Sandy Dennis

Sandra Dale "Sandy" Dennis (April 27, 1937 – March 2, 1992) was an American actress. She made her film debut in the drama Splendor in the Grass (1961). For her performance in the comedy-drama film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Dennis appeared in the films The Three Sisters (1966), Up the Down Staircase (1967), That Cold Day in the Park (1969), The Out-of-Towners (1970), God Told Me To (1976), The Four Seasons (1981), Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982), and Another Woman (1988). Her final film appearance came in the crime drama film The Indian Runner (1991). Dennis had a successful career on stage, appearing in the original stage production of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. For her performance in the play A Thousand Clowns, she received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. For her performance in the play Any Wednesday, she received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sandy Dennis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)

The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present and in flashback, revealing the truth behind their complicated lives.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Altman
CAST:  Cher  •  Sandy Dennis  •  Karen Black  •  Sudie Bond

The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present and in flashback, revealing the truth behind their complicated lives.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Altman
CAST:  Cher  •  Sandy Dennis  •  Karen Black  •  Sudie Bond

God Told Me To (1976)

A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."  (more)

DIRECTION:  Larry Cohen
CAST:  Tony Lo Bianco  •  Deborah Raffin  •  Sandy Dennis  •  Sylvia Sidney

A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."  (more)

DIRECTION:  Larry Cohen
CAST:  Tony Lo Bianco  •  Deborah Raffin  •  Sandy Dennis  •  Sylvia Sidney

Parents (1989)

Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950s suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on the grill outside, but ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bob Balaban
CAST:  Randy Quaid  •  Mary Beth Hurt  •  Sandy Dennis  •  Bryan Madorsky

Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950s suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on the grill outside, but ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bob Balaban
CAST:  Randy Quaid  •  Mary Beth Hurt  •  Sandy Dennis  •  Bryan Madorsky

Splendor in the Grass (1961)

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A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Elia Kazan
CAST:  Natalie Wood  •  Warren Beatty  •  Pat Hingle  •  Audrey Christie

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Elia Kazan
CAST:  Natalie Wood  •  Warren Beatty  •  Pat Hingle  •  Audrey Christie

Sweet November (1968)

A woman refuses to let her romances last longer than one month.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Ellis Miller
CAST:  Sandy Dennis  •  Sandy Baron  •  Burr DeBenning  •  Marj Dusay

A woman refuses to let her romances last longer than one month.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Ellis Miller
CAST:  Sandy Dennis  •  Sandy Baron  •  Burr DeBenning  •  Marj Dusay

The Out-of-Towners (1970)

George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Arthur Hiller
CAST:  Jack Lemmon  •  Sandy Dennis  •  Sandy Baron  •  Anne Meara

George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Arthur Hiller
CAST:  Jack Lemmon  •  Sandy Dennis  •  Sandy Baron  •  Anne Meara

Another Woman (1988)

Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Woody Allen
CAST:  Mia Farrow  •  Gena Rowlands  •  Ian Holm  •  Blythe Danner

Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Woody Allen
CAST:  Mia Farrow  •  Gena Rowlands  •  Ian Holm  •  Blythe Danner

The Fox (1967)

Jill Banford and Ellen March have built a good life together on a hardscrabble Canadian farm. Then handsome Paul Grenfell enters their isolated world, and sets friend against friend. But is Paul the real trouble between Jill and Ellen? Or has his presence merely ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mark Rydell
CAST:  Sandy Dennis  •  Anne Heywood  •  Keir Dullea  •  Glynne Morris

Jill Banford and Ellen March have built a good life together on a hardscrabble Canadian farm. Then handsome Paul Grenfell enters their isolated world, and sets friend against friend. But is Paul the real trouble between Jill and Ellen? Or has his presence merely ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mark Rydell
CAST:  Sandy Dennis  •  Anne Heywood  •  Keir Dullea  •  Glynne Morris

A Touch of Love (1969)

Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader. Against the advice of her best friend, Lydia, Rosamund chooses to keep the baby and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Waris Hussein
CAST:  Sandy Dennis  •  Ian McKellen  •  Eleanor Bron  •  John Standing

Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader. Against the advice of her best friend, Lydia, Rosamund chooses to keep the baby and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Waris Hussein
CAST:  Sandy Dennis  •  Ian McKellen  •  Eleanor Bron  •  John Standing

The Execution (1985)

The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul Wendkos
CAST:  Loretta Swit  •  Rip Torn  •  Jessica Walter  •  Barbara Barrie

The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul Wendkos
CAST:  Loretta Swit  •  Rip Torn  •  Jessica Walter  •  Barbara Barrie

