
Acting
Melissa Sue Anderson
Born 1962-09-26 · Berkeley, California, USA
Melissa Sue Anderson (born September 26, 1962) is an American actress. She played the role of Mary Ingalls on the NBC television series Little House on the Prairie. She starred on the show from 1974 until 1981, leaving after Season 7, but later appeared in 2 episodes of Season 8 in late 1981. She won an Emmy Award for her performance in Which Mother Is Mine? (1979). One of her more recent performances was as First Lady Megan Hollister in the 2006 television mini-series 10.5: Apocalypse.
Acting credits
5.5Della Myers, a suburban housewife, lives with her twin children and her abusive husband, Kenneth. On Christmas Eve, she drives to the local mall to buy gift-wrap. In the jam-packed parking lot, she notices an old car taking up two spaces and decides to leave a note on the windshield calling them out. After the mall closes, her car is blocked by the old car and she's threatened by four thugs. She escapes in her vehicle, but they drive after her. She crashes at a dead end construction site at the edge of a forest. What unfolds in the desolate woods is Della's lone fight for survival against a gang of angry young men with murderous intent.
While She Was Out
2008
4.5Six people are brought together at the funeral of a childhood friend. While settling the estate, they discover a map, which leads them on a search for a time capsule. What they discover reawakens childhood traumas and leads them on a journey through their abandoned childhood home: a home with a terrible secret and a mysterious dead girl who will lead them to their strange fates.
Crazy Eights
2006
3.9In an effort to avoid paying off a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple flees to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot.
The Con Is On
2018
6.0Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on.
Happy Birthday to Me
1981
Graham studied medicine, but never qualified due to being expelled from medical school for theft. He did pass the final exams, but while being paid to do them for someone else, which he feels qualifies him to practice medicine privately. Dispensing drugs and bogus certificates for cash leads to his arrest and then involvement with a criminal family, one of whom is his patient and a police undercover operation.
Thin Ice
2000
6.0A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments.
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
2002
8.4Celebrate the holidays with two classic "Little House" specials, restored and remastered for superior picture and sound. In "Christmas at Plum Creek," the members of the Ingalls family share a heartwarming first Christmas in their new home, and Laura makes a personal sacrifice that captures the meaning of the holidays. In "A Christmas They Never Forget," the family waits out a snowstorm by remembering favorite Christmases from the past.
Little House on the Prairie: A Merry Ingalls Christmas
2014
5.6A cop is after a nasty serial killer. Cop's wife and kids are somewhere in the city too. Then a disastrous earthquake hits the city.
Earthquake in New York
1998
8.5This romantic drama focuses on the romance between a 14-year-old mathematics genius and a 19-year-old All-American volleyball player.
An Innocent Love
1982
8.1The story of the Ingalls family who left their house in Wisconsin and moved to the west, wanting to find a new place for home.
Little House on the Prairie
1974
7.1A young boy who still wets the bed finds escapism from his abusive mother and his own embarrassment by going running after school.
The Loneliest Runner
1976
4.7After a gang of thugs brands a hard working truck driver a traitor and murders his bride, He retaliates by being even more violent than his attackers.
Killing Machine
1984
7.0Ex-Marshal McCloud now is senator of New Mexico, fighting for a new environment law. His enemy is Maitland, unscrupulous owner of Chemtel, the world's most important chemical manufacturer. Shortly after McCloud gives an inspiring speech, he barely escapes an bomb in his car and a shooting in a restaurant. When he learns that his niece, medical researcher for Chemtel, was killed, he begins to suspect that the attempts on his life were not made by Arabian terrorists, but by Maitland. He pays him a visit in Britain and starts to research on his own.
The Return of Sam McCloud
1989
9.0A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).
Hollywood’s Children
1982
5.7Vivian has magic powers. She doesn't hesitate to save her boyfriend David from failing in school by murdering teachers. However, David has gotten tired of her and is putting his charm on a new girl in school, Robin. Robin discovers that she also has magic powers, and before long the two girls clash violently.
Midnight Offerings
1981
6.5After generations of being apart, an accident brings a family back together and they begin to cope with their original issues.
Far North
1988
8.0Yvette Marcel asks her godfather Control and McCall for help dealing with her irrational father, who is intent on locating Manon, the mother she believed had been killed years before. Created by editing 2-parts of episodes of the TV series, The Equalizer.
Memories of Manon
1989
7.0A woman hired to write the history of a wealthy family stays at the family's estate in Oregon. She discovers that she strongly resembles a long-dead ancestor in the family, and finds things happening to her that happened to--and led to the death of--that woman.
Dark Mansions
1986
7.0A 15-year-old whose family moves from Oregon to Boston misses the girlfriend he left behind, so he runs away to see her. On the way he hooks up with a female art student in her 20s who is also hitchhiking across the country, from whom he learns some valuable lessons about life. This was the pilot film for the two-season series.
James at 15
1977
6.7The owner of a professional football team must restore the titular train and run it from Tennessee to NYC in 24 hours if he is to inherit $1 million in this comedy.
Chattanooga Choo Choo
1984
8.5Laura Ingalls reminisces about the Ingalls' journeys and struggles during a family Thanksgiving gathering.
The Little House Years
1979
7.0A woman traumatized by her brother's suicide is inducted into a world of games involving murder.
The Suicide Club
1988
9.0High school student Dana moves to the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles after her North Dakota parents get divorced and falls in with the wrong crowd.
The Survival of Dana
1979
6.0An all-star educational film about the positive side of hiring people with disabilities. A board sit and watch the film Michael Keaton's character's assembled to sell companies on hiring the handicapped, which takes "a different approach" by combining several approaches--most of them suggested by Hollywood personalities.
A Different Approach
1978