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Kate Murtagh is a Actor American born on 29 october 1920 at Los Angeles (USA)
Kate Murtagh (born October 29, 1920) is an American actress who has acted in such films as The Night Strangler (1973), Farewell, My Lovely (1975), The Car (1977), and Doctor Detroit (1983). Her television appearances were on Daniel Boone, My Three Sons, The Munsters, I Dream of Jeannie, The Twilight Zone and Highway to Heaven.
Murtagh is pictured on the front and back covers of the English rock group Supertramp's 1979 multi-platinum recording, Breakfast In America. She is portrayed on the front cover as a waitress named "Libby," holding a tall glass of orange juice, in place of the Statue of Liberty in an illustrated depiction of New York City. She is a native of Los Angeles, California. Retired from acting since 1999, she is, as of 2010, a resident at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, where she still takes classes in improvisation.
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Murtagh is pictured on the front and back covers of the English rock group Supertramp's 1979 multi-platinum recording, Breakfast In America. She is portrayed on the front cover as a waitress named "Libby," holding a tall glass of orange juice, in place of the Statue of Liberty in an illustrated depiction of New York City. She is a native of Los Angeles, California. Retired from acting since 1999, she is, as of 2010, a resident at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, where she still takes classes in improvisation.
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The Maker (1997)
, 1h38Directed by Tim Hunter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Matthew Modine, Mary-Louise Parker, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Fairuza Balk, Robert Gossett, Michael Madsen
Roles Large Matron
Rating55%
Josh (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is a high school boy who lives with his adoptive parents and is involved in little crimes with his friends, including young lesbian Bella (Fairuza Balk). His elder brother Walter (Matthew Modine) suddenly comes back home after leaving home ten years prior when he was 18 and not being heard of all those years. Walter starts to involve Josh in various new criminal activities, including robbery.
The Maker (1997)
Directed by Tim Hunter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Matthew Modine, Mary-Louise Parker, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Fairuza Balk, Michael Madsen, Jesse Borrego
Roles Large Matron
Rating55%
Josh (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) est au lycée, il vit avec ses parents adoptifs et est impliqué dans des petits délits avec ses amis. Son grand frère (Matthew Modine) réapparaît après 10 ans d'absence et l'entraîne dans la plus grosse criminalité...
Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992)
, 1h44Directed by Anthony Hickox
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Medical-themed films, Time travel films, Frankenstein films, Ghost films, Vampires in film, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Comedy horror films, Disaster films
Actors Zach Galligan, Alexandre Godounov, Monika Schnarre, Martin Kemp, Martin Kemp, Bruce Campbell
Roles The Matron
Rating53%
The film opens with a reenactment of final scenes of Waxwork, with Mark and Sarah leaving the burning waxwork (the part of Sarah having been recast from the first film). The disembodied zombie hand from the first film follows Sarah to her run-down flat and kills her stepfather with a hammer, a murder for which Sarah is blamed. No one believes her story about the evil waxwork.
She's Out of Control (1989)
, 1h34Directed by Stan Dragoti
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children
Actors Tony Danza, Ami Dolenz, Catherine Hicks, Wallace Shawn, Dick O'Neill, Derek McGrath
Roles Chaperone
Rating53%
Widower Doug Simpson (Danza) is a radio producer from California who lives with his two daughters, Katie (Dolenz) and Bonnie (Laura Mooney). When his oldest daughter (Katie) turns 15, she suggests to her father that's it's time for her to start looking more grown-up. For the last 14 years, Katie had been wearing dowdy clothes, braces, and thick glasses and hanging around with Richard, her next-door neighbor and long-time boyfriend (who had won Doug's approval); but when Doug leaves on a business trip, Katie transforms herself, along with the help of Doug's fiancée Janet Pearson (Hicks), into a knockout beauty.
Doctor Detroit (1983)
, 1h30Directed by Michael Pressman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Spy films
Actors Dan Aykroyd, Parley Baer, Howard Hesseman, Fran Drescher, Blackie Dammett, Donna Dixon
Roles Mom
Rating52%
A introverted geek, Clifford Skridlow (Dan Aykroyd), is a professor of comparative literature at the financially strapped (fictional) Monroe College in Chicago.
Just Me and You (1978)
, 1h40Directed by John Erman
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Louise Lasser, Charles Grodin, Michael Alldredge, Miriam Byrd Nethery, Noble Willingham, Julie Bovasso
Rating75%
The film is a gentle comedy about two strangers with personal family issues who drive across wintery America after Michael Lindsay (Charles Grodin) offers a lift to Jane Alofsin (Lasser) and how they gradually get to know each other. Jane is a little neurotic and very indecisive while Charles is more focused.
