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Joan Van Ark is a Actor American born on 16 june 1943 at New York City (USA)
Joan Van Ark (born June 16, 1943) is an American actress, known for her role as Valene Ewing on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing. A life member of The Actors Studio, she made her Broadway debut in 1966 in Barefoot in the Park. In 1971, she won a Theatre World Award and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the revival of The School for Wives.
Van Ark landed her most famous role of Valene Ewing in 1978, first on the CBS series Dallas, then for 13 seasons on its spin-off Knots Landing (1979–92). For this role, she won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Actress in 1986 and 1989. She left the show in 1992, although she did return for the final episode of the series in 1993 and for the 1997 miniseries Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac. In 1985, she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination as host of the Tournament of Roses Parade on CBS. From 2004-2005, she starred in the soap opera The Young and the Restless. She reprised her role of Valene in an episode of the new Dallas series in 2013.
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Joan Van Ark
Van Ark landed her most famous role of Valene Ewing in 1978, first on the CBS series Dallas, then for 13 seasons on its spin-off Knots Landing (1979–92). For this role, she won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Actress in 1986 and 1989. She left the show in 1992, although she did return for the final episode of the series in 1993 and for the 1997 miniseries Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac. In 1985, she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination as host of the Tournament of Roses Parade on CBS. From 2004-2005, she starred in the soap opera The Young and the Restless. She reprised her role of Valene in an episode of the new Dallas series in 2013.
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Van Ark married KNBC-TV former reporter John Marshall on February 1, 1966. The couple's only child, voice actress/performer Vanessa Marshall, was born in October 1969.Usually with
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Watercolor Postcards (2013)
Genres Drama
Actors Laura Bell Bundy, Bailee Madison, Conrad Goode, John C. McGinley, Jonathan Banks, Joan Van Ark
Roles Momma
Rating53%
In Bent Arrow, West Texas everything seems to have moved on. Left behind are a precocious 10-year-old named Cotton and Butch, a gentle soul whose life has taken him on a path of heartache from the rough world of pro football, through heart wrenching loss to a roadside stand where he paints Watercolor Postcards. Butch starts to believe he can find happiness again when a relationship blossoms between Cotton's long-lost sister, Sunny, who returns home, disillusioned, after the loss of their mother, and ends up facing her tortured past.
Diamond Zero (2005)
, 1h32Directed by David Gaz, Annelie Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action
Actors Bronson Pinchot, Tippi Hedren, Leo Rossi, Richard Moll, Joan Van Ark, Joseph Ruskin
Roles The Hemingway Diamond
Rating38%
Diamond Zero (2005)
, 1h32Directed by David Gaz
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action
Actors Tippi Hedren, Joan Van Ark, Bronson Pinchot, Leo Rossi, Tuesday Knight, Richard Moll
Roles The Hemingway Diamond
Rating38%
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Tornado Warning (2002)
, 1h28Directed by Tibor Takács
Genres Action
Themes Disaster films
Actors Gerald McRaney, Thea Gill, David Millbern, Steve Braun, Joan Van Ark
Roles Mayor McAnders
Rating41%
Inventeur d'un système qui permet de prévoir la formation des tornades, Jake Arledge met en garde les autorités d'une petite bourgade de l'imminence de vents d'une violence exceptionnelle. Confronté à leur inertie, il continue néanmoins d'alerter la population, indifférente elle aussi et surtout impatiente de fêter l'anniversaire de la création de la ville. Alors que tous prennent enfin conscience du danger, il est déjà trop tard...
Held for Ransom (2000)
, 1h28Directed by Lee Stanley
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Actors Dennis Hopper, Zachery Ty Bryan, Kam Heskin, Tsianina Joelson, Jordan Brower, Randy Spelling
Roles Nancy Donavan
Rating44%
Five spoiled high-school students are kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote swamp area.
Loyal Opposition (1998)
, 2hOrigin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Politique, Political films, White House in fiction
Actors Joan Van Ark, Nick Mancuso, Rick Springfield, Lloyd Bochner, Corbin Bernsen, Don Diamont
Roles Vice President Elizabeth Lane
Rating33%
When a terrorist surfaces, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General James Metzger (Nick Mancuso) urges President Mark Hayden (Lloyd Bochner) for a military response. However, the President prefers to try negotiating. So, the General takes the President hostage and launches an offensive of his own. The first female Vice President Elizabeth Lane (Joan Van Ark) is the only one who can do something about it and must fight mutineers in the White House to rescue him.
