Julie Harris Filmography

Born:: December 2, 1925
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A renowned theater actress, Julie Harris also augmented her reputation with strong performances in a number of film and TV roles, despite her aversion to the Hollywood "glamour star" trip. Born to a well-to-do Grosse Pointe, Michigan, family, Harris opted to pursue acting at Yale Drama School...Read More

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The Way Back Home

Actors: Michael H. King, Julie Harris, Ruby Dee, Tessie Santiago, Deezer D

Synopsis: A year after his wife's death and nearly a decade since his last visit home, successful New York lawyer Spencer Krane (Michael Houston King) returns home to care for his ailing grandmother in director Reza S. Badiyi's character-driven family drama. Jo McMillan (Julie Harris) has suffered a massive Read More

2005
Broadway: The Golden Age

Actors: Edie Adams, Bea Arthur, Elizabeth Ashley, Alec Baldwin, Kaye Ballard

Synopsis: Directed by Rick McKay, who traveled across five continents during the documentary's production, Broadway: The Golden Age is both a celebration of current Broadway stars and a tribute to Broadway legends past. Through a plethora of interviews and vast amounts of archival footage, McKay presents a Read More

6/11/04
Loaded Gun: Life, and Death, and Dickinson

2003
The First of May

Actors: Julie Harris, Dan Byrd, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Its titled derived from a circus term describing an inexperienced performer in his first season, director Paul Sirmons film is adapted from author Gail Radley's popular novel of the same name. The story centers on the friendship between an eleven year old foster child named Cory (Dan Byrd) and an Read More

1999
Love Is Strange

Synopsis: Here's something you don't see every day: A romantic comedy about chemotherapy. Kate Nelligan stars as Kathryn McClain, a judge undergoing treatment for cancer. In the midst of this crisis, Kathryn somehow finds time to hold down her job full time, and to renew her love for her long-estranged Read More

1999
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

Actors: Sally Kellerman, Ronnie Gilbert, Julie Harris, Amy Madigan, Adam Arkin

Synopsis: Upon finding a written biography of pioneering women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, film producers Paul Barnes and Ken Burns (director of "The Civil War") were shocked and outraged that her story -- which is also that of Stanton's longtime friend and political partner Susan B. Anthony Read More

1999
Bad Manners

Actors: Caroleen Feeney, David Strathairn, Bonnie Bedelia, Saul Rubinek

Synopsis: Two couples share an evening of bad karma in this domestic drama. Matt (Saul Rubinek) is a musicologist who has devised a computer program that can spontaneously compose music; however, one of the first pieces it comes up with features a prominent quote from "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God." His Read More

10/9/98
Frank Lloyd Wright

Actors: Philip Bosco, Julie Harris, Sab Shimono

Synopsis: Edward Herrmann narrates this portrait of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, as directed by renowned documentary filmmaker Ken Burns (Lewis & Clark.) The film is an assemblage of photos, film clips, TV appearances (including a 1957 The Mike Wallace Interview), home movies, and more recent footage. Read More

1998
Ellen Foster

Actors: Julie Harris, Jena Malone, Ted Levine, Glynnis O'Connor, Debra Monk

Synopsis: Filmed in Vancouver, this Hallmark Hall of Fame takes place during the '70s in the U.S. After the death of her mother, Charlotte (Glynis O'Connor), 10-year-old Ellen Foster (Jena Malone, who narrates) suffers abuse from her alcoholic father (Ted Levine) and is ill-treated by her maternal aunts Read More

1997
Carried Away

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Amy Irving, Amy Locane, Julie Harris, Gary Busey

Synopsis: Based on the novel Farmer by Jim Harrison, this drama concerns Joseph Svenden (Dennis Hopper), a one-time farmer in his late forties who took up teaching when he permanently injured his leg in an accident. Joseph's life is orderly, precise, and rather dull. He teaches with as much enthusiasm as he Read More

1996
Passaggio Per il Paradiso

Synopsis: This romantic Italian drama tells the offbeat love story of a somewhat senile but still feisty elderly American lady who escapes from the nursing home where her children put her and a world-weary private investigator who finds her on the road. The American, Martha, has lived in Tuscany for most of Read More

