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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Katharine Houghton (born Katharine Houghton Grant; March 10, 1945) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Joanna "Joey" Drayton, a Caucasian woman who brings home an African-American fiancé to meet her parents, in the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Katharine Hepburn, who played the mother of Houghton's character in the film, was in real life Houghton's aunt. Description above from the Wikipedia article Katharine Houghton, licen...
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Complete Filmography
Sidney
2022
as Self
This revealing documentary honors the legendary Sidney Poitier—iconic actor, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. Featuring interviews with Denzel Wa...
The Last Airbender
2010
as Katara's Grandma
The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation ...
A Love Story of Today
2008
as Self
A discussion of the very important and highly controversial film, GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER, featuring interviews with people like Katharine Hought...
A Special Kind of Love
2008
as Self
A follow-up of A LOVE STORY OF TODAY, where actors and crew discuss GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER.
Kinsey
2004
as Mrs. Spaulding
Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endea...
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002
as Self
A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema.
The Night We Never Met
1993
as Less
Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his...
Ethan Frome
1993
as Mrs. Hale
Married couple, Ethan and Zeena, are in need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitated body and constant illness. The young woman who ...
Billy Bathgate
1991
as Charlotte
In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.
Mr. North
1988
as Mrs. Skeel
Mr. North, a stranger to a small, but wealthy, Rhode Island town, quickly has rumors started about him that he has the power to heal people's ailments...
The Eyes of the Amaryllis
1982
as Isabel
In 1880, a little girl is sent to Nantucket Island to live with her grandmother. She discovers, however, that her grandmother is an odd woman who has ...
The Gardener
1974
as Ellen Bennett
Carl the Gardner grows odd plants for a rich Yankee woman Ellen Bennett living in South America while exercising a mental hold over her. All his previ...
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967
as Joanna "Joey" Drayton
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.