Known for Costume & Make-Up
Born
January 23, 1912
Died
June 10, 2007 (age 95)
Birthplace
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Filmography
88 films, 3 shows


Fallen Angel
1981 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Twelve year old Jennifer is unhappy with her widowed mom's relationship with a family friend. Feeling lonely, she readily accepts the friendship of an adult man named Howie and joins the softball team he coaches. Soon, Howie is convincing Jennifer to pose for photographs which become more and more revealing. Howie turns out to be a pedophile who works in child pornography and he plans to make Jennifer a "star". Will Jennifer's mother be able to help her daughter before it's too late?


Goldie and the Boxer
1979 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Lighthearted tale of a 10-year-old girl who, when her boxer father dies, strikes up a relationship with a struggling fighter who was his sparring partner and takes on the job of managing him from obscurity to the championship.


The Legend of the Golden Gun
1979 · 1h 37m
country: United States
In Kansas during the middle of the Civil War, John Golden is left for dead and his family has been killed by the ruthless Confederate outlaw William Quantrill. Rescued by runaway slave Joshua Brown, Golden is determined to get revenge. With the help of a legendary gunfighter and a special gun, Golden must not only deal with Quantrill and his men, but has to dodge General Custer and his army, as well.


To Kill a Cop
1978 · 3h 6m
country: United States
Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying to break up a group of black militants that are on a crime spree including the killing of a police officer. He is also trying to battle with a mayor and police commissioner that want him out of his job.


A Killing Affair
1977 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A white female detective is partnered with a black male detective to find the person who is committing a series of particularly vicious murders. During the course of the investigation the two begin to develop an attraction to each other, but the situation is complicated by the fact that he is married.


In the Glitter Palace
1977 · 1h 37m
country: United States
The ex-girlfriend of a lawyer, who left him for a lesbian lover, asks him to defend her lover in a murder case.


The Captive: The Longest Drive 2
1976 · 1h 20m
country: United States
During a Cavalry massacre at an Indian village, two brothers, searching for their captured sister, rescue a white woman long ago kidnapped by the Cheyenne. They ride for their lives, haunted by the chant of the tribal Death Song.


Kiss Me... Kill Me
1976 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A female investigator in the district attorney's office sets out to track down the person who murdered a young schoolteacher.


The Quest: The Longest Drive
1976 · 1h 29m
country: United States
To save an old friend's ranch, the Beaudine brothers round up a gang of misfits to drive a huge herd to market.


A Matter of Wife... and Death
1975 · 1h 13m
country: United States
A private investigator is confronted by the police AND the mob about the killing of a former private-eye associate.


Cage Without a Key
1975 · 2h
country: United States
A high school girl who needs a ride accepts one from a boy she doesn't know. He then forces her to participate in a robbery, in which a clerk is killed. They are soon caught, and the girl, despite her protestations of innocence, is convicted of first-degree murder and sent to prison. Once she gets there, she finds out that her troubles are just beginning.


The Last Angry Man
1974 · 1h 14m
country: United States
In the midst of the Depression, a crotchety doctor, whose practice is in the Brooklyn slums, takes an interest in a local teenager, whose hostility and erratic behavior the doctor believes is due to more than just his environment.


The Cat Creature
1973 · 1h 12m
country: United States
When a rich man dies, some items from a collection of his are stolen- an ancient Egyptian gold amulet and the mummy that was wearing it. The police consult scholars from the local University to help with the investigation, which is taking a more serious turn as people connected with the case are killed by wounds that seem to be from a housecat.


Call Her Mom
1972 · 1h 13m
country: United States
A sexy waitress becomes a house mother in a fraternity house and involves the college in a nationwide women's lib controversy.


Gidget Gets Married
1972 · 1h 13m
country: United States
Gidget finally gets married and rebels against the social caste system in her new husband's company.


Happy Birthday, Wanda June
1971 · 1h 45m
country: United States
A hunter back from years in the Amazon finds his wife and life changed.


Black Noon
1971 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Reverend John Keyes and his wife, Lorna, on their way to a new congregation out west, break down in the desert and are rescued by the residents of a nearby town. At first warm and welcoming, the townspeople become more and more solicitous of John and insistent that he stay on as their minister, against the wishes of Lorna, who goes unheeded and slowly becomes deathly ill. Will John realize the danger before it is too late?


The Sheriff
1971 · 1h 13m
country: United States
A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman raped a black college student.


The Feminist and the Fuzz
1971 · 1h 14m
country: United States
A dedicated women's libber and a male chauvinist cop become roommates.


