Ellen Albertini Dow

Acting

Ellen Albertini Dow

Born 1913-11-16 · Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA

Ellen Rose Albertini Dow (November 16, 1913 – May 4, 2015) was an American film and television character actress and drama coach. She portrayed feisty old ladies and may be best known as the rapping grandmother Rosie in The Wedding Singer (1998), performing "Rappers Delight". Dow's other film roles include elderly lady Mary Cleary who "outs" her grandson in Wedding Crashers, Disco Dottie in 54, the recipient of Christopher Lloyd's character's slapstick in Radioland Murders and a choir nun in Sister Act. She was best known to small screen audiences for her guest appearances on sitcom The Golden Girls. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ellen Albertini Dow,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Sister Act poster
6.8

When lively lounge singer Deloris sees her mobster beau commit murder, she is relocated for her protection. Set up in the guise of a nun in a California convent, she proceeds to upend the quiet lives of the resident sisters.

Sister Act

1992

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit poster
6.4

Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover that the school is due to be closed by the unscrupulous chief of a local authority.

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

1993

Road Trip poster
6.3

After a student at the University of Ithaca films his one-night stand with a beautiful sorority girl, he discovers one of his friends has accidentally mailed the homemade sex tape to his girlfriend in Austin. In a frenzy, he must borrow a car and hit the road in a desperate bid to intercept the tape.

Road Trip

2000

Wedding Crashers poster
6.5

John and his buddy Jeremy are emotional criminals who know how to use a woman's hopes and dreams for their own carnal gain. Their modus operandi: crashing weddings. Normally, they meet guests who want to toast the romantic day with a random hook-up. But when John meets Claire, he discovers what true love – and heartache – feels like.

Wedding Crashers

2005

Patch Adams poster
7.3

The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.

Patch Adams

1998

The Wedding Singer poster
6.8

Robbie, a local rock star turned wedding singer, is dumped on the day of his wedding. Meanwhile, waitress Julia finally sets a wedding date with her fiancée Glenn. When Julia and Robbie meet and hit it off, they find that things are more complicated than anybody thought.

The Wedding Singer

1998

Memoirs of an Invisible Man poster
5.9

After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while trying to cope with his new life.

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

1992

54 poster
5.9

When the mastermind behind New York's infamous Studio 54 disco plucks young Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, he not only gets his foot in the door, but lands a coveted job behind the bar — and a front-row ticket to the most legendary party on the planet!

54

1998

Radioland Murders poster
5.8

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

Radioland Murders

1994

Eight Crazy Nights poster
5.2

Davey Stone, a 33-year old party animal, finds himself in trouble with the law after his wild ways go too far.

Eight Crazy Nights

2002

My Blue Heaven poster
6.1

FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith certainly has his hands full keeping Antonelli away from the Mafia hitmen who want to stop him testifying, not to mention the nightclubs...

My Blue Heaven

1990

Ready to Rumble poster
5.2

Two slacker wrestling fans are devastated by the ousting of their favorite character by an unscrupulous promoter.

Ready to Rumble

2000

Problem Child 3 poster
4.8

Now a pre-teen, Junior has fallen head over heels for a classmate who doesn't even notice him, but does notice three other boys – a child star, a hockey player and a Boy Scout – who are rivals to Junior. This means war!

Problem Child 3

1995

Munchies poster
4.8

Simon Watterman, a space archaeologist, discovers the "Munchies" in a cave in Peru. Cecil Watterman, Simon's evil twin brother and snack food entrepreneur, kidnaps the creature. What Cecil does not know is that the creature, when chopped up, regenerates into many new creatures and are they mean!

Munchies

1987

Blood and Concrete poster
5.7

A dimwitted thug encounters a strung-out, suicidal young woman and an unlikely relationship develops as they work together to make a break for new horizons.

Blood and Concrete

1991

Longshot poster
5.7

A powerful businessman blackmails a fitness instructor in order to gain inside information on the stock market.

Longshot

2001

Annie's Point poster
5.6

A recently widowed grandmother is determined to grant her husband's last wish of setting his ashes free over the idyllic bluff they called Annie's Point. The charm of this tale lies in her journey.

Annie's Point

2005

Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling poster
4.5

Venturing into the woods causes nothing but trouble and hilarity for three misguided males in this straight to video spin-off of 2004's "Without A Paddle".

Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling

2009

American Drive-In poster
2.9

The goings-on at a typical drive-in on a summer night.

American Drive-In

1985

Carnival of Souls poster
3.8

A young woman is pursued in reality and in her subconscious by the sadistic carnival clown who raped and murdered her mother.

Carnival of Souls

1998

Frank the Bastard poster
2.3

A young woman returns to her birthplace after her father's death and unearths distant memories and long-buried secrets that change everything she thought she knew about her family, past and herself.

Frank the Bastard

2015

The Invited poster
3.9

A young married couple who are pregnant with their first child moves into their turn-of-the-century home where they discover that a great evil has resided there for nearly a century, unleashed by a previous occupant.

The Invited

2010

The Blue Hour poster
5.8

Several strangers in Los Angeles weave their stories of loss and hope, not knowing that their lives have brushed up against each others in small but sometimes profound ways

The Blue Hour

2007

Going to the Chapel poster
5.3

As a couple (Valentine and Greene) prepare to get married all sorts of uninvited and unexpected guests arrive and secrets are revealed.

Going to the Chapel

1988