Shirley Knight
Birthday: 1936-07-05
Place of Birth: Goessel, Kansas, USA
Biography: Shirley Enola Knight (July 5, 1936 – April 22, 2020) was an American stage, screen, and television actress. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in 1960 for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and in 1962 for Sweet Bird of Youth.
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Shadow Realm
Shadow Realm is a compilation of two episodes planned for the short-lived Fox Network television ser...
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As Good as It Gets
Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer of romantic fiction, is rude to everyon...
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Little Boy Blue
Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that...
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in ...
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Diabolique
The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed schem...
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Open Window
The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of vi...
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Angel Eyes
A story about a seemingly unlikely couple who cross paths under life-threatening circumstances as th...
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The Salton Sea
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where n...
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts ...
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Sweet Bird of Youth
Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alex...
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother...
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Grandma's Boy
Even though he's 35, Alex acts more like he's 13, spending his days as the world's oldest video game...
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Stuart Saves His Family
A self-help advocate struggles to put his dysfunctional family in its place....
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If These Walls Could Talk
A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all ...
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Juggernaut
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he ha...
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop
When a shopping mall is taken over by a gang of organized crooks, it's up to a mild-mannered securit...
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Petulia
Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new ...
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Mrs. Ashboro's Cat
Wes Merritt and his daughter Natalie (14) get more than they bargained for when they buy an old hous...
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P.S. Your Cat is Dead!
With his life already in shambles — his girlfriend just dumped him, he's lost his acting gig, and hi...
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Ice Palace
Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountai...
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Dutchman
A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only ...
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Listen to Your Heart
Danny Foster doesn't have much: an apartment as small as his paychecks, no family, and a struggling ...
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Endless Love
As their romance unfolds, Jade and David's growing love for one another becomes the scorn of Jade's ...
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The Sender
A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people a...
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The Other Side of the Tracks
A depressed young man struggles to move on and escape haunting memories of his girlfriend, killed te...
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The Secret Life of Houses
A nine-year-old girl with a mother in the hospital decides to live alone and fend for herself....
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21 Hours at Munich
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Muni...
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The Group
It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl...
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Elevator
Nine people are stuck in an elevator. One of them has a ticking bomb that can't be defused. The othe...
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The Rain People
When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate h...
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Kennedy's Children
In 1974, five former activists from the 1960s meet in a bar, but do not relate. Each is lost in his ...
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Benders
Franny, an alcoholic, develops a relationship with Jack, a telephone crisis hotline operator. Jack i...
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Sudbury
A family of witches -- sisters Sally and Gillian, their aunts Jet and Frances, and Sally's daughters...
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The Couch
A psychopath calls the police before he kills, in between sessions with his father-figure analyst....
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The Uninvited
A family, trying to pull themselves together after losing their infant son, moves into a new home, w...
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The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes ba...
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Flight from Ashiya
Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air F...
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House of Women
An innocent, pregnant prison inmate (Shirley Knight) becomes the bad warden's (Andrew Duggan) person...
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Not Fade Away
A dark comedy/drama about a daughter struggling with her mothers rapid descent into Alzheimers....
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A Father for Brittany
Keith and Kim Lussier are a childless couple who are given custody of a 3-month-old foster child, Br...
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75 Degrees in July
Sibling rivalry and other conflicts are revealed as one daughter, now a successful modern artist liv...
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Mercy
A single mom and her two boys help take care of their grandmother with mystical powers....
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The Counterfeit Killer
A Secret Service agent poses as a waterfront hit man to infiltrate a global ring of counterfeiters....
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Medical Story
A young intern goes up against three older surgeons as to whether or not a young actress should get ...
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Secrets
A woman's unfulfilling marriage leads her into a passionate affair with a wealthy extramarital lover...
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The Defection of Simas Kudirka
Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political ...
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Redwood Highway
Marie, a reluctant resident of a retirement community in Southern Oregon, decides to walk 80 miles d...
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Champions: A Love Story
Two teens become romantically involved as they train for a skating championship....
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Our Idiot Brother
Everybody has one—the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to gett...
