Carolyn Coates

Carolyn Coates

Nacimiento : 1927-04-29, Oklahoma City - Oklahoma - USA

Muerte : 2005-03-28

Historia

Coates was born in Oklahoma City and grew up in Santa Monica, Calif., where she acted in children's theater. She went on to major in acting at the University of California, Los Angeles, and worked in stock companies in the East. She met her future husband, James Noble - who played "Governor Gene Gatling" on the TV show Benson(1979) - in 1951 in Worcester, Mass., while playing "Eliza Doolittle" in "Pygmalion". The couple appeared in many plays together, notably "Long Day's Journey into Night" and "A Delicate Balance". - IMDb Mini Biography

Perfil

Carolyn Coates

Películas

This Child Is Mine
Grace
An unwed teen is fighting a major court battle to recover her infant daughter from adoptive parents.
The Buddy System
Teacher
A school truant officer uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake his residential address and subsequently befriends the kid and his mother.
Queridísima mamá
Mother Superior
Biopic de la vida de Joan Crawford según un libro escrito por la hija adoptiva de la gran actriz. Interpretada por Faye Dunaway, en su día obtuvo muy malas críticas, pero con el tiempo se fue convirtiendo en un clásico "camp" y hoy la película tiene numerosos seguidores.
El cartero siempre llama dos veces
Twin Oaks Customer
En Estados Unidos, durante la Gran Depresión, un vagabundo llega a un restaurante situado en una carretera secundaria. El dueño le ofrece un trabajo, pero él lo rechaza. Sin embargo, cuando ve a la mujer del propietario, el forastero decide quedarse.
Scared Straight! Another Story
Mary Loring
A group of young delinquents well on the road to careers in crime, are given a shock course in prison life. Brought face to face with hardened criminals many serving life sentences for rape and murder, they are suddenly confronted with the harsh realities of a top-security U.S. Penitentiary.
Barn Burning
Aunt
Abe Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing in William Faulkner's Barn Burning. Snopes sets his employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son, Sarty, is horrified. Snope escapes justice for lack of proof, but he and his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than Snopes is offended by his new rich employer. Torn between trying to win his father's acceptance and his aversion to what his father will do, Sarty must make a decision and act quickly. Adpated by Academy Award winning screenwriter Horton Foote, Faulkner's complex world of class divisions and hostile family relationships comes to life through a boy's attempt to liberate himself from hatred and poverty.
El efecto de los rayos gamma  sobre las margaritas
Mrs. McKay
Adaptación de una novela que ganó el premio Pulitzer. Narra la vida de una familia deprimente y depresiva. La madre, Beatrice, es una mujer desequilibrada; sus dos hijas son diametralmente opuestas: Ruth es una adolescente epiléptica y bastante alocada, Mathilda, la pequeña, es una excelente estudiante, muy inteligente y trabajadora. Además, parece estar dotada de una serenidad o de una especie de estoicismo que la inmuniza contra las terribles tormentas domésticas que tiene que soportar.
El buscavidas
Waitress
Eddie Felson es un joven arrogante y amoral que frecuenta con éxito las salas de billar. Decidido a ser proclamado el mejor, busca al Gordo de Minnesota, un legendario campeón de billar. Cuando, por fin, consigue enfrentarse con él, su falta de seguridad le hace fracasar. El amor de una solitaria mujer podría ayudarlo a abandonar esa clase de vida, pero Eddie no descansará hasta vencer al campeón sin importarle el precio que tenga que pagar por ello.