Judy Landers

Judy Landers

Birth : 1958-10-07, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

History

Judy Landers (born Judy Hamburg, October 7, 1958) is an American film and television actress. Landers was born in Philadelphia and raised in Rockland County, New York. She is the daughter of Ruth Landers, and is the younger sister of actress Audrey Landers. She studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. During the 1970s and 1980s, Landers starred and made guest appearances in many television series, including The Love Boat (1977), Happy Days (1977), Charlie's Angels (1978), Vega$ (1978-1979), B. J. and the Bear (1979), The Jeffersons (1979), Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1980), The Fall Guy (1982), Madame's Place (1982–1983), Night Court (1984), L.A. Law (1986), Murder She Wrote (1987) and ALF. She appeared exactly twice in each of the original Knight Rider (1982, 1985), and The A-Team (1985), but as completely distinct characters with different story lines. Between 1978 and 1981, Landers appeared several times on Match Game and on Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour. Landers has also had film roles, including Goldie and the Boxer (1979), The Black Marble (1980), Hellhole (1985), Doin' Time (1985), Deadly Twins (1985), Stewardess School (1986), Armed and Dangerous (1986), Ghost Writer (1989), Dr. Alien (1989), Club Fed (1990), and The Divine Enforcer (1992). Judy and her sister Audrey were featured on the cover of the January 1983 issue of Playboy magazine, and in a non-nude pictorial. Landers has often worked with Audrey, including collaborating with her on the children's show The Huggabug Club (1996), and The Treehouse Club (1997). Together with their mother Ruth, they own and operate Landers Productions and produced the family film Circus Island (2006). Landers has been married to former Major League Baseball pitcher Tom Niedenfuer since November 1987. They have two daughters: Lindsey, born July 3, 1989; and Kristy, born October 29, 1991. Description above from the Wikipedia article Judy Landers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Judy Landers

