Priscilla Pointer
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American character actress Priscilla Pointer was the wife of famed theatrical director Jules Irving, and the mother of actress Amy Irving and writer/director David Irving. After extensive theatrical experience, Pointer attained her first major TV job in the daytime drama Where the Heart Is (1969-73). She went on to play Mrs. Austin in From Here to Eternity (1980). Rebecca Barnes Wentworth in Dallas (1981-83) and Lillie in Call to Glory (1984-85). One of her more memorable film assignments was the 1976 chiller Carrie, in which she played the mother of the character played by her daughter Amy. Perhaps as a by-product of Carrie, Priscilla Pointer was engaged to play important roles in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) and the made-for-TVTwilight Zone: The Lost Classics (1994).
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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0% | Desert Heat |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Alone |
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— | 1998 |
64% | Carried Away |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | The Magic Bubble |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Runaway Father |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | The Flash |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | A Show of Force |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Disturbed |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | C.H.U.D. II |
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— | 1989 |
71% | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors |
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— | 1987 |
22% | From the Hip |
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— | 1987 |
94% | Blue Velvet |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Cannon Movie Tales: Rumpelstiltskin |
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— | 1986 |
82% | The Falcon and the Snowman |
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— | 1985 |
70% | Micki + Maude |
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— | 1984 |
57% | Twilight Zone: The Movie |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Mysterious Two |
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— | 1982 |
48% | Mommie Dearest |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | The Archer |
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— | 1981 |
75% | The Competition |
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— | 1980 |
50% | Honeysuckle Rose |
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— | 1980 |
85% | The Onion Field |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | The Great Texas Dynamite Chase |
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— | 1977 |
65% | Looking for Mr. Goodbar |
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— | 1977 |
9% | Nickelodeon |
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— | 1976 |
93% | Carrie |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | Eleanor and Franklin |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | Death Takes a Holiday |
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— | 1971 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Cold Case
2003-2010
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No Score Yet |
Judging Amy
1999-2005
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No Score Yet |
Touched by an Angel
1994-2003
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82% |
Picket Fences
1992-1996
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No Score Yet |
Newhart
1982-1990
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No Score Yet |
Too Close for Comfort
1980-1987
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No Score Yet |
The A-Team
1983-1987
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No Score Yet |
Quincy, M.E.
1976-1983
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No Score Yet |
Dallas
1978-1991
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No Score Yet |
Kojak
1973-1978
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No Score Yet |
The Rockford Files
1974-1980
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Quotes from Priscilla Pointer's Characters
Phillip: | Can I interject something just to save us all some time? |
Dr. Neil Goldman: | Sure, Phillip. Go ahead. |
Phillip: | Well, according to our kind hosts, our dreams are a group psychosis; sort of a mellow mass hysteria. The fact that we all dreamt about this guy before we ever met doesn't impress anybody. So we go in circles making minimal progress with maximum effort. |
Dr. Elizabeth Simms: | You won't make any progress until you recognize your dreams for what they are. |
Nancy Thompson: | And what are they? |
Dr. Elizabeth Simms: | The by-products of guilt; psychological scars stemming from moral conflicts and overt sexuality. |
Kincaid: | Oh, great. Now it's my di*k that's killing me. |
Dr. Elizabeth Simms: | I'm not going to take any more of this. How much longer are you going to go on blaming your dreams for your own weaknesses? |
Kincaid: | Lady, how much longer you gonna keep blowing smoke up our ass? |
Dr. Neil Goldman: | That's enough, Kincaid! |
Dr. Elizabeth Simms: | There will be no repeat occurrences of last night's events. From now on your doors will be locked during sleeping hours. We'll start a policy of evening sedation for everybody. |
Kincaid: | The fu*k you will! Anybody tries drugs on me gets his ass kicked! |
Dr. Elizabeth Simms: | Well, you just bought yourself a night in the quite room, Mister. Now sit down! |
Kincaid: | Fu*k you! You sit down! |
Mrs. Snell: | Mrs. White, I'd like to contribute five...ten dollars. |
Mrs. Snell: | Mrs. White, I'd like to contribute five, ten dollars. |
Margaret White: | I see. I pray you find Jesus. |
Margaret White: | These are godless times, Mrs. Snell. |
Mrs. Snell: | I'll drink to that. |