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Alice Nunn is a Actor American born on 10 october 1927 at Jacksonville (USA)

Alice Nunn

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Birth name Alice Elizabeth Nunn
Nationality USA
Birth 10 october 1927 at Jacksonville (USA)
Death 1 july 1988 (at 60 years) at West Hollywood (USA)

Alice Elizabeth Nunn, (October 10, 1927–July 1, 1988) was an American film and theatre actress. She was born in Jacksonville, Florida and died at her apartment in West Hollywood, California. Although she played many roles across her 31-year career, she is primarily remembered for her role as Large Marge, the scary lady truck driver, in Tim Burton's 1985 film Pee-wee's Big Adventure, which is number 5 on the IFC list of the 25 scariest moments in non-horror film history.

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Frank Yablans
Frank Yablans
(2 films)
Alan Sacks
Alan Sacks
(1 films)
Paul Reubens
Paul Reubens
(1 films)
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Filmography of Alice Nunn (11 films)

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Three O'Clock High, 1h37
Directed by Phil Joanou
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Teen movie
Actors Casey Siemaszko, Richard Tyson, Anne Ryan, Jeffrey Tambor, Philip Baker Hall, John P. Ryan
Roles Nurse Palmer
Rating70% 3.54643.54643.54643.54643.5464
Meek high school student Jerry Mitchell (Casey Siemaszko) and his kid sister Brei (Stacey Glick) have the house to themselves as their parents are on vacation. Jerry's day begins badly when he wakes late, and gets worse when he nearly wrecks his car while driving his sister and his school friend Franny (Anne Ryan) to Weaver High School, where the students this morning are gossiping about the new student Buddy Revell (Richard Tyson), a violent delinquent who has transferred in today from Continuation, a school for at-risk students.
Thrashin'
Thrashin' (1986)
, 1h29
Directed by David Winters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Musical films
Actors Josh Brolin, Robert Rusler, Pamela Gidley, Chuck McCann, Brooke McCarter, Josh Richman
Roles Truck Driver
Rating64% 3.248273.248273.248273.248273.24827
Cory Webster is an amateur skateboarder from out of town staying in Los Angeles with friends in hopes of competing and winning a downhill competition for which he has been training. During his stay in LA, he falls for a beautiful blonde named Chrissy, who just happens to be the younger sister of Hook, the leader of "The Daggers", a tough punk rock skateboard gang in the Los Angeles/Venice Beach areas. Chrissy is not a Dagger herself but has come from her home in Indiana to stay with her brother in L.A. for the summer.
Trick or Treat, 1h37
Directed by Charles Martin Smith
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Ghost films, Musical films
Actors Marc Price, Doug Savant, Gene Simmons, Elaine Joyce, Glen Morgan, Charles Martin Smith
Roles Mrs. Sylvia Cavell
Rating58% 2.9028052.9028052.9028052.9028052.902805
High school outcast Eddie Weinbauer (Marc Price) is writing a letter to his hero, heavy metal musician Sammi Curr (Tony Fields). A vulgar and infamous superstar, Sammi is a hometown hero of Eddie's town, and an alumnus of Eddie's own Lakeridge High School. He puts the letter in an envelope and starts doing his chores. Watching the news at the same time, following a report on Sammi's being banned from returning to Lakeridge High to perform at the Halloween dance, Eddie is shocked to hear the worst words to ever reach his ears: Sammi Curr has died in a mysterious hotel fire. Eddie is completely devastated. He goes to his friend "Nuke" (Gene Simmons), a radio DJ who knew Sammi Curr personally. To take Eddie's mind off the death of his idol, Nuke gives Eddie the only copy of Curr's last and as-yet unreleased album, "Songs in the Key of Death", on an acetate disc. Nuke has recorded the disc onto high quality tape and plans to play it in its entirety on-air at midnight on Halloween as a tribute since, according to Nuke, that was always Sammi's plan for the album's debut.
Pee-wee's Big Adventure, 1h30
Directed by Tim Burton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films about films, Sports films, Transport films, Cycling films, Road movies
Actors Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, Phil Hartman, Manuel Benitez
Roles Large Marge
Rating69% 3.4962753.4962753.4962753.4962753.496275
Pee-wee Herman is a puer aeternus with a pimped-out bicycle that he treasures and that his neighbor, Francis Buxton, covets. A bike shop employee, Dottie, has a crush on Pee-wee, but he does not reciprocate it. Pee-wee's bike gets stolen while at the mall. He confronts Francis, who has an air-tight alibi. Pee-wee then offers a $10,000 reward for his bike. Francis, who did indeed pay to have someone steal the bike, is frightened by Pee-wee's relentlessness and then pays to have it sent away. After holding a meeting, Pee Wee angrily shouts Dottie down while she is giving suggestions to him and refused to admit he needed help from Dottie while telling her off. Now mad, Pee Wee gives Dottie a furious "I DON'T NEED ANYBODY!" Desperate, Pee-wee visits a psychic, Madam Ruby, who lies to him, claiming that the bike is in the basement of the Alamo. Pee-wee hitchhikes to Texas, getting rides from a fugitive, Mickey, and from a ghostly trucker, Large Marge.
Dark Night of the Scarecrow, 1h36
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Larry Drake, Charles Durning, Jocelyn Brando, Lane Smith, Richard McKenzie, Alice Nunn
Roles Mrs. Bunch
Rating66% 3.3475053.3475053.3475053.3475053.347505
