Known for Acting
Pamela Reed (born April 2, 1949) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her TV roles as Roberta Deeks on NCIS: LA, Marlene Griggs-Knope on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, matriarch Gail Green on Jericho, Judge Sydney J. Solomon on the sitcom The Home Court, Denise Lerner on the sitcom Family Album, Janice Pasetti on the sitcom Grand, Mary Welsh on the miniseries Hemingway, T.J. Cavanaugh on the miniseries Tanner '88, and Sandy Farrell on The Andros Targets. Her best known film roles are as Arnold Schwarzenegger's hypoglycemic partner Phoebe O'Hara in Kindergarten Cop, Judge Lambrey in Why Do Fools Fall in Love?, Alison Langley in Bean, Angela in Junior, Carol Cruise in Bob Roberts, Tina in Cadillac Man, Gigi Hightower in The Best of Times, Trudy Cooper in The Right Stuff, and Belle Starr in The Long Riders.
Born
April 2, 1949 (age 77)
Birthplace
Tacoma, Washington, USA
Filmography
42 films, 25 shows


The Burial
2023 · 2h 6m
country: United States
When a handshake deal goes sour, funeral home owner Jeremiah O'Keefe enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary to save his family business. Tempers flare and laughter ensues as the unlikely pair bond while exposing corporate corruption and racial injustice.


Language Arts
2021 · 2h 7m
country: Unknown
The film follows Allison Forche-Marlow, a beautiful, bright, determined, and organized woman, who never gives up trying to heal her autistic son, whom she fiercely loves, no matter what it demands of everyone.


The Long Dumb Road
2018 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Two guys serendipitously meet at a time when they both find themselves at personal crossroads and decide to embark on an unplanned road trip across the American Southwest.


Outside In
2018 · 1h 49m
country: United States
An ex-con struggling to readjust to life in his small town forms an intense bond with his former high-school teacher.


Savannah Sunrise
2016 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Joy and her family fly to help her mother-in-law Loraine with the difficult move from her home in Louisville, Kentucky 600 miles away to a retirement community near the family in Savannah, Georgia. But after a mixed-up flight reservation, Joy reluctantly agrees to take the trip in Loraine's Oldsmobile. Despite their many differences with adventures at every turn and trapped in the car together, they both discover they each may be the best friend they never knew they needed. And realize the love of family is all you need to bridge life's many seasons.


The Architect
2016 · 1h 35m
country: United States
When a couple sets out to build their dream house, they enlist the services of an uncompromising modernist architect, who proceeds to build HIS dream house instead of theirs.


Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't
2005 · 1h 29m
country: United States
The Declaration Of Independence is stolen while on display in a Los Angeles bank. The NSA, with the assistance of a puzzle solver (Code Name: Jane Doe), becomes involved in the mystery.


Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
2005 · 1h 30m
country: Australia
Behind the scenes of Aaron Spelling's nighttime soap opera.


Life of the Party
2005 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A group of friends plan an intervention to help their pal address his drinking problem. Things go awry when the shrink they hired fails to show up


Realizing The Right Stuff
2003 · 21m
country: United States
The making of the motion picture "The Right Stuff", from the purchase of the filming rights to the end of principal photography.


Proof of Life
2000 · 2h 15m
country: United States
When Peter Bowman, an American engineer working in a South American country, is captured by anti-government forces, the rebels learn his identity and demand $5 million for his safe return. However, his US employer is on the verge of insolvency and will not provide the ransom. Peter's wife Alice is forced to deal with the matter on her own and she retains the services of freelance professional hostage negotiator Terry Thorne.


Standing on Fishes
1999 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Set in contemporary LA, the twisted journey of a sculptor unfolds, in his never-ending battle to maintain artistic integrity and still make a living.


Why Do Fools Fall In Love
1998 · 1h 56m
country: United States
In the mid-80s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager, Morris Levy. One is an L.A. singer, formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philly; one teaches school in a small Georgia town. Each claims to be the widow of long-dead doo-wop singer-songwriter Frankie Lyman, and each wants years of royalties due to his estate, money Levy has never shared. During an ensuing civil trial, flashbacks tell the story of each one's life with Lyman, a boyish, high-pitched, dynamic performer, lost to heroin. Slowly, the three wives establish their own bond.


Carriers
1998 · 1h 45m
country: United States
A military woman and a worried mother travel overseas and to New Mexico to investigate a deadly virus.


Bean
1997 · 1h 29m
country: United Kingdom
Childlike Englishman, Mr. Bean, is an incompetent watchman at the Royal National Gallery. After the museum's board of directors' attempt to have him fired is blocked by the chairman, who has taken a liking to Bean, they send him to Los Angeles to act as their ambassador for the unveiling of a historic painting to humiliate him. Fooled, Mr. Bean must now successfully unveil the painting or risk his and a hapless Los Angeles curator's termination.


Santa Fe
1997 · 1h 37m
country: United States
A cop finds that his wife and daughter are involved in a New Age cult when he returns home after eight months.