1996
Secrets

Actors: Veronica Hamel, Richard Kiley, Julie Harris, Jessica Bowman, Shae D'Lyn

Synopsis: In this made-for-television domestic drama, a young adolescent girl is shocked to discover that the woman she calls "Mother" may not be related to her at all. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1995
Little Surprises

1995
Scarlett

Actors: Joanne Whalley, Timothy Dalton, Barbara Barrie, Stephen Collins

Synopsis: This much-ballyhooed TV miniseries sequel to Gone with the Wind finds former Agent 007 Timothy Dalton reprising the tough-to-fill shoes of Clark Gable's Rhett Butler, and former Val Kilmer spouse Joanne Whalley-Kilmer beating out thousands of hopefuls to play what was once Vivien Leigh's Scarlett Read More

1994
One Christmas

Synopsis: Katharine Hepburn and Henry Winkler star in this heartwarming Christmas drama adapted from a Truman Capote short story. In the film, a young boy is finally reunited with his dallying dad. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Vanished Without a Trace

Actors: Karl Malden, Tim Ransom, Travis Fine, Tom Hodges, Julie Harris

Synopsis: When a busload of school children is hijacked and held for ransom, a small town is paralyzed by fear. Meanwhile, the resourceful bus driver plots a daring rescue. This stranger-than-truth story is based on an actual incident. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Housesitter

Actors: Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, Dana Delany, Julie Harris, Donald Moffat

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy from director Frank Oz, Steve Martin plays Boston architect Newton Davis, an impulsive dreamer who builds a bucolic dream home for his girlfriend (Dana Delany) as a means of proposing to her -- only she turns him down. Three months later, the depressed Davis meets a Read More

6/12/92
The Dark Half

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker, Julie Harris, Robert Joy

Synopsis: Marking the first collaboration between horror legends George A. Romero and Stephen King since 1982's Creepshow, this moody, atmospheric adaptation of King's novel was actually completed in 1991, but the highly-publicized bankruptcy of its distributor Orion Pictures in that same year nearly doomed Read More

1991
Ken Burns' Civil War [TV Documentary Series]

Synopsis: Ken Burns' epic series begins with the causes of the Civil War in 1861 and ends with the war's aftermath in 1865. A combination of photographs, interviews, and narration create a sweeping historical documentary. Commentary and anecdotes by historian Shelby Foote add another level of authority to Read More

1990
A Woman's Place: An Inspiring Document of Achievement

Synopsis: This documentary, narrated by Julie Harris, surveys the many roles of women in American culture. From the home place to the work place, women have left their distinctive collective touch. The program uses archival film footage and photographs to capture women at work in the film industry Read More

1989
A Doll's House

Synopsis: Based on the famous play by Henrik Ibsen, this 1989 adaptation is one of several filmed versions of the classic tale. Claire Bloom stars as Nora Helmer, a housewife who long-ago saved the life of her ailing husband Torvald (Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins) by forging her father's signature on a loan. Read More

1989
Single Women, Married Men

Synopsis: In this drama, a psychotherapist takes a long, hard look at her life when she joins a support group for women involved with married men. She does this after her husband leaves her for a younger woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Gorillas in the Mist

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, John Omirah Miluwi, Iain Cuthbertson

Synopsis: Gorillas in the Mist is based on the autobiographical 1983 book by naturalist Dian Fossey. Before the book could be brought before the cameras, Fossey had been mysteriously killed; her death provides a logical, if somewhat ghoulish climax to the film. A Kentucky girl, Fossey (Sigourney Weaver) is Read More

9/23/88
Too Good to Be True

Synopsis: A remake of the 1945 Gene Tierny vehicle Leave Her to Heaven, Loni Anderson plays a newlywed whose over-possessiveness of her husband's attentions takes on a dangerous edge. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
The Woman He Loved

Actors: Anthony Andrews, Phyllis Calvert, Olivia de Havilland, Lucy Gutteridge, Robert Hardy, Jane Seymour, Julie Harris

Synopsis: As indicated by the title, The Woman He Loved is the story of the romance between Britain's King Edward VII (Anthony Andrews) and American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson (Jane Seymour). Forbidden by the Church of England and Royal Protocol to wed Mrs. Simpson, Edward abdicates in 1936, spending Read More

1988
Harold Clurman: A Life of Theatre

Synopsis: Harold Clurman: A Life of Theatre profiles the career of celebrated director/producer Harold Clurman. A man known for his passionate commitment to working with actors, Clurman devoted his life to the theatrical arts, serving not only as a director and producer, but as a respected critic as well. Read More

