Linda Purl Filmography

Born:: September 2, 1955 in Greenwich, CT
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Connecticut native Linda Purl grew up in Japan, where her father, a Union Carbide executive, had been transferred. Under the watchful eye of her mother, a former ballerina, Purl began acting professionally in Japanese stage and TV productions at the age of seven. Ten years later, she made her...Read More

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Criminal Intent

Synopsis: No sooner has entrepreneur Devon Major (Sebastian Spence) emerged from a messy divorce than he is accused of murdering his ex-wife. Astonishingly, Devon requests that his wife's divorce attorney Susan Grace (Vanessa Angel) represent him at his trial. Despite Susan's avowed hatred of Devon, she Read More

2005
Maid of Honor

Actors: Linda Purl, Linden Ashby, Shannon Sturges

Synopsis: When the death of her once-beautiful sister leaves lonely Laci (Linda Purl)'s grieving brother-in-law a newly-single husband and father, the disturbed woman's attempts to take her late sister's place in the marriage only lead to murder in director Douglas Jackson's bloody tale of wedding vows gone Read More

2005
A Stranger at the Door

Synopsis: 25 years ago, Katherine (Linda Norris) put her son Jamie up for adoption. Now happily married to Greg Norris (Perry King), Katherine is surprised when a young man claiming to be Jamie (Andrew Kraulis) shows up at her door. Captivated by the boy's charm and honeyed words, Katherine and Greg welcome Read More

2004
Frozen Impact

Synopsis: The plane carrying a new liver for seriously ill youngster Jason Blanchard (Myles Jeffrey) crashes during a hailstorm. Also lost during the icy deluge are Jason, his mother, and his siblings. Defying the odds, Jason's devoted father, Dan (Ted McGinley), is convinced that his family is alive and Read More

2003
Fear of the Dark

Actors: Kevin Zegers, Jesse James, Linda Purl, Rachel Skarsten, Charles Powell

Synopsis: In this independent horror film from writer/director K.C. Bascombe (Swindle, The Contract), Jesse James plays Brian Billings, a young boy suffering from an intense fear of the dark. His older brother Dale (Kevin Zegers) thinks the phobia is childish and unwarranted, but when the power goes out Read More

2002
The Perfect Tenant

Actors: Linda Purl, Maxwell Caulfield, Tracy Nelson

Synopsis: In this thriller, a woman discovers that the young man living on her property isn't as nice as she initially believed. Jessica Michaels (Linda Purl) rents out the guest house at her estate to David Summer (Maxwell Caulfield), a quiet man who is neat, well-behaved, and courteous. Jessica figures Read More

1999
Mighty Joe Young

Actors: Charlize Theron, Bill Paxton, Rade Serbedzija, Peter Firth, David Paymer

Synopsis: This 1998 version of Mighty Joe Young begins with a Gorillas in the Mist-type prologue and then jumps forward twelve years to find Bill Paxton leading a safari expedition to capture the legendary giant (two-ton) gorilla, the subject of the film's title. Paxton's intentions are admirable; he wants Read More

1998
Touched By an Angel: Flights of Angels

Synopsis: Stricken with the degenerative neurological disease ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease), professional artist Richard (Gregory Harrison) must quickly decide the sort of legacy he will leave behind for his wife Sally (Linda Purl) and his three sons. Feverishly, Richard rushes to finish several Read More

1998
The Absolute Truth

Synopsis: Clearly inspired by the events surrounding the Bill Clinton sex scandal, the made-for-TV The Absolute Truth starsJane Seymour as Alison Reid, crusading anchorwoman for the top-rated TV magazine show "Focus." Upon obtaining evidence that powerful senator and presidential candidate Jake Slaughter Read More

1996
Born Free: A New Adventure

Actors: Jonathan Brandis, Ariana Richards, Linda Purl

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV sequel to 1966's Born Free, Jonathan Brandis and Ariana Richards play Rand and Val, a pair of American teenagers who, while in Africa, come to the rescue of a lioness who has been tamed by hunters. The lioness' best hope for survival is to be returned to the wild, and now Rand Read More