A Mother's Deception (1994)
, 1h31Directed by Chuck Bowman
Origin USA
Actors Joan Van Ark, Dr. Stephen Macht, Brooke Langton, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Kevin McNulty, Matthew Walker
Roles Nora McGill
Rating55%
When Nora McGill (Van Ark) is turned down for a loan officer position at the bank she works, by her boss Travis (McNulty), she starts to suffer from a mild depression. Her husband Harry (Macht) and teenage daughter Kim (Langton) start to estrange from Nora, as she becomes more bothered by chronic pains. A visit from her doctor (Walker) confuses her, as Dr. Jaffe is not able to diagnose any medical problems. She is then contacted by psychotherapist Dr. Brian Allen, who suggests her to visit one of his sessions. Little does Nora know, that Brian is a fanatical member of a religious cult, and is a fraud who wants to indoctrinate Nora.
Always Remember I Love You (1990)
, 1h35Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Stephen Dorff, Patty Duke, Joan Van Ark, Richard Masur, David Birney, Sam Wanamaker
Roles Martha Mendham
Rating78%
Shortly after Robert Mendham (played by Stephen Dorff) turns 16, he finds out from his parents (David Birney and Joan Van Ark) that he was not only adopted, but stolen from his childhood home (a fact unknown by his parents until that time).
My First Love (1988)
, 1h33Directed by Gilbert Cates
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Richard Kiley, Beatrice Arthur, Joan Van Ark, Barbara Barrie, Anne Francis, Richard Herd
Roles Claire Thomas
Rating61%
The story revolves around an older widowed woman reconnecting with her high school sweetheart after not seeing him for thirty-five years.
The Last Dinosaur (1977)
, 1h32Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Children's films
Actors Richard Boone, Joan Van Ark, Steven Keats
Roles Francesca Banks
Rating53%
Wealthy big-game hunter Maston Thrust (Richard Boone) has a multi-million dollar company, "Thrust INC.", which successfully drills for oil under the polar caps with a manned laser drill, called the "Polar Borer". When only one man returns from a Bore Expedition, Thurst calls a press conference. It appears that the borer was going through a routine check in the icecaps when it suddenly surfaced in a valley which was super-heated by a volcano. The crew, all except for geologist Chuck Wade (Steven Keats), get out of the Polar Borer and explore the strange area. Once ashore, they end up being eaten by a giant prehistoric Tyrannosaurus Rex. Chuck is able to make it back to tell their tale and Thrust decides to go there himself to study the creature. Along with Thrust and Chuck, there will be three others: Bunta (Luther Rackley), a Maasai tracker; Dr. Kawamoto (Tetsu Nakamura); and Frankie Banks (Joan Van Ark) a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer selected by the Press Pool. Maston, being his sexist self, goes on about how he's never taken a woman on his journeys and that he's not going to change now. But with some clever persuasion at a dinner for the crew, Frankie manages to convince Thrust to allow her on the expedition.
Frogs (1972)
, 1h31Directed by George McCowan
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Natural horror films, Reptile
Actors Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark, Adam Roarke, Judy Pace, Lynn Borden
Roles Karen Crockett
Rating44%
Wildlife photographer Pickett Smith (Sam Elliott) is taking photographs of the local flora and fauna as he canoes through a swamp surrounding an island upon which the affluent mansion estate of the wealthy and influential Crockett family is located. Also evident throughout the swamp are numerous indicators of pollution, which Pickett believes are connected to the pesticides the Crockett's use on their island plantation. After Clint (Adam Roarke) accidentally tips over Smith's canoe, he and his sister Karen (Joan Van Ark) escort Smith to the family mansion, where he meets the entire Crockett family. The grouchy, wheelchair-bound patriarch, Jason (Ray Milland), intends on spending the next day enjoying both the 4th of July and his own birthday celebrations uninterrupted. Due to the mutual dislike of the fauna around the mansion, Jason has sent a man named Grover to spray pesticide in order to get rid of the amphibians. Pickett later discovers Grover's corpse covered in snake bites in the swamp not far from the house. Despite this warning, Jason continues with his celebrations the next day.
Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
, 2h6Directed by Robert D. Webb, David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Military humor in film, Political films
Actors Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall, Eddie Albert, Marc Cavell
Rating68%
In 1944, Captain Josiah Newman (Peck) is head of the neuro-psychiatric Ward 7 at the Colfax Army Air Field military hospital, located in the Arizona desert. As he explains to a visiting VIP who wanders in: "We're short of beds, doctors, orderlies, nurses, everything ... except patients." He will use unconventional tactics to treat his patients and to recruit much needed personnel, as when he hijacks a new and very reluctant orderly, Corporal Jackson Leibowitz (Curtis), a wheeler-dealer from New Jersey. Leibowitz promptly has the entire ward participating in a sing-along of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm.