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Forgotten Children (1952)
Character: Ingaby Carpenter
The story of Martha Berry, who brought education to the impoverished children of rural Georgia after the Civil War.
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The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1972)
Character: N/A
On May 17, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, nine men and women entered a Selective Service office outside Baltimore. They removed military draft records, took them outside, and set them afire with napalm.
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Lucas Tanner (1974)
Character: Nancy Howell
A high school teacher's career is threatened because of a student's death when the rumor is spread that his negligence killed the boy. This pilot film led to a short-lived series later the same year.
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San Francisco International (1970)
Character: Tina Scott
This pilot for the TV series stars Pernell Roberts as Jim Conrad, who runs an airport, much to the chagrin of his boss, "his way." In this, two plots run - a kid whose parents are splitting up decides to take off in a little red prop plane (and Conrad talks him down), and thieves played by the handsome Tab Hunter and his truly ugly sidekicks try to steal a money shipment. Roberts was replaced by Lloyd Bridges when the show went to series.
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Set This Town on Fire (1973)
Character: Shirley Hammond
After serving seven years in prison for manslaughter, a man returns to his hometown to find that the eyewitness whose testimony convicted him has second thoughts, and the town drunk has confessed to the crime.
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The Outsider (1967)
Character: Honora Dundas
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies start dropping and the savvy P.I. is the primary suspect in an attractive woman's death. This NBC TV movie served as a pilot for the later series.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1974)
Character: Aunt Sissy
The story of a family living in a New York City slum in 1912, headed by a loving but alcoholic father and a strong-willed mother.
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Intimacy (1966)
Character: Virginia Hawley
A money-strapped Los Angeles businessman hopes to solve his financial woes by blackmailing his wife's married lover.
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Like Mom, Like Me (1978)
Character: Jackie
A middle-aged mom and her teenage daughter adjust to life together after Dad's affair breaks up the family.
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The Violators (1957)
Character: Debbie Baumgarden
A New York City probation officer, noted for his sympathy with delinquents, put to a severe test when his daughter falls for a boy whom circumstances force into breaking the law.
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Skyway to Death (1974)
Character: Ann Leonard
The passengers in an aerial tramway are trapped when the tramway breaks down 8,500 feet in the air.
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Capricorn One (1977)
Character: Mrs. Peaker
In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.
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Fright (1956)
Character: Ann Summers
A woman believes herself to be the reincarnated spirit of an ancient prince's lover. Meanwhile, a murderer turns out to be the reincarnated spirit of the prince himself.
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The Girls of Huntington House (1973)
Character: Sara's Mother
An unmarried teacher in a school for unwed mothers finds herself becoming too emotionally attached to her students and their problems.
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The Killing of Randy Webster (1981)
Character: Lois Carter
When his teenage son is shot by the Houston police following a stolen van chase, his father undertakes a tireless investigation into the truth and uncovers the fact that the gun found with the boy's body was a "throwdown," a weapon planted by the cops.
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An Affair of the Skin (1963)
Character: Claire
A neurotic woman, her unhappy husband and three other New Yorkers share a complicated relationship.
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The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973)
Character: Sudie
On the run from her violent husband, Catherine Crocker witnesses a train robbery and is taken prisoner by a frontier outlaw gang, led by a bandit who’s hiding a secret of his own.
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