Joan Van Ark

Joan Van Ark

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

História

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

Filmes

Psycho Wedding Crasher
Aunt Daisy
Since she started working as a dressmaker for her Aunt Daisy, Jenna has seen dozens of brides getting happily married in her gorgeous wedding gowns. Jenna longs to have a white wedding of her own and to find a handsome man who will take her away from her abusive Aunt.
De Volta ao Lar
Momma
A Hollywood actress and a former NFL star strive to save a troubled Texas town while bonding over their shared love of a very special 10-year-old girl who has found herself alone in the world for the very first time.
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.
Ponto Com Para Morrer
Dr. Klein
Adam Vance tem uma vida aparentemente perfeita – um ótimo emprego, grandes amigos e um bom casamento. Sua única reclamação é sobre a monotonia de sua vida sexual. Então, ele se vê procurando por outras formas de satisfazer seus desejos através de seu computador, caindo em um website chamado Bate-Papo Cibernético. Lá, ele encontra tudo o que quer sem ter que sair de casa – sem contato físico, todas as fantasias e nenhum risco. É aí que Adam conhece a bela “Angel”, uma mulher tão psicótica quanto sedutora. Seus picantes e envolventes jogos incluem luxúria, chantagem e, finalmente, uma orgia que termina em assassinato. Então, o desavisado Adam acaba atraído para dentro de sua rede mortal. Agora, as cartas estão todas na mesa enquanto ele luta por sua própria vida e também pela segurança daqueles que ama.
Tornado Warning
Mayor McAnders
A scientist (Gerald McRaney) perfects a tornado-warning system and tries to convince residents of a nearby town that a deadly twister is approaching.
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.
A Morte como Herança
Mrs. Drew
Um rapaz aparentemente normal acaba de cometer suicídio depois de matar seus pais adotivos. Uma repórter descobre que ele sofria de uma psicose hereditária que transforma as pessoas em assassinos em potencial. Em algum lugar, adotada por outra família vive a irmã gêmea dele e que provavelmente sofre da mesma doença.
Terror on Track 9
Leslie Renner
A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station.
Lembre-se de que Te Amo
Martha Mendham
Só depois dos dezasseis anos, Robert descobre que é adotado. Os pais adotivos dele contam que ele foi raptado de seus pais verdadeiros. Então Robert começa a procurar seus pais verdadeiros.
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.
Shakedown on the Sunset Strip
Brenda Allen
Ambitious police sergeant, Charles Stoker, takes on prostitution in 1948 Los Angeles to make a name for himself. Madam, Brenda Allen, however has the 'whole city' on her payroll and his crusade proves difficult.
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?
O Último Dinossauro
Francesca Banks
Cientistas anunciam a descoberta de uma terra perdida, escondida dentro da caverna quente de um vulcão adormecido, sob a calota de gelo polar. Masten Thrust, um bilionário magnata do petróleo e caçador profissional, é recrutado para liderar uma equipe que ira ate la para estudar a nova descoberta. Ao chegar, Thrust e sua equipe descobrem que o mundo oculto é habitado por dinossauros e humanos pré-históricos. Enquanto os humanos dão aos exploradores um pouco de dificuldade, o perigo real é o tiranossauro faminto que pretende fazer o grande caçacor branco e sua tripulação de almoço.
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
Rose Winters, a private detective out of Los Angeles, teams with Ed Mills, a somewhat inexperienced young detective, to find out who is blackmailing a wealthy contractor.
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.
A Juíza
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.
Frogs
Karen Crockett
Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason Crockett hates nature, poisoning anything that crawls on his property. On the night of his birthday the frogs and other members of nature begin to pay Crockett back.