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Joan Hackett is a Actor American born on 1 march 1934 at New York City (USA)
Joan Ann Hackett (March 1, 1934 – October 8, 1983) was an American actress of film, stage and television. For the 1981 film Only When I Laugh, she won a Golden Globe Award and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She also received a Best Foreign Actress BAFTA Award nomination for the 1966 film The Group.
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Birth name Joan Ann Hackett
Nationality USA
Birth 1 march 1934 at New York City (USA)
Death 8 october 1983 (at 49 years) at Encino, Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 1 march 1934 at New York City (USA)
Death 8 october 1983 (at 49 years) at Encino, Los Angeles (USA)
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From 1966 to 1973 she was married to actor Richard Mulligan, who also appeared in The Group.Best films
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Filmography of Joan Hackett (22 films)
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The Escape Artist (1982)
, 1h34Directed by Caleb Deschanel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Raúl Juliá, Griffin O'Neal, Desi Arnaz, Teri Garr, Joan Hackett, John P. Ryan
Roles Aunt Sibyl
Rating60%
Young and self-confident Danny Masters (Griffin O'Neal) is the teen-aged son of the late Harry Masters, the "greatest escape artist except for Houdini". Danny himself is an accomplished magician and escape artist. He leaves home to join Uncle Burke and Aunt Sibyl in their magic/mentalist act; Sibyl welcomes him but Burke is unenthusiastic.
, 1h40Directed by Stuart Margolin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors James Garner, Joan Hackett, Juanin Clay, Anjanette Comer, David Graf, Bobby Fite
Roles Norma
Rating71%
Only When I Laugh (1981)
, 2hOrigin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about television, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol, James Coco, Joan Hackett, David Dukes, John Bennett Perry
Roles Toby
Rating63%
Actress Georgia Hines is being released from a rehab center where she has been undergoing treatment for alcoholism and weight gain. She returns to her Manhattan apartment to begin a new sober life with her supportive friends: Jimmy, an unemployed actor, and Toby, a sophisticated, vain socialite. She pledges to both that she will maintain her sobriety and slowly ease back into theatre work.
One Trick Pony (1980)
, 1h38Directed by Robert Malcolm Young
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Blair Brown, Paul Simon, Rip Torn, Joan Hackett, Allen Garfield, Mare Winningham
Roles Lonnie Fox
Rating59%
Simon plays Jonah Levin, a once-popular folk rock star who has not had a hit in ten years, and who now opens for punk rock bands. He is trying to record a new album, but faces a number of obstacles, including a trendy but talentless producer (played by Lou Reed), and an indifferent record company executive (Rip Torn) who is pressuring him for something that will sell. He is also trying to restore his relationship with his estranged wife and his young son.
The Long Days of Summer (1980)
, 1h40Directed by Dan Curtis
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Dean Jones, Joan Hackett, Ronnie Scribner, Louanne Sirota, Donald Moffat, Andrew Duggan
Roles Millie Cooper
Rating61%
It's the summer of 1938 in Bridgeport, Connecticut and Jewish 13-year-old, Daniel Cooper (now portrayed by Ronnie Scribner) finds himself tangling with the bigoted playground bully, Freddy Landauer (David Baron). As the talk of Bridgeport centers around the pending rematch between boxing heavyweight champ Joe Louis and his German challenger, Danny is challenged to a boxing match with the Landauer boy, to which he feels he has no choice but to accept. Paralleling his plight, Danny's father (Dean Jones) also begins to experience antisemitism when he takes in a Jewish boarder from Germany (Donald Moffat) who has come to the United States to warn of the increasing menace overseas in the form of Adolf Hitler. As Danny and his family are faced with their own pressures from within their small-town community, they must each make difficult decisions about standing up for what is right in the face of discrimination and intimidation.
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979)
, 1h15Directed by Michael O'Donoghue
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Dan Aykroyd, Michael O'Donoghue, Bill Murray, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Mitch Glazer
Roles Self (voice)
Rating48%
The film is largely plotless; a series of vignettes linked together by interstitial pieces featuring Mr. Mike discussing how upsetting and odd the sequences are. He introduces some of the pieces via voice-over, and some open with no introduction.
