
Priscilla Pointer
Born May 18, 1924 · New York City, New York, USA
Priscilla Marie Pointer (May 18, 1924 – April 28, 2025) was an American actress. She began her career in the theater in the late 1940s, including productions on Broadway. Later, Pointer moved to Hollywood and made appearances on television beginning in the early 1950s. Pointer was the mother of actress and singer Amy Irving, making her the former mother-in-law of filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Bruno Barreto. Description above from the Wikipedia article Priscilla Pointer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Carrie

Blue Velvet

Inferno

Twilight Zone: The Movie

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Rumpelstiltskin

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

Mommie Dearest

The Falcon and the Snowman

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

The Flash

C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud

The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics

Acting 'Carrie'

Nickelodeon

The Onion Field

A Show of Force

Carried Away

The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire

Alone

Honeysuckle Rose

A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story

Micki & Maude

The Great Texas Dynamite Chase

Sweet Nothing in My Ear

The Failing of Raymond

The Magic Bubble

Disturbed
TV Shows

Adam-12

L.A. Law

The Rockford Files

Quincy, M.E.

St. Elsewhere

Judging Amy

The A-Team

Touched by an Angel

Newhart

Cannon

Barnaby Jones

Lou Grant

The High Chaparral

Police Woman

The Name of the Game

ABC Afterschool Special

McCloud

Amazing Stories

Kojak

Harry O

The Flash

Mrs. Columbo

Call to Glory

China Smith

City of Angels

Kate McShane

What Really Happened to the Class of '65?

Stone
More Movies

Death Takes a Holiday

Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage

The Competition

Good-bye Cruel World

Mysterious Two

A Killing Affair

Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night

The 3,000 Mile Chase

Generation

From the Hip

The Gift of Life

Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur

Runaway Father

The Keegans




