Acting

Joella Deffenbaugh

Acting credits

The Hunter poster
5.9

During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals. Now, while he is working on apprehending fugitives in Illinois, Texas and Nebraska, he himself is being hunted by a psychotic killer.

The Hunter

1980

Angel Dusted poster
9.0

Cautionary anti-drug film based on a true story about the effects on Jean Stapleton and Arthur Hill when their teenage son (John Putch, Stapleton's real-life son) gets spaced out on a marijuana joint laced with PCP, or "angel dust," and the family is forced to wrestle with the crisis.

Angel Dusted

1981

Adam at Six A.M. poster
4.9

A disenchanted young Professor of Semantics at a California college learns of a distant relative's death in Missouri. He journeys cross-country to the funeral, then decides to spend the summer there and work as a laborer for a power-line company. In time, he meets a girl and falls in love but then faces an important decision as to which direction he wants his life to go.

Adam at Six A.M.

1970

Deadly Intentions poster
6.5

Katherine married Dr. Charles Raynor. She later discovers that Raynor is a sadist who torments her physically and mentally. She divorces him and take their child away. He then decides to kill her but when his plot is discovered he is charged with attempted murder and brought to trial.

Deadly Intentions

1985

A Question of Guilt poster
7.0

A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child.

A Question of Guilt

1978

Fast Friends poster
9.0

A young divorcee struggles to provide for her young son and make a new life for herself in the backstage jungle of a TV talk show, becoming fast friends with its head writer whose job it is to see that its host, a woman-chasing egomaniac, stays at the top of the ratings.

Fast Friends

1979

Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger poster
9.0

The dramatized biography of Margaret Sanger, the crusader who founded America's first birth control clinic during World War I and was tried in court under obscenity laws.

Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger

1980

The $5.20 an Hour Dream poster
9.0

A debt-ridden divorced mother and factory worker strives to get a higher-paying job on the traditionally all-male main assembly line.

The $5.20 an Hour Dream

1980