1996
Natural Causes

Actors: Linda Purl, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Will Patton, Tim Thomerson, Janis Paige

Synopsis: In this political thriller set in Bangkok, a young woman finds herself drawn into a scheme designed to assassinate Henry Kissinger, the former Secretary of State. The film offers wonderful views of the Thai city. The film opens with the death of American Rachel McCarthy, who is murdered in her Read More

1994
Incident at Deception Ridge

Actors: Michael O'Keefe, Linda Purl, Ed Begley, Jr., Colleen Flynn, Miguel Ferrer

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV action adventure, some criminals terrorize a Seattle-bound bus filled with innocent passengers after a kidnapping goes awry. Michael O'Keefe stars as Jack Boulder, a just-released ex-con who, along with some resourceful characters, helps his fellow bus passengers defend Read More

1994
Accidental Meeting

Actors: Linda Purl, Linda Gray, Leigh McCloskey, David Hayward, Kent McCord

Synopsis: Produced for the USA cable service, Accidental Meeting stars Linda Purl as Maryanne and Linda Gray as Jennifer. Meeting by chance, the two women begin discussing the men in their life. Maryanne expresses a wish to see her boss dead, while Jennifer would sooner see an odious male of her Read More

1993
Murder, She Wrote: Dead Eye

Synopsis: Having solved many another murder case in the past, Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is finally given a crack at the JFK assassination! It seems that a Dallas private eye disappeared at the same time that Kennedy was shot, and now, thirty years later, there is positive proof that the P.I. was Read More

1993
Secrets

Actors: Christopher Plummer, Stephanie Beacham, Linda Purl, Gary Collins, Josie Bissett

Synopsis: Based on a steamy Danielle Steel novel, this drama centers on the strange relationship between a television producer and the star of his latest series. They had a romance before, but now she has become an enigma, always running off to fulfill some vague obligations. The producer also discovers Read More

1992
Danielle Steel's 'Secrets'

Synopsis: When a TV producer strikes up a romance with an old flame, a star in his new TV series, their relationship is threatened by mysteries she won't explain to him. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Body Language

Actors: Edward Albert, Heather Locklear, Linda Purl, James Acheson

Synopsis: Heather Locklear plays a businesswoman who's moving ever upward on the executive ladder. Alas, though lucky in her job, she's unlucky in love. Locklear's secretary Linda Purl takes it upon herself to offer helpful advice on matters of the heart. But it turns out-and here's the BIG SURPRISE-that Purl Read More

1992
Spies, Lies and Naked Thighs

Synopsis: In this lively made-for-TV espionage comedy, an off-the-wall CIA agent involves an interpreter in his hunt for a professional hit man assigned to murder the President. The real craziness begins when they discover that the killer is one of their ex-wives and that she is living next door. ~ Sandra Read More

1991
Web of Deceit

Actors: Linda Purl, James Read, Barbara Rush, Paul de Souza

Synopsis: In the made-for-television film Web of Deceit, a West coast lawyer (Linda Purl) returns to her hometown of Atlanta to defend an unfairly accused teenager (Paul de Souza) of rape and murder. As she investigates the case, she re-ignites an old love affair with the prosecuting attorney, who just may Read More

1990
Viper

Actors: Linda Purl, James Tolkan, Jeff Kober, Ken Foree, Chris Robinson

Synopsis: Director-producer Peter Maris directed this suspense drama based on a script by Frank Kerr. James Macalla (Chris Robinson) is a prominent university researcher whose mysterious death is not investigated to the satisfaction of his distraught wife, Laura (Linda Purl). Laura sets off to find the real Read More

5/13/88
Addicted to His Love - Sisterhood

Actors: Barry Bostwick, Linda Purl

Synopsis: When this seriocomic TV film first aired March 28, 1988, it was titled Addicted to His Love. Evidently to pacify certain feminist factions, the film was rechristened Sisterhood for syndication. Either way, this is the story of a smooth lothario, played by Barry Bostwick. In the course of 97 Read More

1988
Murder, She Wrote: Mourning Among the Wisterias

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) heads Southward to visit an old friend, celebrated playwright Eugene McLendon (Barry Nelson). Inevitably, a murder occurs: the victim this time is Eugene's crooked business manager Jonathan Keeler (Elliott Reid). Deciding to stay on and help out when Eugene is suspected Read More

1988
Under Cover: Under Cover

Actors: Anthony John Denison, Linda Purl, John Rhys-Davies

Synopsis: The weekly, 60-minute TV adventure series Under Cover starred Anthony John Denison and Linda Purl as husband-and-wife secret agents Dylan and Kate Del'Amico. Employed by the National Intelligence Agency (read: CIA), Dylan and Kate were sent out on their various missions by head man Stuart Merriman Read More

5/1/87
In Self Defense

1987
Outrage!

Actors: Beau Bridges, Robert Preston

Synopsis: Robert Preston stars as a family man who kills the man who raped and murdered his daughter. After confessing to the police, he is defended by an idealistic attorney played by Beau Bridges. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
Pleasures

Synopsis: In this romance, a woman, her sister, and her teen-age daughter find Summer love. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
Dark Mansions

Actors: Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Loretta Young was originally to have starred in made-for-TV Dark Mansions, but she didn't like the script and passed up the project; her role was quickly filled by another Hollywood veteran, Joan Fontaine. Aaron Spelling and Douglas Cramer, the guys who brought you Love Boat, "go gothic" in this Read More

1986
Murder, She Wrote: Murder at the Oasis

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) heads to a fashionable desert resort for a reunion with her college roommate Peggy (Piper Laurie). Unfortunately, the happiness of the occasion is compromised by the presence of Peggy's ex-husband, nasty showbiz star Johnny Shannon (Ed Ames. In fact, Johnny has made so Read More

1985
Midas Valley

Actors: James Read, Shanna Reed

Synopsis: Midas Valley might just as well have been titled Falcon Crest Goes to Silicon Valley. The heroes are a pair of handsome young computer executives, played by James Read and Brent Cullen. The boys' most formidable rival is their onetime mentor, electronics mogul Robert Stack. Relationships between Read More

1985
The Last Days of Pompeii

Synopsis: This three-part, seven-hour TV adaptation of Edgar Bulwer-Lytton's 1834 best-seller The Last Days of Pompeii was arguably more faithful to its source than any of the earlier film versions -- and inarguably the most expensive version of all, boasting a 19,000,000-dollar budget and a truly Read More

1984
Happy Days: Season 10

Actors: Henry Winkler, Ted McGinley, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Anson Williams, Linda Purl, Cathy Silvers, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita

1983
Visiting Hours

Actors: Michael Ironside, Lee Grant, Linda Purl, William Shatner, Harvey Atkin

Synopsis: A crazed, women-hating killer (Michael Ironside) rapes and brutalizes journalist Deborah Ballin (Lee Grant). When he discovers that his attack didn't kill Deborah, he comes to the hospital to finish what he started. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

5/28/82
Money on the Side

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Linda Purl, Karen Valentine

Synopsis: Money on the Side is a feminist's worst nightmare. This TV movie proposes that the only recourse a housewife has to the nation's "faltering economy" (to quote the film's press release) is to turn to prostitution. The three suburban housewife hookers in this opus are Jamie Lee Curtis, Linda Purl Read More

1982
The Adventures of Nellie Bly

Actors: Gene Barry, J.D. Cannon, Linda Purl, John Randolph

Synopsis: Linda Purl stars as Nellie Bly, famed 19th century female journalist, in this "Classics Illustrated" TV movie. A tireless crusader, Nellie exposes corruption amongst the rich of New York and miserable working conditions amongst the poor. In her most famous exploit, Nellie decides to emulate Jules Read More

1981
The High Country

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Linda Purl, George Sims, Jim Lawrence, Bill Berry

