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Dorothy Adams is a Actor American born on 6 january 1900 at North Dakota (USA)
Dorothy Adams est une actrice américaine, née le 8 janvier 1900 à Hannah (Dakota du Nord), morte le 16 mars 1988 à Los Angeles — Quartier de Woodland Hills (Californie).
Parmi ses films notables, citons Laura d'Otto Preminger (1944 ; rôle de Bessie, la servante de Gene Tierney), Un amour désespéré de William Wyler (1952 ; rôle de la mère de Jennifer Jones), ou encore L'Ultime Razzia de Stanley Kubrick (1956, avec Sterling Hayden et Coleen Gray ; rôle de Ruthie O'Reilly).
Pour la télévision, Dorothy Adams collabore entre 1950 et 1974 à cinquante séries, dont Badge 714 (quatre épisodes, 1953-1955), Perry Mason (deux épisodes, 1957-1960), et La Quatrième Dimension (un épisode, 1961). Sa dernière prestation au petit écran est dans un téléfilm de Joel Schumacher, diffusé en 1974.
En 1921, elle épouse l'acteur Byron Foulger (1899-1970), dont elle reste veuve à la mort de celui-ci.
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Dorothy Adams est une actrice américaine, née le 8 janvier 1900 à Hannah (Dakota du Nord), morte le 16 mars 1988 à Los Angeles — Quartier de Woodland Hills (Californie).
Biography
Au cinéma, après une première apparition dans un court métrage de 1931, Dorothy Adams contribue à près de cent films américains (dont des westerns) entre 1938 et 1960, comme second rôle de caractère — parfois dans des petits rôles non crédités —. Puis elle participe à deux ultimes films sortis respectivement en 1969 et 1976.Parmi ses films notables, citons Laura d'Otto Preminger (1944 ; rôle de Bessie, la servante de Gene Tierney), Un amour désespéré de William Wyler (1952 ; rôle de la mère de Jennifer Jones), ou encore L'Ultime Razzia de Stanley Kubrick (1956, avec Sterling Hayden et Coleen Gray ; rôle de Ruthie O'Reilly).
Pour la télévision, Dorothy Adams collabore entre 1950 et 1974 à cinquante séries, dont Badge 714 (quatre épisodes, 1953-1955), Perry Mason (deux épisodes, 1957-1960), et La Quatrième Dimension (un épisode, 1961). Sa dernière prestation au petit écran est dans un téléfilm de Joel Schumacher, diffusé en 1974.
En 1921, elle épouse l'acteur Byron Foulger (1899-1970), dont elle reste veuve à la mort de celui-ci.
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Peeper (1975)
, 1h27Directed by Peter Hyams
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller
Themes Children's films
Actors Michael Caine, Timothy Carey, Natalie Wood, Kitty Winn, Michael Constantine, Thayer David
Roles Mrs. Prendergast
Rating56%
1947 à Hollywood. Lou Anglich échappe à une filature en frappant son poursuivant avec sa valise. Lorsque Leslie C. Tucker, un détective privé anglais, revient à son bureau, il trouve Anglich, qui le charge de retrouver a fille Anna, placée dans un orphelinat 29 ans auparavant. Anglich dit à Tucker qu'il a beaucoup d'argent et qu'il veut le donner à sa fille avant que ses "associés" le retrouvent et le tuent...
, 1h31Directed by Martin Balsam, David Carradine, George Kennedy, Robert Mitchum, Tina Louise, Burt Kennedy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, Martin Balsam, David Carradine, Tina Louise, John Carradine
Roles Mrs. Pierce (uncredited)
Rating60%
Jim Flagg is the marshal in the town of Progress. He hears arch-rival John McKay is headed toward town so he warns Mayor Wilker and others in Progress about rumor of a robbery. Wilker doesn't appreciate Flagg causing a panic and relieves him of his badge.
From the Terrace (1960)
, 2h29Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Barbara Eden, Ina Balin, Leon Ames
Roles Mrs. Benziger
Rating66%
In 1946, David Alfred Eaton returns home from the war to Philadelphia. He finds his mother Martha driven to alcoholism by years of neglect and abuse from her husband Samuel Eaton, owner of a prestigious iron and steel company. Having withdrawn from his family after the death of his firstborn son thirteen years earlier, Samuel's resentment drove Alfred to turn his back on the family business and strike out on his own with his closest friend, Lex.
The Big Country (1958)
, 2h45Directed by William Wyler, John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Charlton Heston, Carroll Baker, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford
Roles Hannassey Woman
Rating78%
Wealthy sea captain James McKay (Gregory Peck) travels to the American West to join his fiancée Patricia (Carroll Baker) at the enormous ranch owned by her father, Henry Terrill (Charles Bickford), referred to by all as the "Major". Terrill has been feuding with Rufus Hannassey (Burl Ives), the patriarch of a poorer, less refined ranching clan, over water rights in the arid grazing lands of the high plains.
Unwed Mother (1958)
Directed by Walter Doniger
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors Robert Vaughn, Billie Bird, Diana Darrin, Claire Carleton, Timothy Carey, Jeanne Cooper
Roles Martha Pauley
Rating53%
Gunman's Walk (1958)
, 1h37Directed by Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Kathryn Crosby, James Darren, Mickey Shaughnessy, Robert F. Simon
Roles Martha Stotheby
Rating69%
Davy Hackett (James Darren) and his hot-tempered, arrogant older brother Ed (Tab Hunter) are about to assist their rancher father Lee (Van Heflin) on a cattle drive to Wyoming. The brothers meet Cecily "Clee" Chouard (Kathryn Grant), a beautiful half-French, half-Sioux woman, and when Ed makes unwanted advances toward her, Davy intervenes.
