Marjorie Stapp

Acting

Marjorie Stapp

Born — Died

1921-09-17 — 2014-06-02

Place of birth

Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

31 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marjorie Stapp (September 17, 1921 – June 2, 2014), was an American actress who was mainly in low-budget pictures. Stapp began her film career when she signed a contract with the film studio 20th Century-Fox in the 1940s. Her first screen appearance was in The Kid from Brooklyn, a film starring Danny Kaye. This was followed by another minor appearance in Linda Be Good in 1947. Eventually, she landed a leading role in the Western movie The Blazing Trail alongside Charles Starrett. Throughout the 1950s until the 1990s, she appeared in both films and television, including Cheyenne, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harri…

Known for

Columbo poster
8.1

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.

Columbo

1971

Quantum Leap poster
8.0

Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.

Quantum Leap

1989

The Brady Bunch poster
6.7

When widower Mike Brady marries a lovely lady widow Carol Ann, their two families become one. These are the misadventures of this new couple, their six children, a dog named Tiger, and quirky housekeeper Alice.

The Brady Bunch

1969

The Far Country poster
6.9

During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Canadian town.

The Far Country

1954

Heart of the City poster
7.5

Wes Kennedy is a cop who works long hours at night in order to spend the daytime with his two teenage kids Robin and Kevin... Heart of the City was a crime drama that aired on the ABC television network from September 1986 to January 1987.

Heart of the City

1986

A Gathering of Eagles poster
5.8

A B-52 commander must prepare his men to pass a grueling inspection.

A Gathering of Eagles

1963

Film credits

1960s · 3 titles

1950s · 18 titles

The Far Country poster
6.9

During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Canadian town.

The Far Country

1954

A Blueprint for Murder poster
6.2

Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that the death of her stepchild, Polly, has been attributed to poisoning, he suspects that Lynn is after his late brother's estate, and killing everyone in her way.

A Blueprint for Murder

1953

Illegal poster
6.5

A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.

Illegal

1955

The Steel Trap poster
6.6

Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday and then plans to flee to Brazil over the weekend.

The Steel Trap

1952

Gun for a Coward poster
6.0

A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological aversion to violence after his elder brother unjustly censures him for not joining in a foolhardy gunfight in which their youngest brother is killed.

Gun for a Coward

1956

The Blue Gardenia poster
6.5

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.

The Blue Gardenia

1953

5 Against the House poster
5.9

Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

5 Against the House

1955

The Monster That Challenged the World poster
5.6

Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.

The Monster That Challenged the World

1957

Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend poster
6.0

In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his henchmen raid the wagon trains passing through the region.

Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend

1957

The Werewolf poster
5.6

The arrival in a small mountain town of a dissheveled stranger launches a series of murders committed by some sort of animal. As the town doctor and his daughter attempt to help the stranger, the sheriff investigates the murders; and they uncover a sinister experiment involving two rogue scientists, a car accident victim, his wife and children, and a serum that causes a man to turn into a ravaging werewolf.

The Werewolf

1956

Kronos poster
5.7

Scientists investigate a huge meteor that crashes into the ocean off Mexico, and encounter a skyscraper-tall, mobile machine which is designed to syphon energy from earth, including any energy directed at it in an effort to destroy it.

Kronos

1957

Daughter of Dr. Jekyll poster
5.8

A young woman discovers she is the daughter of the infamous Dr. Jekyll, and begins to believe that she may also have a split personality, one of whom is a ruthless killer.

Daughter of Dr. Jekyll

1957

Indestructible Man poster
4.3

A scientific experiment involving subjecting a corpse to an extreme charge of electricity accidentally revives an executed criminal and makes him impervious to harm, allowing him to seek revenge on his former partners, and deal similarly with anyone else who gets in his way.

Indestructible Man

1956

Suicide Battalion poster
6.3

Second World War drama, set in the Philippines about a group of men recruited for the dangerous mission of destroying an American base to keep strategic papers out of enemy hands when Japanese forces invade. The men spend their last hours drowning their sorrows in a bar, but time is running out. American International Pictures originally distributed this film as a double feature with "Jet Attack".

Suicide Battalion

1958

Port Sinister poster
6.0

A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor, where it came to rest after an earthquake many years before. A scientist wants to study it, some thugs want the treasure alleged to be stored there, a bunch of mutated giant crabs living there attack them all.

Port Sinister

1953

Sword of Venus poster
6.0

An enemy of the Count of Monte Cristo frames his son for a murder in order to exact revenge and steal the family fortune.

Sword of Venus

1953

The Young Captives poster
7.0

Two high-school teenagers on their way to Mexico to get married cross paths with a homicidal fugitive.

The Young Captives

1959

Problem Girls poster
4.5

A medical student learns about a scheme to drug a girl and pass her off as an heiress to an oil fortune.

Problem Girls

1953

1940s · 4 titles

Series credits

Columbo poster
8.1

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.

Columbo

1971

Quantum Leap poster
8.0

Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.

Quantum Leap

1989

The Brady Bunch poster
6.7

When widower Mike Brady marries a lovely lady widow Carol Ann, their two families become one. These are the misadventures of this new couple, their six children, a dog named Tiger, and quirky housekeeper Alice.

The Brady Bunch

1969

Heart of the City poster
7.5

Wes Kennedy is a cop who works long hours at night in order to spend the daytime with his two teenage kids Robin and Kevin... Heart of the City was a crime drama that aired on the ABC television network from September 1986 to January 1987.

Heart of the City

1986