Verna Bloom Filmography

Born:: August 7, 1939 in Lynn, MA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Trained for an acting career by Uta Hagen and Herbert Bergdorf, Verna Bloom burst onto the Broadway scene in the role of psychotic somnambulist Charlotte Corday in the American production of Marat/Sade. Her first film was Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool, playing the mother of incipient radical Mark...Read More

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Tell Them Who You Are

Actors: Haskell Wexler, Mark S. Wexler, Peter Bart, James Becket, Verna Bloom

Synopsis: Mark Wexler is a successful photojournalist who has also distinguished himself as a documentary filmmaker, but in many ways he has spent much of his life in the shadow of his more famous father, Haskell Wexler. One of Hollywood's greatest cinematographers, Haskell is also known as a director (he Read More

5/13/05
Look Out Haskell, It's Real! The Making of "Medium Cool"

Actors: Haskell Wexler, David Sterritt, David Farber, Studs Terkel, Todd Gatlin

Synopsis: In the summer of 1968, cinematographer Haskell Wexler went to Chicago to shoot his first directorial effort, a drama about a television news cameraman who finds it difficult to remain objective about the events surrounding him. Wexler intended to use the National Democratic Convention being held Read More

2001
The Last Temptation of Christ

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Harry Dean Stanton, David Bowie, Verna Bloom, Andre Gregory

Synopsis: Willem Dafoe plays Jesus Christ in this extraordinarily controversial adaptation of Nikos Kazantzaki's novel. The film depicts a sometimes reluctant, self-doubting Jesus, gradually coming to accept His divinity and the inexorability of His ultimate fate. The much-maligned sex scene with Mary Read More

8/12/88
Promises to Keep

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Claire Bloom, Christopher Mitchum

Synopsis: In this family drama, the life of a woman and her son are severely disrupted when her estranged husband, who abandoned them thirty years before, returns. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
After Hours

Actors: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's After Hours is a dark, tragi-comic tale of a fish out of water, centering on an uptight, white-bread computer consultant from uptown Manhattan who finds himself in the nightmarish and incomprehensible (to him) world of Soho after dark. The ordeal begins when Paul Hackett (Griffin Read More

1985
The Journey of Natty Gann

Actors: Meredith Salenger, John Cusack, Ray Wise, Scatman Crothers, Barry Miller

Synopsis: Disney's The Journey of Natty Gann stars Meredith Salenger in the title role. During the Depression, Natty's father (Ray Wise) takes a job in a Northwestern lumber camp, leaving his daughter behind in Chicago with the promise that he'll send for her when he's put together enough money. Unwilling Read More

1985
Deja Vu

Actors: Jaclyn Smith, Nigel Terry, Claire Bloom, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: Similar to the 1991 Dead Again starring Kenneth Branagh, this story of reincarnation and murder also features two couples who meet again in a new lifetime. Brooke Ashley (Jaclyn Smith) is a ballerina and Michael Richardson (Nigel Terry) is her lover, and they both perish in a fire that destroys Read More

1984
Honkytonk Man

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, John McIntire, Alexa Kenin, Verna Bloom

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood put his tough-guy image on hold for this personal project, which follows a musician taking one final chance at the big time. Red Stovall (Eastwood) is a would-be country singer who has been bouncing around the margins of the music business for years. With nowhere in particular to Read More

1982
Rivkin: Bounty Hunter

Actors: Glenn Scarpelli

Synopsis: In this telemovie, Ron Leibman plays Stan Rivkin, who, sure enough, is bounty hunter, though he operates in Manhattan rather than the wild west. Rivkin has a physically handicapped 12 year old son (Glenn Scarpelli), who is frequently left in the care of a kindly retired priest (Harry Morgan). The Read More

1981
Playing for Time

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Shirley Knight

Synopsis: The made-for-television Playing for Time debuted on September 30, 1980. Vanessa Redgrave stars as Fania Fenelon, a Jewish cabaret singer working in Paris at the time of the Nazi invasion. Shipped to the Auschwitz death camp in 1944, Fenelon is certain that she is as doomed as all the other Read More

1980
National Lampoon's Animal House

Actors: John Belushi, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Verna Bloom, Tom Hulce, Stephen Furst

