Name
Anita Morris
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1943-03-14
Deathday
1994-03-02 (51 years old)
Place of Birth
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Biography
Anita Rose Morris (March 14, 1943 – March 2, 1994) was an American actress, singer and dancer. She began her career performing in Broadway musicals, including Jesus Christ Superstar, Seesaw and Nine, for which she received a Tony Award nomination.[1]
During her career, Morris had starring roles in a number of films, include The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), Absolute Beginners (1986), Ruthless People (1986), Aria (1987), 18 Again! (1988), Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989) and A Sinful Life (1989). She had leading roles in two short-lived television series in 1980s: the NBC prime time soap opera Berrenger's (1985), and the Fox sitcom Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1987).
Known For
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Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when she's ...
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A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he d...
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A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network....
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Over the course of several years beginning in the 1950s, a man and his oddball family run ...
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A country-western singer on a trip through the Tennessee mountains runs into a reclusive b...
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Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fia...
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A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-ye...
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On New Year's Eve 1928, in the New York underworld, a gambler sells his body to science, a...
- 1994 Radioland Murders as Claudette Katsenback
- 1986 Ruthless People as Carol Dodsworth
- 1987 Aria as Phoebe
- 1993 Me and the Kid as Mrs. Feldman
- 1981 So Fine as So Fine Dancer
- 1989 Bloodhounds of Broadway as Miss Missouri Martin
- 1986 Blue City as Malvina Kerch-Turner
- 1984 Maria's Lovers as Mrs. Wynic
- 1989 Martians Go Home as Dr. Jane
- 1989 A Sinful Life as Claire Vin Blance
- 1993 Little Miss Millions as Sybil Lofton
- 1985 Night of 100 Stars II as Self
- 1988 18 Again! as Madeline
- 1986 Absolute Beginners as Dido Lament
- 1986 A Smoky Mountain Christmas as Jezebel
- 1986 A Masterpiece of Murder as Lola Crane
- 1980 Big Blonde as Bootsie
- 1972 The Broad Coalition as Sheila Saunders
- 1975 The Happy Hooker as May Smith / Linda Jo
- 1984 The Hotel New Hampshire as Ronda Ray
- 1983 The Magic Show as Charmin
- 1991 Off and Running as Florence
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Leona Schubert
- 1986 Matlock ( 1 episode ) as Catherine McKay
- 1984 Miami Vice ( 1 episode ) as Leona Proverb
- 1989 Tales from the Crypt ( 1 episode ) as Fuchsia Monroe
- 1989 Major Dad ( 1 episode )
- 1992 Melrose Place ( 1 episode ) as Stella Rivers
- 1985 Berrenger's ( 12 episodes )
- 1987 Down and Out in Beverly Hills ( 13 episodes ) as Barbara Whiteman
- 1991 Eerie, Indiana ( 1 episode ) as Eunice Danforth / Marshall Teller
- 1987 A Different World ( 1 episode ) as Joni Brooks
- 1982 Cheers ( 1 episode ) as Madeline Keith
- 1986 Matlock ( 2 episodes ) as Elaine Genrich
- 1993 Trade Winds ( 4 episodes ) as Contessa Laetitia Philips Gabetti
- 1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Miss Missouri Martin
