Dossy Peabody

Acting

Dossy Peabody

Dossy Peabody is known for Mermaids (1990), Edge of Darkness (2010) and The Company Men (2010).

Acting credits

Edge of Darkness poster
6.5

As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to uncover the disturbing secrets surrounding her murder, including corporate corruption, government collusion and Emma's own mysterious life.

Edge of Darkness

2010

The Crucible poster
6.6

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.

The Crucible

1996

Mermaids poster
6.7

Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate, hope that they can finally settle down. But when Charlotte's attraction to an older man gets in the way, the family must learn to accept each other for who they truly are.

Mermaids

1990

In Dreams poster
5.5

A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.

In Dreams

1999

The Proposition poster
5.9

Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is sterile, so they hire Harvard law student Roger Martin to impregnate Eleanor, but unfortunately Roger falls in love with her.

The Proposition

1998

On Broadway poster
6.5

On Broadway tells the story of Jack O'Toole, a 30-something Boston everyman, who writes a play about his dead uncle as a way to reconnect with his hard-nosed dad. With no money and just his gut to guide him, Jack quits his job as a carpenter so that he can mount a production of his play on the only stage he can afford: in the back room of his neighborhood pub, on a little street called Broadway.

On Broadway

2007

The Makeover poster
5.6

This is an update of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" that changes the genders of the main characters. Hannah Higgins attempts to turn blue-collar Boston beer vendor Elliot Doolittle into a viable candidate and inadvertently learns something of Elliot's side of life.

The Makeover

2013

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women poster
7.0

Louisa May Alcott, author of "Little Women," leads a literary double life, writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, an identity that remains until the 1940s.

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women

2008

Meet the Mobsters poster
6.4

Down-and-out lounge singer Johnny Slade is hired by a mystery man to open a hot new club, the catch being he's given a new--and terrible--song to sing each night. Noticing that whenever he sings one a new crime is committed, Johnny gradually realizes his songwriter-benefactor is a powerful mob boss in hiding and his "Greatest Hits" are the only way the man can give orders to his crew...

Meet the Mobsters

2005

Living With Lincoln poster
7.4

Filmmaker Peter Kunhardt examines how a one-of-a-kind collection of Abraham Lincoln photos and memorabilia have profoundly shaped the lives and sensibilities of five generations of his family.

Living With Lincoln

2015

Dirt Boy poster
8.0

Life wasn't easy for young Henry. The tragic loss of his mother the day he was born plagued his relationship with his father. Then he began hearing voices whispering in the dark like a long needed friend saying, "Do it for Daddy, show him you care!" What Henry does for daddy sets in motion the most horrific, brutal, psychological monster that Cape Cod has ever seen!

Dirt Boy

2001