Priscilla Marie Pointer (May 18, 1924 – April 28, 2025) was an American actress. She began her career in the theater in the late 1940s, including productions on Broadway. Later, Pointer moved to Hollywood and made appearances on television beginning in the early 1950s. Pointer was the mother of actress and singer Amy Irving, making her the former mother-in-law of filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Bruno Barreto. Description above from the Wikipedia article Priscilla Pointer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2011Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage — Mrs. Beaumont
• 2008Sweet Nothing in My Ear — Sally (voice)
• Cold Case — Lillian Vine (2006)
• 1999Inferno — Mrs. Henry Howard
• Judging Amy — Margaret Palmer
• 1997Alone — Susan Hight
• 1996Carried Away — Lily Henson
• ER — Mrs. Abernathy
• 1994Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition — Barbara
• 1994The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics — Woman in cinema (segment "The Theatre")
• Touched by an Angel — Elizabeth Carpenter
• 1993The Magic Bubble — Grandma
• 1991Runaway Father — Mary Bennett
• 1990A Show of Force — Alice Ryan
• 1990Disturbed — Sr. Francine
• 1990The Flash — Nora Allen
• The Flash — Nora Allen
• 1989A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story — Tracey's Mother
• 1989C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud — Dr. Berlin
• 1987A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors — Dr. Elizabeth Simms
• 1987From the Hip — Mrs. Martha Williams
• 1987Rumpelstiltskin — Queen Grizelda
• 1986Blue Velvet — Mrs. Beaumont
• L.A. Law — Dorothy Pehlman
• Amazing Stories — Charlie, woman on train (cameo)
• 1985Generation — Ellen Breed
• 1985The Falcon and the Snowman — Mrs. Lee
• Call to Glory — Lillie
• 1984Micki & Maude — Diana Hutchison
• The A-Team — Tracy Richter's Mother
• 1983Twilight Zone: The Movie — Miss Cox
• 1982Good-bye Cruel World — Myra
• 1982Mysterious Two — She
• Newhart — Clara Whitscomber
• St. Elsewhere — Marie Halloran
• 1982The Gift of Life — Rosalee Boyer
• 1981Mommie Dearest — Mrs. Chadwick
• 1981The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire — Hawk Lady
• 1980Honeysuckle Rose — Rosella
• Stone
• 1980The Competition — Mrs. Donellan
• Knots Landing — Beatrice Handleman
• Mrs. Columbo — Mrs. Prior
• 1979The Onion Field — Chrissie Campbell
• Dallas — Rebecca Barnes Wentworth, Rebecca Barnes Wentworth (credit only)
• 1977A Killing Affair — Judge Cudahy
• 1977Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years — Missy LeHand
• 1977Looking for Mr. Goodbar — Mrs. Dunn
• Lou Grant — Elizabeth Driscoll
• 1977Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night — Laura Atherton
• 1977The 3,000 Mile Chase — Emma Dvorak
• What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
• 1976Carrie — Mrs. Snell
• City of Angels — Mrs. Macklin
• 1976Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur — Jean MacArthur
• 1976Nickelodeon — Mabel
• Quincy, M.E. — Nurse Kathy Benson, Mrs. Neilson
• 1976The Great Texas Dynamite Chase — Miss Harris
• 1976The Keegans — Helen Hunter McVey
• Kate McShane — Mrs. Inerson
• Harry O — Constance Faraday
• Police Woman — Adele French
• The Rockford Files — Helen Morris
• Barnaby Jones — Nancy Moore
• Kojak — Regina
• ABC Afterschool Special — Ruth Meredith
• Cannon — Dr. Janet Cochran, Edith Cunningham
• 1971Death Takes a Holiday — Marion Chapman
• 1971The Failing of Raymond — History Teacher
• McCloud — Shirley
• Adam-12 — Jacqueline Carey
• The Name of the Game — Miss Dalton
• The High Chaparral — Mrs.Colton
• China Smith — Iris Clark, Carla Tilson

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2010Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy — Self
• 2001Acting 'Carrie' — Self