1988
Forever James Dean

Synopsis: In the 1988 documentary Forever James Dean, we see Dean in his first appearance on film, in a Pepsi Cola commercial. We see a color vignette from the 1951 religious TV special Hill Number One, with Dean as a Biblical apostle describing the Resurrection. We watch Dean honing his craft in clips from Read More

1988
The Christmas Wife

Synopsis: Afraid to spend the Christmas holiday alone, an aging widower decides to hire himself a spouse to spend the vacation with him in his lovely mountain retreat and finds true romance in this heartwarming made-for-cable television drama that is based on a story by Helen Norris. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

1988
The Nutcracker: The Motion Picture

Actors: Hugh Bigney, Vanessa Sharp, Patricia Barker, Wade Walthall

Synopsis: The core and darker nuances of the original "Nutcracker" fairytale by E.T.A. Hoffman (with music by Tchaikovsky) are kept alive in this adept cinematic interpretation with its combination of ballet, special effects, and Maurice Sendak's costume and production designs. The Pacific Northwest Ballet Read More

11/26/86
The Annihilator

Actors: Mark Lindsay Chapman

Synopsis: Mark Lindsay Chapman (no relation to the murderer of John Lennon) stars in the made-for-TV The Annihilator. If the title sounds faintly reminiscent of The Terminator, it might just be more than a coincidence. The plot involves an army of mindless automatons, programmed to kill, kill, kill. Chapman Read More

1986
Knots Landing: Season 08

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: Moving to its now-famous Thursday night timeslot on the occasion of its eighth season, Knots Landing quickly updates its fans on events left unresolved at the end of Season Seven, not least of which is the mysterious kidnapping of Karen MacKenzie (Michele Lee). It turns out that Karen's abductor Read More

1986
Knots Landing: Season 07

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: The "Black Market Baby" story arc which dominated most of Knots Landing's sixth season is resolved in the first few episodes of Season Seven, as Val Ewing (Joan Van Ark) is tearfully reunited with her twin babies, who had been stolen and auctioned off on the illegal-adoption circuit. This settled Read More

1985
Knots Landing: Season 06

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: Season Six of Knots Landing begins with the conniving Abby Cunningham (Donna Mills) finding herself the victim rather than the predator for a change when she is kidnapped by the sinister Mark St. Claire (Joseph Chapman). Meanwhile, Karen Fairgate MacKenzie (Michele Lee), having been wounded by a Read More

1984
Bronte

Actors: Julie Harris

Synopsis: Julie Harris portrays the poignant short life of the great English writer Charlotte Brontë in this filmed version of Harris's tour-de-force, one-woman act. Filmed on location in Ireland (substituting for Brontë's Yorkshire home), the landscape brings forth the author's stunning natural Read More

1983
Knots Landing: Season 05

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: The fourth-season murder of singer Cijji Dunne still looms large over the main characters of Knots Landing as the series launches its fifth year on the air. After briefly suspecting Cijji's erstwhile lover Gary Ewing (Ted Shackelford) and Gary's wife Val (Joan Van Ark), Federal prosecutor Mack Read More

1983
Knots Landing: Season 04

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: Joining the cast of Knots Landing as the series begins its fourth season is Kevin Dobson as Federal prosecutor Marion Patrick "Mack" MacKenzie, who is brought into the storyline when Karen Fairgate (Michele Lee), widowed owner of Knots Landing Motors, decides to aggressively pursue the criminals Read More

1982
Knots Landing: Season 03

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Michele Lee, John Pleshette

Synopsis: Season Three of Knots Landing picks up where the previous season left off, as Sid Fairgate (Don Murray), owner of Knots Landing Motors and the boss of series protagonist Gary Ewing (Ted Shackelford), hovers between life and death after his car "accidentally" plummets over a cliff, the end result Read More

1981
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

1979
The Gift

Synopsis: The Gift was a Christmas 1979 TV-movie offering based on the semi-autobiographical book written in 1973 by Pete Hammill. Gary Frank plays the Hammill counterpart, a Brooklyn-born sailor about to be shipped off to the Korean War. Frank decides to use his 3-day pass to discover if his girl friend Read More

