Lynne Thigpen
Cherlynne Theresa 'Lynne' Thigpen (December 22, 1948 – March 12, 2003) was an American actress of stage and screen. She was known for her roles as The Chief of ACME Crimenet on the game show Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? and various spinoffs, Luna (The Moon) on the Playhouse Disney children's series Bear in the Big Blue House, and Ella Farmer on The District (2000–2003). For her varied television work, she was nominated for six Daytime Emmy Awards and she also won a Tony Award in 1997 for portraying Dr. Judith Kaufman in An American Daughter.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.3538 |
| Birthday | 1948-12-22 |
| Place of Birth | Joliet, Illinois, USA |
| Also Known As | Lynne Richmond , |
1996
The Boys Next Door
6.667/12
Kind-hearted social worker Jack Palmer feels guilty about not spending enough time with his wife due to the pressures of his job taking care of four d...
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The Boys Next Door
2001
Novocaine
6.039/168
A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him into prescribing her drugs.
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Novocaine
1992
Article 99
6.152/66
Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliv...
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Article 99
1993
Naked in New York
4.8/23
Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, and to whom you can turn to for help while fa...
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Naked in New York
1992
Bob Roberts
6.564/179
Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by sing...
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Bob Roberts
1999
The Insider
7.461/2126
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
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The Insider
1982
Tootsie
7.206/1963
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego—Dorothy Michaels—in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he u...
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Tootsie
1973
Godspell
6.564/47
In modern-day New York City, John the Baptist calls out to a group of young men and women to learn from the teachings of Jesus. Through song and dance...
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Godspell
1998
Chance of a Lifetime
7.667/3
Irreverent freelance investigative reporter Tom Maguire hits rock bottom when bigot editor in chief Ivan refuses to print his pieces anymore and his b...
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Chance of a Lifetime
1972
Fol-de-Rol
0/0
A filmed version of Sid and Marty Krofft's 1968 live puppet show, set at a medieval fair. The special was a pilot for a weekly series.
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Fol-de-Rol
2000
Bear in the Big Blue House: A Berry Bear Christmas
0/0
The winter holidays find Bear and his friends planning a big celebration. They're all getting ready for Christmas, but also learn about Hanukkah and K...
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Bear in the Big Blue House: A Berry Bear Christmas
1986
Rockabye
8.167/6
A young woman, striking out on her own after having left her husband in California, has her young son snatched from her moments after getting off the...
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Rockabye
1999
Night Ride Home
5.75/8
When a devastating accident tears apart the already frayed marriage of Neal and Nora Mahler, each family member must learn that their own emotions are...
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Night Ride Home
1995
Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling
7.5/4
Cagney and Lacey work a case involving police corruption and document forgery. Chris seeks a prestigious promotion, while Mary Beth has to deal with t...
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Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling
1994
Blankman
5.368/204
Darryl is a childlike man with a genius for inventing various gadgets out of junk. When he stumbles on a method to make his clothes bulletproof, he de...
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Blankman
1989
Lean On Me
7.3/351
When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined...
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Lean On Me
1999
Random Hearts
5.568/431
After losing their spouses in a plane crash, an internal affairs cop and a congresswoman find each other's keys in each other's loved ones' possession...
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Random Hearts
2003
Anger Management
6.159/3530
After a small misunderstanding aboard an airplane escalates out of control, timid businessman Dave Buznik is ordered by the court to undergo anger man...
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Anger Management
1989
Private Affairs
1/1
A departure from most ABC Afterschool Specials, this one focuses on Madeline Green, a teenage girl who discovers her father's affair with a friend of...
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Private Affairs
1991
Separate but Equal
6.5/14
A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
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Separate but Equal
1979
The Warriors
7.682/2446
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader ki...
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The Warriors
2002
Bear in the Big Blue House: Everybody's Special
7/2
Join Bear and friends for fun and humorous learning
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Bear in the Big Blue House: Everybody's Special
2001
Bear in the Big Blue House - Party Time with Bear
0/0
Let your child learn, explore and have fun with this award-winning series. Celebrate good times with Bear and all his friends in three party-hearty e...
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Bear in the Big Blue House - Party Time with Bear
1995
Just Cause
6.258/645
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific...
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Just Cause
1984
Streets of Fire
6.891/564
Raven Shaddock and his gang of merciless biker friends kidnap rock singer Ellen Aim. Ellen's former lover, soldier-for-hire Tom Cody, happens to be pa...
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Streets of Fire
1981
Tintypes
0/0
Debuting on Broadway in 1980, Tintypes is a musical review featuring songs from the early twentieth century providing the audience with a look into th...
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Tintypes
1996
Pretty Poison
4/3
A clueless cheerleader falls for a mysterious young man who tells her he's a secret agent. But the truth is much simpler and darker.
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Pretty Poison
1994
The Paper
6.563/246
Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, p...
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The Paper
1989
Fear Stalk
7/2
A producer from Beverly Hills is shocked when someone steals all of her belongings out of her purse. The thief begins to make threatening phone calls...
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Fear Stalk
1990
Impulse
5.615/40
A Los Angeles vice cop, caught between her undercover role as a sex worker and her personal relationships, is thrown into a web of murder and deceit.
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Impulse
1982
Working
4.8/5
This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint--showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a s...
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Working
1985
Flanagan
10/1
Aging New York cabbie Flanagan still has hopes of making it as a stage actor. He can recite any Shakespeare sonnet and is facile with accents, but he...
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Flanagan
2000
Shaft
6.02/1490
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail...
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Shaft
2000
An American Daughter
4.714/7
A Senator's daughter seems to have a lock on a nomination as the US Surgeon General, until a background check reveals she once neglected to return a j...
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An American Daughter
1979
When Hell Freezes Over, I'll Skate
7/1
This lively, spirit-lifting musical celebrates the sheer joy -- and survival -- of black music, song and poetry since the days of America's Civil War....
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When Hell Freezes Over, I'll Skate
1986
Sweet Liberty
5.341/44
Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. The arrival...
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Sweet Liberty
1999
Bicentennial Man
7.273/4011
Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the...
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Bicentennial Man
1988
Running on Empty
7.5/364
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effo...
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Running on Empty
1987
Hello Again
5.748/101
A suburban housewife chokes to death and is brought back to life by a spell cast by her wacky sister.
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Hello Again
1996
A Mother's Instinct
5.6/5
Holly Mitchell a divorcee, remarries widower, Carl Gibbons, the father of two small boys. When she begins to question his past, he disappears with the...
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A Mother's Instinct
1993
Girlfriend
0/0
Two teenage girls, one black and one white, become friends while working on a mural to honor a black classmate killed by random gunshots.
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Girlfriend
1996
A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom
9/1
Ask most people who led the 1963 March on Washington and they'll probably tell you Martin Luther King, Jr. But the real force behind the event was the...
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