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Melodie Johnson Howe is a Actor American born on 23 october 1943 at Los Angeles (USA)

Melodie Johnson Howe

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Birth name Melodie Johnson
Nationality USA
Birth 23 october 1943 (80 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Melodie Johnson Howe, née le 23 octobre 1943 à Los Angeles, est une ancienne actrice américaine, devenue auteur de roman policier.

Biography

Elle s’intéresse à l’écriture dès son plus jeune âge et rédige des courtes pièces de théâtre restées inédites. Elle fait des études à l'Université de Californie à Los Angeles en création littéraire. Pourtant, à partir de 1965, elle se lance dans une carrière d’actrice à Hollywood. Elle apparaît au générique d'épisodes de plusieurs séries télévisées, dont Le Virginien, Opération vol, Ma sorcière bien-aimée et Mannix. Elle décroche également de petits rôles au cinéma, notamment dans Un shérif à New York (1968) de Don Siegel, aux côtés de Clint Eastwood, et dans La Guerre des bootleggers (1970) de Richard Quine, avec Patrick McGoohan et Richard Widmark. Elle met fin à sa carrière de comédienne au début des années 1980.

Sous son nom de femme mariée, Melodie Johnson Howe, elle publie à quelques années d'intervalle The Mother Shadow (1989) et Beauty Dies (1994), deux romans policiers mettant en scène Claire Conrad et Maggie Hill, deux limiers féminins qui entretiennent des relations professionnelles semblables à celles qui prévalent entre Nero Wolfe et Archie Goodwin, les héros de Rex Stout.

En 2011, elle fait paraître Shooting Hollywood (2011), un recueil de nouvelles qui racontent les aventures de Diana Poole, ancienne actrice dans la quarantaine qui cherche à reprendre sa carrière et qui se voit toujours contrainte d’élucider des affaires criminelles qui ne cessent de la détourner de son art. En 2013 paraît City of Mirrors, le premier roman consacrée à cette nouvelle héroïne.

Usually with

Don Siegel
Don Siegel
(1 films)
Hal Ashby
Hal Ashby
(1 films)
Charles Tyner
Charles Tyner
(2 films)
Dick Crockett
Dick Crockett
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Melodie Johnson Howe (5 films)

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Actress

Rabbit, Run, 1h34
Directed by Jack Smight
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors James Caan, Carrie Snodgress, Anjanette Comer, Jack Albertson, Henry Jones, Melodie Johnson Howe
Rating54% 2.7065352.7065352.7065352.7065352.706535
In Reading, Pennsylvania, former high school basketball star Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom is dissatisfied with both his failure to find a career and with his loveless marriage to Janice, an alcoholic who is pregnant with a child neither of them wants. Following an argument with Janice, Rabbit looks up his old basketball coach Marty Tothero, who is now living in squalor. Marty decides that Rabbit needs a woman, and he introduces him to Ruth, a part-time prostitute. When Rabbit moves in with Ruth, Jack Eccles, the family minister, tries to persuade him to return to his wife, but Rabbit refuses. Eventually, Rabbit also becomes disenchanted with Ruth, and when Janice has her baby, Rabbit goes to the hospital and effects a reconciliation. For a time, they live in relative harmony, but Janice's insistence on a less active sex life leads to bitterness, and Rabbit again takes off. Janice resumes her solitary drinking, this time with tragic results; while in a drunken stupor, she accidentally drowns the baby. Learning of his child's death, Rabbit returns home and finds that everyone holds him responsible. At the funeral, Rabbit responds to his parents' and in-laws' accusing glances by screaming his innocence. Fleeing from the cemetery, he goes to Ruth's apartment; but Ruth, who is now pregnant with his child, refuses to let him in unless he agrees to divorce Janice and marry her. Although he promises to do so, Rabbit is still unable to make a commitment to anyone and runs away again.
The Moonshine War, 1h40
Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime, Western
Actors Patrick McGoohan, Alan Alda, Richard Widmark, Teri Garr, Will Geer, Melodie Johnson Howe
Roles Lizann Simpson
Rating59% 2.9514952.9514952.9514952.9514952.951495
A man called Son Martin makes moonshine whiskey, owning and operating a profitable still in Prohibition-era Kentucky. One day, he gets a visit from an old Army acquaintance, Frank Long, who is now an Internal Revenue agent.
Gaily, Gaily, 1h47
Directed by Norman Jewison
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, Brian Keith, George Kennedy, Hume Cronyn, Margot Kidder
Roles Lilah
Rating53% 2.658732.658732.658732.658732.65873
Set in 1910, the film's main character is Ben Harvey (patterned after Ben Hecht): serious about seeing the world, he leaves his home for Chicago, where he meets a woman named Lil, who in reality is the Madam of the bordello Ben mistakes for a boarding house. He also is friends with Adeline, one of the prostitutes. While he tries to find work, Ben encounters other people, including a man named Sullivan, who is involved in shady doings in city government. Suspecting corruption, Harvey and a hard drinking reporter decide to investigate.
Coogan's Bluff, 1h33
Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Motocyclette, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark, Don Stroud, Betty Field, Tom Tully
Roles Millie
Rating63% 3.1990453.1990453.1990453.1990453.199045
Arizona deputy sheriff Walt Coogan is sent to New York City to extradite escaped killer James Ringerman. Detective Lieutenant McElroy informs him that Ringerman is recovering from an overdose of LSD, cannot be moved until the doctors release him, and that Coogan needs to get extradition papers from the New York State Supreme Court.
Fame Is the Name of the Game, 1h40
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Robert Duvall, Jack Klugman, Anthony Franciosa, Jill St John, George Macready, Jack Weston
Rating73% 3.6915353.6915353.6915353.6915353.691535
An investigative reporter looks into the murder of a call girl. His investigation unearths her diary, with the names of many prominent people in it. He sets out to find her killer from among the names contained in the diary.