Ruth Westheimer

Acting

Ruth Westheimer

Born June 4, 1928 · Karlstadt am Main, Germany

Died July 12, 2024 · aged 96

Ruth Westheimer, better known as Dr. Ruth, was a German-American sex therapist, media personality, and author. Her media career began in 1980 with the radio show Sexually Speaking, which continued until 1990. She also hosted at least five television shows on the Lifetime and other cable television from 1984 to 1993. Wikipedia

Known For

Electric DreamsElectric Dreams · 1984
Electric Dreams
6.41984
MovieRomanceScience Fiction
Miles Harding buys a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing conscious thought and emotion after an interaction with spilled champagne. Things begin getting out of hand when both Miles and Edgar, the computer, fall in love with beautiful neighbor Madeline Robistat.
One Woman or TwoOne Woman or Two · 1985
One Woman or Two
5.51985
MovieComedyRomance
An ad executive impersonates an archeology professor to avoid a situation with an obsessed former lover. She enlists the help of a hapless archeologist who is at the airport to pick the real archeology professor. What follows is a series of conflicting and comical situations involving the "switcheroo."
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi AbromowitzJoan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz · 1988
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
9.01988
MovieComedy
Fictional character, Heidi Abromowitz, is the butt of everyone's jokes.
Ponce de LeonPonce de Leon · 1986
Ponce de Leon
1986
MovieFamily
Get to know the legendary European explorer with an impossible mission in this retelling of the myth of Ponce de Leon (Michael York). Executive producer Shelley Duvall plays host to viewers young and old alike who are eager to learn about de Leon's search for the fountain of youth. This is no ordinary educational series, however; instead, it's a show infused with good humor, one that mines the absurdity of de Leon's quixotic quest.
Fertile La Toyah Video Magazine #2: The Kinky Issue!Fertile La Toyah Video Magazine #2: The Kinky Issue! · 1994
Fertile La Toyah Video Magazine #2: The Kinky Issue!
1994
Movie
Prostrate probing interviews! Live action murder! Naked people! Tired death-rockers! And more! Much more!!
Melrose PlaceMelrose Place · 1992
Melrose Place
5.81992
SeriesDramaSoap
Follow the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los Angeles, California.
Quantum LeapQuantum Leap · 1989
Quantum Leap
8.01989
SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
Ally McBealAlly McBeal · 1997
Ally McBeal
6.51997
SeriesDramaComedy
Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!

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Head CasesHead Cases · 2005
Head Cases
7.02005
SeriesDrama
Head Cases is an American primetime comedy-drama television program, best known as the first show cancelled for the 2005–2006 season. It was broadcast by FOX and premiered on September 14, 2005. It was cancelled after two episodes on September 22 after disastrous ratings and critical drubbing. Attorney Jason Payne (Chris O'Donnell) had a superstar career at a prestigious Los Angeles law firm -- that is, until his wife, Laurie, kicked him out of the house and he had a nervous breakdown. After three months at a "wellness center," Jason finds himself with no job, no place to live and no support system. Enter Russell Shultz (Adam Goldberg), an unkempt, unpredictable sufferer of explosive disorder, assigned to be outpatient "buddies" with Jason by their mutual therapist, Dr. Robinson. Payne and Shultz ultimately decide to open a law firm of their own.