Acting

Lee Remick

Born December 14, 1935 · Quincy, Massachusetts, USA

Died July 2, 1991 · aged 55

Lee Ann Remick (December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991) was an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses, and for the 1966 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her Broadway theatre performance in Wait Until Dark. Remick made her film debut in 1957 in A Face in the Crowd. Her other notable film roles include Anatomy of a Murd…

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The Omen

The Omen · 1976

MovieHorrorThriller

Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.

Anatomy of a Murder

Anatomy of a Murder · 1959

Anatomy of a Murder

MovieCrimeDrama

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.

Ike

MovieDramaHistory

Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.

The Long, Hot Summer

The Long, Hot Summer · 1958

The Long, Hot Summer

Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

The Vision

The Vision · 1987

MovieTV MovieDrama

Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a front for something much more sinister and political.

The Satan Bug

The Satan Bug · 1965

MovieScience FictionThriller

A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The big fear is that a more virulent strain, named The Satan Bug because all life can be killed off by it should it escape, may have been stolen.

The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch · 1978

The Medusa Touch

MovieHorrorThriller

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.

Tough Love

Tough Love · 1985

MovieDramaTV Movie

The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Tough Love" program in searching for answers.

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The Omen

The Omen · 1976

MovieHorrorThriller

Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.

Katherine Thorn

Anatomy of a Murder

Anatomy of a Murder · 1959

Anatomy of a Murder

MovieCrimeDrama

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.

Laura Manion

Ike

MovieDramaHistory

Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.

Kay Summersby

The Long, Hot Summer

The Long, Hot Summer · 1958

The Long, Hot Summer

Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

Eula Varner

The Vision

The Vision · 1987

MovieTV MovieDrama

Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a front for something much more sinister and political.

Grace Gardner

The Satan Bug

The Satan Bug · 1965

MovieScience FictionThriller

A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The big fear is that a more virulent strain, named The Satan Bug because all life can be killed off by it should it escape, may have been stolen.

Waitress

The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch · 1978

The Medusa Touch

MovieHorrorThriller

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.

Doctor Zonfeld

Tough Love

Tough Love · 1985

MovieDramaTV Movie

The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Tough Love" program in searching for answers.

Jan Charters

Days of Wine and Roses

Days of Wine and Roses · 1963

Days of Wine and Roses

MovieDramaRomance

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

Kirsten Arnesen Clay

Telefon

Telefon · 1977

MovieThrillerAction

Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.

Barbara

A Face in the Crowd

A Face in the Crowd · 1957

A Face in the Crowd

The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.

Betty Lou Fleckum

The Hallelujah Trail

The Hallelujah Trail · 1965

The Hallelujah Trail

MovieWesternComedy

A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.

Cora Templeton Massingale

Experiment in Terror

Experiment in Terror · 1962

Experiment in Terror

MovieThrillerCrime

A man with an asthmatic voice telephones and assaults clerk Kelly Sherwood at home and coerces her into helping him steal a large sum from her bank.

Kelly Sherwood

Sometimes a Great Notion

Sometimes a Great Notion · 1971

Sometimes a Great Notion

MovieActionAdventure

Hank Stamper and his father, Henry, own and operate the family business by cutting and shipping logs in Oregon. The town is furious when they continue working despite the town going broke and the other loggers go on strike ordering the Stampers to stop, however Hank continues to push his family on cutting more trees. Hank's wife wishes he would stop and hopes that they can spend more time together. When Hank's half brother Leland comes to work for them, more trouble starts.

Viv Stamper

The Detective

The Detective · 1968

MovieCrimeMystery

New York City Police detective Joe Leland investigates the grisly murder of Teddy Leikman, the gay son of a politically influential department store owner. While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption in NYC in this drama that delves into a world of sex and drugs, homophobia, homosexuality and bisexuality.

Karen Wagner Leland

Wild River

Wild River · 1960

MovieDramaRomance

A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of a stubborn octogenarian from her home on an island in the river, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.

Carol Garth Baldwin

Hennessy

Hennessy · 1975

MovieThrillerDrama

Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Though he still knows people in the IRA, including fugitive leader Tobin, Niall has given up his violent ways. One day his family is caught in a chaotic street shootout and killed by British forces. Overwhelmed with rage and hunted by a Scotland Yard inspector, Niall heads to London to exact his deadly revenge.

Kate Brooke

The Horror Show

The Horror Show · 1979

The Horror Show

MovieHorrorDocumentary

A history of horror movies.

(archive footage)

The Running Man

The Running Man · 1963

The Running Man

MovieCrimeDrama

An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an insurance investigator.

