Estelle ParsonsFilmography

Love Letter

Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Campbell Scott, Estelle Parsons

Synopsis: In this romantic fantasy based on the short story by Jack Finney, Scotty Corrigan (Campbell Scott) is a young man who is engaged to be married, but is having second thoughts about his upcoming wedding. Scotty buys an antique desk and -- hidden in a secret compartment -- he finds a letter from a Read More

Roseanne: The Truth Be Told

Synopsis: Roseanne gets overwhelmed by producers and such who want to turn her life into a television movie. Bev (Estelle Parsons), Joyce (Ruta Lee), and Leon (Martin Mull) unwittingly tell stories about Roseanne to a local merchant, who ends up being a reporter in disguise. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Read More

Roseanne: Into That Good Night

Synopsis: In the two-part series conclusion episode, Darlene and David (Johnny Galecki) bring home their daughter, Harris Conner Healey, from the hospital. Bev (Estelle Parsons), Leon (Martin Mull), Scott (Fred Willard), and Nancy (Sandra Bernhard) come over to celebrate and order pizza. Leon and Scott Read More

Roseanne: Roseanne-Feld

Actors: Roseanne

Synopsis: Jackie and Mark (Glenn Quinn) watch female wrestling, D.J. and Heather (Heather Matarazzo) take their relationship to another level, and Bev (Estelle Parsons) introduces her new friend, Joyce (Ruta Lee). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

Touched By an Angel: Sandcastles

Synopsis: While vacationing at the beach, Monica (Roma Downey) and Rafael (Alexis Cruz) are swept up in a search for a boy named Scooter Fisher, who has left an ominous and rather desperate message in a bottle. Complicating matters is the fact that no one seems to have ever heard of Scooter Fisher, and that Read More

Looking for Richard

Actors: Al Pacino, Harris Yulin, Penelope Allen, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey

Synopsis: A workshop of William Shakespeare's Richard III inspires actor-director Al Pacino's breezy documentary, which aims to make the playwright accessible to contemporary American audiences. Though a noteworthy cast of stage actors and Hollywood stars (including Kevin Spacey, Winona Ryder, and Alec Baldwin Read More

Roseanne: Mothers and Other Strangers

Synopsis: Roseanne misses Dan, so she visits Nana Mary (Shelley Winters) with Leon (Martin Mull) and Scott (Fred Willard). Nana Mary (Shelley Winters) tells stories about her rebellious past and leaves everyone with very sound advice. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

Roseanne: Home Is Where the Afgan Is

Synopsis: In this Thanksgiving episode, Roseanne is glad that she won't have to cook, but she's upset that Dan won't be there. Leon (Martin Mull) and Scott (Fred Willard) visit with the news that they are thinking about adopting a child. This leads into a discussion with Bev (Estelle Parsons) where she Read More

Roseanne: Direct to Video

That Darn Cat

Actors: Christina Ricci, Doug E. Doug, Dean Jones, George Dzundza, Dyan Cannon, Peter Boyle

Synopsis: The original Disney feature film, That Darn Cat, was a feel-good hit in 1965, thanks largely to stars such as Hayley Mills, Roddy McDowall, and William Demarest. This 1996 remake also closely follows the novel Undercover Cat by Mildred Gordon and Gordon Gordon and features Christina Ricci in the Hayley Mills Read More

Boys on the Side

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore, Matthew McConaughey, James Remar

Synopsis: This emotion-filled story stars Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, and Drew Barrymore as three women from different walks of life who find comfort in each other through tragedy. Parker plays Robin, an HIV-positive real estate executive who meets Jane (Goldberg), a lesbian lounge singer on her Read More

The Gospel According to Jesus

Synopsis: This program is designed to take viewers on a spititual journey. The Gospel According to Jesus features a video montage of the enduring state of Jesus' teachings in America today. Includes discussions by everyday people on topics such as the parables, a showcase of poetry, readings from the Read More

