Linda LavinFilmography

Intimate Portrait: Linda Lavin

Collected Stories

Synopsis: Six years in the lives of two intensely creative people are chronicled in this TV-movie adaptation of Donald Margulies' award-winning play Collected Stories. Repeating their roles from the original 1999 theatrical production, Linda Lavin and Samantha Mathis are cast respectively as esteemed author Read More

Touched by an Angel: Jagged Edges

Synopsis: After the death of her father Doug (Drew Snyder), standup comedienne Natalie (Arabella Field) is obliged to clean up the mess left behind in Doug's cluttered garage. Under the watchful eye of angel Andrew (John Dye), Natalie unearths a long-suppressed secret: Her mother Amanda (Linda Lavin), whom Read More

Best Friends for Life

Synopsis: Carolinian Sarah Cooper (Linda Lavin) and Texan Harriet Cahill (Gena Rowlands) are lifelong friends who are both widowed at virtually the same time. Although Sarah is financially well off, Harriet is struggling to make ends meet. In her efforts to help Harriet, Sarah is shocked to find out that Read More

Conrad Bloom [TV Series]

Actors: Mark Feuerstein, Lauren Graham, Ever Carradine, Jessica Stone, Paula Newsome

Synopsis: This TV sitcom probes the personal problems of New York City ad copywriter Conrad Bloom (Mark Feuerstein), a single guy surrounded by women, including his ex-girlfriend Molly (Lauren Graham), sister Nina (Ever Carradine), co-worker Shelley (Jessica Stone), demanding boss Faye (Paula Newsome), and Read More

Danielle Steel's 'The Ring'

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Linda Lavin, Michael York, Jon Tenney, James B. Sikking

Synopsis: In this drama, a German woman treasures a ring, the one tie she has left to her life before WWII. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

For the Future: The Irvine Fertility Scandal

Synopsis: This made for cable movie premiered over the Lifetime network on August 21, 1996, barely one year after the court case which inspired it. Though they have adopted a son, infertile couple John and Debbie Challender (Randle Mell, Marilu Henner) still feel unfulfilled. Desperate to have a child of Read More

Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: When her little nephew visits her and her overbearing sisters, a rather naïve, simple-minded young woman finds herself inundated with terrifying memories of a childhood trauma. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story

Actors: Eva La Rue, Annette Funicello, Linda Lavin, Frankie Avalon, Dick Clark

Synopsis: This made-for-television biography paints a moving portrait of the extraordinary life of Annette Funicello, a former Mouseketeer who grew up to be America's sweetheart and Queen of the Beach Blanket movies of the 1960s. The story not only covers her professional rise to stardom both as an actress Read More

Reading Rainbow: Ruth Law Thrills a Nation

Actors: LeVar Burton

Synopsis: When Ruth Law is unable to find anyone in America to teach her how to fly, she goes to France for training in Ruth Law Thrills a Nation, written and illustrated by Don Brown and read by Linda Lavin. She becomes the first African-American woman to be licensed for flight, and learns stunt flying as Read More

See You in the Morning

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Alice Krige, Farrah Fawcett, Drew Barrymore, Lukas Haas

Synopsis: This film is a somewhat contrived pairing of two divorcees who are giving it a second go. They're up against considerable odds, however, because the children of each are not too pleased with their new "parent." Jeff Bridges stars as the husband and Alice Krige plays his second wife. ~ All Movie Read More

I Want to Go Home

Actors: Adolph Green, Gérard Depardieu, Linda Lavin, Laura Benson, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: American humorist Jules Feiffer and French director Alain Resnais are oddly paired for this satirical comedy about an American cartoonist in Paris. Adolph Green is a stunner as Joey Wellman, a cantankerous American cartoonist traveling abroad for the first time. In tow is Lena Apthrop (Linda Read More

Maricela

Synopsis: Carlina Cruz stars as Maricela in this 60-minute TV drama. A 13-year-old illegal Salvadorian immigrant, Maricela moves in with her mother, a live-in maid. While avoiding the authorities, Maricela takes time to ponder the extreme cultural differences between her family and the middle-class brood Read More

Miracle Down Under

Actors: Dee Wallace, John Waters, Bill Kerr, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Nadine Garner

Synopsis: Christmas Visitor is an American/Australian coproduction geared for exposure on the Disney Channel pay-cable service. The scene is the Australian outback in the 1890s, where a drought threatens to wipe out a farming community. Holding out for a miracle, the farmers face a bleak Yuletide, until an Read More

Lena: My 100 Children

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Lena: My 100 Children was based on the life of Lena Kuchler-Silberman, here portrayed by Linda Lavin. During World War II, Lena, a Polish Jew, posed as a Catholic to escape the Nazi death camp. At war's end, the guilt-ridden Lena vows to atone for the millions who were exterminated Read More