Synopsis: A fugitive (Timothy Bottoms) and a handicapped woman (Linda Purl) on the run in the wilds of the Canadian Rockies fall in love in this adventure film from Harvey Hart. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
The Manions of America

Synopsis: The Manions of America was a three-part miniseries originally telecast September 30, and October 1 and 2, 1981. Set in Ireland and Philadelphia in the late 1840's, Rory O'Manion (Pierce Brosnan in his American TV-movie debut) escapes from the Great Irish Potato Famine to head to America, where he Read More

1981
Leo and Loree

Actors: Don Most, Linda Purl, David Huffman, Jerry Paris, Shannon Farnon

Synopsis: The cliches about actors fighting an uphill battle in Tinseltown are all found in this film, its own actors an example of its message. Donny Most stars as Leo, an aspiring thespian with less than an ingratiating manner and Linda Purl is Loree, an actress who just might get her foot in the door Read More

1980
The Night the City Screamed

Actors: Raymond Burr, Robert Culp, Georg Stanford Brown

Synopsis: A big-city blackout galvanizes the plot of the made-for-TV The Night the City Screamed. Recreating recent events in New York City, the film details a crime spree that runs unchecked throughout the darkened metropolis. Mayor Raymond Burr tries to stem the tide of robberies and rapes, even as he Read More

1980
Like Normal People

Actors: Shaun Cassidy, Linda Purl, Hope Lange, Zalman King, James Keach

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the made-for-TV Like Normal People IS the story of a romance between two mentally challenged adults. In his first dramatic acting appearance, Shaun Cassidy plays Roger Meyers, a mildly retarded man who, while living in a home for the handicapped, falls in love with another Read More

1979
The Flame Is Love

Actors: Linda Purl, Timothy Dalton, Shane Briant, Richard Johnson, Joan Greenwood

Synopsis: This sudsy made-for-television melodrama is based on a Barbara Cartland novel and follows the romantic exploits of an American heiress who sets sail for exciting Paris at the turn-of-the-century. Initially she is going there to meet her fiance, but once there she ends up falling in love with a Read More

1979
A Last Cry for Help

Actors: Linda Purl

Synopsis: "Sharon cries out for strength...for hope...for love...." So read the ad copy for the made-for-TV A Last Cry For Help Sharon (Linda Purl) is an outwardly happy, normal high schooler: A-student, cheerleader, popular with everyone. So why is she so determined to commit suicide? Director Hal Read More

1979
Very Special Love

Synopsis: In this drama, two mentally retarded people fall in love and plan to marry. Unfortunately they must overcome considerable resistance. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
Women at West Point

Actors: Linda Purl

Synopsis: Women at West Point is a close-order-drill soap opera inspired by the Point's first women cadets, who entered the school as "plebes" in 1976. Unable to dwell upon the lives and times of all 119 women, the film concentrates upon ever-victimized plebe Linda Purl. What could have been an Read More

1979
Testimony of Two Men

Synopsis: The inaugural presentation of the syndicated "Operation Prime Time" anthology, the three-part, six-hour miniseries Testimony of Two Men was based on the 1968 best-seller by Taylor Caldwell; it originally aired in three separate two-hour installments. Sprawled over the course of several generations Read More

1977
A Very Dangerous Love

Synopsis: In this drama a single mother and her lover try to keep an illegal adoption outfit from taking their baby. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
The Waltons: The Heartbreaker

Synopsis: Jason (Jon Walmsley) falls in love with Vanessa (Lynda Purl), the sister of his brother-in-law Curt (Tom Bower). Unfortunately, Vanessa arrives on the mountain with considerable "baggage": she has deserted her husband to pursue a singing career. Blind to Vanessa's fickle, opportunistic nature Read More

1977
Little Ladies of the Night

Actors: Linda Purl

Synopsis: Also known as Little Ladies of the Night, the story focuses on a teenager who runs away from home and finds herself in the sordid world of street-life prostitution. She gains help from a police officer, who is still connected to the underground since he formerly worked as a pimp. ~ John Bush, All Read More