Watermelon Man
1970 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but his bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight.


Getting Straight
1970 · 2h 4m
country: United States
Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's, he's trying to fly right. Trouble is, the campus is exploding with various student movements, and Harry's girlfriend, Jan, is caught up in most of them. As Harry gets closer to finishing his degree, he finds his iconoclastic attitude increasingly aligned with the students rather than the faculty.


The Liberation of L.B. Jones
1970 · 1h 42m
country: United States
A successful African American businessman has a quarrel with a white policeman, suspecting that he is having an affair with his wife. The policeman's colleagues are seeking to avoid publicity.


In Name Only
1969 · 1h 13m
country: United States
In this romantic comedy, an unwed couple who run a wedding planning business discover, to their horror, that the Justice of the Peace who had officiated their first three weddings was only an actor. Hilarity ensues as they set about trying to get these marrieds married...again.


The Comic
1969 · 1h 35m
country: United States
An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a bitter tone about his fate, and takes us through his fame, as he ruins it with womanizing and drink, and his fall, as a lonely, bitter old man unable to reconcile his life's disappointments. The movie is based loosely on the life of Buster Keaton.


Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
1969 · 1h 45m
country: United States
After returning to Los Angeles from a group therapy session, documentary filmmaker Bob Sanders and his wife, Carol, find themselves becoming vigilante couples counselors, offering unsolicited advice to their best friends, Ted and Alice Henderson. Not wanting to be rude, the Hendersons play along, but some latent sexual tension among the four soon comes bubbling to the surface, and long-buried desires don't stay buried for long.


Hook, Line and Sinker
1969 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then learns his medical diagnosis was a mistake.


The Mad Room
1969 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Ellen Hardy gets a rude awakening when she discovers that her brother and sister are scheduled to leave their mental institution. As children, they were put there after killing their parents. Ellen, who now lives in the house of an old widow, Mrs. Armstrong, takes them in. But if their secret gets out, it could jeopardize Ellen's plans to wed Mrs. Armstrong's stepson. She struggles with anxiety -- until Mrs. Armstrong suddenly turns up dead.


Pendulum
1969 · 1h 42m
country: United States
On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality Matthews escapes in search of the man he believes to be the real killer.


The Wrecking Crew
1968 · 1h 45m
country: United States
When Count Contini attempts to destroy the world's economy by masterminding the theft of $1 billion in U.S. gold, ICE chief MacDonald summons secret agent Matt Helm to stop him.


Shadow on the Land
1968 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA.


Funny Girl
1968 · 2h 35m
country: United States
The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.


Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
1968 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Mother Superior of St. Francis Academy is challenged by a modern young nun when they take the girls on a bus trip across the country.


How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
1968 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.


The Ambushers
1967 · 1h 42m
country: United States
When an experimental flying saucer crashes, secret agent Matt Helm has to bring back the secret weapons hidden on board.


A Time for Killing
1967 · 1h 28m
country: United States
During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearing the news that the war is over. Keeping the message a secret, the captain has his men go on and they soon find themselves in a battle with the Union search party who also is unaware of the war's end.


Luv
1967 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Depressed by the direction his life is taking, Harry decides to take his own life by jumping off the Manhattan Bridge. At the last minute he's stopped by old friend Milt Manville, a successful stock broker. Milt, however, is facing his own problem: he has fallen out of love with his argumentative wife, Ellen. In a misguided effort to solve both of their problems, he introduces Ellen to Harry, hoping the two will fall in love.


The Big Mouth
1967 · 1h 47m
country: United States
A fisherman crosses paths with a diamond-smuggling gangster–who is his doppelgänger—and inadvertently takes his place at a resort hotel where he meets a special girl.


Divorce American Style
1967 · 1h 49m
country: United States
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.


Enter Laughing
1967 · 1h 52m
country: United States
A machinist's apprentice in Depression-era New York, David dreams of becoming the new Ronald Colman. Defying the wishes of his parents, David lands a nonpaying job in a seedy theatrical production directed by broken-down ham Marlowe.


Murderers' Row
1966 · 1h 45m
country: United States
The handsome top agent Matt dies a tragic death in his bath tub - the women mourn about the loss. However it's just faked for his latest top-secret mission: He shall find Dr. Solaris, inventor of the Helium laser beam, powerful enough to destroy a whole continent. It seems Dr. Solaris has been kidnapped by a criminal organization. The trace leads to the Cote D'Azur.


Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966 · 1h 44m
country: United States
A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is due to arrive.


