Maida Severn

Acting

Maida Severn

Acting credits

Young Frankenstein poster
7.9

A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.

Young Frankenstein

1974

Imitation of Life poster
7.4

In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.

Imitation of Life

1959

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes poster
6.0

Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric shock and his brain turns to a computer; now he remembers everything he reads. Unfortunately, he also remembers information which was in the computer's memory, like Arno's illegal businesses..

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

1969

Marjorie Morningstar poster
6.3

While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.

Marjorie Morningstar

1958

Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation poster
6.5

Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns out to be ugly and broken down. Daughter Katey, embarrassed by her braces, refuses to go to the beach, as does TV-addicted son Danny. When the family is joined by Hobbs' two unhappily married daughters and their husbands, he must help everyone with their problems to get some peace.

Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation

1962

Bells Are Ringing poster
6.5

Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She listens in on others' lives and adds some interest to her own humdrum existence by adopting different identities for her clients. They include an out-of-work Method actor, a dentist with musical yearnings, and in particular playwright Jeffrey Moss, who is suffering from writer's block and desperately needs a muse.

Bells Are Ringing

1960

The Unseen poster
4.9

A trio of female reporters find themselves staying overnight in a house occupied by a hostile being lurking in the basement

The Unseen

1980

Murder by Natural Causes poster
6.9

An elaborate mystery involving a famous mentalist, his unfaithful wife who is trying to literally scare him to death, the best friend of the family, and the wife's ham-actor lover -- not only an intriguing who- (or whether) dunit, but also a literate, adult dramatic puzzle with an endless series of twists.

Murder by Natural Causes

1979

The President's Plane Is Missing poster
6.3

When the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board, it is left to the seemingly weak Vice President to try to avert a nuclear exchange with the Chinese.

The President's Plane Is Missing

1973

Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones poster
7.3

Two high school seniors try to adjust to adult responsibilities when an unexpected pregnancy forces them into marriage.

Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones

1971

Senior Year poster
10.0

Pilot for the short-lived series "Sons and Daughters" set in a high school in the 1950's and seen through the eyes of five carefree seniors.

Senior Year

1974

Creature of Comfort poster
10.0

A series of vignettes are tied together by a story involving a carnivorous entity which masquerades as a bedcover. The creature absorbs evil and greedy people into its body, but leaves the innocent unharmed.

Creature of Comfort

1968

Rain for a Dusty Summer poster
4.3

In Mexico, a mad general is leading his own war against the Church. Priests are rounded up, churches burned down and religion outlawed. The suffering of one pious catholic priest could bring the tide of change however.

Rain for a Dusty Summer

1971