Priscilla Pointer
ActingAlso Known As
Pricilla Pointer, پریسیلا پوینتر
Biography
Priscilla Marie Pointer (May 18, 1924 – April 28, 2025) was an American actress. She began her career in the theater in the late 1940s, including productions on Broadway. Later, Pointer moved to Hollywood and made appearances on television beginning in the early 1950s. Pointer was the mother of actress and singer Amy Irving, making her the former mother-in-law of filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Bruno Barreto. Description above from the Wikipedia article Priscilla Pointer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
(44 total)
Carrie
as Mrs. Snell
Blue Velvet
as Mrs. Beaumont
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
as Dr. Elizabeth Simms
Twilight Zone: The Movie
as Miss Cox
Inferno
as Mrs. Henry Howard
Mommie Dearest
as Mrs. Chadwick
The Falcon and the Snowman
as Mrs. Lee
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
as Mrs. Dunn
The Onion Field
as Chrissie Campbell
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
as Dr. Berlin
The Flash
as Nora Allen
Micki & Maude
as Diana Hutchison
Nickelodeon
as Mabel
From the Hip
as Mrs. Martha Williams
Honeysuckle Rose
as Rosella
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
as Miss Harris
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
as Woman in cinema (segment "The Theatre")
A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story
as Tracey's Mother
Carried Away
as Lily Henson
TV Shows
(37 total)
The A-Team
as Tracy Richter's Mother
ER
as Mrs. Abernathy
The Flash
as Nora Allen
Cold Case
as Lillian Vine (2006)
Dallas
as Rebecca Barnes Wentworth
Dallas
as Rebecca Barnes Wentworth (credit only)
Amazing Stories
as Charlie
Amazing Stories
as woman on train (cameo)
Touched by an Angel
as Elizabeth Carpenter
Kojak
as Regina
The Rockford Files
as Helen Morris
Quincy, M.E.
as Nurse Kathy Benson
Quincy, M.E.
as Mrs. Neilson
St. Elsewhere
as Marie Halloran
Judging Amy
as Margaret Palmer
L.A. Law
as Dorothy Pehlman
Newhart
as Clara Whitscomber
McCloud
as Shirley
Adam-12
as Jacqueline Carey
Knots Landing
as Beatrice Handleman