Marcia Jean Kurtz

Marcia Jean Kurtz

Birthday: 1942-02-11

Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Biography: Marcia Jean Kurtz is an American film, stage, and television actress and director. She has appeared in such films as The Panic in Needle Park, In Her Shoes, Dog Day Afternoon and Big Fan. Kurtz won an Obie Award for her performance as Doris in Donald Margulies' The Loman Family Picnic. She was also nominated for both an Obie and a Drama Desk Award for her role in Martin Sherman's When She Danced. Kurtz also directed Matty Selman's Uncle Phillip's Coat and Evan Handler's Time of Fire. She has appeared several times on the television series Law & Order.

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Dog Day Afternoon
Dog Day Afternoon

Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Son...

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Requiem for a Dream
Requiem for a Dream

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep...

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In Her Shoes
In Her Shoes

Irresponsible party girl Maggie is kicked out of her father's and stepmother's home—where she lives ...

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One True Thing
One True Thing

A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mot...

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The Panic in Needle Park
The Panic in Needle Park

A stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York Ci...

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Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

An Argentinian newspaper publisher is imprisoned by his government for dissent....

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Big Fan
Big Fan

Paul Aufiero, a 35-year-old parking-garage attendant from Staten Island, is the self-described "worl...

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Ex-Husbands
Ex-Husbands

Manhattan dentist Peter Pearce is facing a midlife crisis after his wife of 35 years leaves him. On ...

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Black Swan
Black Swan

The story of a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life is completely consumed with da...

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Believe in Me
Believe in Me

Remy is a medical student who has a flair for making his patients comfortable. His genuine concern f...

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Tower Heist
Tower Heist

A luxury condo manager leads a staff of workers to seek payback on the Wall Street swindler who defr...

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Armageddon Time
Armageddon Time

In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to t...

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Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside
Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside

Two New York City cops investigate a drug-smuggling ring that they believe is run by New York-based ...

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Downtown Express
Downtown Express

Sasha is a young Russian violinist on a scholarship to Juilliard, living with his affectionate but o...

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Death Wish
Death Wish

After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man v...

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The Day the Ponies Come Back
The Day the Ponies Come Back

While on a business trip to New York City, Frenchman Daniel Moulin hopes to track down his long-lost...

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Born to Win
Born to Win

A smart-mouthed junkie and a former hairdresser spends his days looking for just "one more fix"....

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Inside Man
Inside Man

When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective a...

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The Good Nurse
The Good Nurse

Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risk...

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Ass Backwards
Ass Backwards

Two best friends embark on a cross country trip back to their hometown to attempt to win a pageant t...

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Date Rape
Date Rape

Teenage girl is raped after accepting a date from the most popular boy in school....

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The Wrestler
The Wrestler

Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on t...

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Cold Feet
Cold Feet

When each is unlucky at love, a TV writer-director and a research scientist begin seeing each other....

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mother!
mother!

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranq...

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Miracle at St. Anna
Miracle at St. Anna

Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black ...

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From Other Worlds
From Other Worlds

FROM OTHER WORLDS is a sci-fi comedy about a depressed Brooklyn housewife who sleepwalks through her...

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Cry Uncle!
Cry Uncle!

Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail....

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Center Stage
Center Stage

A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York t...

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The Stoolie
The Stoolie

Roger Pitman is a petty thief who makes a deal with the police to use bait money to trap other crimi...

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Find Me Guilty
Find Me Guilty

Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be...

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The Marconi Bros
The Marconi Bros

For the past 5 years, 3 months, and 26 days, (not that theyre counting) Anthony and Carmine Marconi ...

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Once Upon a Time in America
Once Upon a Time in America

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong,...

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Running on Empty
Running on Empty

The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixti...

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The Giraffe
The Giraffe

Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena'...

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Arranged
Arranged

ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as f...

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Night Falls on Manhattan
Night Falls on Manhattan

A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation t...

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If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk

After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name...

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Recount
Recount

In 2000, the election of the U.S. Presidential boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of F...

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Pleasantville
Pleasantville

A 1976 English language drama film written and directed by Kenneth Locker and Vicki Polon, starring ...

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