Synopsis: Director John Landis put himself on the map with this low-budget, fabulously successful comedy, which made a then-astounding 62 million dollars and started a slew of careers for its cast in the process. National Lampoon's Animal House is set in 1962 on the campus of Faber College in Faber, PA. The Read More

1978
Contract on Cherry Street

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Martin Balsam, Verna Bloom, Harry Guardino, Henry Silva

Synopsis: Contract on Cherry Street represented Frank Sinatra's TV movie debut--an event deemed worthy of a TV Guide cover story. Sinatra plays NYPD veteran Deputy Inspector Frank Hovannes, in charge of a special unit set up to battle organized crime. The murder of Hovannes' partner, coupled with Read More

1977
Heroes

Actors: Henry Winkler, Sally Field, Harrison Ford, Val Avery, Olivia Cole

Synopsis: Heroes is an old-fashioned social problem movie concerning a troubled Vietnam veteran and the loving woman who helps him to work out his problems. Henry Winkler plays Jack Dunne, a veteran who has a history of mental problems. Jack fools the hospital doctor Elias (Hector Elias) and escapes from Read More

1977
Kojak: On the Edge

Synopsis: Forrest Tucker guest stars as Paul Zachary, a jaded, world-weary NYPD detective. Zachary's obsessive devotion to his work has already alienated his family and stirred up ill will among his police colleagues. Now, the veteran detective's dogged determination to bring an elusive jewelry fence named Read More

1976
Sarah T.: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic

Actors: Linda Blair

Synopsis: Fresh from her success in The Exorcist (and several years away from her tenure as queen of the women in prison flicks), Linda Blair stars in this searing TV movie. Sarah (Blair), a normal teenaged girl, begins drinking socially at high school parties. She soon finds that she can't stop--and even Read More

1975
The Blue Knight

Synopsis: Based on a Joseph Wambaugh story, this police drama centers on tough, aging cop Bumper Morgan's search for the man who killed his partner. His investigation leads him deep into the bowels of the drug world. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
Where Have All the People Gone?

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, the majority of the Earth's population is wiped out during a solar explosion, leaving the Anders family as some of the few remaining people struggling to stay alive. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
High Plains Drifter

Actors: James Gosa, Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitchell Ryan, Jack Ging

Synopsis: "Who are you?" the dwarf Mordecai (Billy Curtis) asks Clint Eastwood's Stranger at the end of Eastwood's 1973 western High Plains Drifter. "You know," he replies, before vanishing into the desert heat waves near California's Mono Lake. Adapting the amorally enigmatic and violent Man With No Name Read More

1973
Badge 373

Actors: Tina Cristiani

Synopsis: Robert Duvall is cast as a suspended New York cop who sets out on a one-man crusade to avenge his cop-partner's murder. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1973
The Hired Hand

Actors: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom, Robert Pratt, Severn Darden

Synopsis: Meeting largely mixed reviews during its first run in 1971, counterculture icon Peter Fonda's directorial debut was restored and remastered for its 30-year anniversary. The film opens with three drifters greeting the morning by cavorting in a sun-dabbled mountain river. Harry Collings (Fonda) Read More

1971
Medium Cool

Actors: Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill, Harold Blankenship

Synopsis: "I love to shoot film" is the sanguine motto of TV lensman John Cassellis (Robert Forster) in Haskell Wexler's 1969 Medium Cool, a semi-documentary investigation of image-making and politics. With his soundman, Gus (Peter Bonerz), John films such events as gruesome car wrecks with frosty Read More

1969
Children's Games

Actors: Michael Baseleon, Margaret Warncke, Verna Bloom

Synopsis: This depressing film finds a young man victimized and beaten down by society. Peter (Michael Baseleon) marries young but things go sour and he attempts suicide. He emerges from a mental hospital a shell of a human being, even more depressed than before. He leaves his wife and child behind when he Read More

1969
Bonanza: The Fence

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, John Anderson, J.D. Cannon

Synopsis: The Civil War is over, but mine owner Sam Masters (John Anderson) will never be able to forget his tenure as commander of a brutal Confederate prison where 500 POW's died. Now, ex-union officer Colonel Hudson, backed up by a small but vicious group of followers, has arrived to wreak vengeance Read More

1969