1977
Black Market Baby

Actors: Linda Purl, Desi Arnaz, Jr., Jessica Walter, David F. Doyle, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: Elizabeth Christman's novel A Nice Italian Girl was the source for the TV-movie Black Market Baby. Desi Arnaz Jr. plays a slick lothario who is paid by an illicit adoption agency to impregnate impressionable college student Linda Purl. The racketeers stand to make $50,000 by selling the baby to an Read More

1977
Young Pioneers

Synopsis: Set in late-19th-century Dakota, when it was still a vast wilderness, this outdoor adventure follows a pair of newlywed pioneers as they brave various obstacles and hardships in order to forge themselves a new life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Eleanor and Franklin: The Early Years

Actors: Edward Herrmann, Jane Alexander, Linda Kelsey, Rosemary Murphy, Linda Purl

Synopsis: The winner of 11 Emmy awards, the made-for-TV Eleanor and Franklin stars Edward Herrmann as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Jane Alexander as Eleanor Roosevelt. The film traces the first four decades of the lives of cousins Franklin and Eleanor, beginning with their marriage in 1905. Conflicts loom in Read More

1976
Young Pioneers' Christmas

Actors: Robert Donner, Linda Purl, Roger Kern

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie was a sequel to the 1975 telefilm The Young Pioneers, which also inspired a short-lived series. Christmas is just around the corner for David and Molly Beaton (Roger Kern and Linda Purl), two young settlers making a home in the Dakota wilderness of 1874, but the season has Read More

1976
Having Babies

Actors: Linda Purl, Jessica Walter

Synopsis: Originally titled Giving Birth, Having Babies was the first of three pilot films for a TV series that eventually appeared under the title Julie Farr MD. In omnibus fashion, the film focuses in on four couples and their reactions to impending parenthood. Essentially, this is a feature-length Read More

1976
W.C. Fields and Me

Actors: Rod Steiger, Valerie Perrine, John Marley, Jack Cassidy, Bernadette Peters

Synopsis: W.C. Fields and Me is the film version of the Fields biography written by the comedian's former mistress Carlotta Monti. W. C. Fields was a great comedian in vaudeville and early talking films, who was noted for his ability to say the most hilariously cutting and mean things in a cheery, bright Read More

1976
The Oregon Trail

Synopsis: This western chronicles the travails of a pioneer family as they travel west in search of a new life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
Crazy Mama

Actors: Cloris Leachman, Stuart Whitman, Ann Sothern, Tisha Sterling, Jim Backus

Synopsis: Cloris Leachman stars as Melba, a woman with whom violence is a way of life, in Jonathan Demme's high-pitched "B"-movie Crazy Mama. The film spans three decades in the violent life of Melba, beginning in Jerusalem, Arkansas in 1932, when law enforcers kill her father (Clint Kimbrough), turning her Read More

1975
Bad Ronald

Actors: Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott, John Larch, Dabney Coleman, Kim Hunter

Synopsis: "Bad" Ronald (Scott Jacoby) has been in hiding in a secret room ever since going off the deep end and killing a teenaged girl who'd made fun of him. Ronald's mother (Kim Hunter) helps her son to remain hidden, even when the house in which he is sequestered is rented by a family. As luck would have Read More

1974
The Waltons: The Spoilers

Synopsis: The Walton youngsters are impressed by the big-city sophistication of their new neighbors, the Hanovers. Having left his job as a New York stockbroker, Ted Hanover (Mark Miller) has moved to Walton's Mountain in order to impress upon his children the pleasures of living the simple life. Alas, the Read More

1974
Jory

Actors: Robby Benson

Synopsis: A boy (Robby Benson) is forced to become a man when he is left orphaned in the Old West. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1972
Greatest Adventure Stories from the Bible: Samson and Delilah

Synopsis: Featuring the voices of Perry King as mighty Samson and Linda Purl as his love Delilah, this Hanna-Barbera animated video tells a version of the Bible story concerning Delilah's treachery and Samson's righteous revenge. When the Philistines conquer the Promised Land, only mighty Samson has the Read More

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