Maureen Stapleton
Lois Maureen Stapleton (June 21, 1925 – March 13, 2006) was an American actress. She was the recipient of an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, two Tony Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, and is one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.945 |
Birthday | 1925-06-21 |
Place of Birth | Troy, New York, United States |
Also Known As | Lois Maureen Stapleton, |
1959
For Whom the Bell Tolls
0/0
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important br...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
1997
Addicted to Love
6.1/408
Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life leaves him for a suave Frenchman. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee...
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Addicted to Love
1985
Cocoon
6.624/1259
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.
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Cocoon
1970
Airport
6.408/377
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
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Airport
1986
The Money Pit
6.495/1101
After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-...
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The Money Pit
1988
Cocoon: The Return
6.516/978
The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows...
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Cocoon: The Return
1963
Bye Bye Birdie
5.9/95
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.
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Bye Bye Birdie
1953
Main Street to Broadway
6.5/2
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspira...
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Main Street to Broadway
1986
Heartburn
5.966/189
Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reser...
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Heartburn
1987
Nuts
6.301/113
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.
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Nuts
1994
Trading Mom
6/49
The Martin kids learn of a magic spell that will take them to the 'mommy market' so they can get a more user friendly model. After giving a few other...
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Trading Mom
1987
Made in Heaven
6.667/72
Deceased drifter Mike arrives in Heaven and quickly falls for newborn soul Annie, soon to start her assignment on Earth. When Annie leaves, Mike follo...
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Made in Heaven
1971
Plaza Suite
6/41
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role...
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Plaza Suite
1978
Interiors
6.841/340
When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughter...
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Interiors
1984
Johnny Dangerously
6.205/183
An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
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Johnny Dangerously
1985
Private Sessions
2/1
A therapist goes outside his office and into his patients' personal lives to help them. He is treating a man who is hearing sounds but apparently ther...
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Private Sessions
1960
The Fugitive Kind
6.894/104
Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dy...
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The Fugitive Kind
1981
Reds
6.9/326
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical co...
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Reds
1981
On the Right Track
5.333/3
Lester is a homeless shoeshine boy living in a railway station. He's got this funny knack for picking the winning horses' names out of the paper while...
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On the Right Track
1981
The Fan
5.9/48
A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen. However, when faced with rejection, the fan strikes out in increasingly vio...
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The Fan
1982
The Electric Grandmother
6.813/8
To a family whose children are traumatized by the death of their mother, help comes in a most bizarre way. They receive three pieces, that when joined...
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The Electric Grandmother
1959
Lonelyhearts
6.1/18
Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by cy...
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Lonelyhearts
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
7/6
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award...
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
1972
Dig: A Journey Into Earth
0/0
A boy and his dog take a wondrous trip under the earth's crust and through the geological eras of time, introducing children to geology in the form of...
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Dig: A Journey Into Earth
1994
The Last Good Time
6/2
A reclusive aging widower struggling with tax problems has a complete change in his views of life as he has a chance encounter with a young woman who...
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The Last Good Time
1979
The Runner Stumbles
6.8/7
Dick Van Dyke stars as a priest accused of murdering a nun. Directed by Stanley Kramer, this 1979 drama also features Kathleen Quinlan, Maureen Staple...
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The Runner Stumbles
1977
The Gathering
7/1
When Adam Thornton learns that he only has a little time left, he decides that he wants to make peace with his family. Only problem is that most of hi...
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The Gathering
1974
Voyage to Next
4.6/7
Mother Earth and Father Time converse about the choices humans make. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
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Voyage to Next
1984
America and Lewis Hine
6/4
Documentary about early 20th-century photographer Lewis Hine, who helped to expose grim working conditions in American factories and mines, especially...
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America and Lewis Hine
1962
A View from the Bridge
6.3/9
Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from...
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A View from the Bridge
1958
All the King's Men
0/0
The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, based upon the Robert Penn Warren...
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All the King's Men
1979
Lost and Found
6.4/9
While visiting Switzerland, an American college professor, Adam, keeps running into a divorced British secretary, Patricia, wherever they go. First th...
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Lost and Found
1988
Liberace: Behind the Music
4.3/3
A gifted classical pianist, fueled by poverty, Wladiziu Valentino Liberace was already playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17....
