through a pane of glass below. He visits Choule in the hospital but finds her entirely in bandages and unable to talk. Whilst still at Choule's bedside, Trelkovsky meets Simone's friend, Stella (Isabelle Adjani), who has also come to visit. Stella begins talking to Simone, who becomes aware of her visitors. Initially showing some signs of agitation upon seeing them, Choule soon lets out a disturbing cry, then dies. It isn't clear which of the two has caused this reaction. Apparently unaware that Choule is now dead, Trelkovsky tries to comfort Stella but dares not say that he never knew Simone, instead pretending to be another friend. They leave together and go out for a drink and a movie (1973's Enter The Dragon), where they fondle each other. Outside the theatre they part ways.
Satan's School for Girls (1973)
, 1h18Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Horror, Crime
Actors Pamela Franklin, Kate Jackson, Lloyd Bochner, Roy Thinnes, Jo Van Fleet, Cheryl Ladd
Roles Headmistress
Rating52%
The film opens with a mysterious person chasing a student, Martha Sayers (Terry Lumley). The same day, the police and her sister Elizabeth (Pamela Franklin) find her hanged in her room. The police rule her death as an unmotivated suicide, but Elizabeth refuses to believe this and investigates further. She decides to visit the exclusive academy that Martha attended, The Salem Academy for Women, despite warnings from Martha's roommate, Lucy Dembrow (Gwynne Gilford). Under the assumed name of Elizabeth Morgan, she enrolls at the college, where she is welcomed by her classmates Roberta Lockhart (Kate Jackson), Debbie Jones (Jamie Smith Jackson) and Jody Keller (Cheryl Ladd).
, 1h36Directed by James Goldstone
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Jerry Orbach, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jo Van Fleet, Lionel Stander, Roz Kelly, Robert De Niro
Roles Big Momma
Rating49%
Deux gangs s'affrontent à New York. D'un côté, le vieux parrain Baccala, bien décidé à conserver son territoire. De l'autre, l'ambitieux Kid Sally et son gang, estimant mériter une place plus importante au sein du crime organisé de la grosse pomme.
Paradise Lost (1971)
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Eli Wallach, Jo Van Fleet, Jiří Voskovec, Bernadette Peters, Cliff Gorman, George Bartenieff
Roles Clara Gordon
Rating80%
The play takes place in an unnamed American city during the Depression, in 1932. The head of the family, Leo, and his wife Clara are middle-class and prosperous. However, over the course of the play Leo and his partner Sam lose their handbag business and the family must come to terms with this. The other characters in the play include a friend, Gus, and his daughter, Libby, a frivolous and self-centered young woman who is newly married to Leo's son Ben; a boarder, and an assortment of other characters.
, 1h36Directed by James Goldstone
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Jerry Orbach, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jo Van Fleet, Lionel Stander, Robert De Niro, Hervé Villechaize
Roles Big Momma
Rating49%
C'est l'histoire amusante de deux gangs mafieux en guerre à New York. Le gang le plus faible utilise incroyablement un lion pour faire chanter les "clients" du gang opposé. La police réussit à arrêter l'un des gangs, tandis que l'autre reste sans le Boss.Ld
80 Steps to Jonah (1969)
, 1h47Directed by Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Wayne Newton, Jo Van Fleet, Keenan Wynn, Mickey Rooney, Sal Mineo, Slim Pickens
Roles Nonna
Rating56%
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
, 1h32Directed by Hy Averback
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joyce Van Patten, David Arkin, Herb Edelman
Roles Mother
Rating61%
Attorney Harold Fine (Sellers) is having second thoughts about marrying his longtime girlfriend Joyce. He encounters his brother, a hippie living in Venice Beach. He falls for an attractive flower power hippie girl (played by Leigh Taylor-Young) who has a knack for making pot brownies. Harold runs out of his wedding to live with the hippie girl, and tries to find himself with the aid of a guru. Ultimately he finds the hippie lifestyle as unfulfilling and unsatisfying as the "straight" lifestyle and once more decides to marry Joyce. At the last minute, he again leaves her at the altar and runs out of the wedding onto a city street saying he doesn't know for sure what he is looking for but, "there's got to be something beautiful out there.
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
, 2h6Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Action, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J. D. Cannon, Strother Martin, Robert Drivas, Lou Antonio
Roles Arletta
Rating80%
Decorated Korean War veteran Lucas "Luke" Jackson (Paul Newman), is arrested for cutting the "heads" off parking meters one drunken night. He is sentenced to two years in prison and sent to a Florida chain gang prison run by a sadistic warden, the Captain (Strother Martin), and a stoic rifleman, Walking Boss Godfrey (Morgan Woodward), whose eyes are always obstructed by a pair of mirrored sunglasses.
