Sandy Dennis
Sandra Dale "Sandy" Dennis (April 27, 1937 – March 2, 1992) was an American actress. She made her film debut in the drama Splendor in the Grass (1961). For her performance in the comedy-drama film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Dennis appeared in the films The Three Sisters (1966), Up the Down Staircase (1967), That Cold Day in the Park (1969), The Out-of-Towners (1970), God Told Me To (1976), The Four Seasons (1981), Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982), and Another Woman (1988). Her final film appearance came in the crime drama film The Indian Runner (1991).
Dennis had a successful career on stage, appearing in the original stage production of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. For her performance in the play A Thousand Clowns, she received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. For her performance in the play Any Wednesday, she received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.765 |
Birthday | 1937-04-27 |
Place of Birth | Hastings, Nebraska, USA |
Also Known As | Sandra Dale Dennis, |
1966
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
7.718/797
A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the...
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1970
The Out-of-Towners
6.8/122
George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.
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The Out-of-Towners
1988
976-EVIL
5.11/118
A bullied unpopular high school student named Hoax finds an ad for 976-EVIL, a number that provides daily 'horrorscopes'. But when he calls the number...
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976-EVIL
1988
Another Woman
6.8/252
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acousti...
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Another Woman
1976
God Told Me To
5.792/137
A repressed Catholic NYPD detective uncovers a netherworld of deranged faith, alien insemination and his own unholy connection to a homicidal messiah...
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God Told Me To
1981
The Four Seasons
6.104/48
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, par...
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The Four Seasons
1991
The Indian Runner
6.536/137
Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent...
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The Indian Runner
1989
Parents
5.9/161
Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950s suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his p...
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Parents
1961
Splendor in the Grass
7.5/265
A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madne...
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Splendor in the Grass
1967
Up the Down Staircase
6.9/22
Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an...
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Up the Down Staircase
1981
The Animals Film
9/1
The film offers a comprehensive examination of the exploitation of animals in modern society.
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The Animals Film
1969
That Cold Day in the Park
6.6/54
Frances Austen, a young, wealthy spinster, invites a mute teenager into her apartment after finding him freezing in the park next to where she lives....
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That Cold Day in the Park
1982
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
5.925/67
On the 20th anniversary of his death, the members of a James Dean fanclub gather at a five-and-dime for a reunion.
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Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
1967
The Fox
6.2/18
Jill Banford and Ellen March have built a good life together on a hardscrabble Canadian farm. Then handsome Paul Grenfell enters their isolated world,...
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The Fox
1972
Something Evil
5.467/45
A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants...
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Something Evil
1968
Sweet November
6.8/10
A woman refuses to let her romances last longer than one month.
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Sweet November
1977
Nasty Habits
5.5/4
In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way...
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Nasty Habits
1969
A Touch of Love
6.4/12
Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair w...
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A Touch of Love
1970
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
5/1
A famous heart surgeon finds out that a medical research foundation is being used for shady and illegal purposes.
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The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
1975
Mr. Sycamore
6/2
Jason Robards is a man who decides he'd rather be a tree.
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Mr. Sycamore
1985
The Execution
7.3/3
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local...
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The Execution
1978
Perfect Gentlemen
4/2
Women whose husbands are incarcerated decide to band together to rob a hotel safe.
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Perfect Gentlemen
1968
A Hatful of Rain
0/0
A 1968 made-for-television remake of the 1957 film, based on the disturbing 1956 Michael V. Gazzo play, as performed by members of The Actors' Studio...
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A Hatful of Rain
1966
The Three Sisters
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In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters and their brother live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Mosco...
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The Three Sisters
1980
Wilson's Reward
0/0
A missionary in the West Indies tries to change the ways of a drunken womanizer.
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