Betsy Palmer Filmography

Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film

Synopsis: For decades fright fans have cowered in horror as vicious killers stalked their helpless prey in the cold flicker of the projector bulb and in darkened living rooms with the curtains firmly drawn. Now, for anyone who has ever wondered just what motivated the filmmakers behind these brutal Read More

The Fear: Halloween Night

Actors: Gordon Currie, Betsy Palmer, Stacy Grant

Synopsis: The wooden monster that terrorized a group of psychiatric patients in The Fear returns in this terrifying sequel starring Gordon Carrie, Brendan Beiser, Stacy Grant, and Betsy Palmer. This film was the feature-length directorial debut of Chris Angel, who won an Academy award for his short film Mr. Read More

The Fear: Resurrection

Actors: Gordon Currie, Stacy Grant, Betsy Palmer

Synopsis: In this sequel to the 1994 horror cult item, nearly 20 years after his father, a mass murderer named Morty, committed suicide in front of his mother and himself, Mike Hawthorne (Gordon Currie) invites several of his friends to his family's old cabin in the woods for a Halloween party. While Read More

Still Not Quite Human

Actors: Alan Thicke, Jay Underwood, Betsy Palmer, Christopher Neame, Sheelah Megill

Synopsis: In this Disney adventure, the third in a series, Chip, the android boy, must save his father from the cruel business magnate who has abducted him. To do so, he reconfigures his father's robotic look-a-like and then prepares to face the spooky Spartacus, his robotic nemesis. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Columbo: Death Hits the Jackpot

Actors: Peter Falk, Rip Torn, Jamie Rose, Gary Kroeger, Warren Berlinger

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, the rumpled detective battles wits with an unscrupulous jeweler over a dead nephew and a winning lotto ticket. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Something Borrowed, Someone Blue

Synopsis: Jessica's nephew Grady Fletcher (Michael Horton) and his fiancée Donna Mayberry (Debbie Zipp) have decided to get married in the home of Donna's parents (Eugene Roche, Gale Storm). With Jessica (Angela Lansbury) on the guest list, can murder be far behind? Not likely: This time the victim is Mr. Read More

Goddess of Love

Actors: Vanna White

Synopsis: First airing on television, this campy romantic fantasy stars Vanna White (best known as the "letter turner" on the long-running TV game show Wheel of Fortune) as Venus, the goddess of love. Normally she lives in Mount Olympus with the other Grecian gods, but when a hairdresser accidentally Read More

Windmills of the Gods

Actors: David Ackroyd, Michael Moriarty, Franco Nero, Jaclyn Smith

Synopsis: Windmills of the Gods was adapted for television by John Gay from a best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon. Jaclyn Smith plays an American college professor, appointed US ambassador to Romania. While attending a peace conference, Jaclyn's life is placed in jeopardy by an all-powerful secret Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Sticks and Stones

Synopsis: When Cabot Cove resident Beverly Garrett is electrocuted in her own bathtub in a locked bathroom, Sheriff Amos Tupper (Tom Bosley) is willing to write the tragedy off as an accident; Tupper, you see, is thinking about retirement, and has already hand-picked his successor. But Jessica (Angela Read More

Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter

Actors: Crispin Glover, Kimberly Beck, Barbara Howard, Erich Anderson, Corey Feldman

Synopsis: Hockey-masked killer Jason Vorhees returns to terrorize a lakeside family and their rowdy teen neighbors in this fourth installment of the long-running slasher series. After the events of Friday the 13th, Part 3, Jason's seemingly lifeless body is brought to the morgue, where horny attendant Axel (Bruce Mahler Read More

Falcon Crest: Season 03

Actors: Jane Wyman, Cliff Robertson, David Selby, Robert Foxworth, Susan Sullivan

Synopsis: Season Two of Falcon Crest ended as Julia Cumson (Abby Dalton), the demented sister of ruthless Tuscany Valley winery owner Angela Channing (Jane Wyman) and the mother of Angela's playboy grandson Lance (Lorenzo Lamas), revealed herself to be the murderer of Lance's father-in-law Carlo Read More

Falcon Crest: Season 02

Actors: Jane Wyman, Lana Turner, David Selby, Robert Foxworth, Susan Sullivan

Synopsis: Much of the action in Season Two of Falcon Crest is precipitated by the murder of Carlo Agretti (Carlos Romero) the father of Melissa Agretti (Ana Alicia), the ambitious wife of Lance Cumson (Lorenzo Lamas)--who in turn is the playboy grandson of ruthless Tuscany Valley winery owner Angela Read More

