Ronee BlakelyFilmography

Born:: Stanley, ID
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
Biography:: During the early '70s, country & western artist Ronee Blakely was a favorite singer/songwriter of Bob Dylan and had a fairly successful singing career. In film, she penned a few songs for Welcome Home Soldier (1972). She made a stellar acting debut in 1975 playing Barbara Jean, a tragic, frail...Read More

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Murder by Numbers

Actors: Sam Behrens, Shari Belafonte

Synopsis: When a wealthy homosexual man (Wlad Cembrowicz) turns up missing, his sister (Debra Sandlund) convinces her ex-husband (Sam Behrens) to investigate the legion of suspects. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Someone to Love

Actors: Orson Welles, Henry Jaglom, Andrea Marcovicci, Michael Emil, Sally Kellerman

Synopsis: Orson Welles made his final screen appearance as, appropriately enough, Orson Welles (or "Danny's Friend") in Henry Jaglom's "emotional vérité" comedy Someone to Love. The film begins as filmmaker Danny (Henry Jaglom) prepares to spend the night at his girlfriend Helen (Andrea Marcovicci)'s Read More

4/21/88
A Return to Salem's Lot

Actors: Michael Moriarty, Andrew Duggan, Samuel Fuller, Rick Reed, June Havoc

Synopsis: A divorced dad and son attempt to build on their newly resurrected relationship by heading back to pop's hometown in up-state Maine. When he gets there, he finds that all the townspeople have turned into 300-year-old vampires. Some say that director Larry Cohen intended the vampire community to be Read More

9/11/87
Student Confidential

Actors: Eric Douglas, Marlon Jackson, Susan Scott, Elizabeth Singer, Ronee Blakely

Synopsis: A trio of high-school students are helped by a wealthy counselor at the request of the principal in this forgettable comedy. Johnny (Eric Douglas), Joseph (Marlon Jackson), and Susan (Susan Scott) all benefit from the help of the concerned counselor Michael Drake (Richard Horian). ~ Dan Pavlides Read More

6/12/87
I Played it for You

Crew: Director

Actors: Ronee Blakely

Synopsis: Singer/actress Ronee Blakely, best remembered for her portrayal of an emotionally tattered country-western star in Nashville, was responsible for this bizarre, hallucinatory vanity production. I Played it for You concentrates on Blakely's stormy 6-year marriage to filmmaker Wim Wenders, who Read More

1985
A Nightmare on Elm Street

Actors: John Saxon, Ronee Blakely, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund

Synopsis: A decade of wisecracking sequels have not diminished the power of this striking horror film from the director of Scream. Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to Read More

11/9/84
Highway to Heaven: Song of the Wild West

Synopsis: Having never forgiven his wife Evelyn (Ronee Blakley) for deserting him and their daughter Sarah (Michele Greene) to pursue a career as a country & western singer, embittered single dad Tim Higgins (Jerry Hardin) has convinced Sarah that Evelyn is dead -- and he is violently opposed to Sarah's own Read More

1984
The Oklahoma City Dolls

Synopsis: In this film, a group of frustrated feminists form a football team for their factory in an effort to foil male chauvinists. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Lightning Over Water

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders

Synopsis: Lightning Over Water is a penetrating documentary of the last days of cult film director Nicholas Ray. The film was lovingly assembled by Wim Wenders, whose idolatry of Ray is obvious in virtually every frame of his own work. Dying slowly of cancer, Ray reflects on a lifetime of accomplishments Read More

1980
The Baltimore Bullet

Actors: James Coburn, Omar Sharif, Bruce Boxleitner, Ronee Blakely, Jack O'Halloran

Synopsis: James Coburn is "The Baltimore Bullet", a legendary pool player who's seen better days. Coburn "adopts" aspiring pool champ Bruce Boxleitner, teaching him practically everything he knows. As we know it must, the plot requires Coburn and Boxleitner to face each other in the climactic Read More

1980
Desperate Women

Synopsis: Originally made for television, this western concerns three unjustly convicted female prisoners. While being transported to prison, their guards die of water poisoning and a former contract killer helps them survive. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
Renaldo and Clara

Actors: Bob Dylan, Sara Dylan, Joan Baez, Ronnie Hawkins, Ronee Blakely

Synopsis: Bob Dylan made this concert film that chronicles a 1975/1976 performance of his Rolling Thunder Revue. In between songs he, his wife Sara Dylan, along with Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and other counterculture figures perform philosophically based improvisational pieces. During the skits, Dylan Read More

1978
The Driver

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani, Ronee Blakely, Matt Clark

Synopsis: Walter Hill's stripped down neo-noir features a protagonist who makes the laconic boxer of the director's similar Hard Times (1974) seem logorrheic by comparison. The film's tone is set in the opening scene as the Driver (Ryan O'Neal) gloms a V-8 sedan and proceeds to whip through claustrophobic Read More

1978
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

Actors: Broderick Crawford, José Ferrer, Michael Parks, Ronee Blakely, Rip Torn

Synopsis: Larry Cohen's pseudo-biography of J. Edgar Hoover (Broderick Crawford) was virtually howled off the screens upon its release in 1977. Today, with the cross-dressing Hoover so much a matter of historical record that even Oliver Stone didn't bother to make too much of a point of it in Nixon, the Cohen Read More

1977
Mannikin

Synopsis: Did some clumsy oaf in the film lab misspell the title Mannikin? No, the misspelling was a deliberate device of author Robert (Psycho) Bloch, calculated to unsettle the audience from the start. Ronee Blakely of Nashville fame and Keir Dullea star in this terrifying mood piece. She's a singer, he's Read More

1977
She Came to the Valley

Synopsis: Based on the book by Cleo Dawson, this film follows the struggle of a female settler as she becomes involved in a political conflict during the Spanish-American War. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
Nashville

Actors: Henry Gibson, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakely, Lily Tomlin, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Following 24 characters through 5 days in the country music capital, Robert Altman's 1975 epic presents a complexly textured portrayal (and critique) of American obsessions with celebrity and power. Among the various stars, aspirants, hangers-on, observers, and media folk are politically ambitious Read More

1975
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys

Crew: Songwriter

Synopsis: This anti-war drama centers on four Vietnam veterans who are driving cross country to California. By the time they hit New Mexico, they are down to $69. They started out with over $9,000 between them. To get some quick cash, they rob a gas station. The irate owner begins shooting at them and they Read More

1972
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

Actors: Anne Heywood, Donald Pleasence, Robert Vaughn, Carolyn Jones, Dorothy Malone

Synopsis: Based on a novel by William Inge, this drama follows the attempts of two doctors to help a 35-year-old educator deal with a brutal rape. The incident is complicated by the fact that she was a virgin when it happened and that her attacker was a man she had been trying to help. The racial Read More

1971