Stella Black

The Wheeler Dealers

The Wheeler Dealers · 1963

The Wheeler Dealers

MovieComedyRomance

Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but, in the end, she falls for his charm.

Molly Thatcher

Baby the Rain Must Fall

Baby the Rain Must Fall · 1965

Baby the Rain Must Fall

MovieDramaRomance

Henry Thomas tries to overcome the horrors of his childhood and start a new life with his wife and kid. However, his abusive step-mother and his dependence on alcohol threaten to ruin his future.

Georgette Thomas

No Way to Treat a Lady

No Way to Treat a Lady · 1968

No Way to Treat a Lady

MovieComedyThriller

Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.

Kate Palmer

These Thousand Hills

These Thousand Hills · 1959

These Thousand Hills

MovieDramaWestern

A cowboy tries for easy money with his partner, then tries ranching with a saloon hostess's money.

Callie

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker · 1991

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

MovieDocumentary

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.

Laura Manion (archive footage) (uncredited)

American Playhouse

American Playhouse · 1982

American Playhouse

SeriesDramaComedy

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

Eugenia Young

Great Performances

Great Performances · 1971

Great Performances

SeriesComedyDocumentary

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.

Phyllis Rogers Stone

Robert Montgomery Presents

Robert Montgomery Presents · 1950

Robert Montgomery Presents

Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.

Screen Two

Screen Two · 1985

Series of single made-for-television dramas.

Grace Gardner

Studio One

Studio One · 1948

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

Jessie Benson

BBC Play of the Month

BBC Play of the Month · 1965

BBC Play of the Month

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

Alma Winemiller

Kraft Television Theatre

Kraft Television Theatre · 1947

Kraft Television Theatre

Kraft Television Theater is an American, well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas.

Caroline Bowers

Faerie Tale Theatre

Faerie Tale Theatre · 1982

Faerie Tale Theatre

SeriesDramaFamily

A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.

The Snow Queen

Around the World in 80 Days

Around the World in 80 Days · 1989

Around the World in 80 Days

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

The plot centres around Phileas Fogg making a £20,000 wager with three members of the Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the world in 80 days. He takes with him his newly employed French valet Passepartout, and is pursued by Detective Wilbur Fix who mistakenly thinks Fogg robbed the Bank of England and is using the wager as a cover to escape capture.

Sarah Bernhardt

Mistral's Daughter

Mistral's Daughter · 1984

Mistral's Daughter

Mistral's Daughter is a 1984 American television miniseries written by Terence Feely and Rosemary Anne Sisson, based on Judith Krantz's eponymous 1982 novel. The eight-episode serial—starring Stacy Keach, Stefanie Powers, and Lee Remick—follows the lives of women connected to tempestuous painter Julien Mistral, across several decades in France, exploring themes of art, love, and scandal.

Kate Browning

Ike

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

Ike, also known as Ike: The War Years, is a 1979 television miniseries about the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The screenplay by Melville Shavelson is based on Kay Summersby's 1948 memoir Eisenhower Was My Boss and her 1975 autobiography, Past Forgetting: My Love Affair. The series aired from May 3–6, 1979 on ABC. During World War II, General Dwight D. 'Ike' Eisenhower serves as supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe. On a personal level, he has an extramarital affair with his driver Kay Summersby.

Kay Summersby

The Blue Knight

The Blue Knight · 1973

The Blue Knight

SeriesCrimeMystery

Bumper Morgan is a 20-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department who is scheduled to retire in a week. Before he leaves, he must work on the murder of a prostitute in one of LA's far corners. Along the way, he must grapple with vicious thugs, his fellow officers who feel mixed about his retiring, and his woman who wants him to leave the streets.

Cassie Walters

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame · 1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.

Miranda

Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder

Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder · 1987

Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder

SeriesDramaMystery

A sociopathic socialite plots her father's murder.

Frances Schreuder

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill · 1974

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Randolph Churchill, and gave birth to Sir Winston Churchill in this seven-part, seven-hour biographical mini-series.

Jennie

QB VII

A physician sues a novelist for publishing statements implicating the doctor in Nazi war crimes.

Lady Margaret

Wheels

Based on the 1971 novel by Arthur Hailey, Wheels is about the automobile industry and the day-to-day pressures involved in its operation. The plot lines follow many of the topical issues of the day, including race relations, corporate politics, and business ethics. The auto company of the novel is a little-disguised Ford Motor Company and some of the characters are recognizable to company insiders.

Erica Trenton