Friday the 13th, Part 2

Actors: Amy Steel, John Furey, Adrienne King, Kirsten Baker, Stuart Charno

Synopsis: Two months after the events of the original Friday the 13th, Alice (Adrienne King), the lone survivor or Mrs. Vorhees' killing spree, meets a grisly end in her city apartment. Five years later, a new group of co-eds converges near Camp Crystal Lake, scene of the original massacre and the drowning Read More

Isabel's Choice

Synopsis: Isabel (Jean Stapleton), a widowed executive secretary, is forced into early retirement by executive Lymon Jones (Richard Kiley), whom she herself trained. Actually, Jones has an ulterior motive; he's fallen in love with Isabel, and wants to marry her. Now Isabel must choose between Jones or Read More

Friday the 13th

Actors: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Robbi Morgan, Mark Nelson

Synopsis: One of the longest-running horror film series began with this gory shocker from director Sean S. Cunningham, who had previously produced Wes Craven's classic Last House on the Left. Entrepreneur Steve Christie (Peter Brouwer) re-opens Camp Crystal Lake after many years during which it has been Read More

It Happened to Jane

Actors: Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Steve Forrest, Teddy Rooney

Synopsis: Tipping over from a fluffy, enjoyable farce to a farce which takes itself seriously makes this imbalanced vehicle an oddly contradictory comedy-drama. Doris Day stars in a true-to-type performance as Jane Osgood, a spunky, pretty, wronged widow with two children. She manages her own lobster Read More

The Last Angry Man

Actors: Paul Muni, David Wayne, Betsy Palmer, Luther Adler, Joby Baker

Synopsis: In danger of losing his job, TV-producer David Wayne hopes to cook up a real ratings winner by building a network special around the life and work of elderly doctor Paul Muni. For the past 45 years, the iconoclastic Muni has run a free clinic in the slums of Brooklyn. Muni has no time for Read More

Playhouse 90: No Time at All

Actors: William Lundigan, Jane Greer, Betsy Palmer, Keenan Wynn, Cliff Edwards

Synopsis: Every so often, the prestigious 1950s CBS anthology Playhouse 90 would digress from its "live" format and offer a sumptuously produced film presentation. One of these was the suspenseful 1958 offering No Time at All, a fascinating precursor to the Airport films of the 1970s. On a routine night Read More

The True Story of Lynn Stuart

Actors: Betsy Palmer, Jack Lord, Barry Atwater, Kim Spalding, Karl Lukas

Synopsis: In this realistic crime drama, a Santa Ana housewife, anxious to somehow avenge the drug-related death of her nephew, offers to help the Orange County cops break up a big drug ring. The woman then goes undercover and becomes the girl friend of the ring leader. She accompanies him to Tijuana and Read More

The Tin Star

Actors: Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, Michael Ray, Neville Brand, Lee Van Cleef

Synopsis: Taciturn marshal-turned-bounty hunter Henry Fonda rides into a small town where greenhorn deputy Anthony Perkins is sole representative of the law. Sensing that the boy could use some seasoning, Fonda makes it his mission to teach Perkins how to protect himself against the criminal element. Though Read More

The Long Gray Line

Actors: Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Francis, Ward Bond, Donald Crisp

Synopsis: The life story of West Point athletic director Marty Maher was the inspiration for John Ford's The Long Gray Line. Told in flashback, the film recalls the first days at the Point for Irish immigrant Maher (Tyrone Power), a pugnacious boy who can't seem to fit in with the institution's regimen of Read More

Marty

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti, Augusta Ciolli, Joe Mantell

Synopsis: Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar-winning slice-of-life drama is a heartwarming story about Marty Pilletti (Ernest Borgnine), a lonely Bronx butcher. Marty is a burly but gentle man, easing into middle age without much hope for romance or a career. He lives at home with his mother (Esther Minciotti), a kind Read More

Queen Bee

Actors: Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, Betsy Palmer, John Ireland, Lucy Marlow

Synopsis: Queen Bee offers a stinging portrait of a mad, manipulative woman and chronicles her downfall and that of those around her in this dark drama. On first meeting, Eva Phillips (portrayed with delicious viciousness by Joan Crawford) is the epitome of Southern graciousness and charm. She and her Read More

Mister Roberts

Actors: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon, Betsy Palmer

Synopsis: Henry Fonda returned to films after an eight-year absence in this masterful adaptation of the actor's Broadway hit Mister Roberts. Written and partially directed by Joshua Logan, the film stars Fonda as Lt. Doug Roberts, chief cargo officer of the supply ship "Reluctant." WW2 is in its last few Read More

Goodyear TV Playhouse: "Marty"

Studio One: Sentence of Death

Actors: James Dean, Betsy Palmer

Studio One: The River Garden

I've Got a Secret [TV Series]