Roseanne: Body by Jake

Synopsis: Bev (Estelle Parsons) moves into the Conner household when she breaks her pelvis in her rest-home apartment. She blames Dan for the accident because he didn't fix her shower, but Roseanne finds out that the injury happened during a sexual encounter between Bev and Jake (Red Buttons). ~ Andrea Read More

Roseanne: Playing With Matches

Synopsis: Red Buttons guest stars as Jake, Bev's (Estelle Parsons) new friend from the retirement home. Roseanne and Jackie interfere and try to get a romance started between them. Meanwhile, Darlene gives David (Johnny Galecki) hell after Molly (Danielle Harris) kisses him. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Read More

Roseanne: Glengarry, Glen Rosey

Synopsis: Roseanne and Dan get stuck in another financial mess when their business partner Roger (Tim Curry) takes off and they are left with a fixed-up house that they can't sell. Fortunately, Jackie steps up to buy the house. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

Roseanne: Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

Synopsis: Jackie and Roseanne get the news that their father has died. Roseanne makes the arrangements, comforts Jackie, and ends up getting a drink with her father's girlfriend, Joan Crinshaw (Kay Arnold, Tom Arnold's aunt), who finally meets Bev (Estelle Parsons) for the first time. ~ Andrea LeVasseur Read More

Arthur Miller's The American Clock

Actors: Eddie Bracken, Loren Dean, Mary McDonnell, Joanna Miles, Kelly Preston, David Strathairn, Darren McGavin, John Rubinstein

Synopsis: This made-for-cable version of Arthur Miller's play The American Clock was adapted for television by Frank Galati. Inspired partly by Studs Terkel's oral history Hard Times, and partly by Miller's own recollections, the film is set at the beginning of the Depression. When the stock market crashes Read More

Roseanne: White Trash Christmas

Synopsis: Roseanne decorates the Conner home with gaudy Christmas decorations in retaliation to a neighborhood appearance regulation. Becky decides against college and instead gets a job as a waitress at a sleazy bar. Meanwhile, Darlene gets a surprise when Bev (Estelle Parsons) and D.J. show up to visit Read More

Roseanne: The Mommy's Curse

Synopsis: At the Lanford Lunch Box, Roseanne finally tells off her mother, Bev (Estelle Parsons). Feeling like she's not wanted anymore, Bev sells her part of the business. Meanwhile, Jackie starts dating again, marking the first appearance of Fred (Michael O'Keefe). None of the Conner kids (Sara Gilbert, Michael Fishman Read More

Roseanne: Party Politics

Synopsis: Roseanne schemes to reunite Darlene and David (Johnny Galecki) while trying to get Darlene to tell her what D.J. has been up to. Meanwhile, Fred (Michael O'Keefe) goes to Jackie's housewarming party in hopes of winning her affections. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

Roseanne: The Back Story

Synopsis: When Roseanne develops severe back problems, Bev (Estelle Parsons) visits the Conner kids to help out in her own special way. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

Roseanne: Ladies' Choice

Synopsis: Nancy (Sandra Bernhard) tells Roseanne and Jackie that she is gay. (Morgan Fairchild) guest stars as Nancy's lover Marla. Meanwhile, Bev (Estelle Parsons) moves into a retirement home, making Roseanne feel old. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

Roseanne: Halloween IV

Synopsis: Roseanne stays home while everyone else goes out to a Halloween party. She gets visited by the ghosts of Halloween Past (Lee Arenberg), Halloween Present (Mario Roccuzzo), and Halloween Future (Garry Bullock). Laurie Metcalf's daughter Zoe Perry plays Jackie as a little girl. ~ Andrea LeVasseur Read More

Roseanne: Looking for Loans in All the Wrong Places

Synopsis: Roseanne and Jackie can't seem to get a loan to start the restaurant, so they reluctantly ask their mother, Bev (Estelle Parsons), who wants to be a partner. Meanwhile, Darlene finds out that D.J. has been spying on their new next-door neighbor, Molly (Danielle Harris). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Read More

