Norma CraneFilmography

Fiddler on the Roof

Actors: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann

Synopsis: Norman Jewison's adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical is set in the Ukranian ghetto village of Anatevka (the film was actually lensed in Yugoslavia). Israeli actor Topol repeats his London stage role as Tevye the milkman, whose equilibrium is constantly being challenged by his poverty Read More

The Movie Murderer

Synopsis: Nostalgia is selling angle of this made-for-TV suspenser. Someone is going around breaking into movie vaults and setting precious tins of rare film ablaze. An insurance investigator and a detective investigate this seemingly pointless crime. As it turns out, the "movie murderer" is an extortionist Read More

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Barbara McNair, Anthony Zerbe, Juano Hernandez, George Spell

Synopsis: Sidney Poitier reprises his role as Virgil Tibbs in this crime drama, a story unrelated to that of the earlier film In the Heat of the Night. Once again, he is a veteran homicide detective and is currently investigating the murder of a prostitute. The primary suspect is San Francisco political Read More

The F.B.I.: Fatal Impostor

Synopsis: Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) heads to North Dakota in search of escaped murderer Vic Kiley (Gerald O'Loughlin). Having hijacked the car owned by widow Anne Williams (Mary Fickett), Kiley is forcing her to help him get by the many FBI roadblocks. Also targetted for terror is Anne's Read More

Adam-12: Log 64: Bottom of the Bottle

Synopsis: Officers Reed (Kent McCord) and Malloy (Martin Milner) have their hands full with a boisterous female alcoholic named Mae Pilaf (Norma Crane). After breaking up a barroom brawl in which Mae is involved, the two cops are summoned to an apartment where a shooting has occurred--and run into old Mae Read More

Ironside: Five Miles High

Synopsis: This episode takes place almost entirely in the cabin of a night plane travelling from Hawaii to San Francisco. Among the passengers are Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr), his assistants, and a federal witness whom they are escorting to testify against a racketeer. Unfortunately, also on board is a Read More

Night Gallery [TV Series]

Actors: Tom Bosley, Joan Crawford, Richard Kiley

Synopsis: In the two-hour pilot film for the subsequent TV "occult" anthology, series creator Rod Serling hosts three macabre short stories, introducing each with a framed portrait in a nocturnal art gallery. The first story stars Roddy MacDowall as a covetous nephew who murders his uncle, suffering the Read More

The Flying Nun: A Fish Story

Synopsis: David Hurst guest stars as the tenacious old uncle of Sr. Bertrille's English-fracturing colleague Sr. Sixto (Shelley Morrison). Despite his utter lack of talent and success as a fisherman, Uncle stubbornly insists upon heading out to sea for one last big haul. Sr. Bertrille tries to help the old Read More

The Sweet Ride

Actors: Anthony Franciosa, Michael Sarrazin, Jacqueline Bisset, Michael Wilding, Sr.

Synopsis: On California's Malibu Beach in the late 1960s, young people are enjoying a life with few responsibilities and plenty of romantic opportunities. Denny McGuire (Michael Sarrazin) is a beach bum without ambition. His roommate Collie Ransom (Tony Franciosa) is a professional tennis player who soaks Read More

The Flying Nun: Polly Wants a Crack in the Head

Synopsis: Convent San Tanco has become the home of a talking parrot with a very colorful -- and profane -- vocabulary. It is up to Sr. Bertrille to hide the dirty bird from the eyes and ears of the Reverend Mother. Step number two: Find a proper home for the feathered troublemaker. First broadcast on Read More

The F.B.I.: Blood Verdict

Synopsis: After the mysterious death of a juror in the trial of a dangerous mob functionary, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr. investigates the possibility of jury-tampering in the case. Meanwhile, Ana Nieves (Pilar Seurat, the wife of another juror, is threatened with death or disfigurement at the Read More

Penelope

Actors: Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Dick Shawn, Peter Falk, Jonathan Winters

Synopsis: Can armed robbery help save a marriage? These and other questions about modern relationships are pondered in this comedy. Penelope Elcott (Natalie Wood) married James (Ian Bannen) after a very brief courtship, and as his star has begun to rise in the banking business, he spends less and less time Read More

The Fugitive: Masquerade

Synopsis: Posing as "Leonard Hull", Kimble (David Janssen) journeys to a small Oklahoma town, where he is abruptly arrested by Sheriff Mayhew (Edward Asner). No, Mayhew hasn't recognized him as a fugitive from justice: Instead, the sheriff has mistaken Kimble for Leonard Hull (John Milford), who has escaped Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Cure

Synopsis: The "dead man" stretched out on a sofa in the lobby of the Hotel Carleton turns out to be neither dead nor a man. Instead, it is Martha Jane Conroy (Norma Crane), also known as the infamous Calamity Jane--flat broke, and drunk as a skunk. Paladin (Richard Boone) takes it upon himself to restore Read More

The Untouchables: The Lily Dallas Story

Synopsis: Making a rare TV appearance after falling victim to the 1950s Hollywood Blacklist, Larry Parks guest stars as minor hoodlum George "Blackie" Dallas, a character obviously inspired by real-life outlaw "Machine Gun" Kelly. Egged on by his ambitious wife Lily (Norma Crane), Dallas kidnaps millionaire Read More

The Untouchables: Jack

Synopsis: Steven Hill guest stars in this episode as flamboyant mobster Jack "Legs" Diamond. The Mob doesn't like the publicity stirred up by Diamond's many extramarital affairs, so they order him out of town for a spell while they orchestrate a scheme to smuggle $5 million worth of narcotics into the Read More

All in a Night's Work

Actors: Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Cliff Robertson, Norma Crane

Synopsis: Tony Ryder (Dean Martin) thinks that Katie Robbins (Shirley MacLaine) was the mistress of a recently deceased millionaire. On this fragile plot peg hangs the rest of All in a Night's Work. The millionaire died with a smile on his face, and Tony, who stands to inherit the dead man's publishing Read More

The Untouchables: The Noise of Death

Synopsis: J. Carrol Naish guest stars as Mafia Don Giuseppe "Joe" Bucco, who is being pressured to step down from leadership by his associates. Stubbornly refusing to retire, Bucco suffers the consequences but still remains loyal to the Organization, balking at an invitation to cooperate with Federal agent Read More

One Step Beyond: Legacy of Love

Synopsis: Marianne Darelle (Norma Crane) wants to spend her vacation at the ocean resort of Woodmere, but for some curious reason the travel agent sells her a ticket to the town of Seaside instead. Even after Marianne exchanges the ticket, she ends up in Seaside all the same. Also in the same resort is a Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Episode in Laredo

Synopsis: In Laredo, Texas, Paladin (Richard Boone) forms a fast friendship with Sam Tuttle (Gene Lyons), a notoriously unbeatable gunfighter. Not long afterward, Paladin kills a man named Kovac (Alan Dexter), who happens to be Tuttle's host. Now, despite their fondness and respect for one another, Paladin Read More

One Step Beyond: Dead Ringer

Synopsis: Whenever a fire breaks out, Esther Quentin (Norma Crane) comes down with a fever. Eventually Esther tells her husband Bill (Grant Williams) that she has foreseen each of these fires, and that every one of them was set by her twin sister. Now she has envisioned her sister burning down an Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Appointment at Eleven

Synopsis: Storming into a bar, an angry young man named Davie Logan (Clint Kimbrough) shocks the patrons by announcing that someone is going to die at 11 p.m. Even more startling is Davie's assertion that he himself has been "dead" for five years, but is on the verge of being "reborn." The outcome of the Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Taffeta Mayor

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired to protect John Kellaway, a honest politician running against the dishonest incumbent in an upcoming mayoral race in Colton, Wyoming. Unfortunately, Paladin arrives in Colton too late; Kellaway has already been murdered by his opponent's minions. Grimly determined Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Equalizer

Synopsis: Meek and mild Eldon Marsh (Martin Balsam) has never stood up for himself in his life. But when a bigger guy named Wayne Phillips (Leif Erickson) steals the affection of Eldon's wife Louise (Norma Crane), the time has come for the worm to turn. Realizing that he could never defeat Wayne with muscle Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Ella West

Synopsis: It's "Pygmalion" on the frontier in this episode scripted by future Star Trek maven Gene Roddenberry. Paladin (Richard Boone) is reunited with his old pal Tomahawk Carter (William Swan), flamboyant owner of a popular Wild West show. Carter has just hired a female sharpshooter named Ella West Read More

Tea and Sympathy

Actors: Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson, Edward Andrews, Darryl Hickman

Synopsis: 1956's Tea and Sympathy is a diluted filmization of Robert Anderson's Broadway play. The original production was considered quite daring in its attitudes towards homosexuality (both actual and alleged) and marital infidelity; the film softpedals these elements, as much by adding to the text as by Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: There Was an Old Woman

Synopsis: A young Charles Bronson is cast as con artist Frank Bramwell, who in concert with his equally larcenous wife Lorna (Norma Crane) intends to fleece a wealthy old eccentric named Monica Laughton (Estelle Winwood), who has a habit of hanging funeral wreaths on her door when she believes that someone Read More