A Place to Call Home

Actors: Linda Lavin, Lane Smith, Lori Loughlin

Synopsis: Made for television, A Place to Call Home is based on fact, incredible as it seems from first scene to last. Linda Lavin stars as a Houston mother of eleven children, whose husband decides to move one and all to an Australian sheep ranch in 1970. Lavin drags her kids the requisite 17,000 miles to Read More

Alice: The Night They Raided Debbie's

Synopsis: Linda Lavin once again pulls double duty in the dual role of waitress Alice Hyatt and contentious oldster Debbie Walden, the former landlady of Vera and Elliot Novak (Beth Howland, Charles Levin. Now residing in a home of their own, the Novaks hope to raise a bit of extra money by renting out a Read More

Alice: Jolene is Stuck on Mel

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jolene (Celia Weston) is thrilled when TV game show host Harry Parker (John McCook) proposes marriage. But she begins to wonder if such a union is possible after she manages to super-glue herself to boss Mel (Vic Tayback). Jean Smart of Designing Women and 24 fame makes an early TV appearance in Read More

Alice: My Dinner with Debbie

Synopsis: Linda Lavin once again essays the dual role of waitress Alice Hyatt and vituperative middle-ager Debbie Walden, owner of the apartment house where dwells Vera (Beth Howland) and her husband Elliot. Though she'll never win a "Miss Nice" award, Debbie does have her good points: for one thing, she's Read More

Alice: Season 09

Crew: Singer

Actors: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Beth Howland, Celia Weston, Philip McKeon

Synopsis: It has taken nine seasons, but waitress Alice Hyatt (Linda Lavin, widowed protagonist of the popular sitcom Alice, has finally landed a permanent boyfriend, one Nicholas Stone (Michael Durrell). And just in cast Alice had any doubts about her newest beau, Nicholas proves his mettle when he helps Read More

Alice: Season 08

Crew: Singer

Actors: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Beth Howland, Celia Weston, Philip McKeon

Synopsis: Season Eight of Alice offers the series' one-and-only crossover episode, "Mel is Hogg-Tied, in which Mel's Diner is visited by Sorrell Booke and Sonny Shrover in their familiar Dukes of Hazzard roles as Boss Hogg and Enos Strait. Also seen this season is former Brady Bunch matriarch Florence Read More

Alice: Vera the Virtuoso

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Vera (Beth Howland) has taken up playing the cello, even though her talent somewhat exceeds her enthusiasm. That said, the gang at Mel's diner (except for Alice [Linda Lavin], who barely appears in this episode) is in for a surprise when Vera is invited to join a local string quartet. The music Read More

Alice: Vera, the Torch

Synopsis: When her crabby landlady evicts her pets, an outraged Vera (Beth Howland) predicts dire consequence for the old woman. Shortly thereafter, the landlady's apartment catches fire, and Vera thinks that she is somehow responsible. Unfortunately, so do the police! This is the first of several episodes Read More

Alice: Jolene Lets the Cat Out of the Bag

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The cat burglar prowling her neighborhood has Jolene (Vera Howland) on edge. Her nervousness is amplified when Jolene stumbles onto a secret held by her affable new neighbor Roger (Doug Sheehan). Although this episode was first telecast on September 18, 1983, just before the inauguration of the Read More

Alice: 'Tis the Season to Be Jealous

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Vera (Beth Howland) must relinquish her new policeman husband Elliot (Charles Levin) for a few hours during the Holidays when he goes undercover as a department store Santa. Unfortunately, the disguised Elliot spots Vera locking lips with her ex-fiance Steve (Kip Niven), and it looks like it'll be Read More

Another Woman's Child

Crew: Producer

Actors: Linda Lavin, Jenny O'Hara

Synopsis: Initially titled The Far Shore, the made-for-TV Another Woman's Child was co-produced by Linda Lavin, who also starred. Lavin and Tony LoBianco play a long-married couple who are confronted with a flash from the past. Young Jenny O'Hara shows up at the couple's doorstep, announcing that she is LoBianco Read More

Alice: Do You Take This Waitress?

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jerry Stiller (Seinfeld, King of Queens) guest stars as Gordy, an old pal--and longtime romantic rival--of diner owner Mel (Vic Tayback). When middle-aged Gordy shows up with a sexy young woman on his arm, Mel is determined to outdo his friend. To this end, Mel "persuades" waitress Jolene (Celia Read More

Alice: Vera's Reunion Romance

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Vera (Beth Howland) attends her high school reunion, where she meets her former flame Steve (Kip Niven). Those with good memories will recall that this is the same Steve who, a few episodes back, talked Vera into cashing a personal check--which promptly bounced. Apparently Vera's memory isn't Read More

Alice: Season 07

Crew: Singer

Actors: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Beth Howland, Celia Weston, Philip McKeon

Synopsis: Alice moved from its familiar Sunday night slot to a Wednesday night berth for its seventh season, then shifted to Mondays in February of 1983. Whatever the night, the series' fans faithfully flocked around the tube to watch the latest shenanigans at Mel's Diner, and the misadventures of Read More

