Joan Van Ark

Acting

Joan Van Ark

Born 1943-06-16 · New York City, New York, USA

Joan Van Ark (born June 16, 1943) is an American actress, most notable for her role as Valene Ewing, which she originated on the CBS hit series Dallas and continued for thirteen seasons on its long-running spin-off, Knots Landing. Van Ark has also received a Theatre World Award and been nominated for a Tony Award for her stage work. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Van Ark, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

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9.0

A daft doctor concocts an offbeat scheme to make millions after he happens upon a method of turning cremated human remains into diamonds. But when the sawbones hires a pair of hapless thieves to collect the raw material, a string of calamities ensues in their insane efforts to pilfer the ashes of prominent and historic figures. Tippi Hedren, Bronson Pinchot, Richard Moll and Joan Van Ark head the cast in this inky morality yarn.

Diamond Zero

2005

Night of 100 Stars II poster
6.8

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.

Night of 100 Stars II

1985

In the Shadows, Someone's Watching poster
7.0

There are a bunch on children in a suburban neighborhood getting hurt in unusual ways. One mother's child gets hurt and she goes looking for answers and finds them but its with twist no one would expect.

In the Shadows, Someone's Watching

1993

Frogs poster
4.8

Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason Crockett hates nature, poisoning anything that crawls on his property. On the night of his birthday the frogs and other members of nature begin to pay Crockett back.

Frogs

1972

The Last Dinosaur poster
6.5

Wealthy big game hunter (Boone), along with his group, gets trapped in pre-historic times where they are stalked by a ferocious dinosaur.

The Last Dinosaur

1977

My First Love poster
9.5

Widow Jean Miller thinks she's ready for a new romance with her high school sweetheart, Sam Morrissey, a physician of considerable means. The only thing standing in the way of rekindling this first love is the presence of his very attractive, very together 39-year-old girlfriend, Claire.

My First Love

1988

Night of 100 Stars III poster
4.3

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.

Night of 100 Stars III

1990

Tornado Warning poster
4.8

A scientist (Gerald McRaney) perfects a tornado-warning system and tries to convince residents of a nearby town that a deadly twister is approaching.

Tornado Warning

2002

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood poster
6.0

A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

1987

UP, Michigan! poster
7.0

Rivalries are renewed and love is rekindled when a group of old friends return to the U.P. for their high school reunion.

UP, Michigan!

2001

Red Flag: The Ultimate Game poster
5.3

Two fighter pilots, Phil Clark and Jay Rivers, who flew together in Vietnam are assigned to the elite Air Force Fighter Weapons School (known as "Red Flag") at Nellis AFB, Nevada, about a decade after the war. Brash, self-confident Clark is an instructor, while quieter, family man Rivers is the student. At first, the two men resume their friendship. But as the student starts to show the master a thing or two, tensions develop. Can their relationship survive the stresses of one of the military's top schools?

Red Flag: The Ultimate Game

1981

Cyrano poster
9.0

Long-nosed Cyrano de Begerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves in this animated version of Edmond Rostand's play.

Cyrano

1974

Spider-Woman poster
NR

Don't miss the marvelous Spider-Woman in this feature-length animated adventure! When Jessica Drew was dying, her father injected her with a highly evolved serum of spider blood. The irradiated blood not only cured her but changed her into the fearsome dark angel of the night!

Spider-Woman

1982

Channels poster
3.0

A writer/producer is about to make a big career jump and has a lot of activity going on in his life. But, emotionally, he's dead. Through a fantastical event, he meets someone. They fall in love. She wants to defy logic and hop on the passing train of time with him. He lets his mind rationalize and hesitates. She is gone and he finds himself in a desperate race to get her back. Will the magic that brought them together be strong enough to reunite them, or is it too long?

Channels

2008

The Last of the Mohicans poster
7.3

An animated adaptation of the classic story. A young scout is befriended by a tribe of Mohawks.

The Last of the Mohicans

1975

The Judge and Jake Wyler poster
2.5

A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency with a charming ex-con as her leg man and various parolees helping in the day-to-day operation.

The Judge and Jake Wyler

1972

Net Games poster
4.9

The successful publicist Adam Vance of the SFC is in the middle of a campaign to get an important Japanese client and is needy of sex because his traumatized wife Jennifer Vance was raped one year ago and is totally frigid, refusing to have sex. His close friend and colleague Ray Walters suggests Adam to visit the porn site cyber chat.net, where lonely people have erotic conversation. Adam meets Angel, a luscious woman and hacker while his wife is visiting her rapist in the prison with her therapist as part of her treatment. When Adam decides to finish his virtual affair with Angel, he is chased and blackmailed by the deranged sexy killer.

Net Games

2003

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NR

After being a victim of sexual harassment by her classmates, a teenage girl decides to sue the school for doing nothing to stop it.

Boys Will Be Boys

1994

Held for Ransom poster
5.1

Held for Ransom is a 2000 direct-to-video film about five high-school students that are kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote swamp area in Florida. It was directed and written by Lee Stanley based on the novel by Lois Duncan.

Held for Ransom

2000

Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz poster
9.0

Fictional character, Heidi Abromowitz, is the butt of everyone's jokes.

Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz

1988

When the Dark Man Calls poster
7.0

A famous radio talk-show host finds herself being stalked by the man convicted of murdering her husband, who has finished his 25-year sentence and is out of prison. Her situation is made even more dire when it turns out that he isn't the only problem she has.

When the Dark Man Calls

1995

Tainted Blood poster
5.2

After a 17-year-old shoots his parents dead and then turns the gun on himself, an investigative reporter makes a disturbing discovery. The adopted boy was born to a mother who, as a teen, inexplicably murdered her parents as well. Even more alarming is the discovery that the dead boy has a twin, who may also be genetically predisposed to kill.

Tainted Blood

1993

Watercolor Postcards poster
5.8

A Hollywood actress and a former NFL star strive to save a troubled Texas town while bonding over their shared love of a very special 10-year-old girl who has found herself alone in the world for the very first time.

Watercolor Postcards

2013

Terror on Track 9 poster
3.8

A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station.

Terror on Track 9

1992

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