Anne DeSalvo

Acting

Anne DeSalvo

Born 1949-04-03 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Anne De Salvo (sometimes spelled Anne DeSalvo; born April 3, 1949) is an American actress and filmmaker. She has been described as "one of the top character actresses of her generation

Acting credits

Starting Over poster
6.4

After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.

Starting Over

1979

Burglar poster
5.2

Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr is a burglar by trade, and she runs a bookstore as well. Her friend Carl Hefler is a dog groomer. After a successful burglary, it's discovered that a dead body was in the house she burgled. As she's the only one who can be placed at the scene of the crime, she has to use her criminal skills to clear her name of the murder AND avoid getting charged with the burglary.

Burglar

1987

Bad Manners poster
5.9

Four teens on the run from an orphanage spring a fellow orphan recently adopted by a rich family, then trash the whole house.

Bad Manners

1984

Arthur poster
6.5

Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.

Arthur

1981

Radioland Murders poster
5.8

A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.

Radioland Murders

1994

Perfect poster
5.6

A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight.

Perfect

1985

Taking Care of Business poster
6.3

An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.

Taking Care of Business

1990

Stardust Memories poster
6.9

While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

Stardust Memories

1980

D.C. Cab poster
5.2

The tale of a hapless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold. Albert comes to town with a dream of starting his own cab company but needs to motivate Harold's employees to want to make something out of themselves. It is only when Albert is kidnapped that the cabbies must decide whether or not they are loyal to Albert and his cause.

D.C. Cab

1983

My Favorite Year poster
6.6

Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.

My Favorite Year

1982

Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story poster
5.8

A young girl falls in love with a married auto body shop worker, leading to dramatic consequences.

Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story

1993

Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women poster
5.1

Spoof-meister, Julie Brown does a musical send-up of Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbit's debutante debacles

Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women

1994

Murder in Mind poster
5.4

The L.A. police find two bodies in a fancy house and suspect the wife of one victim. Dr. Ellis, a hypnotherapist, takes her back in time; with the police listening, a pattern of spousal abuse emerges. When each trance ends, however, the woman, Carolyn Walker, wonders if those repressed memories are true. Dr. Ellis guides her through her trial, testifies himself, and continues treatment after the verdict is in. Carolyn's memory and well-being get worse after the trial, not better. She misses some therapy sessions, and Dr. Ellis comes to see her at home. Snatches of memory come and go. Can he help her remember what really happened? Are the cops satisfied justice has been done?

Murder in Mind

1997

Compromising Positions poster
5.3

An ex-newspaper woman, who is now a suburban housewife, can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who had been having affairs with several of her neighbors.

Compromising Positions

1985

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can poster
7.0

An adaptation of Barbara Gordon's nonfiction account of her addiction to Valium.

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

1982

Lovesick poster
5.9

Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.

Lovesick

1983

Hi-Life poster
6.7

Jimmy needs $900 to clear a gambling debt but a series of lies leads to Ray trying to raise the cash from friends who owe him money.

Hi-Life

1998

The Ordeal of Patty Hearst poster
6.5

The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerrilla organization, as seen by the FBI agent in charge of her case.

The Ordeal of Patty Hearst

1979

The Amati Girls poster
4.7

Four sisters who disagree about everything... except what matters most. Family.

The Amati Girls

2001

One Hot Summer Night poster
4.2

When a wealthy businessman is murdered by a hired assassin, suspicion falls on the victim's abused wife and her lover.

One Hot Summer Night

1998

Arena Brains poster
5.0

A short film by painter-turned-filmmaker Robert Longo, "Arena Brains" is a series of interlocking vignettes set in and around the art world of 1980s New York City, satirizing the neuroses and eccentricities of this milieu.

Arena Brains

1987

Fear, Anxiety and Depression poster
6.0

An unsuccessful playwright faces trials and tribulations as he seeks to find himself in New York City.

Fear, Anxiety and Depression

1989

Every Dog Has Its Day poster
5.0

After getting fired from his teaching job and dumped by his girlfriend, Jack, a painter, embarks on a soul searching road trip with his dog, Scout. However, bad weather and bumps in the road quickly cause more problems than he can handle. An impulsive decision to take from a bag full of unknown pills leads him on a drug-fueled journey with no destination in sight, and he soon finds himself making both friends and foes along the way.

Every Dog Has Its Day

1998

Unstrung Heroes poster
6.1

Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother became sick, moves in with his two eccentric uncles. As Steven grows closer to his uncles, he learns how to cope with his emotions and to value his own uniqueness.

Unstrung Heroes

1995

Behind the camera