Donna Mills

Donna Mills

Birth : 1940-12-11, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Donna Mills (born December 11, 1942) is an American actress, most well known for her role as Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing. Description above from the Wikipedia article Donna Mills, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Donna Mills

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Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas
Dana Cunningham
Five soap opera divas as they reunite to shoot the final Christmas episode of their long-running sudser. The producer, Alex and director Nell, who happen to be old college friends, do their best to keep things on the rails but as the ladies come together, old rivalries resurface that threaten to tear the production apart.
Twilight's Child
Lillian Cutler
Dawn becomes the rightful owner of Cutler's Cove Hotel, but she can't seem to escape her grandmother's presence. Soon, her brother's obsession and her sister's violent rage threaten Dawn's dream once again.
V.C. Andrews' Dawn
Lillian Cutler
After learning the shocking truth about the people who raised her, young Dawn goes to stay with her real family — a family with dark and twisted secrets. As she struggles to fit in, her cruel grandmother starts to rule her life with an iron fist.
Nope
Bonnie Clayton
Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.
12 Gifts of Christmas
Joyce Rehnquist
When Anna Parisi, an unemployed fine arts painter, is unable to make ends meet, she is hired to become a personal Christmas shopper for Marc, an uptight corporate exec. As they begin working together, Marc learns that Christmas giving has less to do with the amount of money spent and more to do with the importance of the gift, while Anna discovers she might find success as an artist in a way she never expected. The best gift of all of course is the love they discover with one another.
The Story of Soaps
Herself
This ABC/PEOPLE television special highlights the impact of the soap opera. In today's shifting television landscape, "The Story of Soaps" traces how female creators migrated from radio to television to become the dominant force in daytime for more than three decades. Today, the legacy of the soap opera continues all over prime time and reality t.v. An extensive look is taken at this iconic, impactful genre.
Christmas Wishes & Mistletoe Kisses
Caroline Sinclair
Single mom Abbey takes a leap of faith to pursue her passion for interior design. When she gets hired to decorate the estate of local businessman Nick, Abbey must complete the job by Christmas Eve. With the holidays fast approaching, Abbey must figure out how to break down the wall between her and Nick, as this could be the opportunity that jump-starts her career.
Carol of the Bells
Helen Harris
A young man with a troubled past seeks out his biological mother. His world is turned upside down upon discovering that she is developmentally disabled. Unable to work through this new discovery on his own, the man's wife takes matters into her own hands forcing her husband to face the truth and heal the past.
Turnover
Pat
Café owner Peter, leaves his disgruntled manager Henry, to take care of business, and he instead hires a crew of misfits. Peter returns to an unrecognizable business but soon learns the value of camaraderie with the new team.
Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens
Supervisor Wink
The new installment of the Sharknado franchise takes place 5 years after Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! There have been no Sharknados in the intervening years, but now they’re appearing again in unexpected ways.
Joy
Priscilla
A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.
Deadly Revenge
Evelyn
Charming LA architect Harrison, also a great cook and lover, gets engaged to Cate, a San Francisco landscape architect he meets while collaborating on a major project, after they get locked in by a malfunctioning elevator. She moves to LA for him and volunteers, while he's on mission in Tokyo, to mind his widowed mother Evelyn, still a major force in his life. However Cate gets paranoid when feeling weak and hearing rumors that his former girlfriend disappeared mysteriously years earlier, even cancels the engagement. Then the truth gets out, clearing Harrison and uncovering a lurking danger.
Ladies of the House
Elizabeth
When three women are asked to refurbish a house for their church, they find that they must break down their own self-perception in order to build something together.
Love Is a Four Letter Word
Margot Harper
Margaret and Martin Harper, both sixty years old, are filing for divorce, but plan to keep everything as civilized as possible. Complications arise when their respective attorneys, the equally cynical Emily Bennett and Kenton Rhodes, unexpectedly fall in love, throwing an extra kink into the proceedings both in and out of the courtroom.
Jane Doe: Yes, I Remember It Well
Polly Jameson
Jane Doe must solve the kidnapping of a famous mentalist who possesses the names of secret foreign agents.
A Very Cool Christmas
Mrs. Claus
16 year-old Lindsay decides to give Santa Claus an extreme makeover.
