Rita Karin

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

0.4556

Gender

Female

Birthday

24-Oct-1919

Age

(107 years old)

Place of Birth

Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]

Also Known As
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Rita Karin

Biography

She was a Polish-born American actress best known for her role as Jackie Mason's mother on the 1989 TV series Chicken Soup. Also appeared at the beginning of Sophie's Choice as Yetta, Sophie's (Meryl Streep) landlady. Her voice can be heard singing children's songs from the camps in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.


Credits

Nicky's World Nicky's World (1974) Character: Mrs. Mylonas
A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks desperately for ways to solve the financial dilemma of repossession and property without destroying its heritage.
Age Isn't Everything Age Isn't Everything (1991) Character: Flo
Young man gives up his dream of becoming an astronaut to go into business — and finds himself turned into a little old man.
Starstruck Starstruck (1981) Character: Mrs. Reuben
Aspiring teen folk singer is torn whether to continue her singing or to accept an educational scholarship.
Kojak The Belarus File Kojak The Belarus File (1985) Character: N/A
Lt. Theo Kojak uncovers a Nazi conspiracy.
He Said, She Said He Said, She Said (1991) Character: Mrs. Spepk
Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions alongside each other, which leads to a similarly combative local TV show. At the same time their initial indifference to each other looks like it may evolve into something more romantic.
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971) Character: Mrs. Goldfarb
A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.
Matilda Matilda (1978) Character: Spectator
A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.
The Pickle The Pickle (1993) Character: Grandmother
Harry Stone always dreamed of making "The Great American Movie." Instead, he made "The Pickle" - a teenage sci-fi flick about a flying cucumber. Harry just wanted to get out of debt; now everyone he's ever known, loved and neglected is standing in line for tickets.
The Big Fix The Big Fix (1978) Character: Aunt Sonya
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results.
Enemies, a Love Story Enemies, a Love Story (1989) Character: Mrs. Schreier
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
Up the Sandbox Up the Sandbox (1972) Character: Mrs. Grossbard (uncredited)
Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.
Sophie's Choice Sophie's Choice (1982) Character: Yetta
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.



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