Pleasure Cove (1979)
, 1h40Directed by Bruce Bilson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Melody Anderson, Constance Forslund, Jerry Lacy, James Murtaugh, Joan Hackett, Harry Guardino
Roles Martha Harrison
Rating65%
, 1h40Directed by Dan Curtis
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Dean Jones, Andrew Duggan, Louise Sorel, Chris Petersen, Katy Kurtzman, Harris Yulin
Rating72%
It's the summer of 1937 in Bridgeport, Connecticut and 12-year-old Daniel Cooper (Chris Petersen) along with his 10-year-old sister Sarah (Katy Kurtzman) are looking forward to summer vacation, most particularly, the annual 4th of July festivities. Sarah soon befriends the town's gentle misfit, Albert Cavanaugh, known by the town's children as "Snowman" (Geoffrey Lewis), a highly decorated and now brain-damaged World War I veteran, after she defends him from the town's resident bully, "Red" Doyle (Eric Shea). When Snowman finds himself accused of a terrible murder, Sarah, believing him to be innocent, convinces her successful attorney father, Ed Cooper (Dean Jones) to defend him. Amid courtroom allegations of communism and insinuations of a potentially inappropriate relationship with Sarah, Ed Cooper and the town's children must try to prove Snowman's innocence, before he can be sentenced to jail for the murder.
The Possessed (1977)
, 1h16Directed by Jerry Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors James Farentino, Joan Hackett, Harrison Ford, Claudette Nevins, P. J. Soles, Diana Scarwid
Roles Louise Gelson
Rating53%
Kevin Leahy, an alcoholic Catholic priest who has strayed from his faith, crashes his car and is pronounced dead at the scene. As penance, he is sent back to Earth to fight evil as an exorcist, and returns to life. The Helen Page School, a Catholic all-girls college in Salem, Oregon is on the brink of graduation season, and are about to go coed the following semester. Ellen Sumner (Claudette Nevins), is a teacher at the school, where her daughter, Weezie, attends. One evening, the paper in Ellen's typewriter inexplicably bursts into flames.
Dead of Night (1977)
, 1h16Directed by Dan Curtis
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film
Actors Ed Begley Jr., Patrick Macnee, Horst Buchholz, Ann Doran, Christina Hart Doubleday, Anjanette Comer
Roles Mother
Rating61%
Trois histoires, trois différents concepts sur le fantastique : une histoire de voyage dans le temps, une de vampires et une sur le retour à la vie d'un défunt.
Mackintosh and T.J. (1976)
Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Roy Rogers, Joan Hackett, Billy "Green" Bush, Andrew Robinson, James Hampton, Dennis Fimple
Roles Maggie
Rating69%
MacKintosh (no first name is ever given) is an aging migrant cowboy drifting from ranch to ranch doing odd jobs along the way with the exception of his World War II service in the Pacific. When passing through a town he sees T.J. (no other name is ever given) a 14-year-old recently released from doing clean up work for vagrancy. Shopping for supplies, MacKintosh sights T.J. preparing to steal an apple being watched by the store owner. MacKintosh pretends the boy is with him and pays for their supplies.
Treasure of Matecumbe (1976)
, 1h57Directed by Vincent McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Johnny Doran, Robert Foxworth, Joan Hackett, Peter Ustinov, Vic Morrow, Jane Wyatt
Roles Lauriette
Rating61%
En 1869, Davie Burnie découvre l'existence d'un trésor enfoui dans les marais de Floride. Il demande à Thad, un de ses amis, de l'aider à le retrouver. Seulement le trésor est également convoité par Spangler et ses hommes...
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Barbara Eden, Joseph Mascolo, Joan Hackett, Richard Basehart, Louise Latham, Elaine Giftos
Roles Jessica Hilliard
Rating61%
The Terminal Man (1974)
, 1h47Directed by Mike Hodges
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Actors George Segal, Joan Hackett, Richard A. Dysart, Donald Moffat, Michael C. Gwynne, William Hansen
Roles Dr. Janet Ross
Rating56%
Harry Benson, an extremely intelligent (IQ 144) computer programmer in his 30s, suffers from epilepsy. He often has seizures which induce a blackout, after which he awakens to unfamiliar surroundings with no knowledge of what he has done. He also suffers from delusions that computers will rise up against humans.
Reflections of Murder (1974)
, 1h40Directed by John Badham
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Actors Tuesday Weld, Joan Hackett, Sam Waterston, Lucille Benson, Michael Lerner, R.G. Armstrong
Roles Claire Elliott
Rating67%
Claire (Hackett) is the abused wife of vicious schoolmaster Michael (Waterston), who takes great delight in belittling and emotionally abusing her both in public and in private. Michael is also openly carrying on an affair with one of the school's teachers, Vicky (Weld), whom he sometimes physically assaults. Having grown tired of his cruelty, the two women conspire to murder him and stage the act to look like an accident. But after committing the deed his body disappears, and the women begin to fear that someone might be trying to drive them mad.