Barbara Turner

Barbara Turner

1936-07-14 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. 25 Credits

Biography

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

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Hemingway & Gellhorn

Hemingway & Gellhorn

2012

Writer, Executive Producer

6.1
Writing Producing

Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.

Margot at the Wedding

Margot at the Wedding

2007

Thanks

5.8

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

The Company

2003

Writer, Screenplay

5.2
Writing

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

Pollock

2000

Screenplay

6.7
Writing

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

Sharing the Secret

2000

Writer

6.3
Writing

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

Georgia

Georgia

1995

Screenplay, Producer

5.8
Writing Producing

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

Out of Darkness

1994

Writer

8.3
Writing

Diana Ross dramatizes multiple personality disorder.

Somebody's Daughter

Somebody's Daughter

1992

Writer

1.0
Writing

A stripper and her bodyguard become involved in a murder.

Those Secrets

Those Secrets

1992

Writer

2.5
Writing

A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.

Eye on the Sparrow

Eye on the Sparrow

1987

Producer, Writer

6.5
Producing Writing

True story of a blind couple who fought the authorities to acquire the right to adopt a child.

Sessions

Sessions

1983

Supervising Producer, Writer

6.0
Producing Writing

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

Cujo

1983

Screenplay

6.2
Writing

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

Freedom

Freedom

1981

Associate Producer, Writer

6.0
Producing Writing

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

The War Between the Tates

1977

Writer

Writing

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

The Dark Side of Innocence

1976

Writer

Writing

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

Widow

1976

Teleplay

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

The Affair

The Affair

1973

Writer

3.6
Writing

A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer who becomes her first love.

Petulia

Petulia

1968

Adaptation

5.9

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

Deathwatch

1966

Writer

4.7
Writing

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

Nightmare in Chicago

1964

as Bernadette Wells

4.3
Acting

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

Operation Eichmann

1961

as Sara

6.0
Acting

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

Wink of an Eye

1958

as Judy Carlton

5.0
Acting

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

Portrait of a Murderer

1958

as Sandra

9.0
Acting

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

Monster from Green Hell

1957

as Lorna Lorentz

3.7
Acting

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

Two-Gun Lady

1955

as Jenny Ivers

4.2
Acting

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...