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Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 18, 1924
Died
April 28, 2025
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Pricilla Pointer
- پریسیلا پوینتر
Priscilla Pointer
0.5 Popularity
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-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
6.9
Mrs. Beaumont
Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
2011
7.8
Self
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010
6.3
Sally (voice)
Sweet Nothing in My Ear
2008
7.8
Lillian Vine (2006)
Cold Case
2003
7.0
Self
Acting 'Carrie'
2001
6.1
Mrs. Henry Howard
Inferno
1999
7.5
Margaret Palmer
Judging Amy
1999
6.5
Susan Hight
Alone
1997
5.4
Lily Henson
Carried Away
1996
7.2
Elizabeth Carpenter
Touched by an Angel
1994
Credits
Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
as Mrs. Beaumont
2011
6.9
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
as Self
2010
7.8
Sweet Nothing in My Ear
as Sally (voice)
2008
6.3
Cold Case
as Lillian Vine (2006)
2003
7.8
Acting 'Carrie'
as Self
2001
7.0
Inferno
as Mrs. Henry Howard
1999
6.1
Judging Amy
as Margaret Palmer
1999
7.5
Alone
as Susan Hight
1997
6.5
Carried Away
as Lily Henson
1996
5.4
Touched by an Angel
as Elizabeth Carpenter
1994
7.2
ER
as Mrs. Abernathy
1994
7.8
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
as Woman in cinema (segment "The Theatre")
1994
6.6
Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition
as Barbara
1994
5.0
The Magic Bubble
as Grandma
1993
2.2
Runaway Father
as Mary Bennett
1991
7.3
Disturbed
as Sr. Francine
1990
4.3
The Flash
as Nora Allen
1990
0.0
The Flash
as Nora Allen
1990
6.5
The Flash
as Nora Allen
1990
7.4
A Show of Force
as Alice Ryan
1990
4.8
A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story
as Tracey's Mother
1989
8.2
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
as Dr. Berlin
1989
4.4
Rumpelstiltskin
as Queen Grizelda
1987
3.9
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
as Dr. Elizabeth Simms
1987
6.7
From the Hip
as Mrs. Martha Williams
1987
5.8
Blue Velvet
as Mrs. Beaumont
1986
7.6
L.A. Law
as Judge Dorothy M. Pehlman
1986
7.0
Amazing Stories
as Charlie
1985
7.4
Amazing Stories
as woman on train (cameo)
1985
7.4
Generation
as Ellen Breed
1985
4.5
The Falcon and the Snowman
as Mrs. Lee
1985
6.4
Micki & Maude
as Diana Hutchison
1984
5.5
Call to Glory
as Lillie
1984
6.5
Twilight Zone: The Movie
as Miss Cox
1983
6.5
The A-Team
as Tracy Richter's Mother
1983
7.5
St. Elsewhere
as Marie Halloran
1982
5.6
Newhart
1982
7.1
Good-bye Cruel World
as Myra
1982
2.4
Mysterious Two
as She
1982
5.8
The Gift of Life
as Rosalee Boyer
1982
0.0
Mommie Dearest
as Mrs. Chadwick
1981
6.3
The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
as Hawk Lady
1981
5.6
The Competition
as Mrs. Donellan
1980
6.0
Honeysuckle Rose
as Rosella
1980
5.2
Stone
1980
6.0
Knots Landing
as Beatrice Handleman
1979
6.7
The Onion Field
as Chrissie Campbell
1979
6.0
Mrs. Columbo
as Mrs. Prior
1979
6.1
Dallas
as Rebecca Barnes Wentworth
1978
6.8
Dallas
as Rebecca Barnes Wentworth (credit only)
1978
6.8
What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
1977
4.5
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
as Mrs. Dunn
1977
6.3
Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night
as Laura Atherton
1977
7.0
A Killing Affair
as Judge Cudahy
1977
4.4
Lou Grant
as Elizabeth Driscoll
1977
7.3
The 3,000 Mile Chase
as Emma Dvorak
1977
0.0
🎬
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
as Missy LeHand
1977
4.4
Nickelodeon
as Mabel
1976
6.1
Carrie
as Mrs. Snell
1976
7.3
Quincy, M.E.
as Nurse Kathy Benson
1976
7.5
Quincy, M.E.
as Mrs. Neilson
1976
7.5
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
as Miss Harris
1976
4.8
The Keegans
as Helen Hunter McVey
1976
0.0
City of Angels
1976
5.2
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
as Jean MacArthur
1976
4.0
Kate McShane
as Mrs. Inerson
1975
5.0
Joe Forrester
1975
7.0
The Rockford Files
as Helen Morris
1974
7.6
Police Woman
1974
6.2
Police Woman
as Adele French
1974
6.2
Harry O
1974
4.6
Kojak
as Regina
1973
7.0
Barnaby Jones
as Nancy Moore
1973
6.9
ABC Afterschool Special
as Ruth Meredith
1972
6.4
The Failing of Raymond
as History Teacher
1971
6.0
Death Takes a Holiday
as Marion Chapman
1971
4.5
Cannon
1971
6.6
McCloud
1970
7.1
Where the Heart Is
1969
3.0
Adam-12
as Jacqueline Carey
1968
7.0
The High Chaparral
as Mrs.Colton
1967
6.6
China Smith
1952
0.0