Personal Info
Birth date
1934-01-30 (91 Years)
Day of death
2016-10-30
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
Also known as
-Tammy Grimes
Biography
Tammy Lee Grimes (January 30, 1934 – October 30, 2016) was an American actress and singer. Grimes won two Tony Awards in her career, the first for originating the role of Molly Tobin in the musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown and the second for starring in a 1970 revival of Private Lives as Amanda Prynne. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tammy Grimes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.459
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.The Love Boat
6.253
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Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
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The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.The Virginian
6.344
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The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.St. Elsewhere
5.594
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St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at a lightly-regarded Boston hospital who gave interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions.Tony Awards
5.917
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The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.Route 66
6.3
Overview:
After discovering that his late father has gone through most of the family fortune, Tod Stiles hits the title trans-America highway in his Corvette in search of adventure with friend Buz Murdock, a survivor of New York's mean streets. The two work odd jobs as they meet and interact with colorful characters and find themselves plunged into one situation after another, some of them romantic, some of them very dangerous. Later, Linc Case, a Vietnam war hero trying to find himself, takes over as Tod's travel companion.Studio One
5
Overview:
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.The Equalizer
7.145
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Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.Great Performances
5.5
Overview:
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.Burke's Law
6
Overview:
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.Tarzan
6.7
Overview:
Tarzan is a series that aired on NBC from 1966 – 1968. The series portrayed Tarzan as a well-educated character, one who, tired of civilization, had returned to the jungle where he had been raised. The show retained many of the trappings of the classic movie series, including Cheeta, while excluding other elements, such as Jane, as part of the "new look" for the fabled apeman that producer Sy Weintraub had introduced in previous motion pictures starring Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, and Mike Henry. CBS aired repeat episodes the program during the summer of 1969.Love, American Style
6.056
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An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
Overview:
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.The Merv Griffin Show
6.222
Overview:
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.The Dick Cavett Show
6.8
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The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.The Last Unicorn
7.212
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From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a now middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.Tonight Starring Jack Paar
7
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Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.The Danny Kaye Show
6.3
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The Danny Kaye Show is an American variety show hosted by Danny Kaye that aired on CBS from 1963 to 1967 on Wednesday nights. Directed by Robert Scheerer, the show premiered in black-and-white, but later switched to color broadcasts. At the time, Kaye was at the height of his popularity, having starred in a string of successful films in the 1940s and '50's, made successful personal appearances at such venues as the London Palladium, and appeared many times on television. His most recent films had been considered disappointing, but the television specials he starred in were triumphant, leading to this series. Prior to his television and film career, Kaye had made a name for himself with his own radio show, and numerous other guest appearances on other shows.The Outcasts
5.3
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A bounty hunter who was a Confederate Officer teams up with an ex-slave who was a Union Soldier during the Civil War… An American Western genre television series, appearing on ABC in the 1968-69 season. The series stars Don Murray and Otis Young. It is most notable for being the first television Western with an African American co-star.Trouble on the Corner
1.5
