Joan Van Ark

Joan Van Ark

Nacimiento : 1943-06-16, New York City, New York, USA

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Joan Van Ark (born June 16, 1943) is an American actress, most notable for her role as Valene Ewing, which she originated on the CBS hit series Dallas and continued for thirteen seasons on its long-running spin-off, Knots Landing. Van Ark has also received a Theatre World Award and been nominated for a Tony Award for her stage work. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Van Ark, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Joan Van Ark

Películas

Acoso nupcial
Aunt Daisy
Gina trabaja en un taller de confección de trajes de boda y está secretamente enamorada del novio de una de sus clientas. En una fiesta, la pareja le presenta a un amigo, luego finge una agresión.
Watercolor Postcards
Momma
Una actriz de Hollywood y una ex estrella de la NFL se esfuerzan por salvar a una problemática ciudad de Texas mientras se unen por su amor compartido hacia una niña muy especial de 10 años que se ha encontrado sola en el mundo por primera vez.
Channels
Megan Phillips
A writer/producer is about to make a big career jump and has a lot of activity going on in his life. But, emotionally, he's dead. Through a fantastical event, he meets someone. They fall in love. She wants to defy logic and hop on the passing train of time with him. He lets his mind rationalize and hesitates. She is gone and he finds himself in a desperate race to get her back. Will the magic that brought them together be strong enough to reunite them, or is it too long?
Diamond Zero
The Hemingway Diamond
A daft doctor concocts an offbeat scheme to make millions after he happens upon a method of turning cremated human remains into diamonds. But when the sawbones hires a pair of hapless thieves to collect the raw material, a string of calamities ensues in their insane efforts to pilfer the ashes of prominent and historic figures. Tippi Hedren, Bronson Pinchot, Richard Moll and Joan Van Ark head the cast in this inky morality yarn.
Net Games
Dr. Klein
The successful publicist Adam Vance of the SFC is in the middle of a campaign to get an important Japanese client and is needy of sex because his traumatized wife Jennifer Vance was raped one year ago and is totally frigid, refusing to have sex. His close friend and colleague Ray Walters suggests Adam to visit the porn site cyber chat.net, where lonely people have erotic conversation. Adam meets Angel, a luscious woman and hacker while his wife is visiting her rapist in the prison with her therapist as part of her treatment. When Adam decides to finish his virtual affair with Angel, he is chased and blackmailed by the deranged sexy killer.
Tornado Warning
Mayor McAnders
Un renombrado científico advierte al alcalde de una ciudad la llegada inminente de un tornado de características altamente destructivas. Debido a que el hombre ya se equivocó en el pasado, el alcalde hace oídos sordos y decide seguir adelante con las celebraciones del aniversario de la ciudad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Held for Ransom
Nancy Donavan
Held for Ransom is a 2000 direct-to-video film about five high-school students that are kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote swamp area in Florida. It was directed and written by Lee Stanley based on the novel by Lois Duncan.
It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown
Secretary (voice)
Based on the legend of the Pied Piper, it stars Snoopy as the title character, who tries to rid the Peanuts' gang's hometown of mice by playing his concertina, in return for a year's supply of dog food.
Loyal Opposition
Vice President Elizabeth Lane
When a terrorist surfaces, the Chairman of the Joint Chief urges the President for military response. However, the President prefers to try negotiating. So, the General takes the President prisoner and launches an offensive of his own. And the Vice President is the only one who can do something about it. And the Vice President's a woman.
When the Dark Man Calls
Julianne Kaiser
A famous radio talk-show host finds herself being stalked by the man convicted of murdering her husband, who has finished his 25-year sentence and is out of prison. Her situation is made even more dire when it turns out that he isn't the only problem she has.
A Mother's Deception
Nora McGill
Nora McGill has great pain. Desperatly searching for help she finds Dr. Allen. He reduces her pain, but she has to pay a high price for it ...
In the Shadows, Someone's Watching
There are a bunch on children in a suburban neighborhood getting hurt in unusual ways. One mother's child gets hurt and she goes looking for answers and finds them but its with twist no one would expect.
Tainted Blood
Mrs. Drew
After a 17-year-old shoots his parents dead and then turns the gun on himself, an investigative reporter makes a disturbing discovery. The adopted boy was born to a mother who, as a teen, inexplicably murdered her parents as well. Even more alarming is the discovery that the dead boy has a twin, who may also be genetically predisposed to kill.
Terror on Track 9
Leslie Renner
A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station.
Always Remember I Love You
Martha Mendham
Just after he turns sixteen, Robert finds out that he is adopted. His parents find to their horror that he was kidnaped from his real parents. They decide to tell him about this, even though they fear they might lose him. Robert runs away to find his real parents. He finds and gets close to them, without revealing his true identity. Eventually he must decided where he belongs.
Menu for Murder
Julia Alberts
Joanne Mayfield, head of the parental school commission, behaves like a dictator and makes all the other women her enemies. But when she suddenly falls dead on a party after having a sandwich, the main suspect is Susan, who served her the food. The handsome detective Joe Russo interrogates her repeatedly and they become friends. He invites her to help him with the investigation, what she happily accepts - too happily, says her husband.
Night Of 100 Stars III
Self
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
My First Love
Claire Thomas
A widow thinks she's ready for a new romance with her high school sweetheart, a physician of considerable means. The only thing standing in the way of rekindling this first love is the presence of his very attractive, very together 37-year-old girlfriend.
Corrupción en Sunset Street
Brenda Allen
El ambicioso sargento de policía Charles Stoker se dedica a combatir la prostitución en 1948 en Los Ángeles para hacerse de un nombre. Pero la madame Brenda Allen, sin embargo, tiene a "toda la ciudad" en su nómina y su cruzada resulta difícil.
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.
Red Flag: The Ultimate Game
Marie Rivers
Two fighter pilots, Phil Clark and Jay Rivers, who flew together in Vietnam are assigned to the elite Air Force Fighter Weapons School (known as "Red Flag") at Nellis AFB, Nevada, about a decade after the war. Brash, self-confident Clark is an instructor, while quieter, family man Rivers is the student. At first, the two men resume their friendship. But as the student starts to show the master a thing or two, tensions develop. Can their relationship survive the stresses of one of the military's top schools?
The Last Dinosaur
Francesca Banks
Wealthy big game hunter (Boone), along with his group, gets trapped in pre-historic times where they are stalked by a ferocious dinosaur.
Shell Game
Shirley
A convicted con artist sets out to expose the head of a charity fund who has been embezzling money to cover his huge gambling losses.
The Rules of the Game
Silvia Gala
Dramatist Luigi Pirandello's mordant comedy of manners tells the tale of upper-crust Italians Silia Gala and her sneering spouse, Leone, who finds his impassivity tested when he has to duel his wife's frustrated paramour.
Big Rose: Double Trouble
Nina
Un contratista adinerado contrata a dos investigadores privados para averiguar quién lo está chantajeando.
Cyrano
Roxanne (voice)
Long-nosed Cyrano de Begerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves in this animated version of Edmond Rostand's play.
The Judge and Jake Wyler
Alicia Dodd
A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency with a charming ex-con as her leg man and various parolees helping in the day-to-day operation.
Ranas
Karen Crockett
La adinerada familia Crockett tiene una hermosa plantación en un lago de Florida. El patriarca, Jason (Ray Milland) odia la vida salvaje y ordena a un exterminador rociar pesticidas alrededor de la casa. Es entonces cuando la fauna comienza a contraatacar, no solamente ranas, sino también serpientes, lagartos, pájaros, arañas, sanguijuelas y tortugas.