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Joan Tompkins is a Actor American born on 9 july 1915
Joan Tompkins, legally known as Joan Swenson (July 9, 1915 – January 29, 2005) was an American actress of television, film, radio, and stage, who co-founded with her husband, Karl Swenson, an acting company in Beverly Hills, California. In the 1962-1963 television season, Tompkins played legal secretary Trudy Wagner in twenty-eight episodes of Edmond O'Brien's NBC legal drama Sam Benedict, co-starring Richard Rust. From 1967-1970, she guest starred nine times as Lorraine Miller in Fred MacMurray's CBS situation comedy, My Three Sons, with her last appearance in the episode "St. Louis Blues" on December 19, 1970.
According to the Social Security Death Index, Tompkins, listed as Joan Swenson at death, was living in New York when she procured her Social Security number, probably in the late 1930s. In 1938, at the age of twenty-three, she joined Henry Fonda in performing plays in White Plains, New York. Thereafter, she performed on radio in the soap opera role of Nora Drake on This Is Nora Drake, which ran on CBS radio until 1959. She appeared on Broadway in New York City in stage productions of Pride and Prejudice and My Sister Eileen. During her radio performances, she met Karl Swenson, who portrayed the Scandinavian Lars Hanson on Michael Landon's Little House on the Prairie NBC television series. Tompkins herself guest starred twice on Little House. The couple married sometime after Swenson and his first wife, the former Virginia Hanscom (1908–2003), divorced. They were living in southern California by 1957.
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Joan Tompkins
Joan Tompkins, legally known as Joan Swenson (July 9, 1915 – January 29, 2005) was an American actress of television, film, radio, and stage, who co-founded with her husband, Karl Swenson, an acting company in Beverly Hills, California. In the 1962-1963 television season, Tompkins played legal secretary Trudy Wagner in twenty-eight episodes of Edmond O'Brien's NBC legal drama Sam Benedict, co-starring Richard Rust. From 1967-1970, she guest starred nine times as Lorraine Miller in Fred MacMurray's CBS situation comedy, My Three Sons, with her last appearance in the episode "St. Louis Blues" on December 19, 1970.
According to the Social Security Death Index, Tompkins, listed as Joan Swenson at death, was living in New York when she procured her Social Security number, probably in the late 1930s. In 1938, at the age of twenty-three, she joined Henry Fonda in performing plays in White Plains, New York. Thereafter, she performed on radio in the soap opera role of Nora Drake on This Is Nora Drake, which ran on CBS radio until 1959. She appeared on Broadway in New York City in stage productions of Pride and Prejudice and My Sister Eileen. During her radio performances, she met Karl Swenson, who portrayed the Scandinavian Lars Hanson on Michael Landon's Little House on the Prairie NBC television series. Tompkins herself guest starred twice on Little House. The couple married sometime after Swenson and his first wife, the former Virginia Hanscom (1908–2003), divorced. They were living in southern California by 1957.
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The Awakening Land (1978)
, 7hDirected by Boris Sagal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Elizabeth Montgomery, Hal Holbrook, Jane Seymour, William H. Macy, Steven Keats, Bert Remsen
Roles Aunt Cornelia Wheeler
Rating82%
The storyline follows the struggle of Sayward Luckett (Montgomery) after she travels to the unsettled Ohio Valley frontier from post-revolutionary Pennsylvania. She and her family carve out a homestead in the forest, and a community with other settlers. The series follows Sayward from a young single woman, left with three sisters to raise after their mother dies and their father abandons the family, to a married woman who has her own family of seven. Her faithful devotion to her family is recounted against the day-to-day struggle for survival.
, 1h38Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Joan Tompkins, Quinn K. Redeker, Oscar Beregi, Jr., Pamelyn Ferdin, Bill Erwin, Trent Lehman
Roles Aunt Thora
Rating55%
I Love My Wife (1970)
, 1h38Directed by Mel Stuart
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Elliott Gould, Keith Carradine, Brenda Vaccaro, Angel Tompkins, Dabney Coleman, Leonard Stone
Roles Grandma Dennison
Rating49%
Richard Burrows is a medical student with a pregnant wife, Jody, who becomes unappealing to him before and after childbirth, abstaining from sex and gaining weight. When her mother moves in with them, Richard's home life frustrates him even more.
Zig Zag (1970)
, 1h45Directed by Richard Colla
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors George Kennedy, Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach, Steve Ihnat, William Horace Marshall, Charlene Holt
Roles Judge Beth Weaver
Rating61%
Kennedy plays Paul Cameron, an insurance executive who finds out he has a brain tumor. His family will receive nothing under his current policies, but there is a huge reward for information leading to the arrest of the murderer of a businessman. Cameron frames himself for the murder in the hopes of collecting the reward money for his wife in an anonymous bank account. Cameron is found guilty and sentenced to death, but then is cured of the disease, and escapes in order to find the real killer and clear his name.
Popi (1969)
, 1h53Directed by Arthur Hiller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Alan Arkin, Rita Moreno, Louis Zorich, John Harkins, Joan Tompkins, Arny Freeman
Roles Miss Musto
Rating65%
Abraham Rodriguez, known as Popi to his sons Luis and Junior, supports them by working three jobs, leaving him little time to supervise them. He hopes to earn enough to marry his girlfriend Lupe and move the family into a better home in Brooklyn. Then reality crashes in as the boys see gangs do violence in the neighborhood and are even victimized when their clothes are stolen from them. While working at a banquet in New York for Cuban exiles, he hatches an idea. Realizing his boys have a better chance of making good as political refugees than products of the ghetto in which he's raising them, he plots to set them adrift in a rowboat off the coast of Miami Beach in the hope they will be mistaken for escapees from Cuba and offered asylum. After teaching them how to row a boat in the lake in Central Park and how to handle a motorboat on the East River, they depart for Florida.