Piper Laurie
Birthday: 1932-01-22
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Biography: Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs; January 22, 1932 – October 14, 2023) was an American actress. She is known for her roles in the films The Hustler (1961), Carrie (1976), and Children of a Lesser God (1986), and received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award. She was also known for her performances as Kirsten Arnesen in the original TV production of Days of Wine and Roses, and as Catherine Martell in the television series Twin Peaks.
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The Hustler
Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude....
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Children of a Lesser God
Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah ...
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Appointment with Death
Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a seco...
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Acting 'Carrie'
In this documentary, director Brian De Palma and the stars from his film "Carrie" (such as Sissy Spa...
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Other People's Money
When a corporate raider threatens a hostile takeover of a 'mom and pop' company, the patriarch of th...
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Carrie
Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from classmates and abuse from her fana...
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Tim
Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed em...
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The Hustler: The Inside Story
A brief overview of The Hustler's making and the players involved....
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Allen in Movieland
TV goes Hollywood when Steve Allen visits Universal-International to prepare for his upcoming title ...
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The Faculty
When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make the chi...
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The Crossing Guard
Unable to move on from the loss of his daughter, Freddy, now a shell of the person he was before, sw...
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Winterset
Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years ...
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Return to Oz
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of...
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The Dead Girl
The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated women begin to ...
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Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in...
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The Bunker
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his undergrou...
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Hounddog
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music...
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Hesher
A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then h...
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The Grass Harp
Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growi...
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Possessed
An 11 year old boy starts throwing temper tantrums, vomiting on and attacking people, and swearing u...
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Francis Goes to the Races
In this funny sequel to the popular Francis the Talking Mule, the talkative Mule and his pal Peter g...
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Son of Ali Baba
In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet by da...
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The Prince Who Was a Thief
An Arabian prince, kidnapped at birth and raised as a thief, plots to regain his throne from his evi...
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Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel ...
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Ruby
Strange killings occur at Ruby's drive-in theatre, sixteen years after the murder of her gangster bo...
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A Christmas Memory
A new version of Truman Capote's 1956 tale based on his own bittersweet upbringing in Alabama. The s...
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The Golden Blade
Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father's murder in this adventure set in ancient Bagdad a...
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In the Blink of an Eye
Hamel portrays director Dickoff who suspends her career in order to help a friend who's been in pris...
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Until They Sail
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII....
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Johnny Dark
A young auto racer competes in a Canada-to-Mexico race in a car he designed himself. Director George...
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Bad Blood... the Hunger
Several college students embark on a summer of sun and fun, but find that their adventure turns eeri...
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Dangerous Mission
A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessi...
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Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
This timely exploration of Hollywood and LGBTQ+ identity examines the life of legendary actor Rock H...
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Tiger Warsaw
Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years...
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Another Harvest Moon
Another Harvest Moon is a tender drama about four elderly Americans coping with life in a nursing ho...
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No Room for the Groom
A young GI elopes to Las Vegas with his housekeeper’s daughter, but delays to their wedding night ar...
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Rich in Love
Warren Odom, a rich Southern gentleman, is left in a state of shock when his wife, Helen, leaves him...
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Storyville
While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family's deep secrets....
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Smoke Signal
Capt. Harper's cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent c...
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The Last Brickmaker in America
A man must cope with the loss of his wife and the obsolescence of his job before finding redemption ...
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Dawn at Socorro
Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris cla...
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Skag
Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stro...
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Kelly and Me
Failing vaudeville performer, Len, is taken under the wing of the German Shepherd wonder dog, Kelly,...
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The Mississippi Gambler
Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. H...
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Distortions
A man goes to speak with a gigolo and is promptly beaten for his trouble. Soon afterward, his wife i...
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The Road to Galveston
Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she too...
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Postcards From The Cast
"Postcards From The Cast" is a featurette originally released in the 2001 DVD release, Twin Peaks: T...
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Rainbow
The early life and struggles of Judy Garland (portrayed by Andrea McArdle), and of the film star's t...
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Dream a Little Dream
Bobby Kellar has a crush on Lainie Diamond, girlfriend of school jerk Joel. Coleman is working on an...
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Mae West
Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1...
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Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks
A select group of key creative forces involved in the making of Twin Peaks reveals their take on the...
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Eulogy
A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the ...
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The Boss' Son
Bobby Rose has just returned home after graduating business school. He agrees to start working for h...
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Trauma
A young Romanian woman and a recovering drug addict launch an unlikely investigation after her paren...
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Fighting for My Daughter
Unable to get the police to help, a woman launches her own investigation to save her daughter from a...
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Rising Son
Gus Robinson loves three things: his job, family, and country; but suddenly he's losing all three. W...
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Alone
John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rare...
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Ain't Misbehavin'
Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her....
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Palmer's Pick-Up
Two dimwit owners of a struggling hauling company are approached about hauling a huge, mysterious bo...
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Go Toward the Light
A young couple faces the realities of life with their child who is diagnosed with AIDS....
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The Rage: Carrie 2
A horrible massacre strikes up after an outcast teenage girl is taunted by a group of high school jo...
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In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan
Based on a true case, this tells the story of two parents in New Jersey whose daughter has lapsed in...
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Love, Mary
A teen, who is always in trouble in school and has been sent to reform school, turns her life around...
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Gregory Peck, le gentleman acteur
A legend of the Hollywood Golden Age, Gregory Peck (1916-2003) had an exemplary career, working unde...
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Promise
Bob returns home for his mother’s funeral knowing that he must fulfill a promise made 30 years earli...
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The Ninth Day
After World War III a small group of people live in the desert. A young man tries to run away, hopin...
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Louisa
Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to dis...
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Inherit the Wind
Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching ...
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Sad Inheritance
After filling her life with addictions, Christina (Susan Dey) is left with a dead-end job, a deadbea...
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Midwives
It's a cold and stormy night, and in a house in rural Vermont, midwife Sibyl Danforth is, together w...
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White Boy Rick
The story of Richard Wershe Jr., a teenager who became an undercover informant for the police during...
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Twin Peaks
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic t...
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Shadows of Desire
A woman is torn between her love for a gentle man, and her secret passion for his dangerous brother....
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St. Patrick's Day
It's your traditional Irish holiday - cousins are having sex, couples are getting divorced, John Mic...
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Intensity
Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old psychology student who survived an extremely troubled past. ...
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Snapshots
Rose spends her days fishing near the beautiful lake house she’s called home for 50 years. She’s not...
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Days of Wine and Roses
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman whom he systematically addicts to ...
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Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
Tony Curtis, the man who influenced Elvis Presley and James Dean. A sex symbol, a matinee idol, a po...
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Toughlove
The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems ...
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Mother, Mother
A Blue Ribbon winner at the American Film Festival, this hard-hitting, dramatic production is about ...
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The World's Most Beautiful Girls
When 78 beauties are assembled from the far corners of the globe in order to select the most beautif...
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Saving Grace B. Jones
In a 1950s-era Missouri town the life of a couple is thrown into chaos when the husband's sister is ...
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