Roseanne: Mommy Nearest

Synopsis: Much to the dismay of Jackie and Roseanne, Bev (Estelle Parsons) has sold her house and announces that she's moving to Lanford. Her daughters are somewhat relieved when they learn they will get some money out of the deal. Meanwhile, Jackie starts dating the much younger Fisher (Matt Roth). Read More

Roseanne: It's No Place Like Home for the Holidays

Synopsis: On Christmas Eve, a snowstorm separates the Conner family at different places. Roseanne and Jackie are stranded at the Lunch Box with Bev (Estelle Parsons) and Nana Mary (Shelley Winters). Meanwhile, Darlene learns about David's (Johnny Galecki) terrible home life. Sally Kirkland guest stars as Read More

A Private Matter

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Aidan Quinn, Estelle Parsons, Sheila McCarthy, Leon Russom

Synopsis: When Sherri Finkbine (Sissy Spacek), the host of the Sixties children's television program Romper Room, learns that her unborn child has been damaged by her use of the drug thalidomide, she and her husband decide to abort the fetus, setting in motion the media controversy that is the subject of Joan Micklin Silver Read More

The Blue Men

Synopsis: Estelle Parsons stars in this sensitive domestic drama as a grandmother who has to take in her misanthropic grandson after family tragedy strikes. Set on a picturesque East Coast vacation island, this short film was based on a book by Joy Williams. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

Roseanne: Thanksgiving '91

Synopsis: Bev (Estelle Parsons) and Nana Mary (Shelley Winters) visit the Conners for Thanksgiving dinner. Roseanne and Jackie don't believe Bev's story about their dad being sick and they end up learning the truth about the fate of their parents' marriage. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

The Lemon Sisters

Actors: Diane Keaton, Carol Kane, Kathryn Grody, Elliott Gould, Aidan Quinn

Synopsis: Diane Keaton, Carol Kane and Kathryn Grody are the title "siblings," three unrelated women who perform as a lounge trio and struggle to come up with the money to buy their own club. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Dick Tracy

Actors: Warren Beatty, Charlie Korsmo, Glenne Headly, Madonna, Al Pacino

Synopsis: Warren Beatty directed and starred in this big-budget action comedy featuring Chester Gould's square-jawed, two-dimensional comic strip detective. Ruthless gangster Big Boy Caprice (Al Pacino) touches off a gang war against underworld boss Lips Manlis (Paul Sorvino), with Big Boy and his minions Read More

Roseanne: Confessions

Synopsis: Bev (Estelle Parsons) comes to visit, and Roseanne tricks Jackie into coming over to see her. Dan hides out in the garage to avoid seeing Bev, while Becky waits on her hand and foot. Darlene saves her best comebacks for the dinner table so she can be sent to her room. Roseanne gets upset when Bev Read More

Roseanne: Dear Mom and Dad

Synopsis: Roseanne's parents, Bev (Estelle Parsons) and Al Harris (John Randolph), stop by the Conner household for a surprise visit. The usually brash Roseanne is uncommonly scared to confront them. The family is shocked when Bev and Al announce that they will be moving to Lanford. Bruce Willis guest stars Read More

Roseanne: We Gather Together

Synopsis: In this Thanksgiving episode, Jackie comes back from the police academy to have dinner with the Conners. Roseanne's mother, Bev (Estelle Parsons), is less than thrilled to hear that her daughter is going to be a cop. Dan's dad, Ed (Ned Beatty) tries to sweet-talk Crystal (Natalie West). ~ Andrea Read More

Open Admissions

Synopsis: In this drama, based on Shirley Lauro's play, a burned-out college speech professor finds himself inspired by an eager, sincere student who desires to leave his ghetto past. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Come Along with Me

Synopsis: Actress Joanne Woodward made her (surprisingly unheralded) directorial debut with Come Along With Me. Estelle Parsons stars as a freewheeling woman who decides to start over completely when her husband dies. Before leaving town, she sells everything she owns and burns all her bridges behind her. Parsons Read More

