Joyce King

History

Joyce King (full name Kathryn Joyce King) worked as script supervisor, but also occasionally as stunt double and small part actress, on small and large Hollywood productions from 1957 to the late 1990s. Her first job was as script supervisor for Burt Topper on his debut low-budget film "Hell Squad", which was released in 1958, and her last was as script supervisor for a 1997 episode of the TV series "JAG". There's a long interview with her in Brian Albright's 2008 book "Wild Beyond Belief!: Interviews with Exploitation Filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s" (searchable on Google Books).

Movies

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Script Supervisor
Set ten years after the events of the original, James Cameron’s classic sci-fi action flick tells the story of a second attempt to get the rid of rebellion leader John Connor, this time targeting the boy himself. However, the rebellion has sent a reprogrammed terminator to protect Connor.
Catchfire
Script Supervisor
A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.
Big Top Pee-wee
Script Supervisor
Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front yard. Pee-wee, along with an outlandish cast of animals and circus performers, puts on the best show ever.
Grease
Script Supervisor
Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?
American Hot Wax
Member of The Delights
This is the story loosely based on Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, who introduced rock'n'roll to teenage American radio audiences in the 1950s. Freed was a source of great controversy: criticized by conservatives for corrupting youth with the "devil's music"; hated by racists for promoting African American music for white consumption; persecuted by law enforcement officials and finally brought down by the "payola" scandals.
Nashville
Script Supervisor
The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.
Race with the Devil
Librarian (uncredited)
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
Coffy
Script Supervisor
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
A Cold Night's Death
Script Supervisor
Scientists Culp and Wallach suspect that there is someone other than their research primates inhabiting their polar station.
Birds of Prey
Script Supervisor
Harry Walker, a former military pilot, works as a helicopter pilot and traffic reporter for a Salt Lake City radio station. One day while working he observes a bank robbery in progress and the kidnapping of a young woman who worked at the bank. Harry goes into pursuit which leads to an exciting conclusion.
Deathmaster
Continuity
Quarry is a mysterious stranger with cult like following of hippies. Rather than showing them peace and love, he has more sinister plans for them as he is a vampire.
Journey Through Rosebud
Script Supervisor
A young draft dodger helps militant Native Americans in their protest against the government at Wounded Knee.
The Return of Count Yorga
Script Supervisor
Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of female vampires.
Easy Rider
Script Supervisor
A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.
Targets
Continuity
The fate of a washed-up horror actor intersects with a psychotic sniper on a killing spree.
Night Tide
Woman at Jazz Club
A young sailor falls in love with a mysterious woman performing as a mermaid on the local pier. As they become entwined, he comes to suspect the woman might be a real mermaid who lures men to a watery death during the full moon.
Night Tide
Script Supervisor
A young sailor falls in love with a mysterious woman performing as a mermaid on the local pier. As they become entwined, he comes to suspect the woman might be a real mermaid who lures men to a watery death during the full moon.
Hell Squad
Script Supervisor
During World War II, a squad of five American soldiers become lost in Tunisia and are killed one by one in fights with German units. Finally only one man, Private Russo, is left, in the midst of a mine field, together with a German officer, locked in a stalemate. Russo has water, while the German claims to have a map revealing the mine positions. So Russo agrees to swap water for the map, but the German officer tries to double-cross him. This was Burt Topper's debut film, made on 16mm on weekends together with some friends in Indio, California. It was also Wally Campo's debut film, as well as script supervisor Joyce King's.