Priscilla Pointer

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
May 18, 1924 (101 years old)
Death date
Apr 28, 2025

Priscilla Pointer

Known For

The Magic Bubble
1h 31m
Movie 1992

The Magic Bubble

A middle-aged woman frees herself from the spirit-crushing influence of her husband by refusing to remember what her age is.

Runaway Father
1h 30m
Movie 1991

Runaway Father

A woman's husband leaves her and their three daughters. Years later she sets out to find him and get him to pay back child support.

Disturbed
1h 36m
Movie 1990

Disturbed

10 years ago the perverse Dr. Russell couldn't resist the beauty of a young patient in his mental clinic and raped her one night. When she plunged herself from the roof shortly after, he described it as consequence of her heavy depressions. Now the same urge overcomes him with his new patient Sandy. He doesn't know that she's the daughter of his previous victim and that she's come for revenge.

A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story
1h 36m
Movie 1989

A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story

Tracy Thurman was married to a man who abused her. But he continues to harass her after she gets a restraining order, and the police do little to help. When he brutally beats her and slashes her throat in front of police, she sues the city and the police department for failing to protect her.

C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
1h 25m
Movie 1989

C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud

A military experiment to create a race of super-warriors goes awry, as legions of murderous zombies are unleashed upon a suburban neighborhood.

Rumpelstiltskin
1h 24m
Movie 1987

Rumpelstiltskin

A musical version of the classic story about a miller's daughter who recieves help from a mischievous dwarf, then ends up over her head. Now, she and a mute servant girl may be the only hope for her baby son, John.

Generation
1h 36m
Movie 1985

Generation

Futuristic prospective series pilot, a distant cousin the 1975 theatrical violent sport movie "Rollerball," revolves around a turn-of-the-millennium family on the Great Eve (the night before the year 2000 begins) planning for a reunion. Son Richard Beymer is an inventor working with prosthetic devices to help young athlete brother Drake Hogestyn perfect his game of combat hockey to maintain his skills as a national hero, and Cristina Raines is a socially conscious doctor who wants nothing to do with their prideful father, Bert Remsen, to the distress of their loving mother, Priscilla Pointer.

The Falcon and the Snowman
2h 12m
Movie 1985

The Falcon and the Snowman

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

Biography

Priscilla Marie Pointer (May 18, 1924 – April 28, 2025) was an American actress. She began her career in the theater in the late 1940s, including productions on Broadway. Later, Pointer moved to Hollywood and made appearances on television beginning in the early 1950s. Pointer was the mother of actress and singer Amy Irving, making her the former mother-in-law of filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Bruno Barreto. Description above from the Wikipedia article Priscilla Pointer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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