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Barbara Baxley is a Actor American born on 1 january 1923 at Porterville (USA)

Barbara Baxley

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Birth name Barbara Angie Rose Baxley
Nationality USA
Birth 1 january 1923 at Porterville (USA)
Death 7 june 1990 (at 67 years) at Manhattan (USA)

Barbara Baxley (January 1, 1923 – June 7, 1990) was an American actress and singer.

Biography

Barbara Baxley entame sa carrière au théâtre — qu'elle étudie à la Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre de New York — et joue notamment à Broadway, où elle débute en 1948-1949 dans Les Amants terribles de Noël Coward (avec Tallulah Bankhead et Donald Cook). Suivent douze autres pièces, la dernière en 1982-1983 étant Whodunnit d'Anthony Shaffer (avec Hermione Baddeley et Fred Gwynne).

Entretemps, citons Arrêt d'autobus de William Inge (1955-1956, avec Kent Smith et Dick York, tous trois en remplacement) et Les Trois Sœurs d'Anton Tchekhov (1964, avec Luther Adler et Kevin McCarthy). Toujours à Broadway, s'ajoutent deux comédies musicales, Peter Pan sur une musique de Leonard Bernstein (1950-1951, en doublure de Jean Arthur dans le rôle-titre) puis She Loves Me sur une musique de Jerry Bock (1963-1964, avec Jack Cassidy et Barbara Cook).

Elle se produit aussi Off-Broadway dans trois autres pièces, en 1957, en 1969 (To Be Young, Gifted and Black de Lorraine Hansberry, avec John Beal et Cicely Tyson), et enfin en 1978-1979.

Au cinéma, elle contribue à quinze films américains, depuis un petit rôle non crédité dans À l'est d'Éden d'Elia Kazan (1955, avec James Dean et Julie Harris) jusqu'à L'Exorciste, la suite de William Peter Blatty (avec George C. Scott et Ed Flanders), sorti le 17 août 1990, plus de deux mois après sa mort, à 67 ans, d'une crise cardiaque.

Dans l'intervalle, mentionnons L'Ange de la violence de John Frankenheimer (1962, avec Eva Marie Saint et Warren Beatty), Nashville de Robert Altman (1975, avec Ned Beatty et Henry Gibson), Norma Rae de Martin Ritt (1979, avec Sally Field et Beau Bridges), ou encore Mélodie pour un meurtre d'Harold Becker (1989, avec Al Pacino et Ellen Barkin).

À la télévision américaine, dès 1950, Barbara Baxley collabore à quatre téléfilms (1974-1987) et cinquante-six séries, dont Alfred Hitchcock présente (six épisodes, 1957-1962), La Quatrième Dimension (un épisode, 1963), Hawaï police d'État (deux épisodes, 1973-1976) et La Cinquième Dimension (un épisode, 1986), sa dernière série.

Best films

Norma Rae (1979)
(Actress)
Nashville (1975)
(Actress)

Usually with

Robert Altman
Robert Altman
(3 films)
Joseph Strick
Joseph Strick
(1 films)
Sidney Meyers
Sidney Meyers
(1 films)
Ben Maddow
Ben Maddow
(1 films)
Don Alvarado
Don Alvarado
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Barbara Baxley (13 films)