Play It Again: A Look Back at 'Play Misty for Me'
Clint Eastwood tells us how he yearned to be a director from the time he was on 'Rawhide' to finally obtaining the approval of his mentor, Don Siegel. He then asked Lew R. Wasserman, a Universal executive, if he could direct a story called 'Play Misty For Me.' Lew said yes but that he wouldn't be paid as the director. Clint agreed and began to locate the cast and crew he desired.
Moonlight Becomes You
Magie is a famous high-fashion photographer in love with a professor with will be married. During a party celebrating her fiance's family meets his stepmother who had 30 years without seeing. One day the stepmother is found murdered, the reasons for the murder are not clear, but Magie become the heir of the deceased, also becomes a prime suspect.
The Stepford Husbands
Jodi Davidson
Something sinister is going on in the town of Stepford, and this time the men should watch their backs.
An Element of Truth
Vanessa Graves
A beautiful woman uses her charms to dupe her new sweetheart and his buddies.
Dangerous Intentions
Beth Williamson
A man stalks his wife and child when they leave for an abused women's shelter.
My Name Is Kate
Kate
Kate (Donna Mills) is an alcoholic--and, as is often the case, she is in full denial regarding her illness. Only when she is threatened with mass desertion by her husband, children and best friend does the sullen Kate agree to seek out treatment.
Remember
Nicky Wells
Nicky Wells, a TV journalist who is renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the worlds most dangerous spots, is haunted by the disappearance of her fiancé.
The President's Child
Elizabeth Hemming
James Guthrie is a candidate for the presidency of the United States. Eight years ago he fell in love with Elizabeth Hemming, nowadays a famous hostess/reporter. Guthrie doesn't know Jason, her kid, is his son. When his unscrupulous campaign-leader finds out about Jason, he goes all out to keep it a secret from the public
In My Daughter's Name
Executive Producer
A mother takes the law into her own hands after her daughter's murderer is acquitted on a technicality.
In My Daughter's Name
Laura Elias
A mother takes the law into her own hands after her daughter's murderer is acquitted on a technicality.
False Arrest
Joyce Lukezic
A luxury home, a handsome husband and terrific children. But it all comes crashing down when she is accused of being a mastermind behind a brutal triple-homicide and is arrested and handcuffed in front of her own children. A gripping story of passion and betrayal as a woman fights to clear her name and avoid the death penalty for a crime she didn't commit.
Runaway Father
Executive Producer
A woman's husband leaves her and their three daughters. Years later she sets out to find him and get him to pay back child support.
Runaway Father
Pat Bennett
A woman's husband leaves her and their three daughters. Years later she sets out to find him and get him to pay back child support.
The World's Oldest Living Bridesmaid
Executive Producer
A sophisticated lawyer (Donna Mills), who is always the bridesmaid but never the bride, gets romantically involved with her down-to-earth secretary (Brian Wimmer).
The World's Oldest Living Bridesmaid
Brenda Morgan
A sophisticated lawyer (Donna Mills), who is always the bridesmaid but never the bride, gets romantically involved with her down-to-earth secretary (Brian Wimmer).
The Lady Forgets
Rebecca Simms
A woman is mugged and bumps her head. To her surprise, when she returns home she finds out that she's been gone for two years and her husband has gotten a divorce in her absence.
Outback Bound
Samantha Hollings
A girl from Beverly Hills tries to find her fathers opal mine in the Australian outback.
Intimate Encounters
Julie Atkins
It started as fantasy...and ended as intimate encounters.
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
He's Not Your Son
Kathy Saunders
Two couples face the possibility that their infant sons, both born on the same day, were inadvertently switched at the hospital, and a chain of revelations and decisions threatens both families.
Bare Essence
Barbara Fisher
A T.V. show along the lines of a soap opera which centers on one young woman, Tiger Hayes, as she starts up a perfume company. The usual soap plots of adultery, romance, corruption, and greed abound.
Waikiki
Cassie Howard
A couple of private eyes, a laid-back Californian and a streetwise New Yorker, team up to track down a killer in Hawaii known as "The Cane Field Murderer" in this unsuccessful pilot to a detective series.
Hanging by a Thread
Ellen Craig
A group of old friends on an outing re-live various traumas and tragedies via flashback whilst trapped high above a ravine in a disabled cable-car.
Doctors' Private Lives
Dr. Beth Demery
Two heart surgeons clash over personal issues and medical ethics in a big-city hospital.
