Paula Trueman

Actress

April 25, 1897 (96 years)

† March 23, 1994

New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Paula Trueman (April 25, 1897 – March 23, 1994) was an American film, stage and television actress.

Filmography

7.1

The Equalizer

Mrs. Hammerschmidt

Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.

7.2

Tales from the Darkside

Great Grandma

Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. The series' episodes spanned the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and some episodes featured elements of black comedy or more lighthearted themes.

7.2

Kojak

Celia Moore

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.

7.3

Dirty Dancing

Mrs. Sylvia Schumacher

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love.

7.7

Annie Hall

Street Stranger

New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

7.5

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Grandma Sarah

After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.

6.8

Moonstruck

Lucy

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who blames his brother for the loss of his hand, has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls for Ronny, she learns that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.

6.7

The Stepford Wives

Welcome Wagon Lady

Joanna Eberhart comes to the town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.

6.3

Paint Your Wagon

Mrs. Fenty

A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.

6.0

Mrs. Soffel

Mrs. Stevenson

Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.

7.4

Zelig

Woman on Telephone

Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.

6.1

The Anderson Tapes

Nurse

Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is being recorded on audio and video, although he is not the subject of any surveillance.

6.5

Billy

Billy is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from February to April 1979. The series was based on Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall's 1960 British play Billy Liar.

6.1

Grace Quigley

Dorothy Trugert

Grace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. On the day she's being evicted, she witnesses a murder being committed by a top hit-man, Seymour Flint. She proposes to blackmail him into killing her, however, she has one or two friends she wants him to get rid of first.

5.0

Can't Stop the Music

Stick-Up Lady

A loose biography of seminal disco hit-makers The Village People and their composer Jacques Morali.

9.0

Better Late Than Never

Alke Elam

Harry Landers is a feisty senior citizen who refuses to abide by the rules in a stodgy retirement home run by a dour Ms. Davis, in which Harry leads a revolt by the other goated senior citizen residents against the establishment.

N/A

The Last Tenant

Woman in Home

Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which particularly affects the eldest son's life, placing his impending marriage in jeopardy.

10.0

Sweet Lorraine

Mrs. Falkman

Serio-comic look at the residents and staff of a Catskill Mountains resort during its final days.

6.9

One Foot in Heaven

Miss Peabody (uncredited)

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

7.5

OHMS

Wheeler's Mother

A conservative, Midwestern farmer rallies his neighbors against a power company planning to erect huge towers across their land, and a political activist schoolteacher helps them organize into an effective bloc.