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Actress

The Exorcist III, 1h50
Directed by William Peter Blatty
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about children, Films about religion, Demons in film, Serial killer films
Actors George C. Scott, Ed Flanders, Jason Miller, Scott Wilson, Brad Dourif, Nicol Williamson
Roles Shirley
Rating64% 3.247243.247243.247243.247243.24724
The film begins with the point of view of someone wandering through the streets of Georgetown, a voice informing us "I have dreams... of a rose... and of falling down a long flight of stairs." The point of view shows a warning of evil about to arrive later that night at a church. Demonic growls are heard. Leaves and other street trash suddenly come flying into the church as a crucifix comes to life. It then cuts to Lieutenant William F. Kinderman (George C. Scott) at a crime scene, where a 12-year-old boy named Thomas Kintry has been murdered.
A Shock to the System, 1h28
Directed by Jan Egleson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Michael Caine, Elizabeth McGovern, Swoosie Kurtz, Peter Riegert, John McMartin, Will Patton
Roles Lillian
Rating65% 3.29753.29753.29753.29753.2975
A family man named Graham Marshall, a long-time executive in a large advertising company, is unexpectedly passed over for promotion. Marshall himself can live with it, but his nagging wife Leslie is devastated and continually reproaches her husband for his apparent lack of ambition and willpower.
Sea of Love, 1h53
Directed by Harold Becker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Serial killer films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, Michael Rooker, William Hickey, Richard Jenkins
Roles Miss Allen
Rating67% 3.398533.398533.398533.398533.39853
New York City homicide detective Frank Keller is a burnt-out alcoholic. His wife left him and married one of his colleagues. He is depressed about reaching middle age and his 20th year on the police force.
A Stranger Is Watching, 1h32
Directed by Sean S. Cunningham
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Kate Mulgrew, Rip Torn, James Naughton, Barbara Baxley, Joanne Dorian, James Russo
Roles Lally
Rating53% 2.653392.653392.653392.653392.65339
Three years after Steve Peterson's wife, Nina, was murdered in front of their 11-year-old daughter Julie, she and his new girlfriend Sharon Martin are kidnapped by the same killer, the psychotic Artie Taggart. Imprisoning them in a bunker below Grand Central Station, he throws the police into a race against time to save the girls and catch the killer.
Norma Rae
Norma Rae (1979)
, 1h50
Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Films about the labor movement, Political films, Children's films
Actors Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Morgan Paull, Barbara Baxley
Roles Leona
Rating72% 3.6479053.6479053.6479053.6479053.647905
Norma Rae Webster is a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill that has taken too much of a toll on the health of her family for her to ignore their poor working conditions. After hearing a speech by a New York union organizer, Reuben Warshowsky, Norma Rae decides to join the effort to unionize her shop. This causes conflict at home when Norma Rae's husband, Sonny, says she's not spending enough time in the home.
Nashville
Nashville (1975)
, 2h39
Directed by Robert Altman, Alan Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Ned Beatty, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Barbara Baxley, Geraldine Chaplin, Scott Glenn
Roles Lady Pearl
Rating75% 3.7970953.7970953.7970953.7970953.797095
The overarching plot takes place over five days leading up to a political rally for Replacement Party candidate Hal Phillip Walker, who is never seen throughout the entire movie. The story follows 24 characters roaming around Nashville, in search of some sort of goal through their own (often overlapping) story arcs.
Images
Images (1972)
, 1h41
Directed by Robert Altman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about writers, Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Political films
Actors Susannah York, René Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi, Cathryn Harrison, Hugh Millais, Barbara Baxley
Roles Voice On Telephone (uncredited)
Rating70% 3.5473353.5473353.5473353.5473353.547335
Wealthy housewife and children's author Cathryn (Susannah York) receives a series of disturbing and eerie phone calls in her home in London one dreary night. The female voice on the other end suggests mockingly to her that her husband Hugh (René Auberjonois) is having an affair.
No Way to Treat a Lady, 1h48
Directed by Jack Smight
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal, Eileen Heckart, Murray Hamilton, Michael Dunn
Roles Belle Poppie
Rating69% 3.494333.494333.494333.494333.49433
Rod Steiger stars as Christopher Gill, a serial killer who is fixated on his late mother, who had been an actress. Gill preys on older women who remind him of her. A Broadway theater director and costumer, he adopts various disguises, e.g. priest, policeman, plumber, hairdresser, etc., to put his victims at ease (and also avoid being identified) before strangling them and painting a pair of lips on their foreheads with garish red lipstick.
Countdown
Countdown (1967)
, 1h37
Directed by William Conrad, Robert Altman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Sur la Lune, Films based on science fiction novels, Political films, Space opera
Actors James Caan, Joanna Moore, Robert Duvall, Barbara Baxley, Michael Murphy, Ted Knight
Roles Jean
Rating59% 2.9501452.9501452.9501452.9501452.950145
In the late 1960s, astronauts training in an Apollo simulator have their session ended early. They grumble about it, but their commander, Chiz (Robert Duvall), knows the reason for the abort: the Pilgrim Program. The Russians will be sending a moon landing mission up in four weeks. The Americans had a secret alternate plan to the Apollo program (Pilgrim) in case this happened. One man would be sent to the moon in a one-way rocket, a modified Project Gemini craft. He would stay on the moon for a few months in a shelter pod launched and landed before him. Later, a manned Apollo mission would come to retrieve him.
All Fall Down, 1h51
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty, Karl Malden, Angela Lansbury, Brandon deWilde, Constance Ford
Roles School Teacher
Rating67% 3.3947453.3947453.3947453.3947453.394745
Berry-Berry Willart (Beatty) is a young, handsome hedonistic drifter who hates life and who has no trouble living off the women of all ages he seduces. When the women become too attached to him, his charm turns sadistic and frequently lands him in jail for battery. Berry-Berry is always on the road far from home, is rarely seen by his drunken father Ralph (Karl Malden), his controlling, manipulative mother, Annabel (Angela Lansbury), and his sixteen-year-old brother Clinton (Brandon deWilde). The story follows Clinton, who idolizes Berry-Berry but soon finds out his brother's darker side during the many times he has to bail Berry-Berry out of jail. Clinton is in love with a family friend, Echo O'Brien (Saint), and is forced to realize the type of person his brother is when Berry-Berry tragically sets his sights on Echo.
The Savage Eye, 1h8
Directed by Ben Maddow, Joseph Strick, Sidney Meyers
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Barbara Baxley, Herschel Bernardi, Gary Merrill
Roles Judith McGuire
Rating68% 3.421663.421663.421663.421663.42166
La caméra suit Judith dans les rues de Los Angeles. Récemment divorcée, elle tente de refaire sa vie. Au cours de ses pérégrinations, elle va faire d'étranges rencontres dans le milieu des fanatiques religieux, des laissés-pour-compte du monde urbain, de toutes sortes de gens qui, bien qu'à l'image de son propre échec personnel, lui donneront la volonté de refaire sa vie.
The Badlanders
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance, Western
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado, Kent Smith, Claire Kelly, Nehemiah Persoff
Rating63% 3.1965753.1965753.1965753.1965753.196575
In 1898, two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison. One, mining engineer and geologist Peter Van Hoek (Ladd), the "Dutchman," tells the warden he was framed for the robbery of a gold shipment from the Lisbon Mine. The other, John McBain (Borgnine), killed Bascomb, the man who cheated him out of his land.
East of Eden, 1h55
Directed 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 Nurse (uncredited)
Rating77% 3.8980353.8980353.8980353.8980353.898035
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.