Zelda Rubinstein Filmography

Born:: Pittsburgh, PA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Standing 4'3", and possessed of a nails-on-the-blackboard speaking voice, actress Zelda Rubinstein will probably never essay a "normal" characterization. She was appropriately cast as one of the Little People in her first film, Under the Rainbow (1981). Her best-remembered screen role was Tangina...Read More

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Southland Tales

Actors: Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Curtis Armstrong, Joe Campana

Synopsis: California is at the epicenter of a political and environmental disaster that threatens to destroy the world in this ambitious fusion of comedy, drama, dystopian science fiction, and music from writer and director Richard Kelly, his first film after gaining a cult following with Donnie Darko. In Read More

11/14/07
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

Actors: Nathan Baesel, Angela Goethals, Robert Englund, Scott Wilson, Zelda Rubinstein

Synopsis: A small town serial killer with a curious penchant for self-promotion unleashes a blood-soaked frenzy of terror in his violent effort to become the best-known slasher in horror history. On the surface Leslie Vernon (Nathan Baesel) is just your average, everyday guy whose lofty dreams for the Read More

3/16/07
Cages

Actors: Makoto Iwamatsu, Tan Kheng Hua, Zelda Rubinstein, Dickson Tan

Synopsis: An estranged family goes through the painful process of healing their wounds in this independent drama set in modern-day Singapore. Ali (Tan Kheng Hua) is a strong-willed single mother who is caring for her eight-year-old son Jonah (Dickson Tan), who is blind. A sudden string of bad luck and an Read More

2005
The Wild Card

Actors: Ron Dean, Mik Scriba, Jim Petersmith, Timothy Patrick Klein, Marty Maguire

Synopsis: In this crime thriller, Jennifer (Hillary Tuck) is the beautiful but unfaithful wife of a wealthy and powerful man and has been cheating on her husband with a ruthless mobster. Meanwhile, a band of four thieves (Ron Dean, Timothy Patrick Klein, Jim Petersmith, and Mik Scriba) have been given a job Read More

2004
Little Witches

Actors: Mimi Reichmeister, Sheeri Rappaport, Zelda Rubinstein, Jack Nance, Jennifer Rubin

Synopsis: A low-budget knockoff of The Craft, this tame horror outing centers around a group of Catholic girls at a remote convent run by a cast of veterans including Jack Nance, Zelda Rubinstein, and a miscast Jennifer Rubin. The girls are the usual variegated lot from Central Casting, who discover a book Read More

1996
Timemaster

Actors: Duncan Regehr, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita

Synopsis: A young boy turns out to be Earth's last line of defense against an alien threat in this satiric sci-fi adventure. In the year 2007, an advanced alien civilization has learned how to manipulate human beings as part of a strange game called "Earth" that they play for their own amusement. The Read More

1995
Acting on Impulse

Actors: Linda Fiorentino, C. Thomas Howell, Nancy Allen, Judith Hoag, Adam Ant

Synopsis: In this behind-the-scenes thriller, a movie actress finds herself accused of hacking up her producer. She tries to flee with two lovers preparing to marry. The three get into all sorts of trouble that ends with the death of the fiancee. Once again, the actress finds herself accused of the crime Read More

1993
Stormy Weathers

Actors: Cybill Shepherd, Robert Beltran, Charlie Schlatter, Kurt Fuller, Diane Salinger

Synopsis: When a private detective takes on a missing person assignment trying to find an Italian aristocrat's uncle, she discovers a conspiracy of murder and drugs. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Guilty As Charged

Actors: Rod Steiger, Lauren Hutton, Heather Graham, Lyman Ward, Isaac Hayes, Michael Beach

Synopsis: Sam Irvin's black comedy stars Rod Steiger as a self-styled vigilante who builds his very own electric chair in order to execute paroled murderers. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw

Actors: Rick Rossovich, Gene Barry, James Drury, Doug McClure, Kenny Rogers, Reba McEntire

Synopsis: The fourth of Kenny Rogers' Gambler TV movies, 1991's The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw is regarded by many Western diehards as the best. This time, gambler Brady Hawkes is en route to a high-stakes poker game in San Francisco. His travelling companions are a trouble-prone frontier Romeo (Rick Rossovich Read More

1991
Teen Witch

Actors: Robyn Lively, Dan Gauthier, Joshua Miller, Caren Kaye

Synopsis: An otherwise boring and unpopular Louise is enamored with Brad, the star of the high-school football team, but her feelings are not reciprocated. One week before her birthday, she visits a psychic and is told she has latent, genetically predisposed witch abilities that will blossom on her Read More

4/21/89
Poltergeist 3

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein, Lara Flynn Boyle

Synopsis: Evil spirits follow a young girl from the suburbs to the city in the second follow-up to the blockbuster horror film Poltergeist. Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O'Rourke) is now 12 years old and living with Patricia and Bruce Gardner (Nancy Allen and Tom Skerritt), her aunt and uncle, in a high-rise Read More

6/10/88
Anguish

Actors: Zelda Rubinstein, Michael Lerner, Talia Paul, Angel Jové, Clara Pastor

Synopsis: Poltergeist-purger Zelda Rubinstein toplines this interesting, twisty psycho-thriller from Spain, which makes clever (though repetitive) use of its movie-within-a-movie premise. As the star of the horror film "The Mommy," Rubinstein plays a mother who hypnotizes her son (Michael Lerner) into Read More

1/29/88
The Mouse and the Motorcycle: Special Edition

Synopsis: This animated adventure tells of Ralph the talking and motorcycle riding mouse. Episodes include "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" and "Runaway Ralph." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Poltergeist 2: The Other Side

Actors: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Heather O'Rourke, Oliver Robins, Zelda Rubinstein

Synopsis: One of the more effectively spooky and financially successful horror films of the '80s got an inevitable sequel with this effects-heavy installment. The Freeling family is trying to grapple with the devastation wrought by the ghosts and ghouls that destroyed their lives. The insurance company Read More

5/23/86
Sixteen Candles

Actors: Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Schoeffling, Paul Dooley, Liane Alexandra Curtis, Justin Henry

Synopsis: On the eve of her sister's wedding, suburban teenager Samantha (Molly Ringwald) suffers silently as her family forgets her birthday. Even worse, some total dork (Anthony Michael Hall) keeps propositioning her with sophomoric innuendo when she really craves romantic attention from high-school hunk Read More

1984
Poltergeist

Actors: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins

Synopsis: With Poltergeist, directed by Tobe Hopper, Steven Spielberg had his first great success as a producer. Released around the same time as Spielberg's E.T., the film presents the dark side of Spielberg's California suburban track homes. The film centers on the Freeling family, a typical middle class Read More

1982
Under the Rainbow

Actors: Chevy Chase, Carrie Fisher, Billy Barty, Eve Arden, Joseph Maher

Synopsis: In this comedy, a hotel becomes a chaotic place during the 1938 filming of The Wizard of Oz, when it is inundated with groups of midgets, secret agents, and Nazi and Japanese spies. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1981