Joyce Van Patten

Joyce Van Patten

Nacimiento : 1934-03-09, New York City, New York, USA

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Joyce Van Patten (born March 9, 1934) is an American stage, film and television actress.

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Joyce Van Patten

Películas

Diane
Madge
Diane es una viuda septuagenaria que dedica su vida a las necesidades de los demás. Llena sus días sirviendo comida a los vagabundos, visitando a amigos enfermos y, sobre todo, intentando ayudar a su hija drogadicta. Pero cuando su existencia empieza a marchitarse, se verá obligada a reflexionar sobre su identidad.
Collaborators
Self
Actor Joyce Van Patten and distributor Julian Schlossberg discuss the visual style and tone of Mikey and Nicky and explain why they believe it is a very special film.
Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky
Herself
Documentary on the making of the film featuring interviews with distributor Julian Schlossberg and actor Joyce Van Patten.
El misterio de God's Pocket
Aunt Sophie
El alocado hijastro de Mickey, Leon, muere en un "accidente" de construcción y Mickey rápidamente intenta olvidar esta fatalidad enterrando el cuerpo. Pero cuando un columnista local llega para husmear y descubrir la verdad, las cosas empiezan a ir de mal en peor. Mickey se encuentra atrapado en una lucha con un cuerpo inerte que no puede enterrar, una esposa que es incapaz de complacer y una deuda que nunca podrá pagar.
Angel's Perch
Polly
Angel’s Perch is the story of Jack, a successful architect living in Pittsburgh, who must make the trip to his tiny hometown when his grandmother Polly, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, is found wandering outside her house one morning. But what was intended to be a two day, under the radar trip to town becomes more complicated when Jack is unable to move Polly into an assisted living facility. Torn between the career opportunity of a lifetime, caring for his last living relative and running from his own painful memories, Jack’s carefully constructed life begins to unravel.
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
Mrs. McGowan
The siblings of the Fitzgerald family must decide if the dad who abandoned them 20 years ago can come home for Christmas. Can the big Irish clan get past their grievances to be a family again?
Paz, amor y malentendidos
Mariam
Una abogada conservadora de Nueva York lleva a sus dos hijas adolescentes a Woodstock a conocer a su abuela 'hippie'. Lo que en principio iban a ser unas cortas vacaciones pronto se convertirá en una aventura veraniega llena de música, romance, secretos familiares y autodescubrimiento.
Un lugar donde quedarse
Dorothy Shore
Cheyenne es una antigua estrella de rock. A pesar de sus cincuenta, conserva una imagen gótica y vive en Dublín de los derechos de autor. La muerte de su padre, con quien no tenía relación alguna, le lleva a Nueva York, donde descubre que su progenitor vivía con una obsesión: vengarse de una humillación de la que había sido víctima. Cheyenne decide hacer realidad ese deseo de venganza, pero, para ello tendrá que emprender un viaje a través de América.
Niños grandes
Gloria
Después de muchos años, su antiguo entrenador de basquet muere y cincos amigos deciden pasar un fin de semanas -ahora con sus respectivas familias- en la casa donde celebraron, antaño, el campeonato.
Una pareja de tres
Mrs. Butterly
Los recién casados John y Jenny Grogan deciden dejar atrás los duros inviernos de Michigan para instalarse en la soleada West Palm Beach (Florida). Los dos consiguen empleo en dos periódicos rivales, compran su primera casa y afrontan los retos del matrimonio. Cuando John le confiesa a su amigo y colega Sebastian que aún no se siente preparado para ser padre, éste le sugiere que le regale a Jenny un perro. Los Grogan adoptan un bonito cachorro de Labrador que, poco después, se convierte en una mole de 45 kilos que transforma la casa en una verdadera catástrofe.
Hasta la eternidad
Aunt Ruth
De niño, a Richard le fascinaba la ciencia, su familia y Arline, una compañera de escuela. Pero Arline contrajo la tuberculosis. Con la esperanza de curarla, Richard se dedicó a estudiar a fondo su enfermedad. Cuando Arline empezó a restablecerse, se casaron. A Richard, que trabajaba en la universidad, sus estudios y la guerra lo llevaron a Los Álamos para trabajar en el Proyecto Manhattan.
