Pamela Payton-Wright Filmography

Born:: November 1, 1941 in Pittsburgh, PA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Supporting actress, onscreen from 1972. ~ All Movie Guide...Read More

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In Dreams

Actors: Annette Bening, Aidan Quinn, Robert Downey, Jr., Paul Guilfoyle, Dennis Boutsikaris, Stephen Rea

Synopsis: Claire Cooper (Annette Bening), has been having psychic visions all of her life, though she's never been clear of what they mean. Now an adult, she lives an idyllic, small-town life in a Massachusetts farmhouse with her airline-pilot husband Paul (Aidan Quinn) and her young daughter Rebecca (Katie Sagona Read More

1/15/99
Law & Order: Sideshow

Synopsis: The then-current efforts to impeach President Bill Clinton were clearly the inspiration of this episode, the first in a two-part story. A Baltimore official is murdered in New York's Battery Park, compelling the NYPD's Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Curtis (Benjamin Bratt) to work side by side with Read More

1999
Homicide: Life on the Street - Kaddish

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Munch (Richard Belzer) suffers a crisis in faith when a middle-aged woman whom he had pined over in high school is found murdered. As he investigates the case, Munch flashes back to his mixed-up youth, yielding few answers but plenty of questions. Meanwhile, Mary Pembleton (Ami Brabson) walks out Read More

1997
Homicide: Life on the Street - Nearer My God to Thee

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: Season three of Homicide: Life on the Street finds the day and night shifts of the Baltimore homicide squad uneasily working in tandem to solve the murder of the winner of the city's Samaritan of the Year award. The case is particularly irksome for Detective Frank Pembleton (Andre Braugher), whose Read More

1994
Homicide: Life on the Street - Extreme Unction

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: The homicide department is besieged by demands that details of the three "white glove" murders be made public. Complicating matters is the possibility that prime suspect Mary Maude Wiggs (Lucinda Jenney), who suffers from multiple-personality disorder, may very well beat the rap. And in other Read More

1994
Homicide: Life on the Street - Fits Like a Glove

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: The one linking factor between three murders is a pair of white gloves found at the scene of each crime. This factor not only results in an error of judgment by Roger Gaffney (Walt MacPherson), forcing Pembleton (Andre Braugher) to take full charge of the case, but also arouses the interest of a Read More

1994
Law & Order: Pride and Joy

Synopsis: A building superintendent is found murdered, and the chief suspect is the man's 17-year-old son, Sean McKinnon (Gabriel Olds). The boy insists that his father was abusive, and that he acted in self defense. The investigation conducted by the D.A.'s office is virtually frozen in its tracks by the Read More

1993
Me and Veronica

Actors: Elizabeth McGovern, Patricia Wettig, Michael O'Keefe, John Heard, Scott Renderer

Synopsis: A rebellious woman (Patricia Wettig) has continually made life hard for her younger sister (Elizabeth McGovern) by sleeping with her husband and wrecking her marriage. The older sister returns to her New Jersey hometown to cause more trouble before beginning a prison sentence. ~ John Bush, All Read More

1992
The Freshman

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Marlon Brando, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller, Frank Whaley, Paul Benedict

Synopsis: In this farcical comedy, Matthew Broderick plays Clark Kellogg, an aspiring director who arrives in New York City to attend film school. However, moments after he arrives in the city, he's robbed by Victor Ray (Bruno Kirby), leaving him no money for the $700 in books required by his instructor Read More

7/20/90
Starlight: A Musical Movie

1988
Ironweed

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Carroll Baker, Michael O'Keefe, Diane Venora

Synopsis: Based on the William Kennedy novel of the same name Ironweed is set in the waning years of the Depression. Jack Nicholson plays Francis Phelan, a washed-up ballplayer (a onetime infielder for the Washington Senators) who deserted his family back in the 1910s when he accidentally killed his infant Read More

12/18/87
My Little Girl

Actors: Mary Stuart Masterson, James Earl Jones, Geraldine Page, Peter Michael Goetz, Anne Meara, Jennifer Lopez

Synopsis: This drama concerns a young teen's transformation as she works at a half-way house for troubled kids. Franny (Mary Stuart Masterson) leaves behind a pampered, rich kid's life of yachting parties and affluent pastimes to take up a summer job working under Mrs. Chopper (Anne Meara) at a temporary Read More

5/22/87
The Dark End of the Street

Actors: Laura Harrington, Henry Tomaszewski, Lance Henriksen, Pamela Payton-Wright

Synopsis: Filmed independently in Boston, Dark End of the Street was the follow-up (but not the sequel) to the Boston-based indie Billy in the Lowlands. The same director (Jan Egleson) and star (Henry Tomaszewski) teamed up for this wholly believable evocation of blue-collar life in a big, impersonal Read More

1981
Resurrection

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth, Roberts Blossom, Clifford David

Synopsis: Ellen Burstyn plays Edna McCauley, the wife of a man (Jeffrey DeMunn) who is killed in an auto crash. Edna herself survives, but not before enduring an "out of body" experience. Crippled in the accident, Edna heads to her hometown in Kansas to recuperate. There she discovers that she has the power Read More

1980
Going in Style

Actors: George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg, Charles Hallahan

Synopsis: Joe (George Burns), Al (Art Carney), and Willie (Lee Strasberg) are three senior citizens who share a small apartment in New York City. They live off social security checks and spend their days sitting on a park bench, reading newspapers, feeding pigeons, and fending off obnoxious children. It's a Read More

1979
The Haunting of Rosalind

Synopsis: Rosalind is played by Pamela Payton-Wright in this "ghost in the mansion" hair-raiser. The members of an old-money family find themselves targeted by an unfriendly spirit. Not content with mere chain-rattling, this wrathful wraith contrives to have selected members of the family pop up seriously Read More

1973
Corky

Synopsis: A grease monkey becomes so obsessed with stock-car racing that the rest of his life begins to fall apart in this character-driven drama. The one who suffers most from his fixation is his devoted wife whom he totally ignores until she gets a job and her husband begins thinking she is fooling around Read More

1972
Bonanza: Search in Limbo

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Albert Salmi, Pamela Payton-Wright

Synopsis: Having suffered a blow to the head, Ben Cartwright awakens to discover that he has lost track of a whole day. During that period, Ben's longtime enemy Sid Langley (Lawrence Montaigne) was murdered. The local sheriff (Albert Salmi) arrests Ben-who doesn't know if he is guilty or not! Others in the Read More

1972