Biography
Frances Lee McCain (born July 28, 1944) is an American actress.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Hold Your Breath
2024
as Bertha Bell
In 1930s Oklahoma amid the region's horrific dust storms, a woman is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family.

End of the Road
2022
as Val Hammers
Recently widowed mom Brenda fights to protect her family during a harrowing road trip when a murder and a missing bag of cash plunge them into danger.

After Masks
2021
as 'Bubbie' Lieberman (Ushering the Light)
Journey through the human experience as the pandemic tests what we are made of both as individuals and as a culture.

The Comeback Trail
2020
as Marge (Old Actress)
Two movie producers who owe money to the mob set up their aging movie star for an insurance scam to try and save themselves. But they wind up getting ...

Ideal Home
2018
as Doris
A couple is going through marital troubles made worse when a previously unknown grandson shows up.
Stitch in Time
2012
as Joan
Roy Stitch was the best collector his Uncle Norman had ever seen, but when an unforgivable act is committed, Roy is pushed into the depths of depressi...

No Return
2003
as Mother
Following her husband's death, a young woman gets involved with another man but begins to fear that her husband's spirit is returning from the grave t...

True Crime
1999
as Mrs. Lowenstein
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row ...

Patch Adams
1998
as Judy
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his pa...

Scream
1996
as Mrs. Riley
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part o...

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
1994
Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.

Dying to Love You
1993
as Sue Graham
Roger Paulson is lonely after his divorce. He thinks he has finally found the woman of his dreams...until he uncovers her web of lies.

Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland
1993
as Flo
Based on the actual events of the 1991 brush fires that swept across Northern California which left countless people without homes. A rookie fire chie...

Murder So Sweet
1993
as Bea Emory
A hometown heartthrob (Harry Hamlin) marries the local beauties and then poisons them in this true story of a real lady killer. His ex-wife suspects t...

The Lookalike
1990
as Dr. Stamos
A mentally disturbed woman is further tormented after discovering a girl who closely resembles her recently deceased daughter

Question of Faith
1988
as Susan
A woman struck down by terminal cancer shuns conventional medical techniques at her husband's insistence and turns to alternative treatment to combat ...

It Takes Two
1988
as Joyce Rogers
Travis is due to marry Stephanie in a few days when he is convinced by beautiful saleswoman Jonni to buy a fancy sports car. The car looks good, but i...

Scandal in a Small Town
1988
as Gwendolyn
Leda Beth Vincent lives in the small town of Shiloh and works as a cocktail waitress there. She is not too well thought of as she is nothing of a blus...

Police Story: The Freeway Killings
1987
as Claire Wright
Thriller/Drama about LAPD detectives tracking down two serial killers who are murdering hookers.

Can You Feel Me Dancing?
1986
as Joan Nichols
Based on a true story. Karin is a young blind girl who's been encouraged by her overprotective parents to encounter life boldly. Karin meets a handso...

Murder in Three Acts
1986
as Miss Milray
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural unt...

Stand by Me
1986
as Mrs. Lachance
After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon boys decide to go see the body. On the way, Gordi...

A Fighting Choice
1986
as Virginia Hagen
Bright teenager afflicted with epilepsy sues his parents for the right to have "split brain" surgery in order to cure his seizures.

Back to the Future
1985
as Stella Baines
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother...

The Rape of Richard Beck
1985
as Caroline Beck
The tables turn for cynical police officer Richard Beck when he's viciously attacked by two homicidal crooks. Having never been empathetic toward the ...

First Steps
1985
as Louise Davis
Teenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelchair-bound life. One day she hears about new resear...

Single Bars, Single Women
1984
as Patti
Men and women gather at local singles bars in search of lasting love or casual action.

Gremlins
1984
as Lynn Peltzer
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unlea...

All The Kids Do It
1984
as Mrs. Elder
High school diving champion Buddy Elder (Scott Baio) can't seem to stop drinking and driving.

Footloose
1984
as Ethel McCormack
When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he...

Two of a Kind
1982
as Nurse Mary
Nolie has just turned 21 but is retarded and acts more like 8. While claiming that she only wants to help him, his "smother" actually likes things tha...

Tex
1982
as Mrs. Johnson
After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own.

Marian Rose White
1982
as Brenda Moore
Marian Rose White is placed in a State Home for the feeble-minded by her uncaring mother when her father dies. She is a young teenager and there is no...

All the Way Home
1981
as Sally
A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.

Honky Tonk Freeway
1981
as Claire Calo
Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not ...

Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger
1980
as Ethel Higgins
The dramatized biography of Margaret Sanger, the crusader who founded America's first birth control clinic during World War I and was tried in court u...

No Other Love
1979
as Pat Hollister
A young marginally intellectually-disabled girl and boy meet, plan to marry, and convince the world that they are entitled to a life of their own -- d...

Real Life
1979
as Jeannette Yeager
A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS...

Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
1978
as Martha
The life and times of the flamboyant showman who built his legendary Follies around beautiful women -- as told by the women in his life.

The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
1977
as Jan Holder
The bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have happened had he been brought to trial.

The War Widow
1976
as Jenny
Originally broadcast by KCET (PBS) on their dramatic showcase series, "Visions," this sweet, quiet film is set during World War I. It is the story of ...

The Laughing Policeman
1973
as Prostitute
When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans is killed, along with the man he'd been following in relation to...