Dixie CarterFilmography

Born:: May 25, 1939 in McLemoresville, TN
Occupation:: Actor, Executive Producer
Birth name:: Dixie Virginia Carter
Biography:: The epitomical "Southern belle," radiant with finesse, grace, and an aura of down-home hospitality, Tennessee-born actress and chanteuse Dixie Carter received her broadest exposure on television thanks to two memorable sitcom roles: that of TV exercise hostess Maggie McKinney, spunky romantic...Read More

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That Evening Sun

Actors: Hal Holbrook, Ray McKinnon, Walton Goggins, Mia Wasikowska, Carrie Preston

Synopsis: An aging farmer fights to keep the home that is rightfully his after fleeing from a nursing home and discovering that his son has leased the family farm to his old nemesis. Placed in a nursing home by his son and promptly forgotten, Abner Meecham (Hal Holbrook) realized that waiting to die was no Read More

11/6/09
The Designing Women Reunion

Actors: Meshach Taylor, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, Jean Smart

Synopsis: The cast and creators of the popular sitcom Designing Women are reassembled in this hour-long special originally telecast on the Lifetime cable channel. Yielding 164 episodes from 1986 to 1993, Designing Women centered around the Atlanta design firm headquartered in the home of loquacious feminist Read More

2003
Comfort and Joy

Actors: Nancy McKeon, Steven Eckholdt

Synopsis: A workaholic advertising executive discovers that there may just be more to life than the daily grind in this warmhearted Christmas comedy from director Maggie Greenwald. Jane (Nancy McKeon) is a type-A go-getter who has little time to think about such things as family and the holiday spirit, but Read More

2003
Intimate Portrait: Dixie Carter

2001
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

Actors: Robby Benson, Dixie Carter, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: Robbie Benson lends his inimitable vocal stylings to this animated feature based on the book by L. Frank Baum. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

2000
Wallowitch & Ross: This Moment

Actors: John Wallowitch, Bertram Ross

Synopsis: Documentarian Richard Morris examines both the onstage and offstage lives of veteran cabaret entertainers John Wallowitch and Bertram Ross. Since 1984, Wallowitch and Ross have been a performing duo, entertaining nightclub audiences with such acid-tongued musical parodies as "If You Don't Love Me Read More

12/10/99
Ladies Man [TV Series]

Actors: Alfred Molina, Sharon Lawrence, Betty White, Park Overall, Stephen Root

1999
Family Law [TV Series]

Actors: Kathleen Quinlan, Julie Warner, Christopher McDonald, Dixie Carter

1999
The Big Day

Actors: Julianna Margulies, Ivan Sergei, Kevin Tighe, Dixie Carter, Clayton Rohner

Synopsis: Julianna Margulies and Ivan Sergei star in this romantic comedy about a wedding gone awry when the bridegroom's recovering alcoholic brother reveals that he slept with the bride years previously. The revelation causes groom John to get cold feet and the bride's controlling mother Carol (Dixie Carter Read More

1999
Gone in the Night

Synopsis: Were it not based on a true story, this two-part TV movie could well have been dismissed as a grotesque nightmare. The story begins in 1988, when the Chicago home of Cindi and David Dowaliby (Shannen Doherty, Kevin Dillon) is invaded by person or persons unknown, who kidnap and murder their Read More

1996
Dazzle

Actors: Lisa Hartman, Cliff Robertson, James Farentino, Dixie Carter

Synopsis: Based on a popular novel by Judith Krantz, this sudsy romantic drama features a prominent photographer who heads to Gay Paree, unaware that greedy family members are plotting to bilk her father out of his valuable ranch land. Love blossoms in the City of Light when she encounters a fellow picture Read More

1995
The Gambler V: Playing for Keeps

Actors: Kenny Rogers, Loni Anderson

Synopsis: Kenny Rogers returns as Brady Hawkes, the Gambler, in this made-for-TV Western. Brady's son Jeremiah (Kris Kamm) is now an adult, and seems to have followed his father's footsteps into a life of adventure; however, Brady learns that Jeremiah has taken a far more dangerous path and has joined the Read More

1994
Dixie Carter's Yoga for You: Unworkout II

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This is Dixie Carter's second Unworkout video and in it she leads viewers through two 20-minute yoga sessions and one ten-minute relaxation break. The first workout is designed to get viewers off to a good start in the morning and consists of a series of silken movements, including the arrow Read More

1994
Designing Women: Season 07

Actors: Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, Jan Hooks, Judith Ivey, Meshach Taylor

1992
Dixie Carter's Unworkout

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Featuring southern belle Dixie Carter of Designing Women, this 70-minute "unworkout'" is a spiritual deliverance of activity. Encompassing many unique disciplines -- including yoga, stretching, deep breathing, and dance -- this video blends essence with exercise and renders a more relaxed, toned Read More

1992
Reading Rainbow: Come a Tide

Actors: LeVar Burton

Synopsis: Severe weather is the topic discussed in Reading Rainbow: Come a Tide, as host LeVar Burton demonstrates how to make a rain gauge and offers a segment on the effects of Hurricane Hugo, the gigantic storm that hit South Carolina many years ago. Come a Tide by George Ella Lyon deals with a small Read More

1992
Designing Women: Season 06

Actors: Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, Julia Duffy, Jan Hooks, Meshach Taylor

1991
Designing Women: Season 05

Actors: Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Jean Smart, Annie Potts, Meshach Taylor

1990
Designing Women: Season 04

Actors: Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Jean Smart, Annie Potts, Meshach Taylor

1989
Designing Women: Season 03

Actors: Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Jean Smart, Annie Potts, Meshach Taylor

1988
Designing Women: Season 02

Actors: Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Jean Smart, Annie Potts, Meshach Taylor

1987
Designing Women: Season 01

Actors: Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Jean Smart, Annie Potts, Meshach Taylor

1986
Diff'rent Strokes: Season 07

Actors: Gary Coleman, Conrad Bain, Todd Bridges, Dana Plato

1984
Going Berserk

Actors: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Alley Mills, Pat Hingle, Elizabeth Kerr

Synopsis: In this comedy, a stuffy congressman is dismayed when he discovers that his beloved daughter intends to marry limousine driver John Bourgignon (John Candy). While intending to put on a good show for his father-in-law to be, John is captured by some political opponents of the congressman. His Read More

1983
Quincy, M.E.: The Face of Fear

Synopsis: Venturing outside for the first time in years, Vicki Maguire (Carrie Snodgress), who suffers from severe agoraphobia, has no sooner begun walking along a beach when she sees what appears to be a murder in progress. Unfortunately, when Vicki alerts the authorities, no body is found, nor any other Read More

1982
The Killing of Randy Webster

Synopsis: After allegedly stealing a customized van, 17-year-old Randy Webster (Gary McCleery) is chased down by the Houston police. Randy is killed in a car crash; on his body is found a weapon, supposedly the one used in the commission of the van theft. But Randy's father (Hal Holbrook) suspects that the Read More

1981
OHMS

Synopsis: In this ecologically aware drama, local farmers rally together to stop an avaricious power company from running million-volt lines across their lands. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1980