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Jeff, a troubled therapist, suffers a breakdown when he spies on his sexy neighbor Ericca, a beautiful model that rollerblades around her apartment in red gloves and a kimono. When he confuses his erotically bizarre patients' most perverse neuroses with his own, the fine line between reality and fantasy erodes with lethal consequences. Darkly comedic, Trouble on the Corner takes you into the depths of one man's decent into madness and races toward the murderous conclusion of this tale of a modern urban nightmare.High Art
6.214
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When Syd, a young editor at an influential art magazine, becomes involved with her neighbor, a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both seek to exploit each other for their respective careers while slowly falling in love with each other.The Stuff
5.972
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Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
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Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.Three Bites of the Apple
NYR
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A tour guide wins a large sum of money at a casino and a beautiful woman schemes at have it, but love complicates her plans.A Matter of Cunning
5
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An ambitious businesswoman will do whatever it takes to climb the corporate ladder.The Borrowers
6
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An eight-year-old boy discovers a family of tiny people, only a few inches tall, living beneath the floorboards of a Victorian country home.The Trials of O'Brien
6.8
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The Trials of O'Brien is a 1965 television series starring Peter Falk as a sordid Shakespeare-quoting lawyer and featuring Elaine Stritch as his secretary and Joanna Barnes as his ex-wife. The series ran for only 22 episodes. Among its guest stars: Milton Berle, Robert Blake, David Carradine, Faye Dunaway, Britt Ekland, Tammy Grimes, Buddy Hackett, Gene Hackman, Frank Langella, Angela Lansbury, Cloris Leachman, Roger Moore, Rita Moreno, Estelle Parsons, Joanna Pettet, Brock Peters, Tony Roberts and Martin Sheen. Falk often said that he actually liked this financially unsuccessful series much better than his later smash-hit Columbo.Acting
2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
2002Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages as Self
1998Beyond Titanic as Self
1998High Art as Vera
1997Trouble on the Corner as Mrs. K
1996A Modern Affair as Dr. Gresham
1994Backstreet Justice as Mrs. Finnegan
1989Slaves of New York as Georgette
1989Long Ago and Far Away (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1988Mr. North as Sarah Baily-Lewis
1986America as Joy Hackley
1985The Equalizer (1 Episode) as Julia Jacobs
1985The Stuff as Stuff Commercial Spokeswoman
1985My Little Pony: Escape from Catrina as Catrina (voice)
1983No Big Deal as Mrs. Norberry
1983An Invasion of Privacy as Paula
1983A Matter of Cunning as Sylvia Markham
1982The Last Unicorn as Molly Grue (voice)
1982St. Elsewhere (1 Episode) as Unknown
1980Can't Stop the Music as Sydney Channing
1980The Incredible Book Escape as Princess (voice)
1980Magic Night as Self
1979The Runner Stumbles as Erna Webber
1979You Can't Go Home Again as Amy Carlton
1978Somebody Killed Her Husband as Audrey Van Stanten
1978Tartuffe as Elmire
1977The Love Boat (1 Episode) as Christine
1974'Twas the Night Before Christmas as Albert (voice)
1974The Spy Who Returned from the Dead as Cynthia
1973The Snoop Sisters (1 Episode) as Amanda Bastion
1973The Borrowers as Homily Clock
1973The Horror at 37,000 Feet as Mrs. Pinder
1972Play It as It Lays as Helene
1971Great Performances (1 Episode) as Self
1970The Other Man as Denise Gray
1969Arthur? Arthur! as Lady Joan Mellon
1969Love, American Style (1 Episode) as Unknown
1968The Outcasts (1 Episode) as Unknown
1968The Dick Cavett Show (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
1967Three Bites of the Apple as Angela Sparrow
1967Italy's in Season as Self
1966Tarzan (1 Episode) as Unknown
1966The Tammy Grimes Show (10 Episodes) as Unknown
1965The Trials of O'Brien (1 Episode) as Mother Superior
1964The Solid Gold Girl as Patience Dailey
1963The Danny Kaye Show (1 Episode) as Self
1963Burke's Law (1 Episode) as Jill Marsh
1962The Merv Griffin Show (3 Episodes) as Self
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1 Episode) as Self
1962The Virginian (1 Episode) as Angie Clark
1961The Mike Douglas Show (1 Episode) as Self
1960Route 66 (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1958The Gift of the Magi as Unknown
1957Tonight Starring Jack Paar (1 Episode) as Self
1956Tony Awards (1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Self - Nominee, Self - Memoriam (archive footage), Self - Presenter, Self (archive footage), Self - Audience Member, Self - Previous Winner, Self - Winner
1952Omnibus (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Mary Jane Jenkins
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 Episode) as Unknown
1948Studio One (1 Episode) as Gloria Loman
1948The Ed Sullivan Show (1 Episode) as Self