Barbara TurnerFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Screenwriter
Biography:: American actress Barbara Turner played character roles in a few films of the '50s and '60s before becoming a successful screenwriter. Her daughter, Jennifer Jason Leigh, is a well-known actress. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide...Read More

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The Company

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell, James Franco, Barbara Robertson, William Dick, Joffrey Ballet

Synopsis: Robert Altman directs the musical drama The Company from an original story by actress Neve Campbell, based on her own experiences with The National Ballet of Canada. At the center of the ensemble cast is the young dancer Ry (Campbell), a rising star with the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. She Read More

12/25/03
Pollock

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Madigan, Jennifer Connelly, Jeffrey Tambor

Synopsis: Artist Jackson Pollock revolutionized American painting in the 1940's with his exciting abstract canvases that used dripped and splattered paint in a manner at once excitingly physical and structurally intelligent. While Pollock became a heroic figure in the art world, his private life was nothing Read More

12/15/00
Georgia

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mare Winningham, Ted Levine, Max Perlich, John Doe

Synopsis: An unflinching drama of frustrated ambition and troubled siblings, Georgia examines the relationship between a self-destructive, would-be rock singer and her sister, a successful folk musician. Sadie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is the younger, more troubled sister, a wild child with a taste for Read More

1995
Out of Darkness

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this drama, a woman attempts to recovering following a bout of schizophrenia. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Lassiter

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Selleck, Jane Seymour, Lauren Hutton, Bob Hoskins, Joe Regalbuto

Synopsis: This feature-length story about the heist of $10 million in Nazi diamonds primarily rides on star Tom Selleck's popularity as TV's Magnum, P.I., (a 1980s show), since the plot turnarounds, slighted character development, and stock situations are not that engaging on their own. The setting is 1934 Read More

1984
Sessions

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Veronica Hamel makes the first of several 1980s breaks from her Hill Street Blues image in the made-for-TV Sessions. Hamel plays Leigh Churchill, the sort of high-cost, high-class call girl who seemingly exists only on screen. As of late, Leigh's professional calls have been fewer and farther Read More

1983
Freedom

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: After a particularly bitter argument with her divorced mother, teenager Libby Bellow (Mare Winningham) runs away from home. Eventually, she links up with a traveling carnival and takes on a variety of responsibilities, in so doing coming to the realization that her life at home might not have been Read More

1981
The Dark Side of Innocence

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This pilot film for a TV series titled Hancock was initially telecast as The Dark Side of Innocence. The Hancocks are a tightly-knit, prosperous California family. Mom and Pop Hancock (John Anderson and Kim Hunter) oversee a thriving lumber business--when they're not refereeing the travails of Read More

1976
The Affair

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood

Synopsis: The made-for-TV movie The Affair (working title: Love Song) marked the return to television of Natalie Wood after an 18-year absence (her last regular small-screen work was on the 1954 sitcom The Pride of the Family). Wood plays a crippled 32-year-old songwriter whose handicap has made her cynical Read More

1973
Soldier Blue

Actors: Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, John Anderson, Jorge Rivero

Synopsis: A cavalry unit in Colorado is conducting two important cargoes to Fort Reunion, home of the 11th Colorado Volunteers: Cresta Marybelle Lee (Candice Bergen), the fiancée of an officer in the unit until two years ago, when she was taken by the Cheyenne, and who just escaped; and Captain Battles (Dana Elcar Read More

1970
Nightmare in Chicago

Synopsis: Based on the novel Death on the Turnpike by William P. McGivern, Robert Altman's Nightmare in Chicago was expanded for theatrical release after it originally aired on NBC in 1964 on an episode of Kraft Suspense Theater. Filmed on-location in Chicago, this suspense thriller follows the story of a Read More

1968
Petulia

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain, Arthur Hill, Shirley Knight

Synopsis: Petulia is Richard Lester's ode to the Swinging Sixties: a time of psychedelic instability when neither those who were square, nor those who were hip, really had it right. George C. Scott is Archie Bollen, a divorced San Francisco doctor in the midst of "discovering himself." Julie Christie is Read More

1968
Deathwatch

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Leonard Nimoy, Michael Forest, Paul Mazursky

Synopsis: Who'd have thought that hardcase Combat star Vic Morrow would choose a Jean Genet play as his directorial debut? Deathwatch is set in a dank prison cell, where three inmates while away their time jockeying for power. Leonard Nimoy (who also produced) plays a condemned murderer, the unofficial Read More

1966
Operation Eichmann

Actors: Werner Klemperer, Ruta Lee, Donald Buka, Barbara Turner, John Banner

Synopsis: Released about five weeks before the Adolf Eichmann trial began in Jerusalem on April 11, 1961, this docudrama by director R.G. Springsteen was quickly dashed together to take advantage of the trial, and it shows. Overplaying Eichmann's venality and lacking any depth in characterization, the story Read More

1961
Monster from Green Hell

Synopsis: The American government inexplicably tries to send a box of wasps into space, but the mission ends when the rocket crashes in Africa. While on an expedition to recover the insects, an adventurer (Jimmy Lynn Davis) and his team finds the wasps have grown to immense proportions due to accidental Read More

1958
Wink of an Eye

Actors: Jonathan Kidd, Doris Dowling, Barbara Turner, Irene Seidner, Jaclynne Greene

Synopsis: The little-known British melodrama Wink of an Eye was given a brief American distribution by United Artists. Jonathan Kidd plays Atterbury, the apparently mild-mannered owner of a small perfume laboratory. No one suspects that Atterbury plans to murder his harridan of a wife (Jaclynne Greene) and Read More

1958
Two-Gun Lady

Actors: Peggie Castle, William Talman, Marie Windsor, Earle Lyon, Joe Besser

Synopsis: Peggie Castle is the Two-Gun Lady in this no-frills western. Castle plays Kate Masters, whose prowess with a gun earns her both fame and notoriety throughout the West. She returns to her hometown, intending to avenge the murder of her parents. Aiding and abetting Kate is U.S. marshal Dan Corbin (William Talman Read More

1956