1979
The Bell Jar

Actors: Marilyn Hassett, Julie Harris, Anne Jackson, Barbara Barrie, Donna Mitchell

Synopsis: Poet Sylvia Plath wrote an immensely popular roman à clef, The Bell Jar, which chronicles a woman's descent from functioning as a highly educated, motivated, and capable young woman to being completely incapacitated at the hands of mental illness. Sadly, Plath committed suicide at age 30 Read More

1979
Emily Dickinson: A Certain Slant of Light

Synopsis: "There's a certain slant of light/ winter afternoons/ That oppresses/ like the heft of cathedral tunes." Emily Dickinson's heavy lines create the mood for the Monterey Video release, Emily Dickinson: A Certain Slant of Light. Hosted by classical actress Julie Harris, the video explores the life of Read More

1978
Drama: Play, Performance, Perception [Video Series]

Synopsis: This introduction to the theater features a collection of fourteen dramas all combined in four modules. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1978
Voyage of the Damned

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow, Oskar Werner, Malcolm McDowell, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Often described as "Ship of Fools with a conscience," Voyage of the Damned is based on a true story. In 1939, the Nazis ostentatiously loaded a luxury liner with hundred of Jewish refugees from all walks of life. The ship then tried to drop anchor in Havana, Cuba-only to have its passengers Read More

1976
The Belle of Amherst

Actors: Julie Harris

Synopsis: The life of poet Emily Dickinson is thoughtfully re-created in this one-woman show starring Julie Harris. As the actress reads from the poems, letters, and diaries of the poet, a picture emerges of a highly sensitive, yet troubled soul. Dickinson lived during the 19th century and was the Read More

1976
The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

Actors: Julie Harris, Michael Cristofer, Robby Benson

Synopsis: Julie Harris stars as Mary Todd Lincoln in this look at the twilight of the former First Lady's life. After her husband's assassination, she finds herself heavily in debt and denied a pension due to her Southern ancestry, and spends the remainder of her life deeply depressed, dying impoverished Read More

1976
America at the Movies

Actors: Charlton Heston

Synopsis: The American Film Institute put together this movie of film clips from all eras of American filmmaking as a Bicentennial tribute to the country. Narrated by Charleton Heston, the 83 film clips included all relate to American history, or reflect on the character of Americans. The clips are grouped Read More

1976
James Dean: The First American Teenager

Synopsis: In this documentary, narrated by Stacy Keach, the tragic screen-icon James Dean is remembered. Footage from early television appearances, stills from his life, and clips from his three Warner Brothers films are interwoven with interviews with his co-workers. The soundtrack includes music from Elton John Read More

1975
The Hiding Place

Actors: Julie Harris, Eileen Heckart, Arthur O'Connell, Jeanette Clift, Robert Rietty

Synopsis: Produced by Billy Graham's Evangelistic Association and based on an autobiographical novel by Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place is an account of a Dutch family who risk their lives by offering a safe haven for Jews during World War II. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
Long Way Home

Synopsis: Long Way Home is comprised of the first two episodes of the 1975 TV series The Family Holvak. Glenn Ford plays the Reverend Tom Holvak, who lives with his family in a depression-era southern town. Holvak opens his doors to a charming vagabond, played by David Carradine. Only the Holvak son Ramey (Lance Kerwin Read More

1975
Grow Old Along with Me

1974
The Greatest Gift

Synopsis: The Greatest Gift stars Glenn Ford as Reverend Holvak, a poverty-stricken small-town preacher. He struggles to keep his family and his rapidly dwindling congregation together in a small Southern town. Throughout this made-for-TV movie, Holvak is under attack from two fronts: the remonstrative Read More

1974
Holvak

Synopsis: A small Southern town is this setting for a life-and-death battle between a poor preacher, a cold-hearted sheriff and unconcerned church officials. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Die, Darling, Die

Synopsis: Die, Darling, Die stars Jimmy Stewart as countrified lawyer/sleuth Hawkins. Julie Harris costars as a recent widow, the heir to a $2 million estate. Not surprisingly, Ms. Harris is suspected of facilitating her husband's death--especially since she was seen throwing away his medication. It's Read More