The Gentleman Bandit

Actors: Ralph Waite

Synopsis: Made for television, The Gentleman Bandit stars Ralph Waite as a popular priest whose life is shattered by a case of mistaken identity. Waite is fingered by a witness as a holdup man; during a lineup, several other witnesses confirm this. Despite his protestations, Waite cannot account for his Read More

Backstairs at the White House

Actors: Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Hooks, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling memoirs of Lillian Rogers Parks, the NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House traces over five decades of American political history as witnessed from the vantage point of the servants' quarters. Played by Tania Johnson as a teenager and by Leslie Uggams as an adult, Lillian Rogers Parks Read More

All in the Family: Reunion on Hauser Street

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Danielle Brisebois, Estelle Parsons, Allan Melvin

Synopsis: Estelle Parsons appears as Blanche, the "straying" wife of Archie's pal, Barney Hefner. When Blanche throws Barney over in favor of an electrician, Barney drowns his sorrows at Archie's bar. Realizing that Barney's self-pity is driving away customers, Archie enlists Edith's aid in bringing the Read More

All in the Family: Weekend in the Country

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Estelle Parsons, Allan Melvin

Synopsis: Once again, Blanche Hefner is "stepping out" on her husband, Barney. And once again, Barney's misery is seriously affecting business at Archie's bar. And yet once again, Archie and Edith try to bring the Hefners back together -- this time by spending a weekend with the contentious couple in Read More

All in the Family: Archie's Secret Passion

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Estelle Parsons, Mike Kellin

Synopsis: Archie seems unusually nervous when Edith invites her former classmate, Dolores Mancheney, to dinner at the Bunkers'. What the audience knows, but Edith doesn't, is that Archie and Dolores had carried on a brief but torrid romance -- while he was dating Edith. Oscar-winner Estelle Parsons, who Read More

The UFO Incident

Synopsis: The UFO Incident is a TV movie based on the true-life story of Betty and Barney Hill, the biracial married couple whose alleged abduction by extraterrestrials made headlines. The film is careful not to present the Hills' reminiscences as cold facts; both "remember" the ordeal only when probed Read More

Foreplay

Actors: Zero Mostel, Estelle Parsons, Pat Paulsen, Jerry Orbach, George Irving

Synopsis: This comedy film revolves around the unusual life of a fictional former American president (Zero Mostel) as he reveals the reasons behind his loss of power on a television program. Three short skits depict a randy and raucous life in the White House. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Gun and the Pulpit

Synopsis: Former evangelist Marjorie Gortner had a brief flurry of activity as an actor in the early 1970s. Gun and the Pulpit was a made-for-TV movie designed as the pilot for a potential Gortner series. Marjoe plays a gunslinger who disguises himself as a preacher to escape a false murder charge. He finds Read More

For Pete's Sake

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Michael Sarrazin, Estelle Parsons, William Redfield, Molly Picon

Synopsis: Barbra Streisand returns to the screwball-comedy milieu of What's Up Doc? in the lightweight For Pete's Sake. As a Brooklyn hausfrau named Henry (!), our heroine will do anything to help her cabdriver husband Pete (Michael Sarrazin) get ahead. When Pete begins to play the stock market, Henry Read More

June Moon

Synopsis: Two giants of American humor, Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufman, collaborated for this stage comedy (a major success on Broadway when it was first staged in 1929) about a young tunesmith's struggle to succeed in the dog-eat-dog world of Tin Pan Alley. An up-and-coming songwriter (Tom Fitzsimmons) Read More

Two People

Actors: Peter Fonda, Lindsay Wagner, Estelle Parsons, Alan Fudge, Philippe March

Synopsis: Evan Bonner (Peter Fonda) is a former solider who deserted the Army due to his growing opposition to the U.S. role in Vietnam. Having spent the intervening years drifting aimlessly, he has ended up in Marrakesh – where he has made the decision to return to the U.S. and turn himself in. Also in Read More

