Alice Drummond
Alice Elizabeth Drummond (née Ruyter; May 21, 1928 – November 30, 2016) was an American actress. A veteran Off-Broadway performer, she was nominated in 1970 for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance as Mrs. Lee in The Chinese by Murray Schisgal. She may be best known as Alice, the librarian, in the opening scenes of the 1984 horror-comedy Ghostbusters.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.549 |
| Birthday | 1928-05-21 |
| Place of Birth | Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA |
| Also Known As |
1984
Ghostbusters
7.5/9695
After losing their university jobs, three parapsychologists start a ghost-catching business in New York City and uncover a supernatural threat that co...
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Ghostbusters
2003
Pieces of April
6.498/267
Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But w...
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Pieces of April
1997
In & Out
6.46/740
A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.
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In & Out
1990
Awakenings
7.774/2840
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patie...
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Awakenings
2009
Motherhood
5.019/134
In Manhattan, a mother of two preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party has no idea of the challenges she's about to face in order to pull off...
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Motherhood
1994
Nobody's Fool
6.891/340
A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young wif...
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Nobody's Fool
1999
The Love Letter
5.162/71
In the sleepy New England town of Loblolly By The Sea, a letter has arrived that is going to wake things up. It is a love letter - ardent, sensual......
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The Love Letter
1998
Just the Ticket
5.45/30
Gary Starke is one of the best ticket scalpers in New York City. His girlfriend, Linda, doesn't approve of his criminal lifestyle, though, and dumps h...
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Just the Ticket
2007
Mitch Albom's For One More Day
3/6
While back in his hometown, a suicidal former baseball player encounters the spirit of his deceased mother, who takes him on a sentimental tour meant...
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Mitch Albom's For One More Day
1988
Funny Farm
6.158/291
Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclus...
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Funny Farm
1996
Walking and Talking
6.054/56
Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagement, bringing her anxiety and insecurity right back.
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Walking and Talking
2008
Chronic Town
6/1
Truman Korovin is a lonely, sharp-witted cab driver in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1980. The usual routine of picking up fares and spending his nights at his f...
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Chronic Town
2001
The Rising Place
6.667/3
The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injust...
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The Rising Place
1989
Money, Power, Murder.
5.375/4
Peter Finley is a cable-TV newsman who is led into a network of sin and conspiracy when he has interest in a missing anchorwoman's story.
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Money, Power, Murder.
1974
Man on a Swing
5.944/27
When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief Lee Tucker can find no clues pointing to her kill...
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Man on a Swing
2010
Furry Vengeance
5.03/644
When real estate developer Dan Sanders finalizes plans to level a swath of pristine Oregon forest to make way for a soulless housing subdivision, a ba...
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Furry Vengeance
2020
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
6.9/16
The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the "Ghostbusters" franchise.
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Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
2009
After.Life
6.324/1222
Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.
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After.Life
1984
You Can't Take it With You
0/0
A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
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You Can't Take it With You
2008
Doubt
7.201/1900
In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
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Doubt
2008
Synecdoche, New York
7.546/1582
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as...
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Synecdoche, New York
2005
The Honeymooners
4.068/74
Working class New York bus driver Ralph Kramden is always coming up with get-rich-quick schemes for him and his best friend, Ed Norton, who's always a...
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The Honeymooners
1999
Advice From a Caterpillar
4.167/6
When it comes to romance, Missy's attitude has always been whatever. After all, her artistic career is flourishing, her spacious New York City loft is...
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Advice From a Caterpillar
1999
I'll Take You There
7/4
Still nursing wounds from a breakup, a man is forced by his sister into a blind date that turns into a nightmare.
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I'll Take You There
1999
Earthly Possessions
6.038/26
A bored homemaker planning to run away from her minister husband is taken hostage in a bank robbery. However, she sees the thrill in being involved in...
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Earthly Possessions
1997
Office Killer
5.2/47
When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to...
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Office Killer
1997
'Til There Was You
4.014/37
Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty years to fall in love at first sight.
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'Til There Was You
1997
Commandments
5/19
Seth Warner has reached the end of his rope. Ever since his wife died two years earlier, his world has been in turmoil. He is despondent, his career h...
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Commandments
1995
Jeffrey
6.25/70
Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect...
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Jeffrey
1993
Money for Nothing
5.583/78
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run....
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Money for Nothing
1993
Daybreak
5.256/41
When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no...
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Daybreak
1988
Running on Empty
7.443/350
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effo...
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Running on Empty
1981
Eyewitness
5.621/124
NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued when she shows up to cover a story at his workplace....
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Eyewitness
1980
Hide in Plain Sight
5.441/17
True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Program.
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Hide in Plain Sight
1978
King of the Gypsies
5.826/23
Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandson, Dave, leading to infighting between Dave and hi...
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King of the Gypsies
2000
Joe Gould's Secret
5.952/21
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Jo...
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Joe Gould's Secret
2004
House of D
6.352/155
In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappa...
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House of D
1970
Where’s Poppa?
6.051/49
When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he...
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Where’s Poppa?
1989
Nikki and Alexander
10/1
Alexander is a run of the mill New Yorker who meets Nikki, a Russian homeless girl. He agrees to let Nikki spend the night but she ends up moving in.....
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Nikki and Alexander
1977
Secret Service
9/1
Set in Richmond, Virginia in October 1864, tells the story of a Union spy working to seize control of the telegraph office.
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Secret Service
1988
The Suicide Club
7/1
A woman traumatized by her brother's suicide is inducted into a world of games involving murder.
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The Suicide Club
1994
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
6.575/6343
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The Ace is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeb...
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1972
Particular Men
8/1
A fictitious but powerful look at the dawn of the nuclear age, this stage performance follows several government scientists as they develop the atomic...
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Particular Men
1990
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
6.179/424
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.
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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
1979
Sanctuary of Fear
8/2
A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents sh...
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Sanctuary of Fear
1989
Animal Behavior
3.6/5
Biologist Alex Brisco develops a new method to communicate with chimpanzees. Instead of using machines, she teaches the chimps simple sign language. H...
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Animal Behavior
1995
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
7.373/761
Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When th...
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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
1982
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
6.243/175
When a Conservative TV crusader threatens to shut down beloved brothel, the Chicken Ranch, proprietress Miss Mona Stangley and her girls won't go down...
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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
1962
The Dog Lover
10/1
Jack is the fastidious manager of a local supermarket. The harmless but disruptive actions of his customers frequently give him headaches, which he re...
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The Dog Lover
1977
Thieves
4.4/5
Martin and Sally Cramer grew up on the hardscrabble Lower East Side, where Sally still teaches; meanwhile, Martin's the head of a fancy private school...
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Thieves
1994
I.Q.
6.02/487
Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.
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I.Q.
1988
The House on Carroll Street
5.864/55
A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. Wh...
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