Alice Drummond

Alice Drummond

Birthday: 1928-05-21

Place of Birth: Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA

Biography: Alice Elizabeth Drummond (née Ruyter; May 21, 1928 – November 30, 2016) was an American actress. A veteran Off-Broadway performer, she was nominated in 1970 for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance as Mrs. Lee in The Chinese by Murray Schisgal. She may be best known as Alice, the librarian, in the opening scenes of the 1984 horror-comedy Ghostbusters.

Movies

Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters

After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into...

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Pieces of April
Pieces of April

Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment mil...

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In & Out
In & Out

A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the...

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Awakenings
Awakenings

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic vic...

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Motherhood
Motherhood

In Manhattan, a mother of two preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party has no idea of the c...

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Nobody's Fool
Nobody's Fool

A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for hi...

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The Love Letter
The Love Letter

In the sleepy New England town of Loblolly By The Sea, a letter has arrived that is going to wake th...

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Just the Ticket
Just the Ticket

Gary Starke is one of the best ticket scalpers in New York City. His girlfriend, Linda, doesn't appr...

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Mitch Albom's For One More Day
Mitch Albom's For One More Day

While back in his hometown, a suicidal former baseball player encounters the spirit of his deceased ...

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Funny Farm
Funny Farm

Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to writ...

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Walking and Talking
Walking and Talking

Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagemen...

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Chronic Town
Chronic Town

Truman Korovin is a lonely, sharp-witted cab driver in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1980. The usual routine of...

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The Rising Place
The Rising Place

The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpos...

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Money, Power, Murder.
Money, Power, Murder.

Peter Finley is a cable-TV newsman who is led into a network of sin and conspiracy when he has inter...

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Man on a Swing
Man on a Swing

When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief...

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Furry Vengeance
Furry Vengeance

When real estate developer Dan Sanders finalizes plans to level a swath of pristine Oregon forest to...

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Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters

The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the ...

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After.Life
After.Life

Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for buri...

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You Can't Take it With You
You Can't Take it With You

A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccen...

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Doubt
Doubt

In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a trou...

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Synecdoche, New York
Synecdoche, New York

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a li...

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The Honeymooners
The Honeymooners

Working class New York bus driver Ralph Kramden is always coming up with get-rich-quick schemes for ...

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Advice From a Caterpillar
Advice From a Caterpillar

When it comes to romance, Missy's attitude has always been whatever. After all, her artistic career ...

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I'll Take You There
I'll Take You There

Still nursing wounds from a breakup, a woman is forced by her sister into a blind date that turns in...

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Earthly Possessions
Earthly Possessions

A bored homemaker planning to run away from her minister husband is taken hostage in a bank robbery....

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Office Killer
Office Killer

When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home pos...

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'Til There Was You
'Til There Was You

Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty...

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Commandments
Commandments

Seth Warner has reached the end of his rope. Ever since his wife died two years earlier, his world h...

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Jeffrey
Jeffrey

Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes ...

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Money for Nothing
Money for Nothing

When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides...

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Daybreak
Daybreak

When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical ...

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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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Eyewitness
Eyewitness

NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued whe...

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Hide in Plain Sight
Hide in Plain Sight

True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Progra...

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King of the Gypsies
King of the Gypsies

Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandso...

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Joe Gould's Secret
Joe Gould's Secret

Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who...

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House of D
House of D

In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up ...

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Where’s Poppa?
Where’s Poppa?

When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to e...

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Nikki and Alexander
Nikki and Alexander

Alexander is a run of the mill New Yorker who meets Nikki, a Russian homeless girl. He agrees to let...

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Secret Service
Secret Service

Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control o...

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The Suicide Club
The Suicide Club

A woman traumatized by her brother's suicide is inducted into a world of games involving murder....

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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing masco...

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Particular Men
Particular Men

A fictitious but powerful look at the dawn of the nuclear age, this stage performance follows severa...

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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him....

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Sanctuary of Fear
Sanctuary of Fear

A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is bec...

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Animal Behavior
Animal Behavior

Biologist Alex Brisco develops a new method to communicate with chimpanzees. Instead of using machin...

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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securi...

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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

When a Conservative TV crusader threatens to shut down beloved brothel, the Chicken Ranch, proprietr...

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The Dog Lover
The Dog Lover

Jack is the fastidious manager of a local supermarket. The harmless but disruptive actions of his cu...

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Thieves
Thieves

Martin and Sally Cramer grew up on the hardscrabble Lower East Side, where Sally still teaches; mean...

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I.Q.
I.Q.

Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pret...

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The House on Carroll Street
The House on Carroll Street

A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, tak...

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