Linda Dano

Linda Dano (born Linda Rae Wildermuth, May 12, 1943) is an American actress. She is well-known for her roles in daytime drama, in particular Rae Cummings on One Life to Live and Felicia Gallant on Another World. Dano was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award five times, winning once in 1993 for her work on Another World. Dano also co-hosted the talk show Attitudes on Lifetime, and had a long-running clothing and home-furnishings line with QVC, first partnering with the home shopping channel in 1993 and ultimately working with them for over 20 years.

The Night That Panicked America (1975)

A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joseph Sargent
CAST:  Vic Morrow  •  Cliff DeYoung  •  Michael Constantine  •  Walter McGinn

A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joseph Sargent
CAST:  Vic Morrow  •  Cliff DeYoung  •  Michael Constantine  •  Walter McGinn

Rage of Angels: The Story Continues (1986)

Jennifer's life changes when Warner, now Vice President of the United States, decides to see her and her son, Joshua. At the same time, Jennifer is unaware that James Moretti, an underworld figure, holds her responsible for the death of his brother. Moretti ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul Wendkos
CAST:  Jaclyn Smith  •  Ken Howard  •  Michael Nouri  •  Susan Sullivan

Jennifer's life changes when Warner, now Vice President of the United States, decides to see her and her son, Joshua. At the same time, Jennifer is unaware that James Moretti, an underworld figure, holds her responsible for the death of his brother. Moretti ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul Wendkos
CAST:  Jaclyn Smith  •  Ken Howard  •  Michael Nouri  •  Susan Sullivan

Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss (1993)

On the set of a popular daytime soap opera 'Mile High', actress Kris Buckner is being forced off by co-star Mark Stratton. When she says that she'll 'kill him before she leaves the show', she makes herself the prime suspect when Stratton is murdered by someone ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Christian I. Nyby II
CAST:  Raymond Burr  •  Barbara Hale  •  William R. Moses  •  Linda Dano

On the set of a popular daytime soap opera 'Mile High', actress Kris Buckner is being forced off by co-star Mark Stratton. When she says that she'll 'kill him before she leaves the show', she makes herself the prime suspect when Stratton is murdered by someone ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Christian I. Nyby II
CAST:  Raymond Burr  •  Barbara Hale  •  William R. Moses  •  Linda Dano

See Jane Date (2003)

When editor Jane Grant receives a plus-one invitation to her cousin's wedding, she finds herself in a predicament. To one-up her old high school rival Natasha Nutley, Jane tells her about her perfect, charming and handsome boyfriend -- except he isn't real ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Berlinger
CAST:  Joshua Malina  •  Rachelle Lefevre  •  Evan Marriott  •  Cameron Mathison

When editor Jane Grant receives a plus-one invitation to her cousin's wedding, she finds herself in a predicament. To one-up her old high school rival Natasha Nutley, Jane tells her about her perfect, charming and handsome boyfriend -- except he isn't real ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Berlinger
CAST:  Joshua Malina  •  Rachelle Lefevre  •  Evan Marriott  •  Cameron Mathison

Somewhere in the City (1998)

The film portrays life of New York City's Lower East Side inhabitants. Introvert therapist Betty is befriended with Chinese immigrant Lu Lu, leftist radical Che is also Lu Lu's friend. Italian immigrant and wife of supervisor of building where they all live, Marta, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ramin Niami
CAST:  Sandra Bernhard  •  Ornella Muti  •  Robert John Burke  •  Peter Stormare

The film portrays life of New York City's Lower East Side inhabitants. Introvert therapist Betty is befriended with Chinese immigrant Lu Lu, leftist radical Che is also Lu Lu's friend. Italian immigrant and wife of supervisor of building where they all live, Marta, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ramin Niami
CAST:  Sandra Bernhard  •  Ornella Muti  •  Robert John Burke  •  Peter Stormare

Hello, Dolly! (1969)

Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gene Kelly
CAST:  Barbra Streisand  •  Walter Matthau  •  Michael Crawford  •  Louis Armstrong

Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gene Kelly
CAST:  Barbra Streisand  •  Walter Matthau  •  Michael Crawford  •  Louis Armstrong

Reservation Road (2007)

DepressingHeartbreakingEmotionalTear-jerker

Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In response, the two men react in unexpected ways as a reckoning looms in the near future.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Terry George
CAST:  Joaquin Phoenix  •  Jennifer Connelly  •  Elle Fanning  •  Sean Curley

Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In response, the two men react in unexpected ways as a reckoning looms in the near future.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Terry George
CAST:  Joaquin Phoenix  •  Jennifer Connelly  •  Elle Fanning  •  Sean Curley

Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind (2019)

The latest edition of Alex McPherson’s true crime podcast leads her and most of the Chronicle staff to nearby Macklin, where they investigate the death of a vintner that was ruled an accident by the local police.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Weaver
CAST:  Alison Sweeney  •  Benjamin Ayres  •  Dave Collette  •  Olivia Steele-Falconer

The latest edition of Alex McPherson’s true crime podcast leads her and most of the Chronicle staff to nearby Macklin, where they investigate the death of a vintner that was ruled an accident by the local police.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Weaver
CAST:  Alison Sweeney  •  Benjamin Ayres  •  Dave Collette  •  Olivia Steele-Falconer

When the Vows Break (1995)

Patty Duke plays a divorced woman who goes to law school to defend herself in court after a chauvinistic judge awards her rotten husband their property.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Eric Till
CAST:  Patty Duke  •  Donnelly Rhodes  •  Linda Dano  •  Art Hindle

Patty Duke plays a divorced woman who goes to law school to defend herself in court after a chauvinistic judge awards her rotten husband their property.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Eric Till
CAST:  Patty Duke  •  Donnelly Rhodes  •  Linda Dano  •  Art Hindle

The Last Survivors (1975)

When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lee H. Katzin
CAST:  Martin Sheen  •  Diane Baker  •  Tom Bosley  •  Bruce Davison

When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lee H. Katzin
CAST:  Martin Sheen  •  Diane Baker  •  Tom Bosley  •  Bruce Davison

The Shadow of Chikara (1977)

Two former Confederate captains try to remove diamonds hidden in the Arkansas mountains, but a native spirit guards the sacred site against intruders.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Earl E. Smith
CAST:  Joe Don Baker  •  Sondra Locke  •  Ted Neeley  •  Joy N. Houck Jr.

Two former Confederate captains try to remove diamonds hidden in the Arkansas mountains, but a native spirit guards the sacred site against intruders.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Earl E. Smith
CAST:  Joe Don Baker  •  Sondra Locke  •  Ted Neeley  •  Joy N. Houck Jr.

A Little Daytime Drama (2021)

In order to save her daytime soap drama from cancellation, head writer Maggie must convince Darin, fan favorite actor and her real-life ex-boyfriend, to return to the show.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Heather Hawthorn-Doyle
CAST:  Jen Lilley  •  Ryan Paevey  •  Serge Houde  •  Linda Dano

In order to save her daytime soap drama from cancellation, head writer Maggie must convince Darin, fan favorite actor and her real-life ex-boyfriend, to return to the show.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Heather Hawthorn-Doyle
CAST:  Jen Lilley  •  Ryan Paevey  •  Serge Houde  •  Linda Dano