Known for Costume & Make-Up
Born
November 19, 1925
Died
February 12, 1991 (age 65)
Birthplace
Vienna, Austria
Filmography
43 films


The Prince of Tides
1991 · 2h 12m
country: United States
A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the process.


Ghost
1990 · 2h 7m
country: United States
After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.


Parenthood
1989 · 2h 4m
country: United States
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.


See No Evil, Hear No Evil
1989 · 1h 42m
country: United States
A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot, but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being chased by both the law AND the original killers, can the pair work together to outwit them all?


Winter People
1989 · 1h 50m
country: United States
Wayland Jackson, a widower with a young daughter, moves to a small, impoverished mountain village in North Carolina, circa 1934. They are taken in by Collie Wright, a single mother with an illegitimate baby, and she and Wayland soon fall in love. Trouble starts when the identity of her baby's father is revealed.


Hello Again
1987 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A suburban housewife chokes to death and is brought back to life by a spell cast by her wacky sister.


The Money Pit
1986 · 1h 31m
country: United States
After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling mansion falls to pieces around them, the two watch in hilarious horror as everything—including the kitchen sink—disappears into the Money Pit.


Death of a Salesman
1985 · 2h 16m
country: Germany
Willy Loman, an aging, failing salesman, struggles to accept reality and his failure to achieve the American Dream.


Grace Quigley
1985 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Grace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. On the day she's being evicted, she witnesses a murder being committed by a top hit-man, Seymour Flint. She proposes to blackmail him into killing her, however, she has one or two friends she wants him to get rid of first.


The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck
1984 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A shopkeeper is condemned by the police and the press for sleeping with a suspected terrorist.


Tootsie
1982 · 1h 56m
country: United States
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego—Dorothy Michaels—in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.


Hammett
1982 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.


I Ought to Be in Pictures
1982 · 1h 48m
country: United States
Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby arrives in LA on a Tuesday and phones Dad the one night that Stephanie, who does Jane Fonda's hair, stays over. Stephanie is there the next morning when Libby decides she needs to tell her story face-to-face.


One from the Heart
1982 · 1h 39m
country: United States
In a dazzling, dreamlike Las Vegas, longtime couple Hank and Frannie break up on their fifth anniversary and each pursue the fantasy of new love over one neon-soaked night—he with a free-spirited acrobat, she with a seductive musician. But as illusion and reality blur, both must decide whether passion or devotion truly defines the heart.


The Chosen
1981 · 1h 47m
country: United States
In a 1940s New York, two Jewish teenage boys are determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their families.


Playing for Time
1980 · 2h 30m
country: United States
When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers.


Little Miss Marker
1980 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in the 1930s. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life changes a great deal with her arrival and he finds sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling operations.


The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
1980 · 57m
country: United States
Granny Weatherall (Geraldine Fitzgerald) is a spunky old lady of eighty who bosses around her doctor and her children. She seems so strong and in control, and yet she has never had the upper hand in her destiny. One morning, a flood of long-forgotten memories bring her to the realization that of all her accomplishments, she cannot console herself for the shame-filled day she was left standing at the alter. Still, her indomitable will to live and act independently infuses the last day of her life. Adapted from the short story by acclaimed writer Katherine Anne Porter ("Ship of Fools"), The Jilting of Granny Weatherall reminds us of the plight of many women who wait for life to claim them, rather than seek life out for themselves.


Kramer vs. Kramer
1979 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.


Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
1979 · 1h 37m
country: United States
In 1620, the Assembly of the Pilgrims decides to emigrate to the young America because of the persecution they suffer by the English crown. The film tells the adventurous journey of the Pilgrims to an unknown land and future.


The Miracle Worker
1979 · 1h 38m
country: United States
The true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, a gripping battle to overcome impossible obstacles and the struggle to communicate. As a young girl, Helen Keller is stricken with scarlet fever. The illness leaves her blind, mute, and deaf. Sealed off from the world, Helen cannot communicate with anyone, nor anyone with her. Often frustrated and desperate, Helen flies into uncontrollable rages and tantrums that terrify her hopeless family. The gifted teacher Annie Sullivan is summoned by the family to help the girl understand the world from which she is isolated, freeing Helen Keller from her internal prison forever. Television remake of the 1962 film which also starred Patty Duke in the role of Helen Keller.


The Brink's Job
1978 · 1h 44m
country: United States
In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino, a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McGinnis, who specializes in planning lucrative capers, the gang robs Brink's main office in Boston of more than $2 million. However, things begin to go awry when the FBI gets involved, the cops start cracking down on the gang and McGinnis refuses to hand over the loot...


Slow Dancing In The Big City
1978 · 1h 50m
country: United States
An aging out of shape reporter falls for a pretty but seriously ill ballerina.


Annie Hall
1977 · 1h 33m
country: United States
New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.


The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish
1977 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A dramatization of the events leading up to the 1935 assassination of Huey Long, the flamboyant and controversial governor of Louisiana.


The Gardener's Son
1977 · 1h 54m
country: United States
Based on true events which took place in the mill town of Graniteville, South Carolina in 1876, the story follows the rich Greggs, who run the mill, and the poor McEvoys, who work there. The animosity between their sons leads to tragedy.


The Front
1976 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.


Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976 · 1h 40m
country: United States
In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the case, unlike the rest of the town, comes to believe that the boys are innocent and, against all advice from his friends and family, sets them free, which turns the entire community against him.


Taxi Driver
1976 · 1h 54m
country: United States
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.


Man on a Swing
1974 · 1h 50m
country: United States
When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief Lee Tucker can find no clues pointing to her killer. Flamboyant self-proclaimed psychic Franklin Wills offers his help to the skeptical policeman, and, when his supposed visions about the case begin to reveal clues and information that only the killer could possibly have known, he becomes a suspect himself.


Child's Play
1972 · 1h 40m
country: United States
At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.


The Hot Rock
1972 · 1h 41m
country: United States
Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...


To Find a Man
1972 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A boarding-school girl asks the boy next door for help getting an abortion.


Diary of a Mad Housewife
1970 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful, and blatantly sadistic writer.


The Brotherhood
1968 · 1h 36m
country: United States
The son of a powerful Mafia don comes home from his army service in Vietnam and wants to lead his own life, but family tradition, intrigues and powerplays involving his older brother dictate otherwise, and he finds himself being slowly drawn back into that world.


A Thousand Clowns
1965 · 1h 58m
country: United States
Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a social worker, who falls in love with Murray and a bit in love with Nick. As the child welfare people try to force Murray to become a conventional man (as the price they demand for allowing him to keep Nick), the nephew, who until now has gloried in his Uncle's iconoclastic approach to life, tries to play mediator. But when he succeeds, he is alarmed by the uncle's willingness to cave in to society in order to save the relationship.


The Miracle Worker
1962 · 1h 46m
country: United States
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.


The Hustler
1961 · 2h 14m
country: United States
Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.


The Young Doctors
1961 · 1h 40m
country: United States
An aging doctor's resentment of his young assistant could lead to tragedy.


Never Love a Stranger
1958 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Orphan turns bad, finds redemption with some help from boyhood pal. This movie is of interest because of the presence of a young Steve McQueen, the leading man being John Drew Barrymore, father of the more famous Drew, and for being based on a novel by Harold Robbins, famous for steamy writing in his day.