Maureen Stapleton

Maureen Stapleton

Birthday: 1925-06-21

Place of Birth: Troy, New York, United States

Biography: Lois Maureen Stapleton (June 21, 1925 – March 13, 2006) was an American actress. She was the recipient of an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, two Tony Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, and is one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting.

Movies

For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a despera...

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Addicted to Love
Addicted to Love

Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life leaves him for a suave Frenchman...

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Cocoon
Cocoon

When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves en...

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Airport
Airport

An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots...

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The Money Pit
The Money Pit

After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their d...

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Cocoon: The Return
Cocoon: The Return

The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all d...

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Bye Bye Birdie
Bye Bye Birdie

A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted....

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Main Street to Broadway
Main Street to Broadway

In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to ac...

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Heartburn
Heartburn

She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper column...

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Nuts
Nuts

A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared...

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Trading Mom
Trading Mom

The Martin kids learn of a magic spell that will take them to the 'mommy market' so they can get a m...

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Made in Heaven
Made in Heaven

Deceased drifter Mike arrives in Heaven and quickly falls for newborn soul Annie, soon to start her ...

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Plaza Suite
Plaza Suite

Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York'...

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Interiors
Interiors

When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally gl...

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Johnny Dangerously
Johnny Dangerously

An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's sky...

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Private Sessions
Private Sessions

A therapist goes outside his office and into his patients' personal lives to help them. He is treati...

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The Fugitive Kind
The Fugitive Kind

Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by L...

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Reds
Reds

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...

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On the Right Track
On the Right Track

Lester is a homeless shoeshine boy living in a railway station. He's got this funny knack for pickin...

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The Fan
The Fan

A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen. However, when faced with ...

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The Electric Grandmother
The Electric Grandmother

To a family whose children are traumatized by the death of their mother, help comes in a most bizarr...

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Lonelyhearts
Lonelyhearts

Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he ...

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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about Ame...

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Dig: A Journey Into Earth
Dig: A Journey Into Earth

A boy and his dog take a wondrous trip under the earth's crust and through the geological eras of ti...

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The Last Good Time
The Last Good Time

A reclusive aging widower struggling with tax problems has a complete change in his views of life as...

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The Runner Stumbles
The Runner Stumbles

Dick Van Dyke stars as a priest accused of murdering a nun. Directed by Stanley Kramer, this 1979 dr...

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The Gathering
The Gathering

When Adam Thornton learns that he only has a little time left, he decides that he wants to make peac...

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Voyage to Next
Voyage to Next

Mother Earth and Father Time converse about the choices humans make. Preserved by the Academy Film ...

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America and Lewis Hine
America and Lewis Hine

Documentary about early 20th-century photographer Lewis Hine, who helped to expose grim working cond...

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A View from the Bridge
A View from the Bridge

Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love wi...

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All the King's Men
All the King's Men

The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Lo...

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Lost and Found
Lost and Found

While visiting Switzerland, an American college professor, Adam, keeps running into a divorced Briti...

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Liberace: Behind the Music
Liberace: Behind the Music

A gifted classical pianist, fueled by poverty, Wladiziu Valentino Liberace was already playing with ...

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Trilogy
Trilogy

Trilogy is an anthology film of three adaptations of Truman Capote short stories: Miriam, Among the ...

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Tennessee Williams' South
Tennessee Williams' South

The brutes and the belles. The gadflies and the good ol' boys. The taboos and the profound truths. T...

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Wilbur Falls
Wilbur Falls

A teen gives her graduation address and reveals her involvement in the disappearance of one her clas...

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Hello Actors Studio
Hello Actors Studio

After Lee Strasberg’s death in 1982, the most prestigious talents from the Actors Studio assumed the...

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Miss Rose White
Miss Rose White

Two sisters, one a Polish concentration camp survivor, the other safely relocated to America with he...

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Queen of the Stardust Ballroom
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom

A middle-aged woman finds herself simply a widow, a grandmother and a person when a friend takes her...

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The Cosmic Eye
The Cosmic Eye

Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction....

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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland

From the elaborate Broadway revival of the 1932 Eva Le Gallienne/Florida Friebus production comes a ...

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Sweet Lorraine
Sweet Lorraine

Serio-comic look at the residents and staff of a Catskill Mountains resort during its final days....

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...

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Last Wish
Last Wish

A woman with cancer seeks the assistance of her daughter in fulfilling her last wish - a wish to die...

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Passed Away
Passed Away

Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving ecce...

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Lincoln
Lincoln

Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civ...

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Tell Me Where It Hurts
Tell Me Where It Hurts

A housewife, increasingly disenchanted with her homemaker role, looks for new meaning in her life an...

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Night of 100 Stars II
Night of 100 Stars II

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...

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The Gathering, Part II
The Gathering, Part II

Two Christmases have passed and widow Kate Thornton has taken over Thornton Industries and is wooed ...

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Snow Cat
Snow Cat

A grandmother tells her young grandchild the moving tale of a lonely girl and an unforgettable magic...

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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and ...

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Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman

Jack Lemmon made over 60 films and received numerous awards, including eight Academy Award Nominatio...

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Letters from Frank
Letters from Frank

When aging newspaper Editor Frank Miller is fired after decades of service and replaced by a compute...

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Sentimental Journey
Sentimental Journey

A precocious child has a profound effect on the lives of a successful Broadway producer and her husb...

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Family Secrets
Family Secrets

Three generations of women spend an emotional weekend that will change them forever....

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A Sunday Dinner
A Sunday Dinner

A homeless man and woman prepare for and enjoy a special Sunday dinner...

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The Muppets Go Hollywood
The Muppets Go Hollywood

Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere o...

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Summer of '42
Summer of '42

Over the summer of 1942 on Nantucket Island, three friends -- Hermie, Oscy and Benjie -- are more co...

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Doin' Time on Planet Earth
Doin' Time on Planet Earth

Ryan Richmond is an eccentric teenager living with his mother, father, sister and brother in the Hol...

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Montgomery Clift
Montgomery Clift

A documentary incorporating footage of Montgomery Clift’s most memorable films; interviews with fami...

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Night of 100 Stars
Night of 100 Stars

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...

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Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall
Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall

A down-on-his-luck writer publishes a best-selling, but lurid novel under a pseudonym and discovers ...

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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was found...

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When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen

A documentary about the careers of child stars of the '40s in Hollywood, featuring movie clips with ...

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A Mother's Tale
A Mother's Tale

A parable about a family of cows which poses the problem of resistance to truth, the risks of indivi...

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