Priscilla Pointer
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Priscilla Marie Pointer (May 18, 1924 – April 28, 2025) was an American actress. She began her career in the theater in the late 1940s, including productions on Broadway. Later, Pointer moved to Hollywood and made appearances on television beginning in the early 1950s. Pointer was the mother of actress and singer Amy Irving, making her the former mother-in-law of filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Bruno Barreto. Description above from the Wikipedia article Priscilla Pointer, licensed under CC-BY-...
Known For
Filmography
Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
2011
as Mrs. Beaumont
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010
as Self
Sweet Nothing in My Ear
2008
as Sally (voice)
Cold Case
2003
as Lillian Vine (2006)
Acting 'Carrie'
2001
as Self
Inferno
1999
as Mrs. Henry Howard
Judging Amy
1999
as Margaret Palmer
Alone
1997
as Susan Hight
Carried Away
1996
as Lily Henson
Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition
1994
as Barbara
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
1994
as Woman in cinema (segment "The Theatre")
ER
1994
as Mrs. Abernathy
Touched by an Angel
1994
as Elizabeth Carpenter
The Magic Bubble
1993
as Grandma
Runaway Father
1991
as Mary Bennett
Disturbed
1990
as Sr. Francine
The Flash
1990
as Nora Allen
A Show of Force
1990
as Alice Ryan
The Flash
1990
as Nora Allen
A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story
1989
as Tracey's Mother
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
1989
as Dr. Berlin
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987
as Dr. Elizabeth Simms
Rumpelstiltskin
1987
as Queen Grizelda
From the Hip
1987
as Mrs. Martha Williams
Blue Velvet
1986
as Mrs. Beaumont
L.A. Law
1986
as Dorothy Pehlman
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985
as Mrs. Lee
Generation
1985
as Ellen Breed
Amazing Stories
1985
as Charlie
Amazing Stories
1985
as woman on train (cameo)
Micki & Maude
1984
as Diana Hutchison
Call to Glory
1984
as Lillie
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983
as Miss Cox
The A-Team
1983
as Tracy Richter's Mother
Mysterious Two
1982
as She
Good-bye Cruel World
1982
as Myra
The Gift of Life
1982
as Rosalee Boyer
St. Elsewhere
1982
as Marie Halloran
Newhart
1982
as Clara Whitscomber
Mommie Dearest
1981
as Mrs. Chadwick
The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
1981
as Hawk Lady
Honeysuckle Rose
1980
as Rosella
The Competition
1980
as Mrs. Donellan
Stone
1980
The Onion Field
1979
as Chrissie Campbell
Knots Landing
1979
as Beatrice Handleman
Mrs. Columbo
1979
as Mrs. Prior
Dallas
1978
as Rebecca Barnes Wentworth
Dallas
1978
as Rebecca Barnes Wentworth (credit only)
A Killing Affair
1977
as Judge Cudahy
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
1977
as Mrs. Dunn
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
1977
as Missy LeHand
Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night
1977
as Laura Atherton
The 3,000 Mile Chase
1977
as Emma Dvorak
What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
1977
Lou Grant
1977
as Elizabeth Driscoll
Carrie
1976
as Mrs. Snell
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
1976
as Miss Harris
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
1976
as Jean MacArthur
Nickelodeon
1976
as Mabel
The Keegans
1976
as Helen Hunter McVey
City of Angels
1976
as Mrs. Macklin
Quincy, M.E.
1976
as Nurse Kathy Benson
Quincy, M.E.
1976
as Mrs. Neilson
Kate McShane
1975
as Mrs. Inerson
Harry O
1974
as Constance Faraday
The Rockford Files
1974
as Helen Morris
Police Woman
1974
as Adele French
Kojak
1973
as Regina
Barnaby Jones
1973
as Nancy Moore
ABC Afterschool Special
1972
as Ruth Meredith
Death Takes a Holiday
1971
as Marion Chapman
The Failing of Raymond
1971
as History Teacher
Cannon
1971
as Dr. Janet Cochran
Cannon
1971
as Edith Cunningham
McCloud
1970
as Shirley
Adam-12
1968
as Jacqueline Carey
The Name of the Game
1968
as Miss Dalton
The High Chaparral
1967
as Mrs.Colton
China Smith
1952
as Iris Clark
China Smith
1952
as Carla Tilson