Louise Latham

Acting

Louise Latham

Born 1922-09-23 · Hamilton, Texas, USA

Was an American actress, perhaps best known for her portrayal of Bernice Edgar in Alfred Hitchcock's film Marnie (1964). Most of her work has been on television, including appearances on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Perry Mason, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Hawaii Five-O, Murder, She Wrote, Designing Women (as Perky, the mother of Julia and Suzanne Sugarbaker), and The X-Files. Latham was also the first person to learn the real circumstances of Dr Richard Kimble's wife's death in the final episode of The Fugitive (1967). She has also appeared in the films Mass Appeal (1984) and Love Field (1992). Latham's Broadway theatre credits include a 1956 revival of Major Barbara, Invitation to a March (1960), and Isle of Children (1962). Description above from the Wikipedia article  Louise Latham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Marnie poster
7.1

Marnie is a beautiful but emotionally withdrawn thief, stealing from employers before disappearing under new identities. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, discovers her secret, his fascination turns to obsession, and he blackmails her into marriage, convinced he can cure her. But as he probes deeper into Marnie’s fractured mind, long-buried fears and compulsions begin to surface.

Marnie

1964

The Philadelphia Experiment poster
6.1

Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.

The Philadelphia Experiment

1984

Tough Love poster
6.0

The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Tough Love" program in searching for answers.

Tough Love

1985

White Lightning poster
6.1

An ex-con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

White Lightning

1973

The Sugarland Express poster
6.6

Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.

The Sugarland Express

1974

Love Field poster
6.1

Dallas housewife Lurene Hallett's life revolves around the doings of Jacqueline Kennedy. She is devastated when President Kennedy is shot a few hours after she sees him arrive in Dallas. Despite her husband Ray's prohibition, she decides to attend the funeral in Washington, D.C. Forced to travel by bus, she befriends Jonell, the young black daughter of Paul Couter. Sensing something wrong, her good intentioned interference leads the mixed race threesome on an increasingly difficult journey to Washington with both the police and Ray looking for them.

Love Field

1992

Firecreek poster
6.2

A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.

Firecreek

1968

The Haunted poster
5.9

When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out it's haunted. When the Catholic Church is no help, they reach out to famous demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren

The Haunted

1991

Paradise poster
6.2

A 10-year-old boy spends a summer in the country with a childless couple and a precocious girl.

Paradise

1991

Dying Room Only poster
6.6

A married couple are traveling on a deserted desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husband goes to the men's room. He never returns and the wife begins to suspect serious foul play.

Dying Room Only

1973

Savage! poster
5.5

A television reporter uncovers a compromising photograph of a Supreme Court nominee, only for the woman in the picture to die under mysterious circumstances. As he investigates, he’s drawn into a web of political intrigue and media manipulation. Originally conceived as a TV series pilot, the 1973 thriller aired as a standalone film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Martin Landau.

Savage!

1973

Mass Appeal poster
5.9

A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.

Mass Appeal

1984

Winter Kill poster
7.2

Someone is shooting the residents of a mountain resort town. Sheriff McNeill (Andy Griffith) must figure out the connection that links the victims and find the sniper before he (or she) kills again, and before the town council relieves him of duty.

Winter Kill

1974

The Ghosts of Buxley Hall poster
6.3

Ghosts and a young cadet try to save a military academy from being closed.

The Ghosts of Buxley Hall

1980

Stillwatch poster
6.6

Television journalist, Patricia Traymore, moves to Washington to do an in-depth interview with vice presidential hopeful, Senator Abigail Winslow. She moves into a house where she lived as a child and where her father murdered her mother and attempted to kill her. She wants to face the past and, with the help of a psychic neighbor, Lila Thatcher, find some answers about this tragic event. In the meantime, Senator Winslow has some secrets she is hiding.

Stillwatch

1987

Obsessive Love poster
5.1

A woman tries to create a relationship with the soap star who is the object of her obsession.

Obsessive Love

1984

The Priest Killer poster
NR

A police chief, confined to a wheelchair, and a former cop, who is now a priest, team up to discover who has been committing a series of murders of local priests. This TV movie was a backdoor pilot for the crime series SARGE and aired as a special-event spinoff of IRONSIDE.

The Priest Killer

1971

Hail, Hero! poster
6.5

Carl Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor. It is our hero's intention to use love, rather than bullets, to combat the Viet Cong. Needless to say, his idealism is no match for the harsher realities of war.

Hail, Hero!

1969

The Young Lawyers poster
10.0

Attorney Michael Cannon leaves his Boston law firm to become director of the Neighborhood Law Office, where he guides three law students on a case involving two visiting musicians accused of robbing and beating up a cab driver. TV-pilot that was an ABC Movie of the Week in October of 1969 and then became a TV-series as part of the 1970-71 season.

The Young Lawyers

1969

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale poster
8.3

The tale of a lonely Southern woman's longing for her handsome next-door neighbor. At once tragic and romantic, the story is a reworking of the Williams play "Summer and Smoke," which uses the same characters and setting but in dramatically different ways.

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

1976

Sweet, Sweet Rachel poster
6.6

An ESP expert uses his powers to try to track down a psychic who uses telepathy to commit murder.

Sweet, Sweet Rachel

1971

Settle the Score poster
5.3

Katherine Whately, a tough, young Chicago cop, comes home to her small town to settle her teenage rape. She is welcomed by her brother but shunned by her father. Josh, the town doctor, is her only ally in her quest for the truth. Together Katherine and Josh find the bloody trail of a serial murderer and shatter the lie that is two decades old.

Settle the Score

1989

92 in the Shade poster
5.8

A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain.

92 in the Shade

1975

Crazy From the Heart poster
4.0

A small-town, high-school principal still living at home with her mother shakes up her life in a way that even she never expected when she agrees to go out on a date with her school's Hispanic janitor.

Crazy From the Heart

1991