🎭 Actor
Beatrice Straight
🎂 Born 2 August 1914 (age 86)✝ 7 April 2001📍 Old Westbury, New York, USA
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Popularity Score
26
Acting Credits
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beatrice Whitney Straight (August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001) was an American theatre, film, and television actress. Hers remains the shortest acting performance in a film to win an Oscar. In her winning role in the 1976 film Network, she was on screen for five minutes and forty seconds. She also received an Emmy nomination for her role in The Dain Curse. Straight can also be recognized as Dr. Lesh in Poltergeist. Description above from the Wikipedia article Beatrice Straight, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Full Filmography(26 films)
YearTitleRating
1982Poltergeist★ 7.21976Network★ 7.81981Endless Love★ 5.71959The Nun's Story★ 7.21983Two of a Kind★ 5.91980The Formula★ 5.61986Power★ 5.91979Bloodline★ 4.91991Deceived★ 5.81982Night of 100 Stars★ 6.81986Under Siege★ 7.51979The Promise★ 6.51990People Like Us★ 5.81952Phone Call from a Stranger★ 6.41985Chiller★ 4.21984The Princess and the Pea★ 8.21953King Lear★ 8.01977Killer on Board★ 5.91956Patterns★ 7.31956The Silken Affair★ 3.31973The Borrowers★ 6.41964The Young Lovers★ 4.01988Run Till You Fall★ 10.01973The Haunting of Rosalind★ 6.81977World of Darkness★ 5.51973The Garden Party★ 7.0