The Car (1977)
, 1h37Directed by Elliot Silverstein
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors James Brolin, Kathleen Lloyd, John Marley, Ronny Cox, R.G. Armstrong, John Rubinstein
Roles Miss McDonald
Rating61%
Two bicyclists cycling on a canyon are followed by a mysterious black car down the road. At the bridge, the car proceeds to crush one cyclist against the wall, and ram the other from behind, causing him to fall off the bridge. A hitchhiker, hoping to get a ride, encounters the car and insults it after it purposefully tries to run him down. In response, the car runs over him and leaves. The local sheriff's office, called to the first of a series of hit and run deaths, get a lead on the car that appears heavily customized and has no license plate, as pointed out by Amos Clemens (R. G. Armstrong) after he sees it run over the hitchhiker.
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
, 1h35Directed by Dick Richards
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Anthony Zerbe, Harry Dean Stanton
Roles Amthor
Rating69%
Set in Los Angeles in 1941, against a seamy backdrop of police corruption, cheap hotel rooms, illegal gambling and jewel trafficking, private detective Philip Marlowe is holed up in a hotel room and growing more weary by the hour. As he explains to his police lieutenant friend Nulty: "I've got a hat, a coat and a gun, that's it."
Switchblade Sisters (1975)
, 1h31Directed by Jack Hill
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Don Stark, Marlene Clark, Janice Karman, Kate Murtagh, Robert Lee Minor, Roy Engel
Roles Mom Smackley
Rating64%
Un gang de filles en furie fait face à une bande de dealers.
Dirty O'Neil (1974)
, 1h29Directed by Lewis Teague
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action
Actors Morgan Paull, Art Metrano, Jeane Manson, Katie Saylor, Anitra Ford, Kate Murtagh
Roles Emily Jones
Rating51%
Shadow Over Elveron (1968)
, 1h46Directed by James Goldstone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors James Franciscus, Shirley Knight, Leslie Nielsen, Don Ameche, Franchot Tone, James Dunn
Roles Mrs. Wolinski
Rating67%
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
, 1h55Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about writers, Films about cats, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Martin Balsam, Buddy Ebsen, Mickey Rooney
Roles Policewoman (uncredited)
Rating76%
One early morning, a yellow taxi pulls up at Tiffany & Co. on Fifth Avenue in New York City, from which elegantly dressed Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) emerges. Standing outside the shop looking into the windows, she nibbles on pastry and drinks coffee she brought with her, then strolls home to go to bed. Outside her apartment, she fends off her date Sid Arbuck (Claude Stroud) from the disastrous night before. Later in the day she is awakened by new neighbor-tenant, Paul Varjak (George Peppard), ringing her doorbell to get into the building. The pair chat as she dresses to leave for her weekly visit to Sally Tomato (Alan Reed), a mobster incarcerated at Sing Sing prison. Tomato's lawyer O'Shaughnessy pays her $100 a week to receive "the weather report.
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
, 2h16Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Arthur O'Connell, Peter Falk, Mickey Shaughnessy
Roles Masseuse (uncredited)
Rating71%
Dave the Dude (Glenn Ford) is a successful, very superstitious New York City gangster who buys apples from street peddler Apple Annie (Bette Davis) to bring him good luck. On the eve of a very important meeting, he finds Annie terribly upset.
Blue Hawaii (1961)
, 1h42Directed by Michael Moore, Norman Taurog, Michael D. Moore
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury, Roland Winters, John Archer, Howard McNear
Rating60%
Chadwick Gates (Elvis Presley) has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surfboard, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend Maile Duval (Joan Blackman). His mother, Sarah Lee (Angela Lansbury), wants him to follow in his father's footsteps and take over management at the Great Southern Hawaiian Fruit Company, the family business, but Chad is reluctant, so he goes to work as a tour guide at his girlfriend's agency.
Gun Fight (1961)
, 1h7Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Joan Staley, James Brown, Gregg Palmer, James Brown, Kate Murtagh, Walter Coy
Roles Molly
Rating51%
First Sergeant Wayne Santley has finished his final enlistment with the 7th Cavalry and is looking forward to going into business with his brother Brad in Wyoming who has told him he has a large ranch with 2,000 head of cattle. He discovers that his brother and his associates are in a much different kind of business that Wayne wants no part of.