Biography
Gloria Rose "Barbara" Turner (July 14, 1936 – April 5, 2016) was an American screenwriter and actress.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012
Writer, Executive Producer
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.

Margot at the Wedding
2007
Thanks
Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her estranged sister Pauline's wedding to unemployed ...

The Company
2003
Writer, Screenplay
Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who's poised to become a principal performer.

Pollock
2000
Screenplay
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United Sta...

Sharing the Secret
2000
Writer
A teenage girl, who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends, secretly binges and purges.

Georgia
1995
Screenplay, Producer
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer. Unfortunately it is this very obsession — coupled with her self-destructive tend...

Out of Darkness
1994
Writer
Diana Ross dramatizes multiple personality disorder.

Somebody's Daughter
1992
Writer
A stripper and her bodyguard become involved in a murder.

Those Secrets
1992
Writer
A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.

Eye on the Sparrow
1987
Producer, Writer
True story of a blind couple who fought the authorities to acquire the right to adopt a child.

Sessions
1983
Supervising Producer, Writer
High-priced call girl Lee Churchill, is examining her life via therapy "sessions". Her double life is unknown to her parents, sister and "straight" ma...

Cujo
1983
Screenplay
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

Freedom
1981
Associate Producer, Writer
Talented musician and free spirit Libby chafes under the rule of her divorced journalist mother, so she seeks emancipation from her parents and hits t...

The War Between the Tates
1977
Writer
A college professor's well-ordered life is disrupted when his wife discovers he is having an affair with one of his students.

The Dark Side of Innocence
1976
Writer
A suburban housewife's feeling that her life is standing still causes her to divorce her husband. This causes tension with her daughter, who bitterly ...

Widow
1976
Teleplay
A woman is left on her own to raise her two children after the unexpected death of her husband.

The Affair
1973
Writer
A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer who becomes her first love.

Petulia
1968
Adaptation
Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new life for himself. One night, he catches the eye of...

Deathwatch
1966
Writer
Based on a play by Jean Genet, a small-time thief battles with his gay cellmate over a third illiterate, muscular convict.

Nightmare in Chicago
1964
as Bernadette Wells
The story of a serial killer known as "Georgie Porgie." The Chicago turnpike is threatened over a three-day period as the police try to catch him by b...

Operation Eichmann
1961
as Sara
Drama about the life Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer responsible for the deaths of countless Jewish people during World War II.

Wink of an Eye
1958
as Judy Carlton
A chemist in a perfume factory seems to have killed his wife, cut her up, and stuck her remains in the freezer.

Portrait of a Murderer
1958
as Sandra
Based on a true story, Donald Bashor robs and bludgeons two women to their deaths. While committing the crimes he maintans a normal existence with his...

Monster from Green Hell
1957
as Lorna Lorentz
A test rocket carrying wasps to outer space, to study the effects on them of weightlessness and radiations, crashes out of control back to Earth, int...

Two-Gun Lady
1955
as Jenny Ivers
A young woman teaches herself to become a sharpshooter so she can hunt down the three men who murdered her parents. She finds a sheriff who is willing...