1973
Columbo: Any Old Port in a Storm

Synopsis: Any Old Port in a Storm is another two-hour TV cat and mouse session with Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk). Donald Pleasance portrays a winemaker whose covetous brother plans to sell the family vineyard. Pleasance puts the kibosh on this transaction by killing his sibling. He tries to make it look like an Read More

1973
Home for the Holidays

Synopsis: When their aging father (Walter Brennan) is convinced his second wife is out to kill him, his four adult daughters gather over the holidays to help make things right, only to find themselves terrorized by a pitchfork-wielding maniac. This made-for-TV thriller was also released as Deadly Desires. Read More

1972
So Long Baby, and Amen

Synopsis: In this drama, a crime correspondent reports his findings at a Congressional committee hearing on addictive drugs. Later he finds himself entangled with a self-destructive, drug-addicted young girl. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1970
How Awful About Allan

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Julie Harris

Synopsis: Director Curtis Harrington (The Killing Kind) teams with screenwriter Henry Farrell (Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte) for this quietly disturbing tale of a man driven to psychosomatic blindness by a horrific family tragedy. Unable to cope with the fact that he has been blamed for the fire that killed Read More

1970
The People Next Door

Actors: Eli Wallach, Deborah Winters, Stephen McHattie, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: Parents worry about their daughter when she freaks out on drugs and is hospitalized. Arthur (Eli Wallach) and Gerri (Julie Harris) face the reality when Maxie (Deborah Winters) must remain at the facility or return home. Della (Rue McClanahan) is Arthur's straight shooting secretary and mistress Read More

1970
The House on Greenapple Road

Synopsis: House on Greenapple Road was an off-length TV movie (135 minutes instead of the usual 100), first telecast on The ABC Sunday Night Movie on January 11, 1970. Christopher George heads a stellar cast as Lt. Dan August, probing a homicide case in suburbia. The accused, a meek clerk (Tim O'Connor) Read More

1970
The Split

Actors: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Julie Harris, Ernest Borgnine, Gene Hackman

Synopsis: A pair of crooks conspire to rob the ticket booth at the Los Angeles Coliseum during a Rams game. Before they can perform the heist, the two must find precisely the right henchmen to join them. Each potential gang member must undergo a rigorous test of skill. Thanks to care and precise planning Read More

1968
Bonanza: A Dream to Dream

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Julie Harris, Steve Ihnat

Synopsis: Feeling responsible for the death of his oldest son, Josh Carter (Steve Ihnat) has become an abusive alcoholic. As a result, he has alienated himself from his wife, Sarah (Julie Harris), and surviving children Timmy (Johnnie Whitaker) and Sally (Michele Tobin). When Hoss Cartwright tries to help Read More

1968
Journey into Midnight

Synopsis: Hammer recut and repackaged two installments of their popular television series Journey to the Unknown (one of the earliest projects of longtime Hammer director Roy Ward Baker) for this theatrical release. The first tale involves a guest at an unusual masquerade party at which he is given an Read More

1968
The Bobby Currier Story

Synopsis: The Bobby Currier Story is a 90-minute episode from the TV series Name of the Game. The titular Currier (Brandon de Wilde) is a young, small-town perennial loser. He kidnaps Tisha Sterling, daughter of local sheriff Steve Forrest, and goes on a Charles Starkweather-style murder spree. Dan Farrell (Robert Stack Read More

1968
Reflections in a Golden Eye

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith, Julie Harris, Robert Forster

Synopsis: This dreary story of the latent desires of the sexually repressed and psychologically tormented is taken from the 1944 novel by Carson McCullers. Major Penderton (Marlon Brando) is a hard-driving Army officer married to Leonora (Elizabeth Taylor). The impotent Penderton hides his latent Read More

1967
Harper

Actors: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh

Synopsis: Screenwriter William Goldman has claimed that Paul Newman agreed to do Harper, the film that established the grateful writer's career, only because he was working unhappily on Lady L. (1965) in Europe, and was looking for something as unlike that film as possible. He stars as Lew Harper, a hip Read More

1966
You're a Big Boy Now

Actors: Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Julie Harris, Peter Kastner, Rip Torn

Synopsis: This cult favorite began as Francis Ford Coppola's UCLA thesis, ending up with a professional cast and nationwide release. Teen Peter Kastner undergoes his coming-of-age rites when, urged on by dad Rip Torn, he strikes out on own and moves to NYC. Every person Kastner meets is an eccentric's Read More

1966