Superdome
Lainie Wiley
It's the biggest event of the year — the Super Bowl! But the star players for the Cougars, gathered in New Orleans for the big game, are preoccupied with some serious off-the-field issues. Dave Walecki's marriage to his wife Nancy is falling apart, while Jim McCauley is involved in a shady deal with a management firm that could destroy his career. But that's nothing compared to the real drama. There's an assassin killing off many of the team's personnel (as well as their chances of winning)!
The Hunted Lady
Susan Reilly
An undercover policewoman finds herself framed for murder. Forced to flee for her life, she determines to clear her name and bring the real killers to justice.
Curse of the Black Widow
Leigh Lockwood
Tony Franciosa plays a detective who's on the trail of a murderer whose mutilated and predominantly male victims are found encased in silken cocoons...
Fire!
Harriett Malone
The sheer terror and unearthly beauty of a raging forest fire is breathlessly captured in this compelling Irwin Allen production boasting a big-name cast and enough blazing special effects to turn night into day. Involved are a lumber mill owner (Ernest Borgnine), the widowed operator of a forest lodge (Vera Miles), a teacher on a class outing (Donna Mills), a country doctor (Lloyd Nolan), a couple (Patty Duke Astin and Alex Cord) whose shaky marriage is healed when battling the blaze brings out their better natures, and escaping convicts (Neville Brand and Erik Estrada) who use the conflagration to cover their tracks. Like Allen’s crowd-pleasers The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, Fire sizzles with suspense and excitement. Turn up the heat!
Bunco
Frankie
Tom Selleck is a member of the "Bunco" squad the squad in charge of nabbing con men, cheats, and swindlers. Most of their time is spent dealing with penny-ante street-corner crooks. But their investigations start to reveal a larger con game in progress.
Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby
Ellen
Having been adopted by the madam of a southwestern brothel, a now adult Adrian must cope with the fact that he's Satan's kid, and not living up to his expectations.
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
Laureen
In this made-for-TV disaster movie, the lives of a group of motorists are chronicled retrospectively after they're involved in a 39-car pile-up on California's Interstate 5 over 4th of July weekend.
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle
Claudia
A retired businessman notices that there has been a rash of ships and planes disappearing off the Florida coast, and he starts to investigate.
Murph the Surf
Ginny Eaton
Based on a true story, details the daring 1964 theft of the J.P. Morgan jewel collection from New York's American Museum of Natural History. Called the "Greatest Jewel Heist of the 20th Century," the robbers took 22 precious gems, including the Star of India, the 100.32-carat de Long Ruby and the 16.25-carat Eagle Diamond, stones so famous they would be impossible to sell.
Who Is the Black Dahlia?
Susan Winters
In 1947 Los Angeles, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short.
A Killer With Two Faces
A crazed killer escapes from an asylum and assumes the identity of his twin brother, a famous and respected architect.
Someone at the Top of the Stairs
Chrissie
A young woman and her friend rent a room in a boarding house. Soon they become aware of the fact that the other "renters" are a very strange lot, and that there are some very odd goings-on in the house that seem to be centered in the attic... Part of the ITV 'Thriller' anthology series.
Live Again, Die Again
Caroline Carmichael
After being cryogenically frozen for more than 30 years, a woman wakes to find her husband an old man and her children older than she is. Her daughter has also developed a psychotic obsession with her and may be out to kill her.
One Deadly Owner
A fashion model buys a Rolls-Royce. What she doesn't know is that it's haunted.
The Bait
Tracy Fleming
Tracy Fleming is a widowed police officer, with a young son, who has risen to the role of plainclothes operative. After six women have been raped and killed, Fleming agrees to go undercover in an effort to make herself a target for the killer. The climax places her in a life-and-death struggle with the killer.
Night of Terror
Linda Daniel
A hired killer hunts down a schoolteacher to get something she has. She doesn't know what it is, but he's already killed twice to get it.
Rolling Man
Bebe Lotter
After serving time in prison for attempted murder of the man who caused his wife's death, hard-luck loser Lonnie comes home to find that all of his belongings have been sold and his two boys have been given to strangers to raise. He sets out across the country to find them and possibly to find himself.
Haunts of the Very Rich
Laurie
A group of wealthy but secretly very troubled people travel to an island resort. After experiencing a brush with death, they find themselves wondering about their existences.
Play Misty for Me
Tobie
A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.
The Incident
Alice Keenan
Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
Lila Gates