Barbara Nichols

Acting

Barbara Nichols

Born 1928-12-10 · Mineola, New York, USA

Barbara Marie Nickerauer (December 10, 1928 - October 5, 1976), better known by her stage name, Barbara Nichols, was an American actress and model, who became prominent in the 1950s and 1960s for playing brassy, comic roles in film and television.

Acting credits

River of No Return poster
6.7

An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.

River of No Return

1954

Sweet Smell of Success poster
7.6

New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.

Sweet Smell of Success

1957

The Power poster
6.3

One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is on to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and to stop them.

The Power

1968

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood poster
4.4

A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

1976

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt poster
6.8

A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

1956

Woman Obsessed poster
6.6

After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drifting handyman, they fall in love, and a resentment begins to build between the son and his new "step-father" who treats the boy harshly on purpose to prepare him for life on the frontier.

Woman Obsessed

1959

The Loved One poster
6.2

Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.

The Loved One

1965

The Disorderly Orderly poster
6.3

Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice when you're hopelessly squeamish. So he settles for the job of orderly at the Whitestone Sanitarium, a career move that's guaranteed to keep the patients – and viewers – in stitches!

The Disorderly Orderly

1964

The Naked and the Dead poster
5.7

Fighting men in World War II learn the value of courage and quickness at the risk of losing their lives.

The Naked and the Dead

1958

Where the Boys Are poster
6.1

Good girls Merritt, Melanie, Tuggle and Angie - all students at mid-western Penmore University - are planning on going to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break to get away from the mid-western snow despite not having much money to spend once there. On the drive down, they admit their real purpose is to go where the boys are.

Where the Boys Are

1960

Pal Joey poster
6.3

An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.

Pal Joey

1957

The Pajama Game poster
6.3

An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand for a pay raise.

The Pajama Game

1957

Charley and the Angel poster
5.7

Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.

Charley and the Angel

1973

The King and Four Queens poster
5.6

Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.

The King and Four Queens

1956

Who Was That Lady? poster
6.4

In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.

Who Was That Lady?

1960

Miracle in the Rain poster
6.9

Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.

Miracle in the Rain

1956

That Kind of Woman poster
6.2

A young G.I. falls in love with a kept woman on a train to New York.

That Kind of Woman

1959

The Swinger poster
5.3

An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.

The Swinger

1966

The Scarface Mob poster
7.2

In 1929 Chicago, Federal investigator Eliot Ness struggles in the fight against Al Capone. He decides to form a special team of reliable, dedicated, honest law enforcement officers.

The Scarface Mob

1959

Manfish poster
4.0

Three deep sea divers get involved in murder while searching for a lost treasure.

Manfish

1956

The Human Duplicators poster
3.7

An alien is dispatched from a faraway galaxy to take over the Earth by "duplicating" humans and creating a race of zombies.

The Human Duplicators

1965

Looking for Love poster
5.8

An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.

Looking for Love

1964

The George Raft Story poster
5.7

The 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star George Raft.

The George Raft Story

1961

Dear Heart poster
6.5

A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.

Dear Heart

1965