Wild River (1960)
, 1h50Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Historical, Romance
Actors Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi, Jay C. Flippen, James Westerfield
Roles Ella Garth
Rating74%
In the early 1930s, Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift) arrives in Garthville, Tennessee, upstream from a newly constructed hydroelectric dam of the Tennessee Valley Authority, to head the TVA's land purchasing office after its previous supervisor abruptly quit. He has the responsibility for supervising the clearing of land to be flooded but must first acquire Garth Island on the Tennessee River, the last piece of property yet to be sold to the government. The previous supervisor was unable to convince the elderly Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet), matriarch of a large family that has lived on the island for decades, to sell her land to the government, which to avoid bad publicity the TVA wants to acquire without using force. The clearing of the land for the coming lake is also proceeding behind schedule because the local mayor, the town's barber, uses only white labor. Chuck crosses the ferry to Garth Island but Ella and the other Garth women, including Ella's granddaughter Carol Baldwin (Lee Remick), refuse to listen to him. He tries to reason with Ella's three grown sons, Hamilton (Jay C. Flippen), Cal (James Westerfield), and Joe John, but being relocated means working for a living and they have never worked in their lives. Joe John tosses Chuck into the river. Hamilton comes to Chuck's room soon after to invite him to the island for a formal apology and to speak with Ella.
This Angry Age (1957)
, 1h43Directed by René Clément, Dominique Delouche, Léonard Keigel
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Anthony Perkins, Silvana Mangano, Richard Conte, Jo Van Fleet, Yvonne Sanson, Alida Valli
Roles Mme. Dufresne
Rating59%
Twenty-year-old Joseph (Perkins) and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne (Mangano) live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother (Van Fleet). Their mother attempts to exert a hold on her children by involving them in the family's run-down rice plantation. However the siblings seek liberation, and look for this in their romantic lives. Suzanne becomes involved with Michael (Conte) and Joseph finds a love interest in Claude (Valli).
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
, 2h2Directed by John Sturges, Gary Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland, Lyle Bettger
Roles Kate Fisher
Rating70%
In Fort Griffin, Texas, Ed Bailey (Lee Van Cleef) comes looking to avenge the death of his brother at the hands of gunslinger John H. "Doc" Holliday (Kirk Douglas). Seeing him in a bar, Holliday's girl, Kate Fisher (Jo Van Fleet), returns to Holliday's room, where the two argue—while Holliday throws knives at the wall—once she brings up Holliday's once-prominent family. At the same time, well-known marshal Wyatt Earp (Burt Lancaster) arrives in Fort Griffin thinking he will take outlaws Ike Clanton (Lyle Bettger) and Johnny Ringo (John Ireland) into custody, but instead finds out that the local sheriff, Cotton Wilson (Frank Faylen), released them despite the outstanding warrants for their arrest. Holliday refuses to help the lawman, holding a grudge against Wyatt's brother, Morgan. Holliday kills Bailey with a knife-throw when Bailey attempts to shoot him in the back. Holliday is arrested for murder, though Wyatt and Kate allow him to escape from a lynch mob.
The King and Four Queens (1956)
, 1h26Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance, Western
Actors Clark Gable, Eleanor Parker, Barbara Nichols, Jo Van Fleet, Jean Willes, Jay C. Flippen
Roles Ma McDade
Rating60%
The story involves a middle-aged cowboy adventurer (Clark Gable) who learns that a stolen fortune remains buried on a ranch that serves as home to four gorgeous young widows and their battle-axe mother-in-law; the drifter turns on the charm.
East of Eden (1955)
, 1h55Directed by Elia Kazan, Don Alvarado
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey, Burl Ives, Richard Davalos, Jo Van Fleet
Roles Kate Trask
Rating77%
The story is set during 1917 and 1918, leading into American involvement in World War I, in the central California coastal towns of Monterey and Salinas. Cal (James Dean) and Aron (Richard Davalos) are the sons of a modestly successful farmer and wartime draft board chairman, Adam Trask (Raymond Massey). Cal is moody and embittered by his belief that his father favors Aron. Although both Cal and Aron had long been led to believe that their mother had died "and gone to heaven," the opening scene reveals Cal has apparently learned that his mother is still alive, owning and running a successful brothel in nearby Monterey.
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
, 1h57Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Melodrama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Films about television
Actors Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert, Margo, Jo Van Fleet, Don Taylor
Roles Katie Roth
Rating71%
Eight-year-old Lillian Roth (Carole Ann Campbell) is constantly pushed by her domineering stage mom, Katie (Jo Van Fleet), to audition and act even though she is merely a child. One day, Katie finally secures an opportunity in Chicago, which leads to Lillian, now older (Susan Hayward), to having a successful musical career. Even though 20 years have passed, Katie is still managing Lillian as well as running her life and career choices.