Lee Grant
Birthday: 1925-10-31
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, 1925) is an American actress and director. She made her film debut in 1951 as a young shoplifter in William Wyler's Detective Story, co-starring Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker. This role earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress as well as the Best Actress Award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. In 1952 she was blacklisted from most acting jobs for the next 12 years. She was able to find only occasional work onstage or as a teacher during this period. It also contributed to her divorce. She was removed from the blacklist in 1962 and rebuilt her acting career. She starred in 71 TV episodes of Peyton Place (1965–1966), followed by lead roles in films such as Valley of the Dolls, In the Heat of the Night (both 1967), and Shampoo (1975), for the last of which she won an Oscar. In 1964, she won the Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for her performance in The Maids. During her career she was nominated for the Emmy Award seven times between 1966 and 1993, winning twice. In 1986 she directed Down and Out in America which tied for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and in the same year she also won a Directors Guild of America Award for Nobody's Child.
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Mulholland Drive
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigma...
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Valley of the Dolls
Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show busin...
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In the Heat of the Night
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bi...
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Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
The life and career of the renowned television writer and creator of the classic science fiction ser...
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Dr. T & the Women
A successful Texas gynecologist finds himself amid a bevy of women and their problems – his wife’s b...
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Damien - Omen II
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his we...
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Detective Story
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad....
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Shampoo
A Beverly Hills hairdresser runs around town on the eve of the 1968 presidential election trying to ...
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Teachers
A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing t...
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Airport '77
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passen...
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Defending Your Life
Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller f...
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Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
After the end of WWII, an Italian woman receives child support payments from three former US soldier...
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There Was a Crooked Man...
A charming but ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison, where he enlists the help of hi...
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Actresses Turned Producer/Directors
From Mary Pickford to Barbra Streisand the successful actress turned producer/director is one of Hol...
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Marooned
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only t...
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TVTV Looks at the Oscars
Made in 1976, TVTV's close-up look at Hollywood's annual awards ritual mixes irreverent documentary ...
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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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The Landlord
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying ...
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Little Miss Marker
Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in the 1930s. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a...
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The Swarm
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisibl...
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Visiting Hours
A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attac...
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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a ...
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The Spell
A distraught mother must cope with her embittered daughter who has the ability to cause "accidents" ...
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When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
A drug dealer's car breaks down in a small U.S. town. In turn, the town's people become victim to hi...
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Voyage of the Damned
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival....
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The Internecine Project
Offered a job as a presidential adviser, a professor is forced to dispose of those who knew him when...
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Why Me?
Why Me? a one-hour documentary on breast cancer narrated by actress Lee Grant. First broadcast on Ma...
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Middle of the Night
Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 50s when his wife dies. Despite ...
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The Big Bounce
A Vietnam veteran and ex-con is persuaded by a shady woman to rob a $50,000 payroll account on a Cal...
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The Balcony
The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweepi...
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The Substance of Fire
Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems...
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The Amati Girls
Four sisters who disagree about everything... except what matters most. Family....
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You Can't Go Home Again
An adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's literary classic, telling of the struggles of a young writer determi...
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Night Slaves
A man and his wife stumble upon a town whose inhabitants turn into zombies and head for the edge of ...
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The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
On his wedding day, in the few remaining hours of his bachelorhood, Barney Kempinski goes off to tou...
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Will There Really Be a Morning?
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confi...
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What Are Best Friends For?
A married couple is determined to find a girl for their recently divorced best friend....
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Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
After a policeman is murdered in an ambush, rumors surface that he was on the take. His widow sets o...
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Hello Actors Studio
After Lee Strasberg’s death in 1982, the most prestigious talents from the Actors Studio assumed the...
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Portnoy's Complaint
During a session with his psychoanalyst, Alexander Portnoy rants about everything that is bothering ...
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Deadlock
A woman walks into a police station with a pistol and a vial of nitroglycerin. It turns out that she...
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Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
A presentation of Tennessee Williams' three one-act plays: "Moony's Kid Don't Cry", "The Last of My ...
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The Neon Ceiling
A housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stop in a diner in the California ...
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Calling the Shots
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share ...
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Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America
Documentary that examines whether America is failing children by not making child care an issue of n...
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Say It, Fight It, Cure It
Documentary on breast cancer featuring a series of interviews with survivors and their families. Dir...
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Tell Me a Riddle
A long-married couple embark on one last cross-country journey when it is discovered that the wife i...