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Liberace: Behind the Music
1969
Trilogy
6/4
Trilogy is an anthology film of three adaptations of Truman Capote short stories: Miriam, Among the Paths to Eden and A Christmas Memory. It was liste...
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Trilogy
1973
Tennessee Williams' South
10/1
The brutes and the belles. The gadflies and the good ol' boys. The taboos and the profound truths. They're all part of a tennessee state of mind -- a...
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Tennessee Williams' South
1998
Wilbur Falls
4.2/4
A teen gives her graduation address and reveals her involvement in the disappearance of one her classmates, a boy who had taunted her. The film then m...
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Wilbur Falls
1988
Hello Actors Studio
6/1
After Lee Strasberg’s death in 1982, the most prestigious talents from the Actors Studio assumed the leadership of this exceptional organization. For...
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Hello Actors Studio
1992
Miss Rose White
6/4
Two sisters, one a Polish concentration camp survivor, the other safely relocated to America with her father, are reunited in New York in 1947.
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Miss Rose White
1975
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom
6.6/5
A middle-aged woman finds herself simply a widow, a grandmother and a person when a friend takes her to the Stardust Ballroom, a dance hall which recr...
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Queen of the Stardust Ballroom
1986
The Cosmic Eye
6.2/4
Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.
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The Cosmic Eye
1983
Alice in Wonderland
8/2
From the elaborate Broadway revival of the 1932 Eva Le Gallienne/Florida Friebus production comes a whimsical retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic.
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Alice in Wonderland
1987
Sweet Lorraine
0/0
Serio-comic look at the residents and staff of a Catskill Mountains resort during its final days.
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Sweet Lorraine
1976
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
4.8/4
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy w...
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1992
Last Wish
0/0
A woman with cancer seeks the assistance of her daughter in fulfilling her last wish - a wish to die with dignity.
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Last Wish
1992
Passed Away
5.4/14
Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving eccentric Scanian clan are drawn together in a test of...
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Passed Away
1992
Lincoln
7.2/4
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
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Lincoln
1974
Tell Me Where It Hurts
0/0
A housewife, increasingly disenchanted with her homemaker role, looks for new meaning in her life and organizes a discussion group, changing the lives...
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Tell Me Where It Hurts
1985
Night of 100 Stars II
8/2
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was t...
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Night of 100 Stars II
1979
The Gathering, Part II
0/0
Two Christmases have passed and widow Kate Thornton has taken over Thornton Industries and is wooed by a courtly financier.
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The Gathering, Part II
1998
Snow Cat
0/0
A grandmother tells her young grandchild the moving tale of a lonely girl and an unforgettable magical cat in this animated short narrated by Oscar®,...
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Snow Cat
1994
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
0/0
A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by t...
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1996
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
7.5/2
Jack Lemmon made over 60 films and received numerous awards, including eight Academy Award Nominations and two Oscars. Later in life, his achievement...
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Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
1979
Letters from Frank
0/0
When aging newspaper Editor Frank Miller is fired after decades of service and replaced by a computer, he cannot take this fate quietly. Frank becomes...
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Letters from Frank
1984
Sentimental Journey
6/2
A precocious child has a profound effect on the lives of a successful Broadway producer and her husband.
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Sentimental Journey
1984
Family Secrets
5/2
Three generations of women spend an emotional weekend that will change them forever.
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Family Secrets
1974
A Sunday Dinner
0/0
A homeless man and woman prepare for and enjoy a special Sunday dinner
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A Sunday Dinner
1979
The Muppets Go Hollywood
6.3/19
Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere of the Muppets' first feature film, The Muppet Movi...
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The Muppets Go Hollywood
1971
Summer of '42
6.7/142
Over the summer of 1942 on Nantucket Island, three friends -- Hermie, Oscy and Benjie -- are more concerned with getting laid than anything else. Herm...
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Summer of '42
1988
Doin' Time on Planet Earth
3.8/8
Ryan Richmond is an eccentric teenager living with his mother, father, sister and brother in the Holiday Inn they own in Sunnyvale, Arizona, the prune...
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Doin' Time on Planet Earth
1983
Montgomery Clift
4.4/5
A documentary incorporating footage of Montgomery Clift’s most memorable films; interviews with family and friends, and rare archival material stretch...
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Montgomery Clift
1982
Night of 100 Stars
6/1
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...
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