Priscilla Pointer

Actor May 18 (died age 100) New York City, New York, USA 1952–2011 (59 year career)

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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-…

Known For

Film

Blue Velvet

Mrs. Beaumont

Film

Carrie

Mrs. Snell

Film

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Dr. Elizabeth Simms

Film

Twilight Zone: The Movie

Miss Cox

Film

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

Self

Film

Inferno

Mrs. Henry Howard

Film

Mommie Dearest

Mrs. Chadwick

Film

The Falcon and the Snowman

Mrs. Lee

Filmography

Acting (79)

Movies (45)

Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage

2011

as Mrs. Beaumont

6.9

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

2010

as Self

7.8

Sweet Nothing in My Ear

as Sally (voice)

Acting 'Carrie'

as Self

Inferno

as Mrs. Henry Howard

Alone

as Susan Hight

Carried Away

as Lily Henson

Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition

1994

as Barbara

5.0

The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics

1994

as Woman in cinema (segment "The Theatre")

The Magic Bubble

as Grandma

Runaway Father

as Mary Bennett

The Flash

as Nora Allen

Disturbed

as Sr. Francine

A Show of Force

as Alice Ryan

The Flash

as Nora Allen

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

1989

as Dr. Berlin

4.3

A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story

1989

as Tracey's Mother

8.3

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

1987

as Dr. Elizabeth Simms

Rumpelstiltskin

as Queen Grizelda

From the Hip

as Mrs. Martha Williams

5.8

Blue Velvet

1986

as Mrs. Beaumont

7.6

The Falcon and the Snowman

as Mrs. Lee

Generation

as Ellen Breed

Micki & Maude

as Diana Hutchison

Twilight Zone: The Movie

as Miss Cox

Good-bye Cruel World

as Myra

Mysterious Two

as She

The Gift of Life

as Rosalee Boyer

Mommie Dearest

1981

as Mrs. Chadwick

6.3

The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire

as Hawk Lady

The Competition

as Mrs. Donellan

Honeysuckle Rose

as Rosella

The Onion Field

as Chrissie Campbell

A Killing Affair

as Judge Cudahy

Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night

1977

as Laura Atherton

7.0

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

1977

as Mrs. Dunn

6.4

The 3,000 Mile Chase

1977

as Emma Dvorak

Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

as Missy LeHand

Carrie

as Mrs. Snell

Nickelodeon

as Mabel

The Great Texas Dynamite Chase

1976

as Miss Harris

4.8

Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur

1976

as Jean MacArthur

4.0

The Keegans

1976

as Helen Hunter McVey

Death Takes a Holiday

1971

as Marion Chapman

4.5

The Failing of Raymond

1971

as History Teacher

6.0

Television (34)

Cold Case

2003

as Lillian Vine (2006)

Judging Amy

as Margaret Palmer

as Mrs. Abernathy

Touched by an Angel

as Elizabeth Carpenter

The Flash

as Nora Allen

L.A. Law

as Dorothy Pehlman

Amazing Stories

as woman on train (cameo)

Call to Glory

as Lillie

The A-Team

as Tracy Richter's Mother

St. Elsewhere

as Marie Halloran

Newhart

Stone

Knots Landing

as Beatrice Handleman

Mrs. Columbo

as Mrs. Prior

Dallas

as Rebecca Barnes Wentworth

6.8

Lou Grant

1977

as Elizabeth Driscoll

7.3

What Really Happened to the Class of '65?

Quincy, M.E.

as Mrs. Neilson

City of Angels

as Mrs. Macklin

Joe Forrester

Kate McShane

as Mrs. Inerson

Police Woman

The Rockford Files

as Helen Morris

Harry O

Kojak

as Regina

Barnaby Jones

as Nancy Moore

ABC Afterschool Special

as Ruth Meredith

Cannon

as Dr. Janet Cochran

McCloud

Where the Heart Is

Adam-12

as Jacqueline Carey

The Name of the Game

as Miss Dalton

The High Chaparral

as Mrs.Colton

China Smith

as Iris Clark