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Barbara Tarbuck is a Actor American born on 15 january 1942 at Detroit (USA)

Barbara Tarbuck

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Nationality USA
Birth 15 january 1942 at Detroit (USA)
Death 27 december 2016 (at 74 years)

Barbara Tarbuck (born January 15, 1942) is an American actress from Detroit, Michigan, best known for her role as "Lady Jane Jacks" in General Hospital.

Biography

As a child (from the ages of 9-13), Tarbuck performed as a regular for a children's series called Storyland, which aired on the AM Radio Station WWJ in Detroit, Michigan.

Barbara Tarbuck attended Cooley High School and Wayne State University. Upon winning the Eva Woodbridge Victor Scholarship and finished her Bachelors in 1963. While in college, she participated in the production of Where's Charley, which toured through Europe. She also earned her Master's Degree in Theatre from the University of Michigan. She then went to Indiana University to work as the lead actress in their inaugural theatre touring company season.

She began to work on her PhD and taught beginning acting. While at Indiana University she was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to LAMDA. She then moved to New York to pursue her acting career.

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Filmography of Barbara Tarbuck (18 films)

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S. Darko
S. Darko (2009)
, 1h43
Directed by Chris Fisher
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Crime
Themes Transport films, Time travel films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Daveigh Chase, Elizabeth Berkley, Briana Evigan, Ed Westwick, James Lafferty, Matt Davis
Roles Agatha
Rating36% 1.813621.813621.813621.813621.81362
In 1995, Samantha Darko (Chase) follows her best friend Corey (Evigan) on a road trip from Virginia to California, in an attempt to become professional dancers. Their dreams are cut short when their car breaks down in a tiny Utah town. They are saved by the town bad boy, Randy (Westwick), who takes them to the local motel where they meet the conspiracy-loving owner. He tells them of Billy Moorcroft, a boy who went missing.
Walking Tall, 1h27
Directed by Kevin Bray
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Actors Dwayne Johnson, Johnny Knoxville, Neal McDonough, Kristen Wilson, Kevin Durand, Ashley Scott
Roles Connie Vaughn
Rating63% 3.150013.150013.150013.150013.15001
Former U.S. Army Special Forces sergeant Chris Vaughn (The Rock) returns to his small home town in Kitsap County, Washington. Looking for work, he finds the local cedar mill was closed down three years prior by its heir, Jay Hamilton (Neal McDonough), who opened a new casino that now accounts for the majority of revenue for the local area. Hamilton, who was also Vaughn's school friend, invites him to a night of fun at the casino. While checking out the VIP lounge, Vaughn stumbles upon his childhood friend Deni (Ashley Scott), who is now working as a stripper. Later, he notices the craps dealer using loaded dice and demonstrates this to the patrons by placing a bet and calling out the roll before throwing the dice. When the floorman declares no payout, Vaughn instigates a fight. Although he beats down most of the security guards, he is subsequently subdued with a cattle prod and knocked unconscious. The security staff take Vaughn into the basement and Hamilton's right-hand man and head of security Booth (Kevin Durand) tortures him by cutting his torso with a Utility knife before dumping him on a roadside. He is found by a trucker and hospitalized, but recovers quickly.
Just Ask My Children, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Virginia Madsen, Jeffrey Nordling, Graham Beckel, Robert Joy, Barbara Tarbuck, Casey Biggs
Roles Marilyn Kniffen
Rating70% 3.538763.538763.538763.538763.53876
En Californie au début des années 80, Brenda et Scott Kniffen mènent une vie paisible et heureuse avec leurs deux fils, Brandon et Brian. En revanche, leurs amis, les McCuan, ont plus de problèmes. Debbie raconte que sa belle-mère se mêle avec insistance de l'éducation de leurs enfants. Les McCuan demandent alors aux Kniffen de leur servir de témoins de moralité. Ils acceptent. Mais un jour, la police débarque dans la maison de Brenda et Scott et les emmène. La belle-mère de Debbie, convaincue que ses petites-filles ont été victimes de violences sexuelles, a réussi à faire impliquer les Kniffen. Le couple se voit accusé de pédophilie.
The Cracker Factory
Directed by Burt Brinckerhoff
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Natalie Wood, Perry King, Shelley Long, Vivian Blaine, Marian Mercer, Juliet Mills
Roles Alice
Rating63% 3.194783.194783.194783.194783.19478
Alcoholic Cleveland housewife Cassie Barrett is institutionalized in a psychiatric ward after experiencing a nervous breakdown in the supermarket. We learn this is the latest in a series of hospitalizations from which Cassie emerges supposedly in control of her life but actually still teetering on the edge. During this latest stay, she develops a romantic crush on psychiatrist Edwin Alexander and a close relationship with night supervisor Tinkerbell, both of whom help her take steps toward facing her inner demons and learning to live with sobriety.
