Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Estelle Margaret Parsons (born November 20, 1927) is an American theatre, film and television actress and occasional theatrical director. After studying law, Parsons became a singer before deciding to pursue a career in acting. She worked for the television program Today and made her stage debut in 1961. During the 1960s, Parsons established her career on Broadway before progressing to film. She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for he...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Romantic Mysticism: The Music of Billy Goldenberg
2022
as Self
A career overview of tv/film composer Billy Goldenberg.
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
as Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who ...
Diane
2019
as Mary
Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her...
Broadway: The Next Generation
2017
as Self
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.
She's The Best Thing in It
2015
as Self
Mary Louise Wilson is the most accomplished character actor you've never heard of. While teaching skeptical young students, she examines whether her l...
Wilde Salomé
2013
as Self
Pacino takes us on a journey as he unravels and re-interprets Oscar Wilde's once banned and most controversial work SALOME, a scintillating tale of lu...
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008
as Self
The making-of documentary of Bonnie and Clyde.
Freak City
1999
as Mrs. Stanapolous
After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, a rebellious young woman is disease-stricken. Upon being admitted to a nursing home, she finds hope in ...
The Love Letter
1998
as Beatrice Corrigan
20th century computer games designer Scott, Civil War buff, buys an antique desk from that era and, while polishing it, he discovers a secret compartm...
That Darn Cat
1997
as Old Lady McCracken
While making his nightly rounds in the neighborhood, Patti's pet cat D.C. finds himself the carrier of a call for help from a kidnap victim. Patti enl...
Looking for Richard
1996
as Margaret
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Ric...
Boys on the Side
1995
as Louise
After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-coun...
The American Clock
1993
Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market cra...
A Private Matter
1992
as Mary Chessen
The true story of Romper Room host "Miss Sherri" Finkbine, who, after the devastating effects of thalidomide were discovered in the early 1960s, spark...
Dick Tracy
1990
as Mrs. Trueheart
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Ca...
The Lemon Sisters
1989
as Mrs. Kupchak
Three life-long friends work the bars in 1980s Atlantic City performing the songs of the 1960s girl groups.
Open Admissions
1988
as Clare Block
An indifferent speech professor doing hack work in an urban college suddenly finds herself challenged by a ghetto youth with an intense desire to get ...
Come Along with Me
1982
as Mabel Lederer / Angela Motorman
Newly-widowed Mabel Lederer, who has psychic and mediumistic abilities, sells her house and belongings, changes her name, and moves to a new town. The...
The Gentleman Bandit
1981
as Marjorie Seebode
Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
Guests of the Nation
1981
as Kate O'Connell
This drama tells the story of Irish insurgents and the captured British soldiers whom they are assigned to guard. While confined to a remote farmhouse...
The Tenth Level
1976
as Crossland
Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis...
The UFO Incident
1975
as Betty Hill
In the early 1960s, an interracial couple undergo hypnosis, which unlocks memories of a forgotten event on a lonely road. Soon they believe they were ...
Fore Play
1975
as First Lady / Barmaid
A three-part omnibus centered around sex and its discontents.
For Pete's Sake
1974
as Helen Robbins
Henrietta Robbins borrows money from a loan shark to finance her husband's investment in the stock market. However, when their stock plummets, she scr...
The Gun and the Pulpit
1974
as Sadie Underwood
In the days of the "Wild West," a gunslinger, with a price on his head, discovers the body of a traveling minister who has been killed in an ambush. F...
June Moon
1974
as Lucille
In this rousing satire a native upstate New York clerk comes to 1920s Manhattan with dreams of making in big on Tin Pan Alley.
Terror on the Beach
1973
as Arlene Glynn
When their campsite is vandalized by troublemakers, a family fights fire with fire.
Two People
1973
as Barbara Newman
Evan Bonner is a deserter from the Vietnam war; he is on his way back to America to give himself up when he meets Deirdre McCluskey, a beautiful if pe...
A Memory of Two Mondays
1971
as Agnes
Workers in an auto parts warehouse in 1933 New York City inhabit a bleak, dead-end world in the depths of the Depression where, at least, they have jo...
I Walk the Line
1970
as Ellen Haney
Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his ma...
I Never Sang for My Father
1970
as Alice
Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother under...
Watermelon Man
1970
as Althea Janine Gerber
A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but his bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is ...
Don't Drink the Water
1969
as Marion Hollander
The Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted when their plane is forced to land in Vulgaria. The Hollanders leave the plane to take picture...
Rachel, Rachel
1968
as Calla Mackie
Rachel is a 35-year-old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, sh...
Bonnie and Clyde
1967
as Blanche
In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the c...
Ladybug Ladybug
1963
as JoAnn's Mother
The teachers and students of a countryside elementary school are thrown into a panic when an air raid siren goes off, warning them of a imminent nucle...