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Five Gates to Hell
A group of nurses, doctors and nuns are taken hostage in Vietnam and sent up river to a castle hideo...
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Color of Night
A color-blind psychiatrist is stalked by an unknown killer after taking over his murdered friend's t...
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A Mother's Revenge
A girl is beaten and raped by someone from the school, but he doesn't go to prison because there is ...
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
Security guard Paul Blart is headed to Las Vegas to attend a Security Guard Expo with his teenage da...
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Shadow of a Doubt
Charlie is a young woman who is thrilled that her favorite Uncle Charlie is coming home for good. Bu...
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Bump in the Night
Martha "Red" Tierney used to be a hot-shot reporter, but that was before alcohol took over her life....
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The Missing Girl
THE MISSING GIRL tells the story of Mort, the lonely and disillusioned owner of a comic book shop, a...
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To Save a Child
A doctor and his pregnant young wife move into a small New Mexico town. At first the locals are frie...
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Shadow Over Elveron
A corrupt sheriff knows the secrets of everyone in town and uses that information to go unchallenged...
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Indictment: The McMartin Trial
The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestatio...
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The Outsider
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple ca...
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A Part of the Family
A bright young New York physician takes her husband, a jokey/cynical tabloid reporter, home to Illin...
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Somebody Is Waiting
An alcoholic father must take control of his wayward children when their mother is killed....
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A House on a Hill
A once-successful architect (Philip Baker Hall) has become a grumpy loner, but a young couple plead ...
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Baby Brokers
A woman (Cybill Shepherd) financially supports the natural parents in hope of adopting their newborn...
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Convictions
It has been nine years since Bancroft's character shot Brown's son. She goes to the prison to vent h...
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When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn
A woman places an ad in the "Soldier of Fortune" magazine to hire a contract killer....
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A Promise to Carolyn
When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murde...
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Friendly Persuasion
During the Civil War, a Quaker couple risks their lives by helping runaway slaves....
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Mary & Tim
Another adaptation of the novel "Tim", about the love that develops between a mentally challenged yo...
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The Lie
From an Ingmar Bergman script. Previously produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" and for th...
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Filmmaker
A behind-the-scenes documentary by George Lucas about 29-year-old Francis Ford Coppola and his crew ...
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Death in Venice, CA
A stressed out writer's getaway is complicated by advances from a lascivious 17-year-old relative....
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Fly Cherry
A young girl dreams of flying, to get away from her neglectful mother, and forms a bond with her mys...
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Return to Earth
The story of Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to walk on the moon, and the problems he had after hi...
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Playing for Time
When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians fi...
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Periphery
A dying woman wishes to see her family through the good times and the bad times she will miss....
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The Yarn Princess
Margaret, who has certain mental disabilities, struggles when her husband, Jake, is diagnosed with s...
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Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story
Story about a runner whose bulimia and anorexia threatens both her dream of competing in the Olympic...
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The Wedding
Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) is engaged to marry talented white jazz musician Meade Howell, but the pa...
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A Marriage of Convenience
Succesful businesswoman Chris Winslow gives up her career to raise her deceased sister's son, Kevin....
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Dad, the Angel & Me
A divorced doctor finds himself in real trouble living with his daughter alone now. But fortunately ...
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Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden
A young boy goes to spend the summer with his aunts in the South. He finds himself drawn to Jessica,...
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Love and Debate
A girl goes to Harvard and joins the debate team. She has to deal with a ton of issues, from boyfri...
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The Country Girl
Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a co...
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With Intent to Kill
A high school football hero Bo Reinecker tries to piece together the events leading up to murder of ...
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as ...
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The Sweet Scent of Death
An overworked American ambassador working in the UK attempts to spend more time with his wife by vis...
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Please Stand by for Murder
The wife of a TV executive thinks she might have committed a murder and is tormented by a stalker wh...
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Sexual Life
As they seek romance and sexual gratification, the lives of eight Los Angeles natives — including a ...
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That Quiet Earth
Joyce would appear to have everything to live for: two young children, an executive husband and a ni...
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