Movies

Christmas Spirit
Chompie's voice
A cynical youth whose mother is about to lose her job right before the holidays is visited by a magical Christmas spirit.
Circus Island
Writer
In this light-hearted family adventure, 15-year-old Gabrielle runs away from home to find her dead-beat dad, who is a trapeze flyer living on a tropical island. Together, they turn the island into a circus camp for teens. It is a family circus in more ways than one. Danger, tears, love, and laughter: It all happens under the big top!
Circus Island
Director
In this light-hearted family adventure, 15-year-old Gabrielle runs away from home to find her dead-beat dad, who is a trapeze flyer living on a tropical island. Together, they turn the island into a circus camp for teens. It is a family circus in more ways than one. Danger, tears, love, and laughter: It all happens under the big top!
Circus Island
Jenny Carrera
In this light-hearted family adventure, 15-year-old Gabrielle runs away from home to find her dead-beat dad, who is a trapeze flyer living on a tropical island. Together, they turn the island into a circus camp for teens. It is a family circus in more ways than one. Danger, tears, love, and laughter: It all happens under the big top!
Dragon Fury
Bride
Mason, a dragon warrior from the future, returns to the year 1999 in search of a serum that can combat a disease simply known as "The Plague." In the post-apocalyptic world of 2099 -- after an earthquake has destroyed all of civilization has been -- "The Plague" is the deadliest menace of them all. And the cure for it lies in the past!
Expert Weapon
Lynn Varley
While on death row for killing a policeman, small-time criminal Adam (Ian Jacklin) is sprung from his cell and asked to join a covert government organization that will shape him into a killing machine. He is trained by the group's ruthless leader Janson (Sam J. Jones), and is aided by the group's martial arts master Miller (Mel Novak)) and the group's weapons freak expert Magnet (Joe Estevez). Together they turn out Adam code named the 'Expert Weapon'. But when Adam decides to leave his life of crime, he learns that leaving the group is his real death sentence.
The Divine Enforcer
Merna
A mysterious new priest comes to town to stay with fellow men of the cloth Erik Estrada, and Jan-Michael Vincent. Little do they know, this ferocious father possesses extraordinary martial arts skill, crucifix blades and a gold handgun with the cross on the handle. Soon, in this "bad" neighborhood, the priest begins cleaning up the local drug dealing scum-bags. Then he meets lunatic Don Stroud in the confessional, and Stroud claims to be the bloodsucking, skull stealing "vampire" serial killer ravaging the city. The priest encounters a young lass who has visions of Stroud committing his dastardly deeds, and when the vampire kidnaps her the priest speaks the words, "Open the gates of Hell! For I am the right hand of God!!!," and sets off towards his deadliest encounter yet.
Shock Cinema: Volume Three
Herself
Subtitled "Bloopers, Babes and Blood!," this video features scenes from numerous CInema Home Video releases as well as behind the scenes footage and bloopers from Nightmare Sisters (1988) and Dr. Alien (1989).
Club Fed
Angelica Paziotopolous
A powerful gangster is murdered. However, All of his holdings were in his girlfriend's name. So she is charged and sent to a minimum-security prison, where all of the prisoners are filthy rich. There she meets and falls in love with an undercover FBI agent.
Ghost Writer
Billie Blaine
A writer moves into a Malibu beach house, and comes up against the ghost of an actress who supposedly had committed suicide there 30 years previously, but had been murdered by her boyfriend. The ghost asks the writer's help in proving her boyfriend the killer.
Dr. Alien
Dr. Xenobia
When the mysterious and sexy Ms. Xenobia takes over the biology class at the local college, the dating life of supergeek Wesley Littlejohn takes a serious turn. Littlejohn agrees to be a lab rat for the professor's unusual vitamin research study. Now, thanks to some out-of-this-world supplements, he's been transformed into the campus stud. But Xenobia has ulterior extraterrestrial motives in this sci-fi sex comedy.
Armed and Dangerous
Noreen
After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a security guard agency and teams up with inept former defense lawyer Norman Kane. When the two botch a job guarding a local warehouse, they begin to uncover corruption within the company and their union.
Stewardess School
Sugar Dubois
A group of varied misfits (including a former prostitute/stripper and a bumbler who can't see more than 6 inches in front of his face) enter a school to become flight attendants. Somehow, the group makes it through to the final test: a cross-country flight.
Deadly Twins
Ruth Morrison
The Landers sister star as twin sisters (obviously) in this oddly disturbing film. The girls, who are budding performers, are booked for a club date, which quickly turns into a nightmare. Brutally gang raped, they get no satisfaction from the police, so they carry out their own brand of justice.
Doin' Time
The Bride
Duke Jarrett is sent to jail at the John Dillinger prison. However, the prison looks more like a zoo, more or less ruled by the prisoners themselves.
Hellhole
Susan
An unlucky woman’s mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injured, traumatised and suffering from amnesia. She’s committed to a mental institution, where Silk follows her, looking for the papers he was trying to get from her mother. And Silk’s only the beginning of her problems, since the asylum is run by a mad doctor, performing experiments in chemical lobotomies!
Streets of Hollywood
Judy
Plot is currently unknown
The Black Marble
Pattie Mae
When alcoholic homicide investigator Valnikov is transferred to a burglary case that seems to involve a creepy dogcatcher, he's also given a new partner -- the pragmatic Sgt. Natalie Zimmerman, who's experiencing a midlife crisis and does not welcome Valnikov's company. But as these emotionally bruised cops are drawn deeper into the bizarre world of dog shows, animal fanatics and pet cemeteries, they're also drawn to each other.
Goldie and the Boxer
Bonnie Dare
Lighthearted tale of a 10-year-old girl who, when her boxer father dies, strikes up a relationship with a struggling fighter who was his sparring partner and takes on the job of managing him from obscurity to the championship.
The Users
Merry Redfield
A beautiful girl from a small town with dreams of making it in Hollywood marries an actor whose career is fading, then schemes to get him back into the big time - and her with him.
The Courage and the Passion
Charlene
The lives and loves of a group of U.S. Air Force test pilots on a sprawling airbase called "Joshua Tree."
The Yum Yum Girls
Holly
A young woman goes to New York in order to work as model but in the big city she finds a world she did not expect.