Alice: Season 06

Crew: Singer

Actors: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Beth Howland, Celia Weston, Philip McKeon

Synopsis: Season Six of Alice finds most of the series' original cast still intact: Linda Lavin as waitress and wannabe singer Alice, Philip McKeon as her now 17-year-old son Tommy, Vic Tayback as her bombastic boss Mel, and Beth Howland as airheaded fellow waitress Vera. Missing from the scene is Diane Read More

A Matter of Life and Death

Synopsis: This fact-based made-for-television drama tells the story of nurse Joy Ufemal and her invaluable work with those dying of incurable diseases. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Alice: Baby Makes Five

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this final episode of Alice's fifth season, Vera (Beth Howland) brings a bundle of dirty clothes to the laundromat--and returns with a bundle of joy. Someone has abandoned a baby in Vera's laundry basket, and she intends to keep the child (Is it possible that feeding the baby Mel's chili might Read More

The $5.20 an Hour Dream

Synopsis: Clearly inspired by the theatrical feature Norma Rae, The $5.20 an Hour Dream stars Linda Lavin as a recently divorced woman supporting herself and her 12-year-old daughter. The highest-paying job at the Oregon engine factory where she works is on the assembly line--which has traditionally been an Read More

Alice: Vera, the Vamp

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The up-and-down romance between Vera (Beth Howland) and Brian (Alan Haufrect) has taken yet another downward swing. Though Vera is still eager and willing, Brian seems to have lost all interest in her. Desperately, Vera turns to the enticing Belle (Diane Ladd) to transform her into an object of Read More

Alice: Season 05

Crew: Singer

Actors: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Beth Howland, Diane Ladd, Philip McKeon

Synopsis: Though fewer new episodes of Alice were telecast during its fifth season due to a Hollywood writer's strike, the series still remained one of CBS's most popular attractions, ranking seventh in the overall Nielsen ratings. Much of its ongoing success can be attributed to the seamless ensemble work Read More

Alice: Carrie Sings the Blues

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Just when he thought it was safe to go into his apartment again, Mel (Vic Tayback) is descended upon by his overbearing mother Carrie (Martha Raye). It seems that mom's young husband Robert (Howard Witt), whom she wed a mere six months before, has walked out on her. Hoping to make the best of a Read More

Alice: Cook's Tour

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Pamela Myers guest stars as Bobbi, a wide-eyed Phoenix tour guide who develops a passionate crush on Mel (Vic Tayback). Inasmuch as Bobbi is willing to shepherd new customers into his diner, Mel strings her along. There's no way that Mel is going to emerge as the "good guy" this time--but has he Read More

Alice: Season 04

Crew: Singer

Actors: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Beth Howland, Philip McKeon

Synopsis: Halfway through Season Four of Alice, series regular Polly Holliday, in the role of brassy waitress Flo "Kiss Mah Grits" Castleberry, accepts an offer she can't refuse from a Houston businessman and leaves Mel's Diner in Phoenix to open up her own restaurant--thereby neatly segueing into her own Read More

Like Mom, Like Me

Actors: Linda Lavin, Kristy McNichol

Synopsis: Professor Patrick O'Neal packs his pipe and cardigan and walks out on wife Linda Lavin and daughter Kristy McNichol. Left with nothing but each other, Lavin and McNichol find themselves agreeing to disagree often as not. The principal bone of contention is the fact that Mom is dating again. McNichol Read More

Alice: Season 03

Crew: Singer

Actors: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Polly Holliday, Beth Howland, Philip McKeon

Synopsis: Season Three of Alice introduces Victoria Carroll as Marie, the on-and-off girlfriend of Phoenix diner proprietor Mel Sharples (Vic Tayback). Also, Mel's Diner welcomes several new steady customers, among them Earl (Dave Madden), Chuck (Duane R. Campbell) and Brian (Alan Haufrect), who spend as Read More

Alice: Season 02

Crew: Singer

Actors: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Polly Holliday, Beth Howland, Philip McKeon

Synopsis: Although widow and single mom Alice Hyatt (Linda Lavin) still hopes to one day pursue a singing career, financial realities force her to retain her job as waitress at Mel's Diner in Phoenix, Arizona in Season Two of Alice. Likewise still on the premises are Alice's explosive boss Mel (Vic Read More

Alice: Season 01

Crew: Singer

Actors: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Polly Holliday, Beth Howland, Philip McKeon

Synopsis: The long-running CBS sitcom Alice launches its first season with the pilot episode, in which Alice Hyatt (Linda Lavin), recently widowed when her trucker husband was killed in an accident, packs herself and her son Tommy (Philip McKeon) and heads westward, hoping to find success as a professional Read More

The Morning After

Synopsis: Dick Van Dyke put his image and his career on the line with this searing TV movie about a "social drinker" who becomes a full-fledged alcoholic. Van Dyke plays a loving husband and father with a solid job and an excellent reputation, who blows it all with his excessive drinking. His wife (Lynn Carlin Read More