Gena Rowlands
Acting
Biography
Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands (June 19, 1930 – August 14, 2024) was an American actress. A four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner, she is known for her collaborations with her late actor-director husband John Cassavetes in ten films, including A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Gloria (1980), which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Opening Night (1977).
Born: June 19, 1930
Place of Birth: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Known For
Face of a Stranger
After the death of her husband, Pat learns that he gambled away all of their savings and that she's now destitute. She may even have to leave their apartment. Much to the embarrassment of her daughter Tina, who wants to marry a rich snob, she helps the homeless Dollie, who lives in a cardboard box near her building, and they become friends
Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
A woman, who had left home 20 years previously under acrimonious circumstances, finds out that she is terminally ill. She returns home and tries to rebuild her relationship with her embittered mother before she dies.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work
Filmmaker Michael Ventura follows Cassavetes around as the actor/director labors on his final film, Love Streams.
E! True Hollywood Story
E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and also well-known public figures. Among the topics covered on the program include salacious re-tellings of Hollywood secrets, show-biz scandals, celebrity murders and mysteries, porn-star biographies, and "where-are-they-now?" investigations of former child stars. It frequently features in-depth interviews, actual courtroom footage, and dramatic reenactments. When aired on the E! network, episodes will be updated to reflect the current life or status of the subject.
Faerie Tale Theatre
A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
Columbo
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
The Islanders
The Islanders is an American adventure television series which aired on ABC from 1960 to 1961, starring William Reynolds, James Philbrook, and Diane Brewster. At the beginning of the series, Sandy Wade and Zack Malloy, co-owners of a Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft, start their one-plane airline in the Moluccas or Spice Islands of the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Throughout the series they experience a variety of adventures where seemingly harmless charter flights put them into danger. They are frequently aided in their endeavours by the unusually-named Wilhelmina ”Steamboat Willy” Vanderveer and Shipwreck Callighan. The Islanders, primarily sponsored by Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield cigarettes, aired at 9:30 Eastern time on Sunday evenings opposite The Jack Benny Program and Candid Camera on CBS and the second half of The Dinah Shore Show and the last season of The Loretta Young Show on NBC. William Reynolds stated in an interview, "The series went from being sort of like a Terry and the Pirates or a Maverick type of concept to becoming just a bunch of people skulking around. It wasn't very good." After The Islanders, Philbrook co-starred in the 1962-1963 season as a magazine publisher and the love interest of Loretta Young in her short-lived The New Loretta Young Show, which aired Mondays on CBS. Reynolds went on to star in two other ABC series,The Gallant Men, a World War II series, and The FBI with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr..
Monk
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
Filmography
as Dr. Cohen
as Lily Harrison
as Self (archive footage)
as Esther
as Mimi
as Tess M Powell
as Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)
as Vivien Wilder-Mann
as Self
as Melissa Eisenbloom
as Gena (Quartier Latin)
as Self
as Violet Devereaux
as Erika Hellman
as Older Allie
as Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie
as Mrs. Rebecca Asher
as Self
as Joann Fielding
as Charlie Kate
as Marge Johnson
as Virginia Miller
as Minnie Brinn
as Self
as Self
as Georgia Porter
as Laura Ponti
as Hannah
as Grace Stiles
as Gram
as Ramona Calvert
as Narrator (voice)
as Ivy
as Mrs. Harriet Cahill
as Miss Green
as Self
as Mildred
as Self
as Mae Morgan
as Georgia King
as Francie Pomerantz
as Self
as Peggy Sutherland
as Honora Swift
as Pat Foster
as Victoria Snelling
as Mrs. Turner
as Marilyn Bella
as Self (archive footage)
as Bess Guthrie
as Marion
as Betty Ford
as Janette Rasnick
as Katherine Pierson
as Sarah Lawson
as The Witch
as Victoria Alden
as Witch
as Antonia
as Gloria Swenson
as Abigail Mason
as Mary Pino
as Linda Ray Guettner
as Myrtle Gordon
as Janet
as Self
as Mabel Longhetti
as Kate Lucas
as Minnie Moore
as Elizabeth Van Wick
as Party Guest
as Karen Coberly
as Frances Delaney
as Lorraine Denby
as Rosemary Scott
as Jeannie Rapp
as Rita Kosterman
as Duchess
as Baroness Ingrid Blangstead
as Charlotte Hyde
as Adrienne Van Leyden
as Janet Cord
as Lois Baxter
as Paullette Shane
as Mitzi Carlisle
as Sophie Widdicombe Benham
as Helen Martin
as Louise Henderson
as Diana Justin
as Savannah
as Leslie Kaufman
as Els
as Jerry Bondi
as Self
as Marian Praisewater
as Helen Scott
as Teddy Carella
as Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)
as Pepper Mint
as Dr. Abigail Brent
as Laurel DeWalt
as Rose Traynor
as Ragan Miller
as Nina Van Ness
as Barbara Adams
as Ginny Fry
as Lucille Jones
as Dorothy Dickenson
as Victoria Alden
as Grace
as Myrtle Wilson
as Betty
as Self
as Self - Nominee
as Self
as Self - Presenter