Kim Stanley Filmography

Born:: February 11, 1925 in Tularosa, NM
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Patricia Kimberly Reid
Biography:: Stanley was born Patricia Kimberly Reid. After performing in college plays and in stock she moved to New York; there she trained at the Actors Studio under Kazan and Strasberg, meanwhile working as a model. She did much work on the Broadway and London stage, winning praise and awards. To date she...Read More

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Actors: David Dukes, Penny Fuller, Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Rip Torn, Kim Stanley

Synopsis: Coproduced by Showtime and PBS, the 1984 TV version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is based on Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Price winning play, previously filmed in 1958 and 1979. Jessica Lange stars as Maggie "the Cat", the frustrated, overheated wife of alcoholic former football jock Brick (Tommy Lee Jones Read More

1984
The Right Stuff

Actors: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward

Synopsis: Covering some 15 years, The Right Stuff recounts the formation of America's space program, concentrating on the original Mercury astronauts. Scott Glenn plays Alan Shepard, the first American in space; Fred Ward is Gus Grissom, the benighted astronaut for whom nothing works out as planned; and Ed Harris Read More

1983
Quincy, M.E.: Beyond the Open Door

Synopsis: Kim Stanley, who gave an impressive performance as a phony fortune teller in the 1964 film Seance on a Wet Afternoon, is equally persuasive as a genuine psychic in this Quincy M.E. episode. In their search for a serial killer of teenage girls, the authorities enlist the aid of psychic Edith Read More

1983
Frances

Actors: Robert Harris, Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard, Bart Burns, Jeffrey DeMunn

Synopsis: As played by Jessica Lange, Frances Farmer is a rebel from the word go, winning a high school essay award by writing a piece in defense of Communism. Determining to become an actress, Frances is equally determined not to play the Hollywood game: she refuses to acquiesce to idiotic publicity Read More

1982
The Three Sisters

Actors: Geraldine Page, Kim Stanley, Shelley Winters, Sandy Dennis, Kevin McCarthy

Synopsis: The Three Sisters is a literal transcription of the 1965 Actor's Theatre production of the Chekhov drama. Kim Stanley, Geraldine Page and Shelley Winters play the title characters, all members of a wealthy but unhappy 19th-century Russian family. Stuck in a forsaken garrison town by their Read More

1965
Séance on a Wet Afternoon

Actors: Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Nanette Newman, Margaret Lacey, Patrick Magee, Maria Kazan, Mark Eden, Lionel Gamlin

Synopsis: Kim Stanley plays a crooked medium who has become slightly unhinged since the death of her son. Craving money and publicity, she concocts a scheme with her weak-willed husband (Richard Attenborough). The pair will kidnap a wealthy young girl, collect the ransom, then use her "powers" to help the Read More

1964
To Kill a Mockingbird

Actors: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton, Robert Duvall

Synopsis: Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel was translated to film in 1962 by Horton Foote and the producer/director team of Robert Mulligan and Alan J. Pakula. Set a small Alabama town in the 1930s, the story focuses on scrupulously honest, highly respected lawyer Atticus Finch Read More

1962
The Goddess

Actors: Kim Stanley, Lloyd Bridges, Steven Hill, Betty Lou Holland, Burt Brinckerhoff

Synopsis: Screenplay writer Paddy Chayefsky, and indeed everyone involved with the film, insisted that The Goddess wasn't really all about Marilyn Monroe. Nawww. Kim Stanley plays a neglected young woman living in poverty who aspires to be a movie star. She gets a few roles here and there on looks alone. Read More

1958
Danger

Synopsis: This Trilogy, Danger originally created for television by Sidney Lumet consists of three individual episodes, all in the film noir thriller style The Lady on the Rock, Death Among the Relics, and The System. The cast includes Kim Stanley and Eli Wallach. Director Lumet began his filmmaking career Read More

1952