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Mari Gorman is a Actor American born on 1 september 1944

Mari Gorman

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Nationality USA
Birth 1 september 1944 (79 years)

Mari Gorman is an American actress perhaps best known for her work in television, particularly as one of the informal repertory company of the 1970s and 1980s sitcom Barney Miller, on which she made a half-dozen appearances. She has won two Obie Awards and is the founder of the New York City theater company Glass Beads Theatre Ensemble.

Biography

Mari Gorman broke into professional theater with a production of the Arnold Wesker play The Kitchen, directed by Jack Gelber. One of her first major screen roles was as murder victim and mob pawn Taffy Simms on the television soap opera The Edge of Night in the 1970s. She was a cast member of the Barbara Eden sitcom Harper Valley PTA, playing PTA member, Vivian Washburn, and was one of the informal repertory company of the 1970s and 1980s sitcom Barney Miller, on which she made a half-dozen appearances, including as an amateur prostitute housewife (in Series 4 Episode 3, "Bugs") and as a police detective with a jealous husband (in Series 4, Episode 18, "Wojo's Problem" and other episodes).

Theater work includes the lead role in The Girl in The Red Convertible, by Enrique Buenaventura, in the premiere production of The Third Stage at Stratford Shakespeare Festival, in Ontario, Canada; Pam in the American premiere of Saved by Edward Bond, with the Yale Repertory Theatre; and Kathy in the world premiere of Moonchildren (originally titled Cancer) by Michael Weller at Royal Court Theatre in London, England.

Her films include Goodbye, Columbus (1969), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), 10 (1979), Oh, God! Book II (1980), and Max Dugan Returns (1983).

She has also directed theater and teaches acting, and founded the New York City theater company Glass Beads Theatre Ensemble. In 2003, she produced and directed Cries for Peace, composed of firsthand accounts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors. She produced and directed playwright Michael Locascio's Glass Beads production Lily of the Conservative Ladies, staged at the June Havoc Theatre; and she produced, directed and, with Danna Call and Craig Pospisil, co-wrote Browsing, performed as part of the 2011 New York International Fringe Festival.

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Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards
(1 films)
Debbie Evans
Debbie Evans
(2 films)
Charles Fox
Charles Fox
(2 films)
Neil Simon
Neil Simon
(1 films)
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Filmography of Mari Gorman (8 films)

