Jane Alexander
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Jane Alexander (born October 28, 1939) is an American actress, author, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. Although perhaps best known for playing the female lead in The Great White Hope on both stage and screen, Alexander has played a wide array of roles in both theater and film, and has committed herself to a variety of charitable causes.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.1215 |
| Birthday | 1939-10-28 |
| Place of Birth | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Also Known As | Jane Quigley, Jane Kuigley, |
1976
All the President's Men
7.7/2153
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from...
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All the President's Men
2009
Terminator Salvation
6.101/7232
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But whe...
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Terminator Salvation
2002
The Ring
6.707/6859
Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about thi...
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The Ring
1980
Brubaker
7.094/528
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
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Brubaker
1999
The Cider House Rules
7.089/1330
Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer...
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The Cider House Rules
1983
Testament
6.4/144
It's just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been...
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Testament
1979
Kramer vs. Kramer
7.565/2534
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is no...
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Kramer vs. Kramer
2009
The Unborn
5.227/1477
A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.
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The Unborn
2008
Gigantic
5.6/166
Young mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China but is distracted when he forms a relationship with quirky, wealthy Harriet whom he m...
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Gigantic
1972
The New Centurions
6.6/78
An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he...
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The New Centurions
1984
City Heat
5.534/221
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye na...
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City Heat
2006
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
6.144/310
In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respe...
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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
2011
Dream House
6.204/1463
Publisher Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby, and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as...
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Dream House
1980
Playing for Time
6.881/59
When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using th...
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Playing for Time
1971
A Gunfight
5.85/40
Will Tenneray and Abe Cross are two aging, famous gunfighters, both in need of money. Tenneray comes up with the idea to stage a duel to the death in...
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A Gunfight
2011
Deck the Halls
5/20
Detective Regan Reilly and cleaning-woman-turned-private-eye Alvirah Meegan, investigate the kidnapping of Regan's father and a young female driver ju...
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Deck the Halls
1982
Night Crossing
6.143/42
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story...
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Night Crossing
1987
Square Dance
4.696/23
An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth.
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Square Dance
1982
Kennedy's Children
0/0
In 1974, five former activists from the 1960s meet in a bar, but do not relate. Each is lost in his or her own memories of more hopeful, revolutionary...
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Kennedy's Children
Testament at 20
0/0
Interviews with crew and cast look back 20 years to the filming and release of "Testament" in 1983.
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Testament at 20
1989
Building Bombs
6.333/6
This Oscar-nominated documentary chronicles everyday life in Aiken, S.C. -- ground zero for America's hydrogen bomb-making facility, the Savannah Rive...
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Building Bombs
2013
Mr. Morgan's Last Love
6.593/327
A widowed professor living in Paris develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.
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Mr. Morgan's Last Love
1982
In the Custody of Strangers
6.423/13
A teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in the hope that he might learn a lesson from it. But even...
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In the Custody of Strangers
1988
A Friendship in Vienna
7.333/2
Inge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that Inge is Jewish and Lise is the daughter of a Nazi sympath...
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A Friendship in Vienna
2012
William & Catherine: A Royal Romance
5.4/44
The film is based on the story of William of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton. Shown in the same life of William of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleto...
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William & Catherine: A Royal Romance
1987
In Love and War
5/5
This movie is an account of US Navy Commander James Stockdale's 8 year imprisonment in North Vietnam. During his confinement in such camps as the infa...
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In Love and War
1985
Malice in Wonderland
7.6/8
Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Pa...
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Malice in Wonderland
1973
Miracle on 34th Street
7/13
A department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus that he is Santa Claus, and winds up going on trial to pro...
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Miracle on 34th Street
2001
Jenifer
6.167/6
The true story of three sisters who unite in the face of adversity when one of them is diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.
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Jenifer
1984
Calamity Jane
7/1
An exploration of the myths surrounding the colorful Western heroine and both the legendary Wild Bill Hickock, with whom she had an unorthodox courtsh...
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Calamity Jane
1970
The Great White Hope
6.311/37
A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.
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The Great White Hope
1977
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
4.929/7
The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
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Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
1975
Death Be Not Proud
6/1
Based on the book by famed author John Gunther about the life and early death of his teenage son Johnny, who died from a brain tumor.
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Death Be Not Proud
2011
The Loving Story
6.9/21
This documentary film tells the dramatic story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple living in Virginia in the 1950s, and their landmar...
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The Loving Story
1974
This Is the West That Was
9/1
A lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as he is targeted for revenge by some tough gunfighters.
