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  • Tim
  • Tim review by A customer from West Midlands
    Rated - 4 stars A Good movie 2 May 2005
    ...ovie,tear jerking at times. A great performance by a young Mel Gibson and also Piper Laurie did a good job as the older woman. Well worth watching, great ! ...  
  • Carrie
  • Carrie review by from Bedford, England
    Rated - 5 stars A true horror classic! 7 March 2005
    ... very moving and at times creepy film. Excellent music score, brilliant acting (Piper Laurie in particular) and unforgettable climax make this a must-have in any horror fan...  
  • The Hustler
  • The Hustler review by from Colchester, England
    Rated - 4 stars 19 November 2004
    ... loser'. Paul Newman gives possibly the best performance of his career opposite Piper Laurie, who portrays exactly the kind of character she plays best. With a supporting c...  

Piper Laurie - filmography


  • The Dead Girl on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Toni Collette,  Piper Laurie,  Don Smith
    Director: Karen Moncrieff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When a young girl is found murdered, the lives of several different individuals are impacted. Some of these connections are peripheral, while many others are painfully direct. The film is broken up into five distinct chapters, each with its own title. In "The Stranger," Arden (Toni Collette) finds ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,126 member
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  • Eulogy on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Hank Azaria,  Debra Winger,  Kelly Preston
    Director: Michael Clancy
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch - unveiling a litany of family secrets and covert relationships.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 3,453 members
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  • Possessed on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Timothy Dalton,  Henry Czerny,  Jonathan Malen
    Director: Steven De Souza
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In 1949 St. Louis, a troubled priest must save a little boy who is possessed by a demon. In the Showtime original POSSESSED, based on a true story, Timothy Dalton stars as Father William Bowdern, a seminary priest who takes to his flask because of his war nightmares. Desperate to do what's right, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 205 members
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  • The Faculty on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Clea Duvall,  Laura Harris,  Josh Hartnett
    Director: Robert Rodriguez
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The story of a group of high school students - loners, leaders, hipsters, nerds, brains and jocks - who make the terrifying discovery that their teachers are from another planet. With this knowledge they are forced to band together to save their school and town from alien domination.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 4,826 members
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  • Macbeth on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Jeremy Brett,  Piper Laurie,  Simon MacCorkindale
    Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Shakespeare's story of ambition and greed comes to life in this special production, featuring costumes and sets designed to match those of the original Globe Theater presentations in Shakespeare's own time. This production is one of the clearest and strongest versions of the great play ever filmed.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 43% from 138 members
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  • The Bunker on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Richard Jordan,  Cliff Gorman
    Director: George Schaefer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This exhaustive TV movie dramatizes the last three months of Adolph Hitler's life, spent in his bunker in Berlin. Anthony Hopkins is repulsively riveting as Hitler, while Piper Laurie is even more frightening as fanatical Frau Goebbels. Joseph Goebbels (Cliff Gorman) feeds the Fuehrer's ego as the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 20 members
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  • Tim on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Mel Gibson,  Piper Laurie,  Deborah Kennedy
    Director: Michael Pate
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A handsome, mentally retarded young man shares an intimate relationship with an attractive businesswoman in her mid-40's. When the question of marriage eventually arises, they both suddenly realize the seriousness of their friendship. Based on the novel by Colleen McCollough.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 456 members
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  • Carrie on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Sissy Spacek,  John Travolta,  Piper Laurie
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Brian De Palma's commercial breakout, based on a novel by Stephen King, helped launch a whole slew of teen-based horror films, and Carrie the blood-spattered prom queen has taken her throne in the pantheon of modern American myth. High school girls played by Amy Irving (in her film debut), P.J. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 12,484 members
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  • The Hustler on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Jackie Gleason,  Piper Laurie
    Director: Robert Rossen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Paul Newman shines as cocky poolroom hustler "Fast" Eddie Felson in Robert Rossen's atmospheric adaptation of the Walter Tevis novel. Newman's Felson is a swaggering pool shark punk who takes on the king of the poolroom, Minnesota Fats (a cool, assured Jackie Gleason in his most understated ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 5,833 members
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  • Tiger Warsaw on DVD
    Starring: Patrick Swayze,  Piper Laurie,  Lee Richardson
    Director: Amin Q. Chaudhri
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Chuck 'Tiger' Warsaw returns to his home town after an absence of 15 years, precipitated by an act of irresponsibility which destroyed his sister's wedding and left his father mentally unstable. His home-coming is shunned by his family, but he tries desperately to overcome the problems. PLEASE ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 82 members
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  • Hounddog
    Starring: Dakota Fanning,  Piper Laurie,  David Morse
    Director: Deborah Kampmeier
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In rural Alabama in the late 1950s, a spirited young girl, Lewellen, struggles to rise above the repression that surrounds her. Lewellen lives with her stern religious zealot grandmother, Grammie, but spends most of her time down the hill with her much-adored Daddy in his falling down shack. Daddy ..read more »
    Rate this: 5 stars out of 5 95% from 4 members
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Piper Laurie facts

5 most recent films

The Dead Girl - 3.0 stars
Eulogy - 2.5 stars
Law And Order Special Victims Unit - Series 3 - 4.0 stars
Possessed - 2.5 stars
The Grass Harp - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Law And Order Special Victims Unit - Series 3 - 4.0 stars
Twin Peaks - Series 1 - 4.0 stars
The Verdict - 3.5 stars
The Hustler - 3.5 stars
Children Of A Lesser God - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Sad Inheritance - 2.5 stars
The Bunker - 3.0 stars
Other People's Money - 3.0 stars
Hounddog - 5.0 stars
Macbeth - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Amy Irving - 8 times - show films
Dann Florek - 7 times - show films
Stephanie March - 7 times - show films
Mariska Hargitay - 7 times - show films
Martha Plimpton - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

James Quinn - 7 times - show films
Henry Bronchtein - 7 times - show films
Jean De Segonzac - 7 times - show films
David Lynch - 1 times - show films
Walter Murch - 1 times - show films