Perfect Gentlemen (1978)

Women whose husbands are incarcerated decide to band together to rob a hotel safe.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jackie Cooper
CAST:  Lauren Bacall  •  Ruth Gordon  •  Sandy Dennis  •  Lisa Pelikan

Women whose husbands are incarcerated decide to band together to rob a hotel safe.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jackie Cooper
CAST:  Lauren Bacall  •  Ruth Gordon  •  Sandy Dennis  •  Lisa Pelikan

Mr. Sycamore (1975)

Jason Robards is a man who decides he'd rather be a tree.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pancho Kohner
CAST:  Jason Robards  •  Sandy Dennis  •  Jean Simmons  •  Robert Easton

Jason Robards is a man who decides he'd rather be a tree.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pancho Kohner
CAST:  Jason Robards  •  Sandy Dennis  •  Jean Simmons  •  Robert Easton

The Animals Film (1981)

The film offers a comprehensive examination of the exploitation of animals in modern society.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Myriam Alaux  •  Victor Schonfeld
CAST:  Julie Christie  •  Sandy Dennis  •  Richard Course  •  Robin Howard

The film offers a comprehensive examination of the exploitation of animals in modern society.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Myriam Alaux  •  Victor Schonfeld
CAST:  Julie Christie  •  Sandy Dennis  •  Richard Course  •  Robin Howard

The Indian Runner (1991)

Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things which his brother desperately tries to point out to him.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sean Penn
CAST:  David Morse  •  Viggo Mortensen  •  Valeria Golino  •  Patricia Arquette

Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things which his brother desperately tries to point out to him.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sean Penn
CAST:  David Morse  •  Viggo Mortensen  •  Valeria Golino  •  Patricia Arquette

Something Evil (1972)

A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants to take possession of the wife.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Steven Spielberg
CAST:  Sandy Dennis  •  Darren McGavin  •  Ralph Bellamy  •  Jeff Corey

A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants to take possession of the wife.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Steven Spielberg
CAST:  Sandy Dennis  •  Darren McGavin  •  Ralph Bellamy  •  Jeff Corey

Nasty Habits (1977)

In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael Lindsay-Hogg
CAST:  Glenda Jackson  •  Melina Mercouri  •  Geraldine Page  •  Sandy Dennis

In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael Lindsay-Hogg
CAST:  Glenda Jackson  •  Melina Mercouri  •  Geraldine Page  •  Sandy Dennis

Up the Down Staircase (1967)

Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late. The administration is concerned mainly with forms and rules (there's an up and a down ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Mulligan
CAST:  Sandy Dennis  •  Patrick Bedford  •  Eileen Heckart  •  Ruth White

Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late. The administration is concerned mainly with forms and rules (there's an up and a down ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Mulligan
CAST:  Sandy Dennis  •  Patrick Bedford  •  Eileen Heckart  •  Ruth White

976-EVIL (1988)

People who dial 976-EVIL receive supernatural powers and turn into satanic killers. When Spike dialed 976-EVIL, he knew it was an expensive toll call, but he didn't know that he'd have to pay for it with his soul.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Englund
CAST:  Robert Picardo  •  Stephen Geoffreys  •  Jim Metzler  •  Lezlie Deane

People who dial 976-EVIL receive supernatural powers and turn into satanic killers. When Spike dialed 976-EVIL, he knew it was an expensive toll call, but he didn't know that he'd have to pay for it with his soul.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Englund
CAST:  Robert Picardo  •  Stephen Geoffreys  •  Jim Metzler  •  Lezlie Deane

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mike Nichols
CAST:  Elizabeth Taylor  •  Richard Burton  •  George Segal  •  Sandy Dennis

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mike Nichols
CAST:  Elizabeth Taylor  •  Richard Burton  •  George Segal  •  Sandy Dennis

That Cold Day in the Park (1969)

Frances Austen, whose well-appointed apartment overlooks a park in Vancouver, one cold day, observes a rain-soaked young man on a park bench whom she assumes is homeless. Hoping to repress her loneliness, Frances invites ‘the boy’ inside her home to get warm and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Altman
CAST:  Sandy Dennis  •  Michael Burns  •  Luana Anders  •  Michael Murphy

Frances Austen, whose well-appointed apartment overlooks a park in Vancouver, one cold day, observes a rain-soaked young man on a park bench whom she assumes is homeless. Hoping to repress her loneliness, Frances invites ‘the boy’ inside her home to get warm and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Altman
CAST:  Sandy Dennis  •  Michael Burns  •  Luana Anders  •  Michael Murphy
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