Dorothy Tristan

Acting

Dorothy Tristan

Born 1934-05-09 · Yorkville Heights, New York City, New York, USA

Dorothy Tristan (May 9, 1934 - January 8, 2023) was an American actress and screenwriter.

Acting credits

Klute poster
6.8

A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

Klute

1971

Down and Out in Beverly Hills poster
5.9

Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

1986

Rollercoaster poster
6.0

A young terrorist kills and injures patrons of a Norfolk amusement park by placing homemade explosives on the track of one of its roller coasters. After staging a similar incident in Pittsburgh, he sends a tape to a meeting of major amusement park executives in Chicago, demanding $1 million to make him stop.

Rollercoaster

1977

Scarecrow poster
7.0

Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.

Scarecrow

1973

Man on a Swing poster
5.9

When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief Lee Tucker can find no clues pointing to her killer. Flamboyant self-proclaimed psychic Franklin Wills offers his help to the skeptical policeman, and, when his supposed visions about the case begin to reveal clues and information that only the killer could possibly have known, he becomes a suspect himself.

Man on a Swing

1974

Bert Stern - Original Madman poster
7.6

The untold and intimate life story of one of the greatest American photographers of all time, Bert Stern. After working alongside Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine, Stern became an original Madison Avenue 'mad man', his images helping to create modern advertising. Ground-breaking photos of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Marilyn Monroe and Twiggy, coupled with his astonishing success in advertising, minted Stern as a celebrity in his own right.

Bert Stern - Original Madman

2011

Fear on Trial poster
9.0

The story of John Henry Faulk, a radio/TV personality of the 1950s, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Faulk sued the organization that was behind the blacklisting, and the resultant trial, and Faulk's victory, helped to put an end to the blacklisting period.

Fear on Trial

1975

Swashbuckler poster
6.2

A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.

Swashbuckler

1976

The Return of the Incredible Hulk poster
6.1

Continuing his solitary flight, David Banner arrives in a small town where he saves the life of a young heiress, the target of a deadly conspiracy orchestrated by her stepmother and a corrupt physician. While working undercover to protect the girl and dismantle the plot, Banner must struggle to contain the beast within, especially when the arrival of reporter Jack McGee threatens to expose his secret to the world.

The Return of the Incredible Hulk

1977

End of the Road poster
5.1

Moments after receiving his graduate diploma, Jacob waits at a train station. The future lies ahead, but life abruptly intervenes. Images flash in Jacob's mind: of war, injustice, assassination, protest, the entire spectrum of 1960s angst and anger - sending Jacob into a catatonic state. What follows during his bizarre rehab and its aftermath will be another form of madness.

End of the Road

1970

California Dreaming poster
4.7

Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized," while learning about love and life in the Golden State.

California Dreaming

1979

Griffin and Phoenix poster
5.3

Griffin has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Instead of quietly facing his death, he decides to have fun in the time remaining. At a college class on death, he meets Phoenix, who has terminal leukemia.

Griffin and Phoenix

1976

An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road poster
6.0

In the summer of 1968, a group of people assembled in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. They were making a film of John Barth's 1958 novel The End of the Road.

An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road

2012

Isn't It Shocking? poster
6.3

A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.

Isn't It Shocking?

1973

Journey from Darkness poster
7.0

A brilliant blind student fights a seemingly hopeless battle to gain acceptance into medical school.

Journey from Darkness

1975

The Trial of Chaplain Jensen poster
5.0

Based on a true story, this film tells the story of Chaplain Andrew Jensen, the only U.S. navy chaplain ever court-martialed on charges of adultery.

The Trial of Chaplain Jensen

1975

A Place Without Parents poster
10.0

When families drift apart and kids are frustrated and bored, and everybody feels like they'd like to strike out at something.

A Place Without Parents

1974

The Looking Glass poster
6.3

Troubled 13-year-old Julie loses her mother and must go to Indiana to live with her grandmother Karen. A former star of stage and screen, Karen has the early stages of Alzheimer's and wants to pass on all she knows to her granddaughter before it's too late. Will their troubled relationship allow this to happen?

The Looking Glass

2015

Behind the camera