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Kids Don't Tell, 1h41
Directed by Sam O'Steen
Genres Drama, Documentary
Actors Michael Ontkean, JoBeth Williams, Ari Meyers, Leo Rossi, Joaquin Phoenix, Jordan Charney
Roles Macy
Rating64% 3.233333.233333.233333.233333.23333
Driven by a duty to his young daughter (Ari Meyers), filmmaker John Ryan (Michael Ontkean) agrees to produce a documentary on the sexual abuse of children in the American status quo. However, his loving wife Claudia (JoBeth Williams) becomes increasingly despondent and troubled as the filmmaker immerses himself further into the project. Ryan obtains participation from a host of experts in the field, including a Los Angeles police detective (Leo Rossi), who provides powerful insight into how the legal system fails, and a habitual molester (Jordan Charney) who tells of his technique for choosing and assaulting his victims.
Choices of the Heart, 1h40
Directed by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Melissa Gilbert, Peter Horton, Helen Hunt, Mari Gorman, Pamela Bellwood, René Enríquez
Roles Sister Ita Ford
Rating63% 3.1898653.1898653.1898653.1898653.189865
The movie is based on actual events. On March 24, 1980, Romero was killed, and three Roman Catholic nuns and a lay Catholic missionary were killed on December 2, 1980, by Salvadoran death squads, possibly funded by the United States. Three of the women dedicated their lives to helping refugees and sick people for years. Jean Donovan had been in El Salvador for over two years helping the children that she was so devoted to. Donovan says over and over in her letters to her family in the U.S. that God brought her to El Salvador. These women were raped, tortured, and killed by members of a Salvadoran death squad. Attempts from the Salvadoran and American governments were made to try to cover the murders up.
Max Dugan Returns, 1h38
Directed by Herbert Ross
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Jason Robards, Marsha Mason, Matthew Broderick, Donald Sutherland, Kiefer Sutherland, Mari Gorman
Roles Pat
Rating66% 3.34763.34763.34763.34763.3476
Max Dugan (Jason Robards), the long-lost father of Nora McPhee (Marsha Mason), drops in on her as various trials and tribulations have befallen her. With him, he brings some promises and the news of his impending death. He also meets and befriends his grandson Michael (Matthew Broderick). Donald Sutherland plays the police officer who helps Nora after her car is stolen and becomes her boyfriend in the process.
Oh, God! Book II, 1h34
Directed by Gilbert Cates
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy
Actors George Burns, Suzanne Pleshette, David Birney, Louanne Sirota, Howard Duff, Conrad Janis
Roles Mrs. Hudson, Tracy's Teacher
Rating53% 2.6515752.6515752.6515752.6515752.651575
In this sequel, God asks the help of 11-year-old Tracy Richards (Louanne Sirota) to help promote Himself. Tracy creates the slogan "Think God" and soon has her friends spreading the message by posters, graffiti and other ways. But Tracy's parents and psychiatrists think the young girl is just insane. God is the only one that can straighten out the situation. One of the memorable scenes showed God riding a motorcycle, with Tracy riding in the sidecar, where there were scenes that showed nobody on the motorcycle, which baffled the two policemen.
10
10 (1979)
, 2h2
Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, Robert Webber, Dee Wallace, Bo Derek, Sam J. Jones
Roles Coffee Shop Waitress
Rating60% 3.047233.047233.047233.047233.04723
During a surprise 42nd birthday party for wealthy, well-known composer George Webber (Dudley Moore), thrown by his actress girlfriend Samantha Taylor (Julie Andrews), he finds he's coping badly with incipient middle age. From his car, George glimpses a bride-to-be (Bo Derek) and is instantly obsessed by her beauty, following her to the church, where he crashes into a police cruiser, is stung by a bee and nearly disrupts the wedding ceremony.
Curse of the Black Widow, 1h40
Directed by Dan Curtis
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Horror, Crime
Actors Anthony Franciosa, Donna Mills, June Allyson, June Lockhart, Vic Morrow, Patty Duke
Roles Sophie
Rating56% 2.849252.849252.849252.849252.84925
For the past four years, Los Angeles has been terrorized by a series of mysterious murders, in which several men have been found dead with huge puncture wounds in their chests. The latest happens when private detective Mark Higbie (Franciosa) is visiting a bar. A dark-haired woman with a German accent needs help with her car, and one of Higbie's friends goes out to help her. The woman makes a pass at him, but is turned down. Minutes later, the man is found dead.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, 1h44
Directed by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism, Transport films, Rail transport films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie, Films about hijackings
Actors Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Héctor Elizondo, Earl Hindman, Dick O'Neill
Roles The Hooker
Rating75% 3.7982953.7982953.7982953.7982953.798295
In New York City, four men armed with submachine guns and using code names (Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, Mr. Grey, and Mr. Brown), wearing similar trenchcoat, glasses and mustache disguises, board the Pelham 123 subway train at different station stops. The men take hostage seventeen passengers and the conductor, isolate them in the train's first car and then separate the car from the rest of the train.
Goodbye, Columbus, 1h42
Directed by Larry Peerce
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman, Nan Martin, Royce Wallace, Susan Lucci
Roles Laura Simpson Sockaloe
Rating63% 3.195433.195433.195433.195433.19543
Neil Klugman (Richard Benjamin) is an intelligent, working class army veteran and graduate of Rutgers University who works as a library clerk. He falls for Brenda Patimkin (Ali MacGraw), a wealthy student at Radcliffe College who is home for the summer. They face obstacles from Brenda's family (particularly her mother), due to differences in class and assimilation into the American mainstream. Other conflicts include propriety and issues related to premarital sex and the possibility of pregnancy, and Mrs. Patimkin's envy of her daughter's youth.