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The Mafu Cage
Two strange sisters live in a crumbling mansion, where they keep a pet ape, which belonged to their ...
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The Big Town
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who le...
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The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer
Richard Kuklinski was a devoted husband, loving father--and ruthless killer of over 100 people. You'...
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Seeing is Believing: Women Direct
“We are the stories we tell ourselves.” Seeing is Believing: Women Direct is a documentary series a...
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Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
A leading acting teacher who trained some of the most famous performers of the stage and screen, San...
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A Billion for Boris
In this family-friendly sequel to Freaky Friday, teenaged Boris realizes that his television set is ...
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For Ladies Only
An aspiring young actor moonlights as a male stripper while looking for work in the theatre....
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Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
This documentary was broadcast on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable channel to kick off the pres...
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A Crime to Fit the Punishment
This fascinating making-of documentary investigates the controversy and political atmosphere surroun...
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The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Li...
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She Said No
A successful career woman is raped by a prominent lawyer. However, when she takes the case to court,...
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Tribute To Burgess Meredith
The cast of Rocky (1976) pays tribute to actor Burgess Meredith....
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It's My Party
Nick, a gay, HIV-positive architect, begins to display severe symptoms of AIDS and makes preparation...
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Hal
Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Ha...
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Going Shopping
A clothing designer tries to save her struggling boutique store by having a tumultuous weekend sale ...
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Ransom for a Dead Man
A brilliant attorney gets rid of her boring husband by faking his kidnapping and keeping the ransom....
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Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its ...
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Perilous Voyage
A South American guerrilla, whose revolution is faltering, hijacks a ship carrying arms and holds al...
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The Willmar 8
Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, eight unassuming women beg...
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Plaza Suite
HBO filmed version of the Neil Simon play (filmed in front of a live audience) has three separate ac...
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When Women Kill
When Women Kill is a poignant documentary exploring the shocking violence that seven women fell vict...
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What Sex Am I?
A group of transgender individuals are struggling to make their way in every stratum of 1980s Americ...
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Citizen Cohn
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his p...
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Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor
This documentary recounts the difficult choice actress Mary Astor had to make after learning her per...
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Women on Trial
"Women On Trail" exposes the innate corruption and sexism in the family court system as children are...
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An Affair of the Skin
A neurotic woman, her unhappy husband and three other New Yorkers share a complicated relationship....
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Earth and the American Dream
A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From ...
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In My Daughter's Name
A mother takes the law into her own hands after her daughter's murderer is acquitted on a technicali...
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The John Garfield Story
This documentary looks at the life and career of John Garfield, whose career was cut short when he d...
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Divorce American Style
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world ...
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
A man is wrongly convicted for murder and sent to prison, where he is accused of murdering a brutal ...
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Partners in Crime
A retired judge who opens a private detective agency and her ex-con associate try to track down $750...
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The Million Dollar Face
Tony Curtis is the ruthless head of a cosmetics firm, Kiss of Gold, locked in fierce competition wit...
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Killian & the Comeback Kids
Forced to return to his struggling hometown after an expensive college degree, Killian gathers forme...
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The Seagull
Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull" is brought to life in this acclaimed 1975 production directed by ...
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Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
Actor/director Sidney Poitier discusses his life and career. He tells of his upbringing in Jamaica; ...
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Battered
Lee Grant's acclaimed 1989 investigation of domestic violence in American Homes. Battered is the pow...
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Down and Out in America
The recession of the 1980s split the country into the haves and have-nots, from family farmers to fa...
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Under Heat
Dean is 36 and recently diagnosed as HIV positive. He has come home to tell his mother and his older...
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The Good Doctor
A writer (made to resemble Russian playwright Anton Chekhov) narrates a collection of his stories, a...
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Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory"...
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Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
Director Elia Kazan and playwright Arthur Miller were once best friends and professional colleagues,...
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Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismi...
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The World of Sholom Aleichem
This omnibus release consists of three playlets filmed and aired during television's Golden Age, and...
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Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Beginning just before his debut as Frankenstein’s creation, this documentary compellingly explores t...
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Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
We look at why Valley of the Dolls is so beloved and appreciated, both for its "badness" and hidden ...
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The Omen Legacy
The true stories that spawned the serie tale of Damien, a small boy with an angelic face, whose very...
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Truth and Lies: The Family Manson
ABC retells the dark, disturbing story of Manson — and his twisted cult of devoted followers he inst...
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