Jake's Women
Edith
Jake is a writer. He is married to Maggie, but his marriage is in trouble. He cannot stop thinking about other women in his life, characters he invents conversations with. He is constantly talking to: his deceased wife Julie, his daughter Molly, his sister Karen, and his psychiatrist Edith. All he does is have imaginary conversations with real people that are at the moment out of his life. Maggie cannot stand his mind wandering off all the time and decides to separate for six months and at the end of six months they will decide whether or not to remain together. Jake has a few girl friends, but spends the six months, while waiting for Maggie, only talking to these imaginary people, and a few times to real people.
Breathing Lessons
Serena
Un matrimonio revisa sus vidas y renueva su amor mientras conducen al funeral de un amigo.
Grandpa's Funeral
Iris Braimen
The family is silently preparing for the grandpa's funeral. The daughters are already missing him; the youngest cannot accept that she is not immortal.
Maid for Each Other
Leila
In this hilarious crime caper, a rich woman (Nell Carter) and her maid (Dinah Manoff) happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time -- and now, they're hotfooting it away from vicious mobsters who want to fit them for a couple pairs of cement overshoes. Can they stay free -- and alive -- long enough to gather evidence against the mobsters?
Apariciones - The Haunted: La Casa de las Almas Perdidas
Cora Miller
When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out it's haunted.
Trust Me
Nettie Brown
An art dealer murders one of his artists in the hopes of increasing the market value of his work.
Atracción diabólica
Dorothy Mann
Allan Mann, un joven con un brillante futuro en el mundo de las leyes y el deporte, sufre un terrible accidente que lo deja paralizado. Su novia le deja y su madre le atosiga con una enfermera, pero encuentra una solución: la compañía de una mona. El problema surge cuando la primate se vuelve celosa y no soporta que nadie se meta en la relación, al tiempo que el simio le obedece en todo. Tanto que acaba interpretando cuáles son sus más oscuros deseos y los ejecuta. (FILMAFFINITY)
Cita a ciegas
Nadia's Mother
Walter Davis es un ejecutivo adicto al trabajo que dedica muy poco tiempo a su vida privada. Un día necesita una acompañante para ir a una cena de negocios con un cliente japonés, y su hermano le propone ir acompañado de Nadia, una chica nueva en la ciudad.
Billy Galvin
Jack Galvin (Karl Malden, Oscar al mejor actor secundario en 1952 por "Un tranvía llamado deseo") es un gran cabezota y uno de los mejores trabajadores de la construcción. Un día soñó con ser arquitecto, pero las circunstancias lo transformaron en un experto soldador, y en eso se convirtió su vida. Su hijo Billy (Lenny von Dohlen), tan testarudo como él, lo admira. Lo que más desearía es ser como su padre, quien por su parte, quiere algo mejor para él. Ambos tendrán grandes disputas al respecto, y pese ala oposición de Jack, Billy empieza a trabajar en la misma constructora. La relación de padre e hijo parece afianzarse, compartiendo el primero sus experiencias con el segundo. Un accidente, indirectamente provocado por Billy, manda a Jack al hospital. Elmuchacho no puede soportarlo y cuelga el casco de obrero para siempre. Los enfrentamientos entre padre e hijo comenzarán de nuevo.
Under the Influence
Helen Talbot
A hard-drinking family man has been successful in his business despite his alcoholism. His daughter, a professional, struggles to meet her father's high expectations while she becomes addicted to prescription drugs; his son, who works for him and who serves as both his whipping boy and his drinking buddy, is becoming an alcoholic like his dad. Then the father's drinking finally takes its toll on his health, and he demands that his son bring him liquor in the hospital as his son's life, and his daughter's, fall apart at home.
Annie Oakley
Ma
Young Phoebe Mosey (Jamie Lee Curtis) defies expectations and proves herself to become "Little Miss Sure Shot" Annie Oakley, the legendary sharpshooter and "Wild West" icon.
