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Janet Julian is a Actor American born on 10 july 1959 at Evanston (USA)

Janet Julian

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Birth name Janet Louise Johnson
Nationality USA
Birth 10 july 1959 (64 years) at Evanston (USA)

Janet Julian (born July 10, 1959), also credited under her birth name Janet Louise Johnson, is an American actress who has starred in film and television.

Biography

Janet Louise Johnson was born in Evanston, Illinois. She got her big break when she won the role of Nancy Drew in the 1970s television series The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries when Pamela Sue Martin left the show in 1978. Her other well-known TV role came a year later on the Cult TV series B. J. and the Bear as Tommy. She starred on the evening soap opera Falcon Crest in 1989 as Cookie Nash.

Janet's first film role was in the 1978 movie Big Wednesday. She also appeared in the 1990 cult film King of New York. She made guest appearances on some TV shows, among them Battlestar Galactica, The Fall Guy, Knight Rider, Fudge, Columbo, Swamp Thing, 240 Robert, Murder, She Wrote, and Diagnosis: Murder.

Janet quit acting in 1994 to raise her three children with husband Michael Lansbury, and she later became a parent educator. Janet Lansbury has served on the Board of Directors of Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE) since 1995 and teaches RIE Parent/Infant Guidance Classes. In 2009, she began a parent education blog.

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Filmography of Janet Julian (9 films)

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Heaven Is a Playground, 1h46
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Michael Warren, D. B. Sweeney, Richard Jordan, Janet Julian, Nigel Miguel, Cylk Cozart
Roles Dalton Ellis
Rating58% 2.9052852.9052852.9052852.9052852.905285
Byron Harper operates a non-profit farming system on a playground in the Cabrini Green neighborhood of Chicago with the aim of landing black kids into college basketball programs. He focuses most of his energy on the best prospects, whom he calls his Breds, and ignores the less talented ones. One day, burn-out white lawyer Zack Telander shows up on the playground, willing to play, but Byron believes him to be a drug pusher and throws him out. However, just then one of the Breds is being shot, and Zack happens to be the only one on the spot with a car, so he helps Byron to rush the victim into a hospital, where he also threatens the clerk with a gross negligence lawsuit in case treatment would not be provided.
King of New York, 1h46
Directed by Abel Ferrara
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, David Caruso, Wesley Snipes, Victor Argo, Janet Julian
Roles Jennifer
Rating68% 3.448573.448573.448573.448573.44857
Frank White, a drug lord, is riding into New York in a limousine after being released from Sing Sing. Emilio El Zapa, a Colombian drug dealer, is shot to death, and the killers leave a newspaper headline announcing Frank's release. El Zapa's partner, King Tito, is in a hotel room with Jimmy Jump and Test Tube, who are negotiating the purchase of cocaine. Jimmy and Test Tube shoot Tito and his bodyguards and steal the cocaine.
Taking Care of Business, 1h47
Directed by Arthur Hiller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Prison films, Sports films, Baseball films
Actors James Belushi, Charles Grodin, Loryn Locklin, Stephen Elliott, Héctor Elizondo, Veronica Hamel
Roles Woman on Plane
Rating63% 3.1989053.1989053.1989053.1989053.198905
A convicted car thief and diehard Chicago Cubs fan, Jimmy Dworski (Belushi) wins tickets to the World Series. Unfortunately, he still has a couple of days left to serve in prison and the warden (Héctor Elizondo) won't let him leave and come back.
Choke Canyon, 1h34
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action
Actors Stephen Collins, Janet Julian, Bo Svenson, Lance Henriksen, Nicholas Pryor, Robert F. Hoy
Roles Vanessa Pilgrim
Rating53% 2.6649952.6649952.6649952.6649952.664995
Dr. David Lowell's (Collins) research is carried out in the canyon country of southern Utah and must be conducted at the same time Halley's Comet is passing over the earth. A corporation trying to find a remote place to illegally dump nuclear waste throws him off his land and destroys his laboratory. He spends the rest of the film committing ecotage against the company and trying to recover his land.
Fear City
Fear City (1984)
, 1h36
Directed by Abel Ferrara
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Striptease
Actors Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, Melanie Griffith, Michael Vincenzo Gazzo, Rossano Brazzi
Roles Ruby
Rating56% 2.84992.84992.84992.84992.8499
A serial killer who is an expert at martial arts is preying on strippers in Manhattan's Times Square. Night after night, he visits smoky strip clubs, waiting for his victims. The owners of the largest company of strippers in the city are Matt Rossi (Berenger) and Nicky Parzeno (Scalia). Rossi is a retired boxer who retired after having killed an opponent in the ring. He is now seeing their whole business under threat, at the same time as he fears that the woman he loves might be the next victim.
Ghost Warrior
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Horror, Crime
Actors Hiroshi Fujioka, Janet Julian, Charles Lampkin, Toshirō Obata, Jerry Tondo, Larry Cedar
Roles Chris Welles
Rating52% 2.608162.608162.608162.608162.60816
Dans le Japon troublé du xvie siècle, le samouraï Yoshimitsu, guerrier d'élite chargé de protéger la compagne de son daimyo, est précipité dans une cascade d'eau glacée à la suite d'un combat désespéré. Par miracle son corps est figée et conservé dans la glace durant plusieurs siècles, avant qu'une équipe de spécialistes US en cryologie et biologie, ne réussisse à l'extraire de son incroyable léthargie. Hélas, ce dernier leur fausse compagnie et se retrouve complètement déboussolé au milieu de la jungle urbaine de l'Amérique des années 80, non moins périlleuse que celle à laquelle il appartenait.
Humongous
Humongous (1982)
, 1h34
Directed by Paul Lynch
Origin Canada
Genres Horror, Romance, Slasher
Actors Janet Julian, David Wallace, John Wildman, Page Fletcher, Joy Boushel, Garry Robbins
Roles Sandy Ralston
Rating48% 2.4073152.4073152.4073152.4073152.407315
It is Labor Day weekend, 1946. Young, virginal Ida Parsons innocuously plays as her father hosts a raucous party. Amid the festivities, an older, drunken man named Tom Rice staggers outside and propositions Ida. When she refuses, he chases her into the woods and brutally rapes her; her dogs break out of their pen and they attack and fatally maul Ida's rapist.
Smokey Bites the Dust
Directed by Charles B. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Jimmy McNichol, Janet Julian, William Forsythe, Rance Howard, Mel Welles, Michael Greene
Roles Peggy Sue Turner
Rating35% 1.7940851.7940851.7940851.7940851.794085
The stock plot deals with Roscoe Wilton (Jimmy McNichol), a teenage joyriding car thief, evading Cyco (psycho) County Sheriff Turner (Walter Barnes) and his unintelligent deputies.
Big Wednesday, 2h
Directed by John Milius
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Surfing films, Political films
Actors Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey, Lee Purcell, Darrell Fetty, Patti D'Arbanville
Roles Party Girl
Rating70% 3.5465853.5465853.5465853.5465853.546585
The film tells the story of three young friends whose passion in life is surfing. The friends include: Matt Johnson (Jan-Michael Vincent), a self-destructive type who has a devil-may-care attitude; Jack Barlowe (William Katt), the calm and responsible one of the bunch; and Leroy "The Masochist" Smith (Gary Busey), whose nickname tells a lot about his personality.