Deborah Pratt

Acting

Deborah Pratt

Born 1951-12-16 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Deborah M. Pratt is an American Director, Writer, Producer, Singer, Dancer, and Actress. After graduating from Webster University with a degree in Psychology and Theatre, she won a nationwide talent search and came to Hollywood under contract to NBC. She wrote songs and sang on multiple albums, started acting, writing and producing. After starring in multiple pilots and writing for the shows she had been reoccurring on, she co-Created, worked her way through the ranks and became Executive producer and head writer on the iconic series "Quantum Leap" for NBC for which she penned 25 episodes and co-wrote an additional 15. She Executive Produced and worked as the head writer for "Tequila and Bonetti" for CBS. Ms. Pratt co-Created for television and Executive Produced "The Net" for USA network. She wrote for multiple television series. As a writer, Ms. Pratt sold features to Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox animation. She is a proud, award-winning graduate of the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women and made her directorial debut with "Cora Unashamed" was for the BBC, PBS, and Masterpiece Theatre's The American Collection.

Acting credits

Airwolf: The Movie poster
5.9

Airwolf is capable of supersonic speeds, invisible to radar and armed with ultra state-of-the-art hardware. Airwolf is the most awesome aerial weapon ever developed. When the helicopter is stolen by Libyan mercenaries, Michael Archangel, Project director for the CIA, enlists the help of Vietnam veteran Stringfellow Hawke and his closest friend Dominic Santini, to attempt to recover the Airwolf. The mission throws them into the midst of Middle Eastern violence and destruction, where they come face to face with danger, romance and intrigue in their battle to re-possess the deadliest aerial weapon ever used.

Airwolf: The Movie

1984

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone poster
5.4

On a distant planet inhabited by mutants, two bounty hunters race to rescue three Earth female captives from the clutches of an evil warlord.

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

1983

Last Rites poster
4.7

After witnessing her lover being murdered by his jealous wife, Angela seeks refuge in a church where she encounters a young priest named Michael, who gives her sanctuary. But the killing was not a simple act of passion, as the victim had ties to organized crime, and, surprisingly, so does Michael, whose father is a powerful don. When the priest finds himself falling in love with Angela, his religious vows and family ties are both severely tested.

Last Rites

1988

Doula poster
4.3

After the sudden death of their midwife, an L.A. couple hires her hippie son to be their live-in doula.

Doula

2022

Peep World poster
4.8

On the day of their Father's 70th birthday party, four siblings come to terms with the publication of a novel written by the youngest sibling, that exposes the family's most intimate secrets.

Peep World

2010

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7.0

A young white man goes to a historically black college for the chance to be the starting quarterback. There he encounters considerable resentment and learns what it's like to be in the minority.

Grambling's White Tiger

1981

Love Is Not Enough poster
10.0

A black family leaves the ghetto of Detroit to look for a better life in Los Angeles.

Love Is Not Enough

1978

Unspoken poster
3.8

Two high-school, lesbian girlfriends deal with the intrusion of two teenage boys, jealousy, betrayal and drugs.

Unspoken

2006

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NR

Sam Beckett has leapt into a 26-year-old American male on a visit to Paris, France. Finding himself with a beautiful young British girl, all seems well until Sam discovers the exact date: August 30, 1997, twenty-four hours before the death of Princess Diana.

Quantum Leap: A Leap to Di for

2009

Behind the camera