In a small town in the Deep South, Charles Eliot "Bubba" Ritter, a large but gentle mentally challenged man, befriends young Marylee Williams. Some of the townspeople are upset by the closeness between Marylee and Bubba, and the brooding, mean-spirited postman Otis Hazelrigg is the worst. When Marylee is mauled by a vicious dog (Bubba saves her) and lies unconscious at a doctor's office, Otis promptly assumes that Bubba has murdered (and likely raped) her. Otis and three friends – gas station attendant Skeeter Norris and farmer-cousins Philby and Harliss Hocker – form a lynch mob. Bubba's mother disguises him as a scarecrow and posts him in a nearby field to wait for the drama to cool down. Otis' bloodhounds sniff Bubba out, and all four vigilantes empty multiple rounds from their guns into him, killing him. Afterwards, they discover that Marylee is in fact alive, thanks to Bubba, whom they have just murdered. Acting fast, Otis places a pitchfork in Bubba's lifeless hands to make it appear as if he were attacking them with a weapon. The vigilantes are subsequently released because of lack of evidence against them (and blatant perjury by Otis) when the murder is brought to court.
Mommie Dearest, 2h9
Directed by Frank Perry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Comedy, Horror
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Films about television, Films about child abuse
Actors Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Mara Hobel, Rutanya Alda, Steve Forrest, Howard Da Silva
Roles Helga
Rating65% 3.2988653.2988653.2988653.2988653.298865
Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) is a driven actress and compulsively clean housekeeper who tries to control the lives of those around her as tightly as she controls herself. To prepare for a work day at MGM Studios, she rises at 4:00 a.m. and engages in a strict morning ritual: scrubbing her face and arms with soap and boiling hot water, then plunging her face into a bowl of rubbing alcohol and ice to close the pores. When Helga (Alice Nunn), a new maid, thinks she has Joan's living room in spotless condition, Joan finds one minor detail that she overlooked and loses her temper.
The House Where Death Lives, 1h22
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Joseph Cotten, John Dukakis, Alice Nunn, Simone Griffeth McDonald, George P. Wilbur
Roles Duffy
Rating43% 2.1895352.1895352.1895352.1895352.189535
A nurse (Patricia Pearcy) moves into a mansion to care for an elderly invalid Ivar Langrock (Joseph Cotten). Not long after, Langrock's grandson Gabriel (John Dukakis) comes to stay after the accidental death of his parents. Soon, an unseen killer begins to murder the mansions' staff with a table leg.
The Fury
The Fury (1978)
, 1h58
Directed by Brian De Palma, Frank Yablans
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Children's films
Actors Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, Charles Durning, Amy Irving, Rutanya Alda
Roles Mrs. Callahan
Rating62% 3.149843.149843.149843.149843.14984
Peter Sandza (Kirk Douglas), a former CIA agent, is searching for his son Robin, who was kidnapped by a secret intelligence organization inside the CIA led by Ben Childress. This organization kidnaps psychics to turn them into weapons in the service of the United States government. To better control the psychics, they also kill their families. Peter survived the attempt on his life, but his son believes he was killed by Arab terrorists. After that they begin to systematically experiment with him to increase his powers and develop ability to control them, and these experiments make him progressively more mentally unstable.
The Fifth Floor, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Bo Hopkins, Dianne Hull, Patti D'Arbanville, Sharon Farrell, Robert Englund, Anthony James
Rating50% 2.5133052.5133052.5133052.5133052.513305
The film focuses on Kelly McIntyre, a disco dancer played by Dianne Hull who through no fault of her own, accidentally overdoses on drugs and collapses at a disco. She is misdiagnosed as suicidal and sent to a psychiatric ward which is on the fifth floor of Cedar Springs Hospital. There she finds herself alone with no help, not even from her boyfriend who refuses to get her out of there. She becomes the subject of interest by an unbalanced orderly played by Bo Hopkins.
Airport 1975, 1h46
Directed by Jack Smight
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist II, Susan Clark, Gloria Swanson
Rating57% 2.8503152.8503152.8503152.8503152.850315
Columbia Air Lines' Flight 409 is a Boeing 747-100 on a red-eye route from Washington Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport. Scott Freeman, meanwhile, is a New Mexican businessman flying his private Beechcraft Baron to an urgent sales meeting in Boise, Idaho. However, an occluded front has the entire West Coast socked in, with Los Angeles reporting zero visibility. Columbia 409 and Freeman's Beechcraft are both diverted to Salt Lake City International Airport.
Evil Roy Slade, 1h37
Directed by Jerry Paris
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors John Astin, Milton Berle, Pamela Austin, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Henry Gibson
Roles Claire Beckendorf
Rating70% 3.544473.544473.544473.544473.54447
Orphaned and left in the desert as an infant, Evil Roy Slade (John Astin) grew up alone—save for his teddy bear—and mean. As an adult, he is notorious for being the "meanest villain in the West", so he's thrown for quite a loop when he falls for sweet schoolteacher Betsy Potter (Pamela Austin). Nelson L. Stool (Mickey Rooney), a railroad tycoon, along with his dimwitted nephew Clifford (Henry Gibson), attempts to get revenge on Evil Roy Slade for repeatedly robbing him, and sets out to hire legendary retired singing-sheriff Marshal Bing Bell (Dick Shawn) to bring Slade to justice.