Gwen WellesFilmography

Born:: March 4, 1951 in Chattanooga, TN
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: The daughter of actress Rebecca Welles, slender leading lady Gwen Welles made her first film, A Safe Place, under the direction of Henry Jaglom. It was for another improvisational director, Robert Altman, that she delivered her most fondly remembered screen performance: Suellen Grey, the...Read More

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Angel On My Shoulder

Actors: Gwen Welles

Synopsis: Donna Deitch directed this documentary about the illness and death of her friend, actress Gwen Welles (Nashville). Diagnosed with an cancerous tumor in 1992, Welles chose not to go for conventional treatments, and the film shows her deterioration. Shot on video with a later transfer to 16mm, this Read More

1997
The Disco Years

1991
Eating

Actors: Lisa Richards, Mary Crosby, Gwen Welles, Nelly Alard, Frances Bergen

Synopsis: The title of Henry Jaglom's stream-of-consciousness Eating says it all. Three women (Lisa Blake Richards, Mary Crosby and Marlena Giovi), each celebrating a "milestone" birthday, decide to throw a joint party. Attending the revelries is French documentary filmmaker Martine Nely Alard, who becomes Read More

11/16/90
New Year's Day

Actors: Maggie Jakobson, Gwen Welles, Melanie Winter, Henry Jaglom, David Duchovny, Milos Forman

Synopsis: Filmmaker Henry Jaglom plays the leading male role in his characteristically gabby New Year's Day. Jaglom is a writer who insists upon asking disturbing and intrusive questions to the revellers at a New Year's Eve party. His inclusion in the story is explained by having him sublet a California Read More

12/13/89
Sticky Fingers

Actors: Helen Slater, Melanie Mayron, Danitra Vance, Eileen Brennan, Carol Kane

Synopsis: This screwball urban comedy is about two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly (Melanie Mayron) and Hattie (Helen Slater), who are asked by an equally spacey, drug-dealing friend-of-a-friend Diane (Loretta Devine) to baby-sit a bag containing nearly a million dollars while she scoots out of Read More

5/6/88
Nobody's Fool

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Eric Roberts, Mare Winningham, Jim Youngs, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: This sharp drama is about the trials and tribulations of a young woman defeated by her past, yet tempted to overcome it through a meaningful relationship. Cassie (Rosanna Arquette) works as a waitress in a southwestern town. Not that long ago, she stabbed her lover (and the father of her baby) in Read More

11/7/86
The Men's Club

Actors: Roy Scheider, Frank Langella, Harvey Keitel, Treat Williams, Richard Jordan

Synopsis: Based on a 1981 book by Leonard Michaels, focuses on a lawyer (Richard Jordan) who brings together a singularly dysfunctional group of men in a kind of venting, loquacious therapy session. All that talk brings out the worst in everyone. Cavanaugh (Roy Scheider) is a retired baseball star whose Read More

9/19/86
Desert Hearts

Actors: Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Andra Akers, Gwen Welles, Dean Butler

Synopsis: Director Donna Deitch makes a strong impression in her first feature film, a simple story of a lesbian love affair, based on Jane Rule's 1964 novel Desert of the Heart. Helen Shaver stars as Vivian Bell, an uptight 35-year-old Columbia University professor who travels to Reno to get a divorce. She Read More

4/4/86
Between the Lines

Actors: John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Jeff Goldblum, Jill Eikenberry, Bruno Kirby

Synopsis: Director Joan Micklin Silver's follow-up to her acclaimed debut, Hester Street, is a more ambitious film that manages to be both an entertaining comedy and a pointed look at the corrupting power of money on an idealistic enterprise. Writer Fred Barron's characters are all associated with a weekly Read More

1977
Nashville

Actors: Henry Gibson, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakely, Lily Tomlin, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Following 24 characters through 5 days in the country music capital, Robert Altman's 1975 epic presents a complexly textured portrayal (and critique) of American obsessions with celebrity and power. Among the various stars, aspirants, hangers-on, observers, and media folk are politically ambitious Read More

1975
California Split

Actors: George Segal, Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss, Gwen Welles, Ed Walsh

Synopsis: The most narratively loose of Robert Altman's '70s films, California Split details the haphazard lives of two compulsive gamblers searching for that ever-elusive big score. Newly single and soon-to-be-unemployed Bill (George Segal) joins live-wire pal Charlie (Elliott Gould), as the pair moves Read More

1974
Hit!

Actors: Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, Paul Hampton, Gwen Welles, Warren Kemmerling

Synopsis: In Sidney J. Furie's interminable caper film, Billy Dee Williams is a federal agent who takes matters into his own hands after the government refuses to do anything about French drug trafficking. After his daughter dies of an overdose of heroine and the authorities seem unconcerned, Nick Allen Read More

1973
Hellé

Actors: Didier Haudepin

Synopsis: Despite his best efforts, Julian (Bruo Bradei) cannot resist goading his younger brother Fabrice (Didier Haudepin) into doing something dumb. They are returning together to their mother's country home for a holiday break. Julian fought in Indochina when it was still French, and the war still Read More

1972
A Safe Place

Actors: Rhonda Alfaro, Sylvia Zapp, Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles, Jack Nicholson, Philip Proctor, Gwen Welles

Synopsis: A Safe Place, writer/director Henry Jaglom's feature film debut, is a time-fractured, hallucinatory fantasy, featuring Tuesday Weld as a lonely and confused woman named, at times, Susan and at other times Noah, who comments that "Tomorrow is where the past is." Too delicately ethereal to cope with Read More

1971
Ironside: Up, Down and Even

Synopsis: Eve (Barbara Anderson) is upset that her niece Kimberly (Susan O'Connell) has been arrested on a marijuana possession charge--especially since it is the girl's second offense. Though she knows she will be institutionalized unless she reveals her supplier, Kimberly refuses to talk. In order to save Read More

1969