Oct 30, 2009 | Encyclopaedia Britannica
IMAGES Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude , directed by Hal Ashby.[Credits : © 1971 Paramount Pictures Corporation; photograph from a private collection] Main American writer and actress in full Ruth Gordon Jones born October 30, 1896, Wollaston, Mass., U.S. died August 28, 1985, Edgartown, Mass.
This charismatic character lead has excelled in quirky, explosive, often Jewish, types and has been prominent on stage and TV since the 1960s.
Blasts From Your Past: Scott Baio, Nanci Griffith, Secret Policeman's Ball
COMEDIANS: A BUNCH OF CELLULOID-OUTS Comedians from Upright Citizens Brigade's Comedy Death-Ray screen the films that influenced them the most all this month at the Silent Movie Theatre, thanks to those innocent kids at Cinefamily who surely had no idea what they were getting themselves into.
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