Lorraine Gary

Acting

Lorraine Gary

Born 1937-08-16 · New York City, New York, USA

Lorraine Gary (born Lorraine Gottfried; August 16, 1937) is an American actress. She is best famous for portraying Ellen Brody in the films Jaws, Jaws 2, and Jaws: The Revenge, as well as in the films 1941 and Car Wash.

Acting credits

Jaws poster
7.7

When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the beast before it strikes again.

Jaws

1975

Jaws 2 poster
6.0

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.

Jaws 2

1978

1941 poster
5.8

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

1941

1979

Jaws: The Revenge poster
4.1

After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives.

Jaws: The Revenge

1987

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story poster
7.5

The authorized documentary celebrating the film that redefined Hollywood, 50 years after its premiere. Featuring rare archival footage and interviews with acclaimed Hollywood directors alongside Steven Spielberg, top shark scientists, and conservationists, the film uncovers the behind-the-scenes chaos and how the film launched the summer blockbuster, inspired a new wave of filmmakers, and paved the way for shark conservation that continues today.

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

2025

Car Wash poster
6.0

This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.

Car Wash

1976

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden poster
5.9

A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

1977

The Shark That Roared poster
NR

A documentary on Jaws: The Revenge (1987) that celebrates the films 40th Anniversary and its achieved fandom since its release.

The Shark That Roared

2027

The Shark Is Still Working poster
7.3

After three decades, Jaws continues to intrigue, thrill and frighten viewers. This documentary focuses on the many ways in which Jaws has helped to shape popular culture.

The Shark Is Still Working

2009

Just You and Me, Kid poster
5.5

George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.

Just You and Me, Kid

1979

Jaws, a Monstrous Success poster
6.3

In the summer of 1975, the young director Steven Spielberg set new standards for cinema worldwide with an oversized shark bite, a plastic shark fin and an unmistakable two-note main theme composed by John Williams. With the horror from the deep, a man-eating, gigantic great white shark, the film of the same name became a similarly traumatic reference as Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho": it triggered lasting primal fears across generations. On the beaches of the world, there was clearly a "before" and an "after". Steven Spielberg, who was only 28 at the time, not only set new standards for the thriller genre, but also hid his biting criticism of US capitalism in the 1970s behind it.

Jaws, a Monstrous Success

2024

The Crash of Flight 401 poster
6.8

True story recounting the crash of Eastern Airlines, Flight 401, which crashed in the Everglades while on approach to Miami in December 1972. Accurate in many respects, the movie goes through the events leading up to the crash, the crash itself, and the rescue effort afterwards.

The Crash of Flight 401

1978

The Making of 'Jaws' poster
6.8

A documentary on the making of one of the greatest films ever made, filled with trivia, interviews from cast and crew and never-before-seen footage.

The Making of 'Jaws'

1995

The Marcus-Nelson Murders poster
7.6

A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.

The Marcus-Nelson Murders

1973

In the Teeth of Jaws poster
8.0

BBC documentary about the making of Steven Spielberg's Jaws.

In the Teeth of Jaws

1997

Zero to Sixty poster
4.6

A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners.

Zero to Sixty

1978

Pray for the Wildcats poster
6.2

Three ad agency executives are pressured into taking a motorbike trip to Baja by a big-ticket client. Along the way, the client is spurned by a young woman whose boyfriend sticks up for her. The client later disables their van, leading to their deaths in the desert. When the executives piece together what has happened, it leads to a showdown.

Pray for the Wildcats

1974

A Prowler in the Heart poster
NR

A mystery novelist meticulously creates an alibi to keep her husband from being convicted of murder.

A Prowler in the Heart

1973

Lanigan's Rabbi poster
NR

In this pilot film, an Irish Catholic police chief and a Jewish rabbi join together to solve the murder of a housekeeper whose body was discovered by the front entrance of the rabbi's synagogue.

Lanigan's Rabbi

1976

Partners in Crime poster
5.0

A retired judge who opens a private detective agency and her ex-con associate try to track down $750,000 in bank robbery loot.

Partners in Crime

1973

Jaws: The Inside Story poster
7.3

Steven Spielberg takes us behind the cameras for the making of a classic movie.

Jaws: The Inside Story

2010

The Making of Jaws The Revenge poster
6.0

A behind the scenes look on Jaws The Revenge with interviews from the cast and crew.

The Making of Jaws The Revenge

1987

The City poster
4.5

The trials and tribulations of the first Hispanic mayor of a major Southwestern city.

The City

1971

Man on the Outside poster
8.0

A retired police captain storms angrily out of retirement when his son is shot down before his eyes and his grandson is kidnapped by a syndicate killer in this pilot for Lorne Greene's brief "Griff" series, which went off the air 18 months before this film was aired.

Man on the Outside

1975