Eye of the Stalker, 1h35
Directed by Reza Badiyi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Brooke Langton, Joanna Cassidy, Jere Burns, Dennis Burkley, Lucinda Jenney, Conor O'Farrell
Roles Judge Paula Castanon
Rating62% 3.1006153.1006153.1006153.1006153.100615
Beth Knowlton (Langton) is a young art student who is majoring in photography at a college in Phoenix, Arizona. Stephen Primes (Burns) teaches law at the same university, and becomes infatuated with Beth at first sight. Beth is not impressed with Stephen's unwanted actions, and firmly tries to be clear that she is not interested in him, since she is already dating Kyle Kennedy (Woolson). Despite her refusals, Stephen persists, and begins telling people that he and Beth have become engaged to each other. This gains the attention of Beth's mother Martha (Cassidy), who tries (but fails) to find a legal manner for Stephen to leave Beth alone.
Scanner Cop II, 1h35
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Horror
Actors Patrick Kilpatrick, Khrystyne Haje, Daniel Quinn, Robert Forster, Kane Hodder, Jewel Shepard
Roles Rachel Staziak
Rating49% 2.4750452.4750452.4750452.4750452.475045
Scanner cop Samuel 'Sam' Staziak (Daniel Quinn) tracks a renegade scanner (Patrick Kilpatrick), who is building his power by siphoning the power of other weaker scanners.
The Tie That Binds, 1h39
Directed by Wesley Strick
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families
Actors Daryl Hannah, Keith Carradine, Vincent Spano, Moira Kelly, Bruce Young, Cynda Williams
Roles Jean Bennett
Rating50% 2.505672.505672.505672.505672.50567
In California, John Netherwood (Keith Carradine) and his wife Leann Netherwood (Daryl Hannah) are fugitives who are wanted for murder. They have a 6-year-old daughter named Janie (Julia Devin).
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor, 1h36
Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Brian Dennehy, Susan Ruttan, Alice Krige, Jo Anderson, Justin Burnette, Neal McDonough
Roles Dora Ferro
Rating60% 3.045423.045423.045423.045423.04542
Committed to find the killer, Sgt. Jack Reed (played by Brian Dennehy) finds a trail of lies, corruption and murder.
A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story, 1h36
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Beverly D'Angelo, Dana Ivey, Michael McGrady, Max Gail, Brent Jennings, Gary Grubbs
Roles Dr. Sackarow
Rating65% 3.292163.292163.292163.292163.29216
Adolescente, Jerry Sherwood a été contrainte d'abandonner son bébé, un garçon, et celui-ci a été placé dans une famille d'accueil. Quelques années plus tard, Jerry est bien décidée à retrouver son fils mais apprend qu'il est décédé dans des circonstances douteuses alors qu'il avait deux ans...
Curly Sue
Curly Sue (1991)
, 1h41
Directed by John Hughes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Children's films, Escroquerie
Actors James Belushi, Kelly Lynch, Alisan Porter, John Getz, Branscombe Richmond, Cameron Thor
Roles Mrs. Arnold
Rating59% 2.955392.955392.955392.955392.95539
Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the archetypal homeless folks with hearts of gold. Their scams are aimed not at turning a profit, but at getting enough to eat. After moving from Detroit to Chicago, the duo cons the rich divorce lawyer Grey Ellison into believing she backed her Mercedes into Bill, in hopes of a free meal. When Grey accidentally collides with Bill for real, she insists on putting the two up for the night, even over the objections of her snotty fiance Walker McCormick. After a confrontation with Bill exposing the truth of the con, Grey lets them stay for as long as they need when she understands the precarious position the homeless pair are in. One night, Bill tells Grey that he's not Sue's father, he met Sue's mother one night in Florida. After Sue's mother died, Bill raised her himself, growing to love her like his own, thus when they lost their home and money, Bill couldn't find it in his heart to give Sue up and put her into an orphanage, so he took Sue with him. Grey, thinking Bill has been neglecting and abusing Sue by using her in his cons and scams, suggests Sue stay with her when he leaves, but this only angers Bill, who says that after all the years he's looked after her, if he gave up Sue now, people would make fun of her for being on welfare. He tells her that he is not neglecting or abusing Sue; he cares about Sue and his cons are to provide for Sue. However when it becomes apparent that Sue is completely unable to read or write (despite spelling a difficult word earlier in the film), Grey begins to push even harder for Bill to leave Sue with her. Eventually Bill realizes that this is where she belongs - in a home, cared for by someone that can give her the advantages that his homeless, nomadic existence lacks. The film culminates with Sue and Grey returning to their apartment where they discover a tiny ring, which Sue takes as a sign that Bill has chosen to leave her behind with Grey. (Throughout the film it is implied that Bill had pawned a ring left to Sue by her mother, which he would return to her when it came time for the two to part forever.) However the ring is accompanied by a note that says that he is in another room. Sue happily turns to find Bill, realizing that the ring is not a sign that he will leave her but a sign that he is going to abandon his old lifestyle in order to give Sue the home she needs and in order to pursue a romance with Grey.
