Margaret Whitton
Acting · Directing · Production
Born November 30, 1949, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Margaret Whitton (November 30, 1949 – December 4, 2016) was an American actress. Her most known roles were that of baseball team owner Rachel Phelps in Major League (1989) and its sequel Major League II, and as Michael J. Fox's vibrant and underappreciated aunt-by-marriage in The Secret of My Success (1987). She also appeared in the films The Best of Times (1986) and The Man Without a Face (1993). She first noticeably appeared on the stage in 1973, billed as Peggy Whitton. In the early 1980s, she began to be billed as Margaret Whitton and made her Broadway debut in 1982's Steaming. After her seven year experiment with film, she returned to the stage, appearing on Broadway in And the Apple Doesn't Fall... (1995) and in the original, award-winning musical Marlene (1999), starring Siân Phillips as Marlene Dietrich. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margaret Whitton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
- 2012Casting By — Co-Executive Producer
- 2011A Bird of the Air — Director
- 1994Major League II — Rachel Phelps
- 1994Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills — Leslie Abramson
- 1994Trial by Jury — Jane Lyle, Juror
- Cutters — Adrienne St. John
- 1993The Man Without a Face — Catherine Palin
- 1992Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even — Melinda
- Good & Evil — Genevieve
- 1991The Summer My Father Grew Up — Naomi
- 1990Kojak: None So Blind — Michele Hogarth
- A Fine Romance — Louisa Phillips
- 1989Little Monsters — Holly Stevenson
- 1989Major League — Rachel Phelps
- 1987Baby Boom — Executive In Conference Room (uncredited)
- 1987Cat & Mousse — Miriam
- 1987Ironweed — Katrina
- 1987The Secret of My Success — Vera Prescott
- 1986Nine 1/2 Weeks — Molly
- 1986The Best of Times — Darla Robinson
- Hometown
- Spenser: For Hire
- Miami Vice — Cassie Bramlette
- Tales from the Darkside — Mary Jones
- 1982Love Child — Jacki Steinberg
- 1982National Lampoon's Movie Madness — First Lady Lousille Fogerty ("Success Wanters")
- 1974Teenage Hitchhikers — Sola Alcoa (as Peggy Whitton)
- 1972Parades — Jane