Critical Choices
1996 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A Milwaukee Women's Health Clinic becomes the battleground between pro-choice activists and right-to-life demonstrators over and Easter Sunday weekend and involves three different women, each representing different sides of the issue.


The Man Next Door
1996 · 1h 44m
country: United States
Residents of a small town struggle when a paroled rapist moves into the area.


Deadly Whispers
1995 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Tom Acton, a devoted family man, has worked tirelessly in order to achieve success. However, his dreams are shattered when his teenage daughter Kathy engages in an affair with a married man. When Kathy is found murdered, Tom becomes the primary suspect in the case. As he sets his sights on the real killer, long buried secrets bubble to the surface and unlock the truth behind the ghastly murder.


Junior
1994 · 1h 50m
country: United States
A research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man in order to test a drug he and a colleague have designed for expectant women. To carry out the trial, he has an embryo implant, believing that he will only carry the baby for three months – hardly expecting to face the prospect of giving birth.


Born Too Soon
1993 · 1h 35m
country: United States
American television film about the life of Emily Butterfield, a baby girl who was born prematurely and died 53 days after her birth.


Bob Roberts
1992 · 1h 42m
country: Germany
Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by singing '60s-style acoustic folk songs with lyrics espousing far-right conservative social and economic views.


Passed Away
1992 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving eccentric Scanian clan are drawn together in a test of familial endurance that soon has them at each other's throats.


Woman With a Past
1992 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A woman lives a normal life with her second husband and her two sons of the first marriage. One day she is caught by her past and the film reveales in flashbacks her stations of life until the day the police found her in her new life: First marriage, alcohol addiction, robberies, prison, escape from prison, search for work, second marriage, fight for the children,... In the end she has not only to fight for her freedom but also for the respect and love of her betrayed children and husband.


Kindergarten Cop
1990 · 1h 51m
country: United States
Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord while at the same time protecting the man's young son. Pitted against a class of boisterous moppets whose antics try his patience and test his mettle, Kimble may have met his match … in more ways than one.


Cadillac Man
1990 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two-timing), a missing teenage daughter and an ex-wife.


Caroline?
1990 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Hallmark Hall of Fame presents the story of a mysterious woman claiming to be the deceased daughter of a rich man tries to solve the problems of his untrusting son and supposedly physically and mentally handicaped daughter. But one question stands in her way: is she really Caroline?


Chattahoochee
1990 · 1h 38m
country: United States
In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.


Rachel River
1989 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A divorced radio personality in a small Minnesota town returns to her roots and investigates the life of a reclusive, recently deceased woman.


The Best of Times
1986 · 1h 44m
country: United States
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.


The Clan of the Cave Bear
1986 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Natural changes have the clans moving. Iza, medicine woman of the "Clan of the Cave Bear" finds little Ayla from the "others"' clan - tradition would have the clan kill Ayla immediately, but Iza insists on keeping her. When the little one finds a most needed new cave, she's allowed to stay - and thrive.


Scandal Sheet
1985 · 1h 41m
country: United States
The publisher of a celebrity gossip tabloid sets out to destroy an aging actor, whose career is foundering and who is also facing a battle with alcoholism.


The Goodbye People
1984 · 1h 44m
country: United States
An elderly man is determined to reopen the Coney Island boardwalk hot dog stand he closed twenty-two years earlier for renovation, despite the fact he's recovering from a severe heart attack and it's the middle of February.


Heart of Steel
1983 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A steel factory that employs most of the town shuts down, leaving a man desperate to keep his family and friends together while alcohol consumes him in this depressing drama.


The Right Stuff
1983 · 3h 13m
country: United States
At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings momentous challenges.


I Want to Live
1983 · 1h 33m
country: United States
The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her participation in a hold up in which a person was killed.


Young Doctors in Love
1982 · 1h 35m
country: United States
An 'Airplane!'-style spoof of hospital soap operas—a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight of blood; a doctor romances the head nurse in order to get the key to the drugs cabinet; and there's a mafioso on the loose disguised as a woman.


Eyewitness
1981 · 1h 43m
country: United States
NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued when she shows up to cover a story at his workplace. There's been a murder in the office building, and Tony suspects that Daryll may have insight into the crime, a notion that he furthers to stay close to her. However, when those behind the killing begin to think that he really knows something, they target the pair to keep their secrets hidden.


Inmates: A Love Story
1981 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Accountant Roy is sentenced to prison because he cooked up balances. He hopes that his companions, who profited from his cheat, will help him to a revision of his judgment. Meanwhile he has to adapt to a life in jail - which works out quite well, especially when he meets the self-conscious convicted thief Jane and falls in love. He starts to woo her. But then, while working in the prison's accounting department, he discovers that the prisoners' accounts are not properly kept. The director tries to keep him in her prison as long as possible.


Melvin and Howard
1980 · 1h 35m
country: United States
The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes. Inspired by real events.


The Long Riders
1980 · 1h 40m
country: United States
The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.


All's Well That Ends Well
1978 · 2h 40m
country: United States
Video recording of a 1978 New York Shakespeare Festival performance. Directed for stage by Wilford Leach and videotaped by Jaime Caro.