Amy Douglass
Biography
Amy Douglass was an American actress who worked in regional theater, on Broadway and in film and television. Born in Mansfield, Ohio, she performed at Rowe's Theater there before joining the Cleveland Play House in 1932, where she stayed into the 1940s. On Broadway she appeared in Kiss Them for Me (1945), Crime and Punishment (1947), Life With Mother (1948) and Mr. Barry's Etchings (1950). She took the only female part in Heavenly Express in 1935, and a 1943 newspaper review praised her performance as Lorinda Channing in Invitation to a Murder. Her screen credits included Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Duel (1971) and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), and she appeared in episodes of television series including Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 77 Sunset Strip and Ben Casey. She died in 1980.
77years old at death
- Born Mansfield
- Died Los Angeles
- Star sign: SagittariusLast day of the sign, on the Capricorn cusp
Movie Career
- Films
- 3
- Career span
- 13 years1964 to 1977
Every film, newest first
- 1977Close Encounters of the Third KindIMDb rating 7.6
- 1971DuelIMDb rating 7.6
- 1964The Unsinkable Molly BrownIMDb rating 6.6
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A first
Douglass performed at Rowe's Theater in Mansfield before acting at the Cleveland Play House from 1932 into the 1940s. In Heavenly Express, a 1935 production, she was the only woman in the cast.
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Worked with
Amy Douglass shares two films with Gene Dynarski, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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