Joan Freeman Filmography

Born:: Council Bluffs, IA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: While still of high-school age, Joan Freeman was signed to a 20th Century-Fox contract, which yielded little more than a secondary role in the 1959 Clifton Webb vehicle The Remarkable Mrs. Pennypacker and the recurring part of waitress Elma Gahringer on the weekly TV adaptation of Bus Stop (1961)....Read More

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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

1984
Jinxed!

Actors: Bette Midler, Ken Wahl, Rip Torn, Val Avery, Jack Elam

Synopsis: Jinxed is an apt name for this disastrous project which, sadly, turned out to be Don Siegel's final film. The film takes place in Reno, where blackjack dealer Willie Brodax (Ken Wahl) becomes an innocent victim of a broken-down gambler named Harold Benson (Rip Torn). Such is Willie's luck that Read More

1982
Quincy, M.E.: No Way to Treat a Flower

Synopsis: Season Five of Quincy, M.E. begins with a typically perplexing case for police medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman). Performing an autopsy on a teenage girl, Quincy finds that the girl succumbed to a disease more commonly found in old people. After the victim's boyfriend dies in a similar Read More

1979
Deathmoon

Actors: Robert Foxworth

Synopsis: Impressive production values can't disguise the painfully dated premise of this TV movie which stars Robert Foxworth as an over-stressed advertising executive whose doctor prescribes a lengthy period of rest and recuperation. Foxworth decides to voyage to Hawaii -- where his grandfather once Read More

1978
Adam-12: X-Force

Synopsis: Flying in the face of his police training, Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) takes an intensely personal interest in the search for a missing six-year-old girl. Catching up with a suspected child molester, Pete reacts violently when the prisoner makes a snide remark. Now Malloy is facing charges Read More

1974
Family Affair: Nobody Here But Us Uncles

Synopsis: During an outing in the park, Buffy (Anissa Jones) and Jody (Johnnie Whitaker) see a mother bird shooing her children out of the nest. Somehow this causes the twins to worry that their Uncle Bill (Brian Keith) will be lonely and miserable when they, too, "leave the nest." Clearly, there is only Read More

1971
The Fastest Guitar Alive

Actors: Roy Orbison, Sammy Jackson, Maggie Pierce, Joan Freeman, Lyle Bettger

Synopsis: The must-be-seen-to-be-believed Fastest Guitar Alive offers singer Roy Orbison in his one and only movie starring role. Orbison plays Johnny Banner, a Confederate Spy who keeps a rifle hidden in his guitar. While on an espionage mission with partner Steve (Sammy Jackson), Johnny discovers that the Read More

1968
The Reluctant Astronaut

Actors: Don Knotts, Leslie Nielsen, Joan Freeman, Jesse White, Jeanette Nolan, Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis: Roy Fleming (Don Knotts) is signed on to the space program at NASA by his father Buck (Arthur O'Connell), a gung-ho former World War I vet who is trying to make something out of his son. Roy becomes a janitor who is afraid of heights and mistaken for an astronaut through a series of comedic Read More

1967
Bonanza: Night of Reckoning

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: A gang of outlaws, led by the sadistic Dibs (Richard Jaeckel), descends upon the Ponderosa. The crooks are determined to retrieve $60,000 in stolen money from their duplicitous partner Don Buckler (Ron Hayes), now wounded and under the care of the Cartwright boys. Eve McVeigh appears as Read More

1967
The Rounders

Actors: Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Sue Ane Langdon, Hope Holiday, Chill Wills

Synopsis: Two aging bronc-busters (Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda) make their meager money by breaking wild horses. They dream of better days--possibly retiring to some island paradise--but they never put any money in the bank because they spend it all on booze and girls. They think their no-dough days are done Read More

1965
Bonanza: The Trap

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Steve Cochran

Synopsis: When her husband Booth (Steve Cochran) is murdered, Hallie Shannon (Joan Freeman) is convinced that her former sweetheart Joe Cartwright committed the dirty deed so that Joe and Hallie could be together again. Unfortunately, Booth's twin brother Buck (also Steve Cochran) is of the same opinion-and Read More