Terror on the Beach

Synopsis: Terror on the Beach stars Dennis Weaver and Estelle Parsons as the parents of a family vacationing on the shores of California. A gang of vicious, marauding teenagers invade the campsite and proceed to make the family's life hell. Weaver resists giving into violence until the fierce climax, where Read More

I Never Sang for My Father

Actors: Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney, Estelle Parsons, Elizabeth Hubbard

Synopsis: Based on the play by Robert Anderson, I Never Sang for My Father is devoted to the prickly relationship between aged Tom Garrison (Melvyn Douglas) and his grown son Gene (Gene Hackman). A college professor who feels that he has never been fully accepted by his self-made dad, Gene announces that he Read More

The Watermelon Man

Actors: Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin, Mantan Moreland

Synopsis: African-American activist and actor Melvin Van Peebles directed this comedy-drama starring Godfrey Cambridge as Jeff Gerber, a white, middle class husband to Althea (Estelle Parson) and father of two who is also a mild bigot. One morning, Jeff wakes up to discover that he has become a black man Read More

A Memory of Two Mondays

Actors: Harvey Keitel

Synopsis: Paul Bogart directed this 1974 televised production of Arthur Miller's classic play, A Memory of Two Mondays. An dramatic and comedic ensemble piece, the one-act traces several years in the lives of a group of characters working in an auto parts warehouse during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Read More

I Walk the Line

Actors: Gregory Peck, Tuesday Weld, Estelle Parsons, Ralph Meeker, Lonny Chapman

Synopsis: In this collaboration between actor Gregory Peck and director John Frankenheimer, Peck plays Southern sheriff Henry Tawes, who intends to bring moonshiner Carl McCain (Ralph Meeker) to justice. Instead, Tawes falls in love with McCain's nubile daughter, Alma (Tuesday Weld), and arranges for the Read More

Don't Drink the Water

Actors: Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons, Richard Libertini, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: Don't Drink The Water is taken from a play by Woody Allen. Walter Hollander (Jackie Gleason) is a middle-aged caterer from Newark, New Jersey who takes his wife Marion (Estelle Parsons) and his teenage daughter Susan (Joan Delaney) on a tour of Europe. When their plane is high-jacked to Vulgaria Read More

Rachel, Rachel

Actors: Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington, Estelle Parsons, Donald Moffat

Synopsis: Paul Newman made his directorial debut and Newman's wife, Joanne Woodward, stars as Rachel Cameron, a 35-year-old unmarried schoolteacher who feels as though she's wasted her life. Rachel's best friend, Calla Mackie (Estelle Parsons), invites her to attend a religious revival meeting. Here Rachel Read More

Bonnie and Clyde

Actors: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Gene Wilder

Synopsis: Producer/star Warren Beatty had to convince Warner Bros. to finance this film, which went on to become the studio's second-highest grosser. It also caused major controversy by redefining violence in cinema and casting its criminal protagonists as sympathetic anti-heroes. Based loosely on the true Read More

Ladybug, Ladybug

Actors: Jane Connell, William Daniels, James Frawley, Richard Hamilton, Kathryn Hays

Synopsis: This thought-provoking and only slightly heavy handed anti-war tract is based on a real incident that occurred during the atomic terror of the Cuban missile crisis. The tragedy begins when a civil defense siren is accidentally tripped while a school is in session. The panic-stricken children are Read More

Gentle Annie

Actors: James Craig, Donna Reed, Marjorie Main, Henry Morgan

Synopsis: Marjorie Main's first solo starring vehicle for MGM finds the formidable character actress cast as a tough-but-tender female outlaw. Living on her tumbledown ranch in Oklahoma territory, Annie Goss (Main) shelters her desperado sons (Henry Morgan, Paul Langton) from the authorities. While planning Read More

Guests of the Nation

Synopsis: Two Irish insurgents are assigned the task of guarding a pair of captured British soldiers in this dramatic adaptation of Frank O' Connor's prizewinning story starring Frank Converse, Estelle Parsons, and Nesbitt Blaisdell. As the foursome attempt to maintain peaceful relations in the farmhouse of Read More