Barbara Bel GeddesFilmography

Dallas: Season 12

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Barbara Bel Geddes, Charlene Tilton

Synopsis: Having avoided getting shot by his frustrated wife, Sue Ellen (Linda Gray), at the end of Dallas' 11th season, ruthless oil tycoon J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) decides to relax a bit as season 12 gets under way. Embarking on a hunting trip to Arkansas, serial philanderer J.R. has brief tryst with Read More

Dallas: Season 11

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Barbara Bel Geddes, Steve Kanaly

Synopsis: Although Victoria Principal had left Dallas at the end of season ten, by the time the series' 11th season rolled around, Principal's character, Pamela Ewing, was still lingering about, swathed in bandages after being seriously injured in a car accident. As if to lead viewers to the conclusion that Read More

Dallas: Season 10

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: At the tail end of Dallas' ninth season, Pamela Ewing (Victoria Principal) was awakened from her troubled slumbers by the sound of a familiar voice in her bathroom. Investigating, she peeked past the shower curtains -- and was astonished to find her ex-husband, Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy), who had Read More

Dallas: Season 09

Actors: Larry Hagman, Linda Gray, Barbara Bel Geddes, Steve Kanaly, Ken Kercheval

Synopsis: The infamous ninth season of Dallas begins with Pamela Ewing (Victoria Principal) grieving over the death of her ex-husband Bobby, who was killed saving Pamela from her vengeful half-sister, Katherine Wentworth. To Pamela, the whole situation seems like one horrible nightmare -- and as it turns Read More

Dallas: Season 07

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Barbara Bel Geddes, Charlene Tilton

Synopsis: The fire that trapped J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman), his wife, Sue Ellen (Linda Gray), their son, John Ross (now played by Omri Katz), and J.R.'s half-brother, Ray (Steve Kanaly), in the Southfork mansion at the end of Dallas' sixth season is still raging as season seven begins. Fortunately, J.R. et Read More

Dallas: Season 06

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: Season six of Dallas opens with the resolution of the cliffhanger that ended season five, as Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval), hated rival of conniving oil tycoon J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman), recovers from his suicide attempt. Though ostensibly ruined and disgraced through J.R.'s machinations, Cliff Read More

Dallas: Season 05

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: Having closed its fourth season with the unidentified body of a young woman floating in the Ewing family swimming pool, Dallas launches its fifth season by casting suspicion of murder on both of the series' chief antagonists: the cunning, consciousless Texas oil tycoon J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) Read More

Dallas: Season 04

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: "Who shot J.R.?" Those were the words on the lips of Dallas fans throughout the world as the popular prime-time serial launched its fourth season on CBS. Speculation ran high over the identity of the person who, at the tail end of season three, had pumped several slugs in the chest of the Read More

Dallas: Season 03

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: Steadily building up its viewership during its first few seasons, Dallas certainly gives its fans their money's worth during season three, which begins as the newborn son of the delightfully demonic oil tycoon J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) and his wife, Sue Ellen (Victoria Principal), is kidnapped. Read More

Dallas: Season 02

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: Having proven itself as a viewer magnet during its five-episode trial in the spring of 1978, the multi-plotted prime-time serial Dallas launched its second season (and its first "full" one) in the fall of that same year, though it would not be until the series was moved from Saturday to Friday Read More

Dallas: Season 01

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: Dallas begins its original five-week trial run as Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy), youngest son of Texas oil millionaire Jock Ewing (James Davis), shows up at Southfork, his family's estate, with new bride Pamela Barnes (Victoria Principal) in tow. "Your folks are gonna throw me off the ranch" worries Read More

Our Town

Actors: Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, Sada Thompson, John Houseman, Hal Holbrook, Glynnis O'Connor, Robby Benson, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: This videotaped version of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play Our Town stars Hal Holbrook as the Stage Manager. Acting as narrator and assuming several different interlocutory roles throughout the production, Holbrook shows us life in Grovers Corners, New Hampshire, in the first few years of Read More

The Todd Killings

Synopsis: Also known as A Dangerous Friend, this real-life-based drama tells of a young man with a penchant for sex and violence. In addition, he seems to possess a kind of mental control over a group of peers who protect the charismatic murderer from authorities. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Summertree

Actors: Kirk Callaway, Dennis Clark Fimple

Synopsis: As he lies dying in Vietnam, a young soldier (Michael Douglas) recalls the events leading up to this moment. He remembers his sweetheart (Brenda Vaccaro), to whom he couldn't make a commitment. He recalls the battles he'd had with his parents (Jack Warden, Barbara Bel Geddes), when he forsook Read More

The Shuttered Room

Actors: Gig Young, Carol Lynley, Oliver Reed, Flora Robson, William Devlin

Synopsis: Another semi-successful attempt to adapt the works of American fantasist H.P. Lovecraft to the screen, this is loosely based on the short story The Shuttered Room (also an alternate release title for the film), a story which is purported to be more the work of "posthumous collaborator" August Read More