Picking Up the Pieces
Harriet Goodman
A sheltered wife of a surgeon suddenly finds herself thrust into the middle of a messy divorce.
St. Elmo, punto de encuentro
Mrs. Beamish
Tras acabar sus estudios, un grupo de íntimos amigos deben enfrentarse a los problemas y desafíos que plantea la vida. Por mucho que sus aspiraciones y sus nuevas relaciones sociales y laborales pongan a prueba su amistad, ellos se aferran siempre al cariño, a la estabilidad y a la seguridad que les da el grupo.
El juego del halcón
Mrs. Boyce
Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton), un joven seminarista, y su amigo Daulton Lee (Sean Penn) son dos tipos normales, amigos desde la infancia, que sin querer se ven envueltos en una intriga de espionaje en plena guerra fría... Basada en hechos reales. El guión es del reputado Steve Zaillian ("The Schindler's List", "Searching Bobby Fisher").
Malice in Wonderland
Dema Harshbarger
Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Parsons - maker and breaker of careers (and lives) through her daily syndicated newspaper column. The big movie moguls, fed up with Parson's power over their stars, decide to de-claw her by setting up gossip Hopper as a competitor in the rumour industry. What they couldn't forsee was that Hopper would become as big as Parsons -- and every bit as much of a pain. Based on the true life stories of two of the most powerful (and arguably dangerous) women of Hollywood's hay-day.
In Defense of Kids
Caroline Ruben
When a female lawyer finds a girl hiding in the back of her car, it starts her thinking, and she decides to give up her job to open up a refuge for neglected children.
The Demon Murder Case
Connie Frazier
A young boy is taken over by demons who force him to commit murder.
Another Woman's Child
Janet Stein
Mike and Terry DeBray are a happily married couple whose lives change when the young daughter that Tony fathered out of wedlock suddenly appears and comes into their lives.
Bus Stop
Grace
The story is set in a diner in rural Kansas, about 25 miles west of Kansas City, Missouri during a snowstorm from which bus passengers must take shelter.
You Can't Take it With You
Miss Wellington
Emmy winner Jean Stapleton and Academy Award winner Art Carney star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about a slightly daft family who do exactly as they please.
Shadow of Fear
A boy turns to his pets after his father dies, and on a visit to his great-uncle in the Amish country, he learns their legends and superstitions. He soon discovers he has the power to make mind contact with the animals.
The Comedy Company
Ellen Dietz
An ex-comedian fights to keep a failing nightclub alive as a showcase for aspiring young comics.
Murder at the Mardi Gras
Janet Murphy
A bubble-brained Philadelphia waitress witnesses a murder during the Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans and finds herself stalked by the killer.
To Kill a Cop
Betty Eischied
Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying to break up a group of black militants that are on a crime spree including the killing of a police officer. He is also trying to battle with a mayor and police commissioner that want him out of his job.
Mikey y Nicky
Jan
Nick es un matón judío que ha empezado en el oficio hace poco pero ya tiene problemas y su vida corre peligro. Para intentar solucionarlo llama a su mejor amigo, Mikey, para que le ayude a ocultarse y averiguar la identidad del individuo que debe matarle.
Los picarones
Cleveland
Matthau es un antiguo jugador profesional de béisbol, famoso por su mal humor, que se hace cargo de un equipo juvenil. Su intención es conseguir el título, pero, para ello, tienen que empezar por ganar su primer partido.
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
Ida Mae
Film noir parody with a private eye trying to solve the murder of his milkman.
Winner Take All
Edie Gould
The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.
Let's Switch!
Linette Robbins
Chaos ensues when two former college friends, one a housewife and the other the editor of a hip women's magazine, decide to swap lifestyles between them.
For the Use of the Hall
Alice
A penniless heiress, a disillusioned nun, the suicidal playwright they both love, a hapless art forger and the playwright's wife converge on the empty Long Island home of an aging matriarch and squabble among themselves about their relative success or failure.