Walk Don't Run
1966 · 1h 54m
country: United States
During the housing shortage of the 1964 Summer Olympic Games, two men and a woman share a small apartment in Tokyo, and the older man soon starts playing Cupid to the younger pair.


Three on a Couch
1966 · 1h 49m
country: United States
An artist has an opportunity to go to Paris and wants to bring his fiancee along. However, she's a psychiatrist who currently has three female patients who don't like men. So, he guises himself as three different men to gauge their trust and hopefully cure them so that his fiancee can go with him.


The Silencers
1966 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Matt Helm is called out of retirement to stop the evil Big O organization who plan to explode an atomic bomb over Alamagordo, NM, and start WW III.


King Rat
1965 · 2h 14m
country: United States
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.


Ship of Fools
1965 · 2h 29m
country: United States
A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early-1930s society.


Cat Ballou
1965 · 1h 37m
country: United States
A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.


The Collector
1965 · 1h 59m
country: United Kingdom
A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.


Good Neighbor Sam
1964 · 2h 10m
country: United States
To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral appearance.


Archie
1964 · 43m
country: United States
Archie is the 1964 unsold pilot based on the Archie comic book series. The whole gang is included, Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead, Reggie, Mr. Weatherbee, Ms. Grundy… William Schallert (most notably the dad in The Patty Duke Show) plays Archie’s dad and Jean Vander Pyl (Wilma’s voice in The Flintstones) plays the mom.


13 Frightened Girls
1963 · 1h 29m
country: United States
While attending a Swiss school for diplomats' daughters, the teenage daughter of the American ambassador uses her access to various embassies to engage in espionage.


The Notorious Landlady
1962 · 2h 3m
country: United States
An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.


Experiment in Terror
1962 · 2h 3m
country: United States
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.


Walk on the Wild Side
1962 · 1h 54m
country: United States
At a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both clients and the shrewd madam. The arrival of Dove Linkhorn, her lovesick sweetheart from three years ago, disrupts the normal and triggers a chain of events involving a number of people, including the young woman he travelled with, who is now the Doll House's newest employee.


Valley of the Dragons
1961 · 1h 22m
country: United States
In 1881 Algeria, an American soldier and a French aristocrat are about to have a duel over a woman when a comet hurtling past the Earth draws them into its gravitational pull. The men find themselves transported to the moon, where they discover a prehistoric civilization inhabited by reptiles and humans.


Mr. Sardonicus
1961 · 1h 30m
country: United States
In 1880, Sir Robert Cargrave, a London physician known for his experimental work in paralysis treatment, is summoned to Gorslava by the mysterious Baron Sardonicus—who is now married to Cargrave's former wife, Maude—to treat his disfigurement. When Cargrave arrives, he finds the masked baron is a cruel sadist who has threatened to harm Maude if he is not successfully cured.


Homicidal
1961 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A woman named Emily checks into a hotel and offers the bellboy $2000 to temporarily marry her. We soon find out Emily is the caretaker of a wheelchair-bound mute named Helga, who was the childhood guardian of a pair of siblings: Miriam Webster and her half-brother, Warren, who is about to inherit the estate of their late father. Who is the mysterious Emily and what are her intentions?


Two Rode Together
1961 · 1h 49m
country: United States
Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.


Underworld U.S.A.
1961 · 1h 39m
country: United States
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.


The Wackiest Ship in the Army
1960 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives – if only they can get there in one piece.


Pepe
1960 · 3h
country: United States
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.


Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.


13 Ghosts
1960 · 1h 25m
country: United States
The reclusive Dr. Zorba has died and left his sprawling mansion to his nephew Cyrus and his family. They will need to search the house to find the doctor's fortune, but along with the property itself, they have also inherited the occultist's collection of thirteen ghosts.


Who Was That Lady?
1960 · 1h 55m
country: United States
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.


The Gene Krupa Story
1959 · 1h 41m
country: United States
The story of legendary jazz drummer, Gene Krupa. Since his youth, all Gene ever wanted to do is play the drums and make music. This is something his parents would not approve of- they want him to be a priest. When Gene's father dies he promises to enter the priesthood. He soon realizes that he doesn't belong there and leaves to join his friend, Eddie's band. Ethel, Eddie's girlfriend, convinces Gene to go to New York and make it big. The 3 of them head to New York. Here Ethel and Gene soon fall in love and Gene makes a name for himself. Gene starts to live in the fast lane, with drugs, alcohol, women and parties. Ethel, unhappy with Gene's lifestyle, leaves him. Gene soon "hits rock bottom" where he has to face reality and choose where to take his life.