Janet Margolin
Acting
Biography
Janet Margolin (July 25, 1943 – December 17, 1993) was an American theater, television and film actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Janet Margolin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: July 25, 1943
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
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.
Murder C.O.D.
Someone is killing people in Portland, Oregon, and later blackmails the relatives, who profit most from the death, to pay him for this "service". Captain Murtaugh leads the police investigation. When his wife starts feeling stalked, he suspects his current case is related to his last one in Chicago. He never told his wife the whole truth about what happened - now he has to fear for her life.
Annie Hall
New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Murder, She Wrote
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
The Eavesdropper
When a young fanatical nationalist suspects that his fellow pensioners - immigrants and zarzuela players - plan an attack on the president, he reports them to the police. In his adventure, he leaves behind a girlfriend and a lover, and ends up sharing his life with a disoriented girl.
Starsky & Hutch
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.
David and Lisa
Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people, but David remains withdrawn from the other patients and his psychiatrist. Over time, however, David grows interested in 15-year-old Lisa, who suffers from multiple personalities – one who can only speak in rhyme, and the other, a mute.
Take the Money and Run
Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.
The Last Child
In a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very draconian set of laws, a young couple, pregnant with their second child (the first died shortly after birth) enlist the help of an elderly former US Senator to help them escape to Canada.
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
The story of a fire in the Triangle Shirt Mfg. Co. building in New York City in 1911 that resulted in the deaths of 146 employees, mostly young women. The ensuing investigation revealed the company's almost total disregard for its workers' safety in pursuit of increased production and profits, and resulted, among other things, in the passage of new worker safety laws and the formation of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
Filmography
as Maye Walsh
as The Prosecutor
as Barbara Lambert
as Chris
as Rita Garrison
as Judith Longdon
as Ellie Fabian
as Carol
as Betty Anderson Roerick
as Robin
as Miriam Small
as Dr. Judith Kaufman
as Susan Browning
as Harper-Smythe
as Krissie Kincaid
as Betty
as Marilyn
as Carol Rutledge
as Karen Miller
as Theresa Goren
as Louise
as Gia Campbell
as Wanda
as Esmerelda
as Inés
as Neesa
as Esther
as Mary of Bethany
as Judy Nichols
as Lisa Brandt
as Dinah Caldwell