Dossy Peabody
Acting
Biography
Dossy Peabody is known for Mermaids (1990), Edge of Darkness (2010) and The Company Men (2010).
Known For
Living With Lincoln
Filmmaker Peter Kunhardt examines how a one-of-a-kind collection of Abraham Lincoln photos and memorabilia have profoundly shaped the lives and sensibilities of five generations of his family.
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
Louisa May Alcott, author of "Little Women," leads a literary double life, writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, an identity that remains until the 1940s.
Meet the Mobsters
Down-and-out lounge singer Johnny Slade is hired by a mystery man to open a hot new club, the catch being he's given a new--and terrible--song to sing each night. Noticing that whenever he sings one a new crime is committed, Johnny gradually realizes his songwriter-benefactor is a powerful mob boss in hiding and his "Greatest Hits" are the only way the man can give orders to his crew...
Mermaids
Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate, hope that they can finally settle down. But when Charlotte's attraction to an older man gets in the way, the family must learn to accept each other for who they truly are.
The Crucible
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
Edge of Darkness
As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to uncover the disturbing secrets surrounding her murder, including corporate corruption, government collusion and Emma's own mysterious life.
The Proposition
Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is sterile, so they hire Harvard law student Roger Martin to impregnate Eleanor, but unfortunately Roger falls in love with her.
The Makeover
This is an update of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" that changes the genders of the main characters. Hannah Higgins attempts to turn blue-collar Boston beer vendor Elliot Doolittle into a viable candidate and inadvertently learns something of Elliot's side of life.
In Dreams
A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.
Dirt Boy
Life wasn't easy for young Henry. The tragic loss of his mother the day he was born plagued his relationship with his father. Then he began hearing voices whispering in the dark like a long needed friend saying, "Do it for Daddy, show him you care!" What Henry does for daddy sets in motion the most horrific, brutal, psychological monster that Cape Cod has ever seen!
Filmography
as Dorothy Kunhardt (voice)
as Moderator
as Annie - Bennett's Asst.
as Abigail Alcott
as Special Agent O'Donell
as Detective Burke
as Vivian's Mother
as Hannibal's Secretary
as Goody Sibber
as Coach Parker