The Buckskin Lady (1957)
, 1h6Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Patricia Medina, Richard Denning, Gerald Mohr, Henry Hull, Hank Worden, Dorothy Adams
Roles Mrs. Adams
Rating50%
Drunken Doc Medley (Henry Hull) and his daughter Angie (Patricia Medina) support themselves by Angie's gambling skills as her father steers travelers to her card table. Angie is in the romantic thrall of tough guy Slinger (Gerald Mohr), though Slinger's rough ways bother her. When her father sells his almost non-existent practice to an unwitting Easterner, Dr. Merritt (Richard Denning), Angie sets out to repay the young doctor. Slinger senses the attraction Angie feels for Merritt and decides to make things difficult for both of them, a decision that leads to robbery and murder.
Hot Rod Rumble (1957)
, 1h19Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Leigh Snowden, Wright King, Joey Forman, Dorothy Adams, Brett Halsey
Roles Ma Crawford
Rating56%
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
, 1h32Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Western
Actors Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana, Henry Jones, Robert Emhardt
Roles Mrs. Potter (uncredited)
Rating75%
In the Arizona Territory of the 1880s, rancher Dan Evans (Van Heflin) and his young sons witness a stagecoach holdup. The boys want to try to intervene, but their father warns them that it would be useless to act when they are so heavily outnumbered. When the stagecoach driver overpowers one of the robbers and uses him as a human shield, Ben Wade (Glenn Ford), the leader of the gang, callously shoots both men dead.
An Affair to Remember (1957)
, 1h59Directed by Leo McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about disabilities, Children's films
Actors Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning, Cathleen Nesbitt, Fortunio Bonanova, Robert Q. Lewis
Roles Mother at Rehearsal (uncredited)
Rating73%
Nickie Ferrante (Cary Grant), a well-known playboy and dilettante in the arts, meets Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) aboard the Transatlantic ocean liner SS Constitution en route from Europe to New York. Each is involved with someone else. After a series of chance meetings aboard the ship, they establish a friendship. When Terry joins Nickie on a brief visit to his grandmother when the ship anchors near her home at Villefranche-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean coast, she sees Nickie with new eyes and their feelings blossom into love. During their visit, it is revealed that Nickie has had a talent for painting, but has dropped said trait due to his critical attitude towards his own art. As the ship returns to New York City, they agree to reunite at the top of the Empire State Building in six months' time, if they have succeeded in ending their relationships and starting new careers.
The Ten Commandments (1956)
, 3h42Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Action, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about slavery, Films about religion, La précarité, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism, L'émigration
Actors Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget
Roles Slave Woman / Hebrew at Golden Calf / Hebrew at Rameses' Gate
Rating78%
Pharaoh Rameses I of Egypt has ordered the death of all firstborn Hebrew males after hearing the prophecy of the Deliverer, but a Hebrew woman named Yoshebel saves her infant son by setting him adrift in a basket on the Nile. Bithiah, the Pharaoh's daughter, who had recently lost her husband and the hope of ever having children of her own, finds the basket and decides to adopt the boy even though her servant, Memnet, recognizes the child is Hebrew and protests.
These Wilder Years (1956)
, 1h31Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families, Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Pidgeon, Tom Laughlin, Betty Lou Keim, Don Dubbins
Roles Aunt Martha
Rating67%
Businessman Steve Bradford (James Cagney) looks for his illegitimate son after 20 years. He turns to Ann Dempster (Barbara Stanwyck), who runs an orphanage, but she is uncooperative.
, 2h33Directed by Nunnally Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March, Ann Harding, Keenan Wynn, Marisa Pavan
Roles L'employée de maison de M Hopkins
Rating70%
Tom and Betsy Rath live in a rundown house in Westport, Connecticut around 1953 (1955 in the movie). They have three television-addicted children (two girls and a boy) and have money problems. Tom is 33 years old, a Harvard graduate. He barely survived as an Army paratroop officer during World War II, having fought in both the European and Pacific combat theaters, during which he had an extramarital affair.
The Killing (1956)
, 1h20Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Elisha Cook, Jr., Marie Windsor
Roles Mrs. Ruthie O'Reilly
Rating78%
Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) is a veteran criminal planning one last heist before settling down and marrying Fay (Coleen Gray). He plans to steal $2 million from the money-counting room of a racetrack during a featured race. He assembles a team consisting of a corrupt cop (Ted de Corsia), a betting window teller (Elisha Cook Jr.) to gain access to the backroom, a sharpshooter (Timothy Carey) to shoot the favorite horse during the race to distract the crowd, a wrestler (Kola Kwariani) to provide another distraction by provoking a fight at the track bar, and a track bartender (Joe Sawyer).
Johnny Concho (1956)
, 1h24Directed by Don McGuire
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Frank Sinatra, Keenan Wynn, William Conrad, Phyllis Kirk, Wallace Ford, Dorothy Adams
Roles Sarah Dark
Rating59%
The mean and boastful Johnny Concho is also a coward, but the people of Cripple Creek, Arizona, let him have his way. They know that Johnny's brother, who doesn't live in town, is the notorious gunfighter Red Concho, someone they truly fear.