The Death of the Incredible Hulk, 1h35
Directed by Bill Bixby
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Action
Themes Hulk (comics) films, Superhero films
Actors Lou Ferrigno, Bill Bixby, Elizabeth Gracen, Andreas Katsulas, Barbara Tarbuck, Anna Katarina
Roles Amy Pratt
Rating56% 2.8490352.8490352.8490352.8490352.849035
David Banner masquerades as David Bellamy, a mentally challenged janitor, to gain access to a scientific research facility in Portland, Oregon. He believes that the studies of one of the scientists there, Dr. Ronald Pratt (Philip Sterling), may hold the key to curing his gamma-induced condition that, in times of stress, turns him into a superhuman green creature known as the Hulk. Pratt takes a liking to the man he sees only as a building custodian.
Out of Time
Directed by Robert Butler
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action
Themes Time travel films
Actors Bruce Abbott, Bill Maher, Rebecca Schaeffer, Kristian Alfonso, Leo Rossi, Ray Girardin
Roles Dr. Kerry Langdon
Rating44% 2.237792.237792.237792.237792.23779
A cop from the year 2088 (Abbott) is transported back to 1988 while pursuing a criminal attempting to flee in a time machine, and enlists the aid of his legendary great-grandfather (Maher) in pursuing the crook.
David
David (1988)
, 2h
Directed by John Erman
Genres Drama
Actors Bernadette Peters, John Glover, Dan Lauria, George Grizzard, Matthew Lawrence, Georgann Johnson
Roles Sue Martinez
Rating69% 3.489583.489583.489583.489583.48958
The film is based on a book written by Marie Rothenberg and Mel White and relates the true story of David, a child who was burned over 90 percent of his body by his father. The parents were estranged and the non-custodial father, Charles Rothenberg, fled with David in tow to California, but quickly decided that he could not care for David alone. However, rather than return David to his mother's care, the elder Rothenberg used kerosene to set fire to his son while the boy slept in a hotel room. The movie shows how his mother, Marie Rothenberg, coped with the crisis, and the courage and determination of David.
Short Circuit, 1h34
Directed by John Badham
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Robot films
Actors Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, G. W. Bailey, Brian McNamara
Roles Senator Mills
Rating65% 3.2999253.2999253.2999253.2999253.299925
Number 5 is part of a series of prototype U.S. military S.A.I.N.T. (Strategic Artificially Intelligent Nuclear Transport) robots built for the Cold War by NOVA Laboratories. The series' inventors, Newton Graham Crosby and Ben Jabituya, are more interested in peaceful applications including music and social aid. After a demonstration of the robots' capabilities, Number 5 is hit by a lightning-induced power surge, erasing its programming and giving it a sense of free will. Several incidents allow the robot to escape the facility accidentally, barely able to communicate and uncertain of its directive. In Astoria, Oregon, Stephanie Speck (who cares for animals and mistakes Number 5 for an extraterrestrial visitor) grants Number 5 access to books, television, and other stimuli, to satisfy his hunger for 'input'; whereupon Number 5 develops a whimsical and curious childlike personality. When Stephanie realizes Number 5 is a military invention, she contacts NOVA who send out a team to recover him, bringing one of the other robots along to help. When Number 5 accidentally crushes a grasshopper and gains an understanding of mortality, he concludes that if NOVA disassembles him he too will cease to be alive. Horrified, Number 5 steals Stephanie's van and flees; but the pair are cornered by NOVA, including Newton and Ben. Although Stephanie attempts to reveal his newly discovered sentience, Number 5 is deactivated and captured. Being taken on the way to NOVA, he manages to turn himself back on and escapes despite a tracker that had been placed on him. Returning to Stephanie for protection, Number 5's unusual actions catch the attention of his creators, but NOVA's CEO Dr. Howard Marner turns a deaf ear to their wild hypothesis.
Big Trouble, 1h33
Directed by John Cassavetes, Andrew Bergman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo, Charles Durning, Robert Stack, Paul Dooley
Roles Helen
Rating52% 2.6057552.6057552.6057552.6057552.605755
Leonard Hoffman is a Los Angeles insurance agent with a problem on his hands. He has teenage triplets who are all gifted musicians, but wife Arlene insists that the kids attend college at Yale, requiring more than $40,000 in tuition, rather than less expensive schools like nearby UCLA.