Marcia Rodd

Acting

Marcia Rodd

Born 1940-07-08 · Lyons, Kansas, USA

Marcia Rodd (July 8, 1938 – December 27, 2025) was an American actress, singer, and director. After studying theatre at Northwestern University, she moved to New York City and began a successful career as a stage actress. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1973 for her performance in the musical Shelter. In 1964, she starred as Dorothy Gale in a televised production of The Wizard of Oz. In 1969, she originated the role of Bobbi in Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers. Rodd made her film debut in Alan Arkin's 1971 film Little Murders, and received acclaim for her role as Portland Angel in Jonathan Demme's Handle with Care (1977).

Acting credits

Last Embrace poster
5.4

Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum, after which he eventually returns to work. But, once again, he begins to doubt his sanity when he receives a bizarre death threat written in Hebrew. Not knowing which of his colleagues wants to kill him, Hannan teams up with pretty young college student Ellie Fabian to attempt to unravel the mystery.

Last Embrace

1979

How to Break Up a Happy Divorce poster
10.0

A divorced woman comes up with a scheme to make her ex-husband jealous, so she can get him back.

How to Break Up a Happy Divorce

1976

The Scout poster
5.2

When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout Al Percolo gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potential gold mine in the arm of young phenom Steve Nebraska. Soon, the New York Yankees put a $55 million contract on the table—provided a psychiatrist can affirm Nebraska's mental stability.

The Scout

1994

Little Murders poster
6.8

A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.

Little Murders

1971

Citizens Band poster
5.0

The interlaced stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio.

Citizens Band

1977

Between the Darkness and the Dawn poster
6.6

A 17-year-old girl lapses into a coma and wakes up 20 years later.

Between the Darkness and the Dawn

1985

Dante's Hotel poster
3.8

When an unknown assailant preys on a haunted hotel's patrons, an event planner teams up with a mysterious tenant who's dark past is the key to freeing the cursed hotel.

Dante's Hotel

2023

T.R. Baskin poster
5.1

An enthusiastic young woman runs away to Chicago to start a new life. She is soon confronted with the emotional coldness of the big city and has to search for her place in the scheme of things.

T.R. Baskin

1971

Wanted poster
7.0

Caught in the middle of a sting operation orchestrated by the FBI, Jimmy Scrico goes on the run for his life when he is tricked into believing that he has killed a Mafia boss.

Wanted

1998

Keeping On poster
7.0

A preacher teams up with a labor union organizer to help unionize the mill where he worked.

Keeping On

1983

Road to the Well poster
4.5

Drifter, Jack, pays a visit to an old friend Frank whose mundane life is upended after the two become involved in a strange and seemingly random murder and journey up to the Northern California Sierra in order to bury the body.

Road to the Well

2016

American Christmas poster
3.8

It took another ruined Christmas dinner to make Martha finally realize: her kids are jerks. But this Christmas, Martha has had enough. With the help of her grandson, Sully, Martha is determined to make each of her family members face their ghosts of Christmas past. Find out whether Martha's plans will bring her family together or truly tear them all apart. Either way it is sure to be A Very Odd Christmas.

American Christmas

2019

A Movie Star's Daughter poster
8.0

A shy teen enrolls in a new school and doesn't make friends easily. Then, overnight, everyone wants to be her friend, once it is discovered that her father is a famous movie star.

A Movie Star's Daughter

1979

The Scottish Tale poster
7.0

A Scottish rendition of Macbeth. Mack is a humble poet who goes to Scotland to visit his three eccentric aunts. He expects them to simply greet him, but they tell him that he must marry Beth, the daughter of a rich lawyer. However, despite what Mack wants, Mack's brother Ian is marrying Beth, and so he must attend his brother's wedding. In order to persuade Mack to marry, the aunts prophecize certain strange events that would supposedly delay the wedding so that they could be married. Mack tries to stop them in order to show support for his brother, but it turns out that he never had to bother. For there are other secrets involved in the two families that delay the wedding anyway, and give enough time for the truth to be revealed about the love in the forthcoming wedding.

The Scottish Tale

1998

No artwork available
7.0

Three urban couples decide to chuck the hustle and bustle of the big city for the pastoral calm of country living.

Pioneer Spirit

1969

The Wizard of Oz poster
NR

An abridged version of the story of Dorothy’s adventures in the magical world of Oz.

The Wizard of Oz

1964