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Rita Gam is a Actor American born on 2 april 1927 at Pittsburgh (USA)

Rita Gam

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Birth name Rita MacKay
Nationality USA
Birth 2 april 1927 at Pittsburgh (USA)
Death 22 march 2016 (at 88 years)

Rita Gam (born April 2, 1927) is an American film and television actress and documentary filmmaker. She was nominated for a Golden Globe and won the Silver Bear for Best Actress.

Biography

Gam's first husband was director Sidney Lumet. The marriage ended in divorce, and in 1956, she married publisher Thomas Guinzburg. This also ended in divorce.

She was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her close friend Grace Kelly to Prince Rainier in Monaco.

Gam is of French and Romanian ancestry.

Best films

Klute
Klute
(1971)
(Actress)

Usually with

Norman Thaddeus Vane
Norman Thaddeus Vane
(2 films)
Nunnally Johnson
Nunnally Johnson
(1 films)
William Richert
William Richert
(1 films)
Orson Welles
Orson Welles
(2 films)
Albert Lewin
Albert Lewin
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Rita Gam (17 films)

Display filmography as list

Actress

Law and Disorder
Law and Disorder (1974)

Directed by Ivan Passer
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Actors Carroll O'Connor, Ernest Borgnine, Karen Black, Leslie Ackerman, Ann Wedgeworth, Jack Kehoe
Roles Woman in Cab
Rating61% 3.0881753.0881753.0881753.0881753.088175
In the crime-infested New York City of the 1970s, two residents and friends, Willie and Cy, decide to join the Auxiliary wing of the New York City Police
Such Good Friends
Such Good Friends (1971)
, 1h41
Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Feminist films, Political films
Actors Dyan Cannon, James Coco, Jennifer O'Neill, Ken Howard, Nina Foch, Laurence Luckinbill
Roles Doria
Rating59% 2.997362.997362.997362.997362.99736
Manhattanite Julie Messinger, a complacent housewife and mother of two raucous young sons, is married to Richard, a chauvinistic and self-centered magazine art director and author of a best-selling children's book. When he falls into a coma during minor surgery to remove a nonmalignant mole on his neck, Julie learns from his doctor, Dr. Timmy Spector, that another surgeon nicked his artery, necessitating a blood transfusion to which he had a rare allergic reaction. The following day, Julie is told Richard has overcome the reaction, but his liver has sustained serious damage requiring immediate treatment. In quick succession, all his organs begin to fail.
Klute
Klute (1971)
, 1h54
Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Rita Gam, Nathan George
Roles Trina
Rating70% 3.547683.547683.547683.547683.54768
The film begins with the disappearance of Pennsylvania executive Tom Gruneman (played by Robert Milli). The police reveal that an obscene letter was found in Gruneman's office, addressed to a prostitute in New York City named Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda), who had received several similar letters from him. After six months of fruitless police work, Peter Cable (Charles Cioffi), an executive at Gruneman's company, hires family friend and detective John Klute (Donald Sutherland) to investigate Gruneman's disappearance.
Shoot Out
Shoot Out (1971)
, 1h35
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Gregory Peck, Patricia Quinn, Patt Quinn, Susan Tyrrell, James Gregory, Rita Gam
Roles Emma
Rating62% 3.1008753.1008753.1008753.1008753.100875
Clay Lomax gets out of prison after serving nearly eight years. He goes looking for Sam Foley, a bank robber who shot Lomax in the back and left him to take the rap.
No Exit
No Exit (1962)
, 1h25
Directed by Orson Welles, Tad Danielewski
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Viveca Lindfors, Rita Gam, Ben Piazza, Mirta Miller
Roles Estelle
Rating66% 3.3242053.3242053.3242053.3242053.324205
The Valet (Manuel Rosón) enters a hotel room with Joseph Garcin (Morgan Sterne) in tow. The windowless room has a single entrance and no mirrors. Two women, Inès Serrano (Viveca Lindfors) and Estelle Rigault (Rita Gam), are then led in; afterwards, the Valet leaves and locks the door. Realizing that they are in hell, the trio expects to be tortured; however, no torturer is forthcoming. While waiting, they strike up a conversation and discuss each other's sins, desires, and unpleasant memories; they slowly realize that such probing is the form of torture they are meant to receive.
King of Kings
King of Kings (1961)
, 2h48
Directed by Nicholas Ray, Noël Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Films about virginity
Actors Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhán McKenna, Robert Ryan, Hurd Hatfield, Ron Randell, Viveca Lindfors
Roles Herodias
Rating69% 3.499993.499993.499993.499993.49999
In 63 BC, Pompey conquers Jerusalem and the city is sacked. He enters the Temple to seize the treasure of Solomon and massacres the priests there. He discovers that the treasure is only a collection of scrolls of the Torah. These he holds over a fire until an old priest reaches for them imploringly. Pompey relents and hands them to the old man.
Hannibal
Hannibal (1959)

Directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Edgar George Ulmer
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Peplum
Themes Political films
Actors Victor Mature, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rita Gam, Milly Vitale, Rik Battaglia, Franco Silva
Roles Sylvia
Rating52% 2.609622.609622.609622.609622.60962
The film begins with the Roman Senate hearing about Hannibal (Victor Mature) crossing the Alps with his men and many elephants. The crossing is difficult, with many men dying en route, but they manage to pass through, in part because Hannibal forms an allegiance with a local chieftain.
Sierra Baron
Sierra Baron (1958)
, 1h20
Directed by James B. Clark
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Brian Keith, Rick Jason, Rita Gam, Mala Powers, Steve Brodie, Lee Morgan
Roles Felicia Delmonte
Rating58% 2.9428052.9428052.9428052.9428052.942805
In 1848, a rancher, Miguel Delmonte (Rick Jason) tries to protect his Princessa Spanish land grant, after his father was killed, from American landgrabbers. Real estate agent Rufus Bynum (Steve Brodie, hires a Texas gunfighter Jack McCracken (Brian Keith) to kill the man. The gunfighter ends up falling in love with the rancher's sister Felicia (Rita Gam).
Mohawk
Mohawk (1956)
, 1h20
Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Scott Brady, Rita Gam, Lori Nelson, John Hoyt, Allison Hayes, Rhys Williams
Roles Onida
Rating52% 2.6141752.6141752.6141752.6141752.614175
In 18th–century upstate New York, a quarrelsome white man named Butler seeks to foment war with the Indians, to rid the Mohawk Valley of the natives and settlers he despises. He goes to the Iroquois tribe chef Kowanen to warn him about a party of armed white settlers. Kowanen shows no concern, but his son Keoga and brave Rokhawah feel otherwise and plot a raid to steal the settlers' muskets. They are assisted by Keoga's sister Onida, but many Indians end up killed and Onida captured.
Night People
Night People (1954)
, 1h33
Directed by Nunnally Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Björk, Rita Gam, Walter Abel, Buddy Ebsen
Roles Ricky Cates
Rating64% 3.2430453.2430453.2430453.2430453.243045
Allied enemies kidnap Corporal John "Johnny" Leatherby, a young American soldier in West Berlin. Lt. Col. Steve Van Dyke, the American provost marshal assigned to investigate, learns through his East German contact Frau "Hoffy" Hoffmeir that the soldier has been kidnapped by East German agents who want to trade him for a pair of elderly Germans. At the same time, the Soviet Union has closed border posts into Berlin, suggesting an impending international crisis. Johnny's father, Charles Leatherby, is a wealthy and politically influential industrialist from Toledo, Ohio, and flies to Berlin to bully the military bureaucracy into finding his son. Accustomed to being in charge and never refused, he issues a demand that the military attempt to bribe the East German government using Leatherby's money. Van Dyke is offended by Leatherby's arrogance and ignorance. ("You're a big wheel in the axle grease business. You're a personal friend of Senator...McDinglehoffer," he scoffs.
Sign of the Pagan
Sign of the Pagan (1954)
, 1h40
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Jeff Chandler, Jack Palance, Ludmila Tcherina, Rita Gam, Jeff Morrow, George Dolenz
Roles Kubra
Rating59% 2.95092.95092.95092.95092.9509
During the fifth century the Roman Empire has been split in two and come under attack of the Huns under Attila. Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Hun soldiers and interrogated by Attila, who wishes to learn the ways of the Romans. Marcian manages to escape on a horse by charming Attila's daughter Kubra. He goes to Constantinople to warn the Eastern Empire about the Huns. However Emperor Theodosius is intent on doing deals with the barbarians.