1965
The Outer Limits: Behold, Eck!

Synopsis: In Volume 35 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, a two-dimensional alien finds himself transported to Earth. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1964
Roustabout

Actors: Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Freeman, Leif Erickson, Sue Ane Langdon

Synopsis: Charlie Rogers (Elvis Presley) is a coffeehouse singer who joins a financially troubled carnival in Roustabout. He is hired by owner Maggie Morgan (Barbara Stanwyck) and soon catches the eye of his pretty female co-worker Cathy Lean (Joan Freeman). Cathy's irate father Joe (Leif Erickson) clashes Read More

1964
The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze

Actors: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Joe DeRita, Jay Sheffield, Joan Freeman

Synopsis: This slapstick comedy is a hilarious spoof on "Around The World In 80 Days." The grandson of the celebrated Phinius Fogg makes a bet with his cohorts at the London Explorers Club that he can complete the journey. Moe, Larry, and Curly Joe are the dedicated servants who accompany the explorer along Read More

1963
Tower of London

Actors: Sandra Knight, Vincent Price, Michael Pate, Joan Freeman

Synopsis: Roger Corman's stripped-down remake of Universal's 1939 period classic elevates that film's supporting player Vincent Price to the starring role, essayed in the original by Basil Rathbone. Price chews scenery as hunchbacked mad monarch Richard III, who ascends the throne through murder (including Read More

1962
Panic in Year Zero

Actors: Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon, Mary Mitchell, Joan Freeman

Synopsis: Ray Milland both starred in and directed the morose, minimalist sci-fier Panic in the Year Zero! (original title: Panic in Year Zero!). En route from Los Angeles to a vacation in the mountains, Harry Baldwin (Milland), his wife, Ann (Jean Hagen), and his teen-aged children, Rick (Frankie Avalon) Read More

1962
Perry Mason: The Case of the Fickle Filly

Synopsis: Young and wealthy Jennifer Wakely (Joan Freeman) is heartbroken when boyfriend Brad Shelby (Bob McQuain) dumps her to marry the older and wealthier Madelon Haines (Jennifer Howard). As if this wasn't bad enough, Jennifer is told that she has lost all her money and possessions, save for a worn-out Read More

1962
The Mooncussers

Synopsis: This children's movie details the adventure of a boy (Kevin Corcoran) who tries to unravel the secrets of the Mooncussers, a group of pirates who destroy ships by guiding them onto rocks with a fake lighthouse. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1962
Come September

Actors: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Walter Slezak

Synopsis: Rock Hudson stars in this frothy romantic comedy as filthy-rich American Robert Talbot. Talbot owns an Italian villa, where he traditionally stays only one month out of the year (September), but when Talbot suddenly decides to show up in July, Talbot's major overseer Maurice (Walter Slezak) is Read More

1961
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker

Actors: Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Charles Coburn, Jill St. John, Ron Ely

Synopsis: Based on a successful stage play, The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker loses in this adaptation to film by becoming more serious than an all-out farce. The setting is the end of the 1800s and the intrepid Pennypacker (Clifton Webb) runs a sausage company with two thriving plants in Philadelphia and Read More

1959
Teenage Rebel

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Michael Rennie, Mildred Natwick, Rusty Swope, Lili Gentle, Betty Lou Keim, Warren Berlinger

Synopsis: Teenage Rebel was the misleadingly lurid title bestowed upon this film version of Edith R. Sommer's Broadway play A Roomful of Roses. Ginger Rogers heads the cast as Nancy Fallon, a divorcee who has trouble communicating with 15-year-old daughter Dodie (Betty Lou Keim). Left in the custody of her Read More

1956
Pistol Harvest

Actors: Tim Holt, Joan Dixon, Robert Clarke, Mauritz Hugo, Robert J. Wilke

Synopsis: Pistol Harvest starred RKO's "house cowboys" Tim Holt and Richard Martin. In this one, the two heroes are accused of killing their boss. They are saved from the hangman's noose when two other guys are arrested, but Holt feels as though justice is still not being served. On their own, Holt and Read More

1951