Biography
Nan Martin (July 15, 1927 – March 4, 2010) was an American actress and comedienne. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nan Martin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Mrs. Harris
2006
as Mama Tarnower
Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean ...
Thicker Than Water
2005
as Abygail Jordan
After the death of her father, Natalie Travers discovers he was married to a rodeo star before he married Natalie’s mother. Upset that her father kept...
Greener Mountains
2005
as M
Greener Mountains is a family friendly, coming-of-age story about finding your place in the world.
Dancing at the Harvest Moon
2002
as Harriet Finnigan
A betrayed wife, whose husband leaves her after 25 years, returns to the lake where she first fell in love and begins an affair with the son of her fi...
Shallow Hal
2001
as Tanya Peeler
After taking his dying father's advice, Hal dates only the embodiments of female physical perfection. But that all changes after Hal has an unexpected...
Cast Away
2000
as Kelly's Mother
Chuck Nolan, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malays...
Forever Lulu
2000
as Lulu Look-Alike
A schizophrenic romantic tracks down her college sweetheart to help her find their son she gave up for adoption sixteen years ago to the dismay of his...
Big Eden
2000
as Widow Thayer
Henry Hart is a young gay artist living in New York City. When his grandfather has a stroke, Henry puts his career on hold and returns home to the sma...
Murder in the Mirror
2000
Mary meets Paul, marries Paul and when Paul is murdered becomes the number one suspect. While the police are preparing their case against her she begi...
Terror in the Family
1996
as Ivy
Fifteen-year-old Deena Marten wants the same freedom every teenager craves. But when she can't have her way, her rebellious temperament erupts in viol...
Last Gasp
1995
as Mrs. Hardwick
A ruthless real estate developer is possessed by the violent spirits of the Native American tribesmen he massacred, which force him to go on an indisc...
Mother of the Bride
1993
as Beatrice
A mother's plans for her daughter's wedding are complicated when her ex-husband, who abandoned the family more than 20 years earlier, shows up.
Child of Rage
1992
as Barbara
A priest and his wife adopt a brother and sister, but the girl has terrible outbursts of rage. They get her in treatment and try to find out the reaso...
Matters of the Heart
1990
as Irene Page
A noted concert pianist in her early forties, totally obsessed with her music, retreats to a small town to be alone and to write a concerto, but there...
Animal Behavior
1989
as Mrs. Norton
Biologist Alex Brisco develops a new method to communicate with chimpanzees. Instead of using machines, she teaches the chimps simple sign language. H...
Proud Men
1987
as Laura
A cattle rancher faces off with his estranged son. A right-wing cattle rancher wrangles with his recently returned son, a soldier who went AWOL in Vie...
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987
as Sister Mary Helena
During a hallucinatory incident, Kristen Parker has her wrists slashed by dream-stalking monster, Freddy Krueger. Her mother, mistaking the wounds for...
All of Me
1984
as Divorce Lawyer
Just before stubborn millionaire Edwina Cutwater dies, she asks her uptight lawyer, Roger Cobb, to amend her will so that her soul will pass to the yo...
The Winter of Our Discontent
1983
as Mrs. Baker
This story tells those self-denials of an honest man what necessary to reach his object of life.
Doctor Detroit
1983
as Margaret Skridlow
A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago....
I Take These Men
1983
as Doris
Moments before being surprised at an anniversary garden party thrown by her husband and their family and friends, Carol Sherwood shocks him by saying ...
Some Kind of Hero
1982
as Hilda
A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in ...
Prime Suspect
1982
as Sonia Lindstrom
A respectable businessman becomes the prime suspect in the abduction and murder of several young girls. He is hounded by the media and disowned by his...
Loving Couples
1980
as Walter's Nurse
Walter is a successful doctor, and so is his wife Evelyn. Wealthy and good-looking, they should be a happily married couple, but they're not. Walter ...
A Small Circle of Friends
1980
as Mrs. Baxter
In the late 1960s, three Harvard students Jessica, Leo and Nick grow close as they undergo personal changes, but their friendship is jeopardized by ro...
The Golden Honeymoon
1980
as Cora Hartsell
Charley Tate is an old windbag, often a braggart, but somehow always lovable. Married over fifty years to his ever-patient wife Lucy, the two of them ...
Mrs. R's Daughter
1979
as Mrs. Bergson
When a young woman is brutally raped and beaten, her mother sets out to find justice for her.
Outside Chance
1978
as Allison
An advertising executive finds herself in a small-town jail after being terrorized on a drive from Los Angeles to New York by two hitchhikers who stea...
Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold
1978
as Aunt Isabel
A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.
The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II
1978
as June Kinmont
The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 is a 1978 film directed by Larry Peerce. It stars Marilyn Hassett and Timothy Bottoms. It is a sequel to The Oth...
A Circle Street of Children
1977
as Doris Fleming
A teacher at a school for emotionally disturbed children takes an interest in one particular child who doesn't talk but emits a stream of gibberish.
The Gardener's Son
1977
as Mrs. Gregg
Based on true events which took place in the mill town of Graniteville, South Carolina in 1876, the story follows the rich Greggs, who run the mill, a...
The War Widow
1976
as Annie
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 ...
Jackson County Jail
1976
as Allison
A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.
The Other Side of the Mountain
1975
as June Kinmont
One year before the Olympics, Jill Kinmont, an 18-year-old skiing champion, suffers a fall during competition and is left paralyzed. With her life now...
Remember When
1974
as Annie Hodges
An uncle's (Jack Warden) memories give strength to a New England family with four sons fighting in World War II.
The Book of Murder
1974
as Catherine
Much-married and once successful writer Henry T. Aythecliff, now heavily in debt, summons his three ex-wives to his mansion, planning to extort a siza...
The Young Nurses
1973
as Woman Reporter
Sexy young nurses apply special therapy in their daily rounds, as they work against a drug ring operating out of the hospital
Goodbye, Columbus
1969
as Mrs. Ben Patimkin
A Jewish man and a Jewish woman meet, and while attracted to each other, find that their worlds are very different. She is the archetypal Jewish Ameri...
Three in the Attic
1968
as Dean Nazarin
In the swinging sixties three girls discover they have the same boyfriend who has been playing around with them all while vowing fidelity to each. To ...
For Love of Ivy
1968
as Doris Austin
A white family has had the same Black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year...
The Art of Love
1965
as Margo
Struggling artist fakes his own death so his works will increase in value.
Bus Riley's Back in Town
1965
as Mrs. Nichols
Bus Riley returns to his small town after time in the army. On his return, his ex-girlfriend wants to resume their relationship. The only problem is s...
Hamlet
1964
as Gertrude
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark, and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whethe...
Toys in the Attic
1963
as Charlotte Warkins (uncredited)
Julian Berniers returns from Illinois with his young bride Lily Prine to the family in New Orleans. His spinster sisters Carrie and Anna welcome the c...
The Mugger
1958
as Claire Townsend
A police shrink tries to identify and capture an elusive mugger that scars his female victims before stealing their purse.
The Buster Keaton Story
1957
as Edna
An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
1956
as Polly Lawrence
Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria, which ...
Eames Lounge Chair
1956
Stop-motion animation depicts a man assembling an Eames lounge chair, sitting down to relax in it, and then disassembling it for shipment.