Known for Acting
Marcia Rodd (July 8, 1938 – December 27, 2025) was an American actress, singer, and director. After studying theatre at Northwestern University, she moved to New York City and began a successful career as a stage actress. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1973 for her performance in the musical Shelter. In 1964, she starred as Dorothy Gale in a televised production of The Wizard of Oz. In 1969, she originated the role of Bobbi in Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers. Rodd made her film debut in Alan Arkin's 1971 film Little Murders, and received acclaim for her role as Portland Angel in Jonathan Demme's Handle with Care (1977).
Born
July 8, 1940
Died
December 27, 2025 (age 85)
Birthplace
Lyons, Kansas, USA
Filmography
16 films, 33 shows


Dante's Hotel
2023 · 1h 38m
country: United States
When an unknown assailant preys on a haunted hotel's patrons, an event planner teams up with a mysterious tenant who's dark past is the key to freeing the cursed hotel.


American Christmas
2019
country: United States
It took another ruined Christmas dinner to make Martha finally realize: her kids are jerks. But this Christmas, Martha has had enough. With the help of her grandson, Sully, Martha is determined to make each of her family members face their ghosts of Christmas past. Find out whether Martha's plans will bring her family together or truly tear them all apart. Either way it is sure to be A Very Odd Christmas.


Road to the Well
2016 · 1h 48m
country: Unknown
Drifter, Jack, pays a visit to an old friend Frank whose mundane life is upended after the two become involved in a strange and seemingly random murder and journey up to the Northern California Sierra in order to bury the body.


Wanted
1998 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Caught in the middle of a sting operation orchestrated by the FBI, Jimmy Scrico goes on the run for his life when he is tricked into believing that he has killed a Mafia boss.


The Scottish Tale
1998 · 1h 21m
country: Unknown
A Scottish rendition of Macbeth. Mack is a humble poet who goes to Scotland to visit his three eccentric aunts. He expects them to simply greet him, but they tell him that he must marry Beth, the daughter of a rich lawyer. However, despite what Mack wants, Mack's brother Ian is marrying Beth, and so he must attend his brother's wedding. In order to persuade Mack to marry, the aunts prophecize certain strange events that would supposedly delay the wedding so that they could be married. Mack tries to stop them in order to show support for his brother, but it turns out that he never had to bother. For there are other secrets involved in the two families that delay the wedding anyway, and give enough time for the truth to be revealed about the love in the forthcoming wedding.


The Scout
1994 · 1h 41m
country: United States
When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout Al Percolo gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potential gold mine in the arm of young phenom Steve Nebraska. Soon, the New York Yankees put a $55 million contract on the table—provided a psychiatrist can affirm Nebraska's mental stability.


Between the Darkness and the Dawn
1985 · 2h
country: United States
A 17-year-old girl lapses into a coma and wakes up 20 years later.


Keeping On
1983 · 1h 15m
country: United States
A preacher teams up with a labor union organizer to help unionize the mill where he worked.


A Movie Star's Daughter
1979 · 46m
country: United States
A shy teen enrolls in a new school and doesn't make friends easily. Then, overnight, everyone wants to be her friend, once it is discovered that her father is a famous movie star.


Last Embrace
1979 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum, after which he eventually returns to work. But, once again, he begins to doubt his sanity when he receives a bizarre death threat written in Hebrew. Not knowing which of his colleagues wants to kill him, Hannan teams up with pretty young college student Ellie Fabian to attempt to unravel the mystery.


Citizens Band
1977 · 1h 38m
country: United States
The interlaced stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio.


How to Break Up a Happy Divorce
1976 · 1h 14m
country: United States
A divorced woman comes up with a scheme to make her ex-husband jealous, so she can get him back.


T.R. Baskin
1971 · 1h 30m
country: United States
An enthusiastic young woman runs away to Chicago to start a new life. She is soon confronted with the emotional coldness of the big city and has to search for her place in the scheme of things.


Little Murders
1971 · 1h 48m
country: United States
A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.
Pioneer Spirit
Pioneer Spirit
1969 · 31m
country: United States
Three urban couples decide to chuck the hustle and bustle of the big city for the pastoral calm of country living.


The Wizard of Oz
1964 · 26m
country: Unknown
An abridged version of the story of Dorothy’s adventures in the magical world of Oz.