Joan BlackmanFilmography

Born:: San Francisco, CA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Leading lady Joan Blackman began her film activities in 1958. Joan's best-remembered film roles were Ellen, the earthbound girlfriend of extraterrestrial Jerry Lewis, in Visit to a Small Planet (1960), and Maile Duval, Elvis Presley's vis-à-vis in Blue Hawaii (1961). On television, she was seen as...Read More

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Bridget Jones's Diary

Actors: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent

Synopsis: Based on Helen Fielding's hugely popular novel, this romantic comedy follows Bridget (Renee Zellweger), a post-feminist, thirty-something British woman who has a penchant for alcoholic binges, smoking, and an inability to control her weight. While trying to keep these things in check and also deal Read More

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Return to Waterloo

Actors: Kenneth Colley, Valerie Holliman, Dominique Barnes, Hywel William Ellis, Aaron Probyn

Synopsis: Ray Davies, leader of the group The Kinks and one of the most well-respected songwriters in the history of British rock, made his directorial debut with this film produced for British television. A man (played by Kenneth Colley) boards a commuter train and reads his newspaper, glancing at a story Read More

1985
Shivers

Actors: Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Alan Migicovsky, Lynn Lowry, Susan Petrie, Barbara Steele

Synopsis: A gripping exercise in body horror and social paranoia, prolific Canadian director David Cronenberg's debut feature offers a startling look at modern isolationist society with a parasitic twist. When a scientist experimenting with a new form of organ transplants kills a young female resident of a Read More

1975
Moonrunners

Actors: James Mitchum, Kiel Martin, Arthur Hunnicutt, Chris Forbes, George Ellis

Synopsis: Writer/director Gy Waldron makes his feature film debut with the 1975 action comedy Moonrunners. Cousins Grady (James Mitchum) and Bobby Lee (Kiel Martin) run moonshine for their wise old Uncle Jessie (Arthur Hunnicutt). Lately, though, his fine quality liquor hasn't been moving that much. That's Read More

1975
Macon County Line

Actors: Sam Gilman, Jesse Vint, Cheryl Waters, Joan Blackman

Synopsis: Two guys looking for a good time find more than they bargained for in this low-budget action story laced with comedy. Chris Dixon (Alan Vint) and his brother Wayne (Jesse Vint) are originally from Chicago, but when the two are scheduled to go into the Army together, they decide to spend their last Read More

1974
Pets

Synopsis: Slimy villain Berry Kroeger keeps a harem of lovely young women as his own personal pets. Whenever one of the girls protests against this treatment, Kroeger settles matters with a whip. Eventually the women form a united front against their cruel master. What is most distressing about Pets is the Read More

1974
Daring Game

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Nico Minardos, Michael Ansara, Joan Blackman, Shepperd Strudwick

Synopsis: Vic Powers (Lloyd Bridges) leads a specialized rescue unit known as the Flying Fish. When an American economics professor is kidnapped by a malevolent Latin American dictator, the call goes out to recover the victim. The unit is equally adept in or out of the water. Ricardo (Nico Minardos) is the Read More

1968
The Destructors

Actors: Richard Egan, Patricia Owens, John Ericson, Michael Ansara, Joan Blackman

Synopsis: National Intelligence Agent Dan Street (Richard Egan) is on the trail of some stolen laser rubies. It is assumed the agents will come after the raygun itself for their evil purposes. Count Romano (Michael Ansara) is the swimsuit-import mogul who tries to keep his head from going under while Read More

1968
Intimacy

Synopsis: In this ironic drama, a determined contractor begins blackmailing a womanizing Washington politician by hiding a camera in his hotel room and then sending up a prostitute to liven things up. He gets more than he bargained for when he watches the resulting film and discovers that among the Read More

1966
Bonanza: The Return

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Tony Young, Joan Blackman

Synopsis: Former convict Trace Cordell (Tony Young) is back in town, and everyone lets him know he's not welcome. Particularly displeased with Trace's return is banker Paul Dorn (John Conte), who'd been crippled by Trace and is now married to the ex-convict's former girl friend Clara (Joan Blackman). The Read More

1965
Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruinous Road

Synopsis: The Pierce Construction Company has gone wildly over budget on a questionable land-development project, and head man Joe Marshall (Bert Freed) wants to know why. Before long, Marshall has been murdered, and Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) is hired to defend the chief suspect, engineer Adam Conrad Read More

1964
Twilight of Honor

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Joey Heatherton, Nick Adams, Claude Rains, Joan Blackman

Synopsis: Former TV leading man Richard Chamberlain plays a young lawyer about to take on an important murder case. He is shepherded through this big break by veteran attorney Claude Rains. The client is the disreputable Nick Adams, who seems determined to sabotage his own case. But a last-minute scrap of Read More

1963
Kid Galahad

Actors: Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Joan Blackman, Charles Bronson

Synopsis: This musical boxing drama finds Walter (Elvis Presley) as a recently discharged soldier looking forwork in New York's Catskill Mountains. He happens across Grogan's Gym, a boxing emporium that helps perfect the "gentle art." Proprioter Willie Grogan (Gig Young) and trainer Lew (Charles Bronson) Read More

1962
The Great Impostor

Actors: Tony Curtis, Edmond O'Brien, Arthur O'Connell, Gary Merrill, Joan Blackman, Karl Malden

Synopsis: The Great Impostor is the true story of chameleonlike Canadian Ferdinand Waldo DeMara Jr., well-played by Tony Curtis. Unable to decide what he wants to do with his life, DeMara goes about pretending to be other people, hoping to eventually "find himself." He poses as a Harvard professor, a Read More

1961
Blue Hawaii

Actors: Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Nancy Walters, Roland Winters, Angela Lansbury

Synopsis: One of Elvis Presley's most successful post-Army vehicles, Blue Hawaii casts Elvis as scion to a Hawaiian pineapple fortune. His snooty mother Angela Lansbury wants Presley to take over the management of the family business, but he'd rather make his own way in the world. He lands a job at a Read More

1961
Visit to a Small Planet

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Joan Blackman, Fred Clark, John Williams

Synopsis: When a space alien's fascination with Earthlings gets the better of him, he breaks one of his planet's laws and speeds off to visit the blue planet. Once there the alien (Jerry Lewis) encounters a nice family who kindly take him in. The father is a news commentator. Ironically, just prior to Read More

1960
Career

Actors: Dean Martin, Anthony Franciosa, Shirley MacLaine, Carolyn Jones, Joan Blackman

Synopsis: Playwright James Lee adapted his off-Broadway play for the screen in this high-strung adaptation, directed by Joseph Anthony. In this simplistic, backroom show-business-success saga, Anthony Franciosa plays Sam, a struggling young actor who will forsake his family and take any type of menial job Read More

1959
Good Day for a Hanging

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Maggie Hayes, Robert Vaughn, Joan Blackman, James Drury

Synopsis: The Springdale, NE, bank is held up and robbed by a well organized gang. One of the members is Eddie Campbell (Robert Vaughn), a onetime resident of the town and orphan who was brought up in part by Ben Cutler (Fred MacMurray), an ex-lawman-turned-rancher. While pursuing the robbers, the town Read More

1958