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Beatrice Straight

Beatrice Whitney Straight is remembered as the matriarch Alice Dain Leggett in the miniseries The Dain Curse (1978), Queen Mother in the 1970s Wonder Woman series, and as Louis Schumacher in the 1976 movie Network, for which she held the record for the briefest performance to win an Oscar - a scant five minutes and 40 seconds of screen time.

English

Poltergeist

1982
as Dr. Lesh

Endless Love

1981
as Rose Axelrod

Network

1976
as Louise Schumacher

The Young Lovers

1964
as Mrs. Burns

Under Siege

1986
as Margaret Sloan

Bloodline

1979
as Kate Erling

Phone Call from a Stranger

1952
as Claire Fortness

Patterns

1956
as Nancy Staples

Chiller

1985
as Marion Creighton

Deceived

1991
as Adrienne's Mother

The Borrowers

1973
as Mrs. Crampfurl

The Formula

1980
as Kay Neeley

The Garden Party

1973
as Mrs. Sheridan

King Lear

1953
as Goneril

The Nun's Story

1959
as Mother Christophe

The Promise

1979
as Marion Hillyard

Power

1986
as Claire Hastings

Guest Star

Episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Special Delivery
1959
Episode The Andros Targets
Requiem For A Stolen Child (Part 1)
1977
Episode Wonder Woman
The Bermuda Triangle Crisis
1977
Episode St. Elsewhere
The Naked Civil Surgeon
1988
Episode The Felony Squad
Who'll Take Care of Joey?
1967
Episode St. Elsewhere
Requiem for a Heavyweight
1988
Episode Route 66
Kiss the Maiden All Forlorn
1962
Episode Route 66
Most Vanquished, Most Victorious
1961
Episode Suspense
The Red Signal
1952
Episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Cuckoo Clock
1960
Episode Ben Casey
Rigadoon for Three Pianos
1963
Episode St. Elsewhere
Split Decision
1988
Episode Mission: Impossible
Zubrovnik's Ghost
1966
Episode Route 66
The Cage Around Maria
1963
Episode Dr. Kildare
For The Living
1961
Episode Wonder Woman
The Return of Wonder Woman
1977
Episode Naked City
Memory of a Red Trolley Car
1962