By Love Possessed

Actors: Lana Turner, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Jason Robards, Jr., George Hamilton, Susan Kohner

Synopsis: There's always something simmering beneath the quaint and placid surface of small-town New England lives -- and that includes the usual maladies of alcoholism, rape, and suicide. At least this is the case if you go by the tortuous tale told in By Love Possessed, a Peyton Place knock-off, directed Read More

Five Branded Women

Actors: Silvana Mangano, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau, Carla Gravina

Synopsis: Once branded himself by the House Un-American Activities Committee, award-winning director Martin Ritt focuses on the cruel branding of five women in this standard wartime drama. Some of his better-known films (The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Norma Rae) also deal with the question of social and Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Sybilla

Synopsis: Upon wedding the lovely Sybilla (Barbara Bel Geddes), lifelong bachelor Horace Meade (Alexander Scourby) has second thoughts and asks for a divorce. When she refuses to give him one, he begins making entries in his diary, apparently plotting Sybilla's murder. In truth, he is only fantasizing, but Read More

The Five Pennies

Actors: Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino, Tuesday Weld, Bob Crosby

Synopsis: The Five Pennies is the life story of influential jazz cornetist Red Nichols, played here by a remarkably straight-faced Danny Kaye. The somewhat romanticized screenplay chronicles Nichols' rise from obscurity, annotates the many future bandleaders who would play with Nichols' "Five Pennies," and Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Morning of the Bride

Synopsis: This 1959 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents could well be described as a precursor to Hitchcock's upcoming theatrical feature Psycho. Helen Brewster (Barbara Bel Geddes) wants to wed her much-younger boyfriend, Philip Pryor (Don Dubbins), but he keeps putting off the wedding, explaining that Read More

Vertigo

Actors: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones

Synopsis: Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcock's finest films (and, according to Hitchcock, his most personal one), this adaptation of the French novel D'entre les morts weaves an intricate web of obsession and deceit. It opens as Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Foghorn

Synopsis: In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, Lucia Clay (Barbara Bel Geddes) attends a party where she announces her engagement to John St. Roger (Bartlett Robinson). That very same evening, however, Lucia meets and falls in love with handsome Allen Bliss (Michael Rennie) -- who happens to be married. Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Lamb to the Slaughter

Synopsis: This classic Emmy-nominated episode stars Barbara Bel Geddes as Mary Maloney, the wife of philandering police chief Patrick Maloney (played by former cowboy star Allan Lane, best known to TV fans as the voice of Mister Ed). When Patrick comes home to tell his wife that he is leaving her for Read More

Fourteen Hours

Actors: Richard Basehart, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Agnes Moorehead, Debra Paget, Robert Keith

Synopsis: Henry Hathaway directed this high-tension drama about a man teetering on the verge of self-destruction and how his dilemma affects those around him. Robert Cosick (Richard Basehart) is a desperate and despondent young man who has never gotten along with his parents (Robert Keith and Agnes Moorehead Read More

Panic in the Streets

Actors: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel

Synopsis: Filmed entirely on location in New Orleans, Panic in the Streets stars Richard Widmark as Dr. Clinton Reed, a physician from the U.S. Health Service who must race against time to stop a plague. The carrier was an illegal alien, murdered by criminals Jack Palance and Zero Mostel. When local Read More

Caught

Actors: James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan, Ruth Brady, Curt Bois

Synopsis: It doesn't take a nuclear scientist to figure out that Smith Ohrig, the character played by Robert Ryan in Caught, is a thinly disguised takeoff of Howard Hughes. But whereas Howard Hughes was merely paranoid and eccentric, Smith Ohrig is an all-out psycho. Impulsively marrying ambitious model Read More

Blood on the Moon

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston, Walter Brennan, Phyllis Thaxter

Synopsis: One of the best "psychological" westerns of the 1940s, RKO Radio's Blood on the Moon stars Robert Mitchum as itinerant cowboy Jim Garry. Riding into a Texas Indian reservation, Garry finds himself embroiled in a deadly feud between cattle ranchers and homesteaders. He befriends both Amy Lufton (Barbara Bel Geddes Read More

I Remember Mama

Actors: Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oscar Homolka, Philip Dorn, Cedric Hardwicke

Synopsis: George Stevens's charming film version of Kathryn Forbes' collection of short stories entitled Mama's Bank Account features Irene Dunne as Mama in one of her finest and most ingratiating performances. The film is narrated by Mama's daughter Katrin (Barbara Bel Geddes), recalling the trials and Read More

The Long Night

Actors: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak, Howard Freeman, Elisha Cook, Jr.

Synopsis: Based upon the French film Le Jour Se Lève, The Long Night opens in the in the midst of a dire situation: ex-serviceman Joe Adams (Henry Fonda) finds himself holed up in his apartment, surrounded by policemen who soon open fire in a relentless and determined manner. Adams has been accused of Read More