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This Is the West That Was
1978
The Betsy
4.824/34
Ruthless patriarch Loren hires racecar driver Angelo to build a more efficient vehicle against the wishes of his grandson. But things get even messier...
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The Betsy
1978
Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II
7.5/2
A sequel to "A Circle of Children" (1977). A teacher of "emotionally disturbed" children takes on a new student who is considered to be "untrainable"...
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Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
4.333/3
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
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Night of 100 Stars III
1988
Open Admissions
5/2
An indifferent speech professor doing hack work in an urban college suddenly finds herself challenged by a ghetto youth with an intense desire to get...
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Open Admissions
1972
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
8/2
An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finall...
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Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
1992
Stay the Night
4/3
Based on a true story, Barbara Hershey and Morgan Weisser portray two star crossed lovers who will stop at nothing to be together without any ridicule...
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Stay the Night
2007
Feast of Love
6.199/271
A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, myst...
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Feast of Love
2006
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
5.2/4
A short documentary on the making of "All the President's Men."
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Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
2017
Three Christs
6.676/156
Dr. Alan Stone breaks new ground for treatment of the mentally ill through an experiment on three paranoid schizophrenic patients who believe they are...
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Three Christs
1978
A Question of Love
5.15/10
A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.
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A Question of Love
1984
When She Says No
8/2
After divorced college professor Rose Michaels invites three of her male colleagues to her room during a teacher's convention, she later accuses them...
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When She Says No
1987
Sweet Country
4.875/8
An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
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Sweet Country
2020
The Man in the Woods
4.6/5
On a snowy night in 1963 Pennsylvania, a boarding school student goes missing in the woods. Her friends, a disgraced quarterback, a shunned ex-cop, an...
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The Man in the Woods
2007
The Powder & the Glory
0/0
The story of pioneering entrepreneurs Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein, who built cosmetics empires and competed against each other for more than...
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The Powder & the Glory
2015
Show Boat
0/0
The landmark musical brought vividly to life by the New York Philharmonic, with an all-star cast led by Vanessa Williams, Julian Ovenden, Lauren Worsh...
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Show Boat
2018
Christmas Around the Corner
6.408/49
Claire (Alexandra Breckenridge), a savvy venture capitalist from New York City, escapes to a quaint town in Vermont for the holidays and becomes a gue...
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Christmas Around the Corner
1989
Glory
7.49/1864
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
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Glory
2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
0/0
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips fro...
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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2002
Sunshine State
6.42/44
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estat...
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Sunshine State
2001
Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
5/5
A behind-the-scenes look at this Oscar-winning classic about a man who finds himself a single parent after his wife walks out on him, then is forced t...
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Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
1993
Le donne non vogliono più
4.5/4
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Le donne non vogliono più
2005
Warm Springs
6.635/26
Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
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Warm Springs
2011
John Muir in the New World
0/0
The life and the career of John Muir come to life through this inspiring and beautiful documentary set against the magnificent landscapes of the Ameri...
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John Muir in the New World
2019
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
6.5/4
"Alan Pakula: Going for Truth" encompasses the personal and professional life of Alan J. Pakula, a lauded filmmaker and extremely private man, who was...
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Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
1988
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
10/1
Ken Howard hosts a series of role-playing vignettes (featuring some of Hollywood's top stars) to help parents and children deal with typical family si...
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Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
1989
Mountain View
0/0
A dance drama work that, through movement and very little spoken text, details the interaction of several people residing at or visiting a motel or mo...
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Mountain View
2008
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
7/1
Louisa May Alcott, author of "Little Women," leads a literary double life, writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, an identity that remains until th...
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Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
1982
Night of 100 Stars
5.8/5
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...
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Night of 100 Stars
1988
The Artist Was a Woman
0/0
The history of Western art has few examples of great women artists. This documentary uncovers the works of some gifted women, while exploring why tale...
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The Artist Was a Woman
1981
Dear Liar
7/1
1981 TV movie
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Dear Liar
2026
Everything's on Fire
0/0
Four freshman in the fall of 2021 come together to form an unorthodox debate club in hopes to bring civil discourse back to their generation.
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Everything's on Fire
Lillian, Next Door
0/0
An ex-CIA operative with a sly wit infiltrates the lives of two gay men who move in next door. As secrets unfold, the layers of truth lead to an unexp...
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Lillian, Next Door
2004
Testament: Nuclear Thoughts
0/0
Documentary short that explores how anxieties about nuclear war have endured in the years since the release of the 1983 film Testament.
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