The Stranger Within
Phyllis
Who is the father of Ann Collins’ baby? Her husband had a vasectomy years ago. And Ann hasn’t been with another man. Even more mysterious: as the baby grows inside her, Ann begins to change. She is beset by strange illnesses, pours tablespoons of salt on her food, turns the thermostat to 50 degrees, speed-reads academic tomes. But much bigger shocks are yet to come. Barbara Eden stars in this hypnotic, swiftly paced blend of horror and sci-fi from Richard Matheson, the popular and prolific writer who also penned the novel I AM LEGEND and several notable THE TWILIGHT ZONE scripts.
Winter Kill
Grace Lockhard
Someone is shooting the residents of a mountain resort town. Sheriff McNeill (Andy Griffith) must figure out the connection that links the victims and find the sniper before he (or she) kills again, and before the town council relieves him of duty.
The Book of Murder
Jane
Much-married and once successful writer Henry T. Aythecliff, now heavily in debt, summons his three ex-wives to his mansion, planning to extort a sizable amount of money from each. When he is discovered dead, clues indicate that each of his four wives had motive and opportunity to murder him, and a young detective must sift through some ingeniously devised evidence.
Ante todo, mujer
Sally Cato
Tras quedarse huérfano, el pequeño Patrick se va a vivir con su tía Mame, una excéntrica y alocada mujer que pertenece al mundo de las variedades y que siempre está de fiesta en fiesta. Así pues, el niño tendrá que vivir en un ambiente que le resulta completamente desconocido. Remake musical de "Tía y Mamá" (1958).
Thumb Tripping
Mother
Gary and Shay are two happy-go-lucky flower children who hitchhike in the beautiful Big Sur-Monterey area of California.
Bone
Bernadette
A thief breaks into the home of a wealthy, happily married Beverly Hills couple. He soon finds out, though, that the couple is neither as wealthy as he thought they were and are not as happily married as they appeared.
La primera ametralladora del Oeste
Polly Standall
Joe Baker tiene un sueño, pero para cumplirlo necesita una ametralladora Gatling. En el mercado negro, un vendedor le ofrece un trato: el precio de la pieza será una mujer. Baker secuestra a una mujer de una diligencia pero no sabe que es la mujer del comandante de la caballería local.
Making It
Betty Fuller
In this coming of age comedy, a cocky high school student thinks nothing of using the people around him to satisfy his self-centered needs, until someone in his life gets pregnant.
But I Don't Want to Get Married!
Olga
An accountant is widowed after 18 years of marriage. He is dumbfounded to have a herd of marriage-minded women descend upon him.
Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You
Anna
Un dramaturgo norteamericano que vive en Roma, consulta a un psiquiatra charlatán para combatir sus miedos sobre la calvicie y salvar su matrimonio a punto de fracasar. En verdad, el hombre está viendose asediado por las mujeres. Basada en "What's New, Pussycat?" de Woody Allen.
Mis problemas con las mujeres
Maude
Elvis interpreta a Walter Hale, un empresario y gerente de un show ambulante de 1927 llamado “Chautauqua”, que llega a un pequeño pueblo de Lowa para actuar durante una semana.
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
Joyce
Harold Fine (Peter Sellers) es un abogado de Los Angeles de 35 años que no espera con ganas la edad madura ni su boda inminente. Sin embargo su vida cambia cuando se enamora de Nancy, un espíritu libre, una hippie joven e inocente... por lo que decide romper con todo y convertirse en hippie junto a ella. Pero cuando ese estilo de vida resulte demasiado independiente e irresponsable para Harold, ¿podrá todavía regresar a su antigua identidad?
La Diosa
Hillary
Una muchacha de origen humilde sueña con triunfar en el mundo del cine. Está dispuesta a todo con tal de conseguir su objetivo: acostarse con productores y manipular a quien sea necesario. Pero, por ese camino, acaba recubriéndose de una coraza protectora que la priva de cualquier sentimiento.
Catorce horas (14 horas)
Barbara (uncredited)
Un joven se dispone a saltar desde la cornisa de un hotel. La policía, su familia, la gente, los medios de comunicación se temen lo peor durante una espera de catorce horas interminables y llenas de tensión.