Shirley Knight
Shirley Enola Knight (July 5, 1936 – April 22, 2020) was an American stage, screen, and television actress. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in 1960 for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and in 1962 for Sweet Bird of Youth.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.5183 |
| Birthday | 1936-07-05 |
| Place of Birth | Goessel, Kansas, USA |
| Also Known As | Shirley Enola Knight, |
2002
Shadow Realm
5.333/3
Shadow Realm is a compilation of two episodes planned for the short-lived Fox Network television series Night Visions. Each episode contained two stor...
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Shadow Realm
1997
As Good as It Gets
7.402/4102
A misanthropic author, a single mother and waitress, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
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As Good as It Gets
2006
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
0/0
The making of the film with Drew Casper.
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Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
1997
Little Boy Blue
6.095/40
Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son o...
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Little Boy Blue
2009
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
5.9/228
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading t...
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
1996
Diabolique
5.513/316
The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the body...
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Diabolique
2006
Open Window
5.438/24
The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
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Open Window
2001
Angel Eyes
6.066/471
A story about a seemingly unlikely couple who cross paths under life-threatening circumstances as though they are destined not only to meet but to sav...
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Angel Eyes
2002
The Salton Sea
6.594/356
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriend...
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The Salton Sea
1979
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
5.088/137
After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are sti...
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
1962
Sweet Bird of Youth
6.788/132
Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him b...
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Sweet Bird of Youth
2002
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
6.106/255
In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about he...
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
2006
Grandma's Boy
6.532/740
Even though he's 35, Alex acts more like he's 13, spending his days as the world's oldest video game tester and his evenings developing the next big X...
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Grandma's Boy
1995
Stuart Saves His Family
5.296/27
A self-help advocate struggles to put his dysfunctional family in its place.
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Stuart Saves His Family
1996
If These Walls Could Talk
6.654/81
A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a...
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If These Walls Could Talk
1974
Juggernaut
6.237/137
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship. Ins...
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Juggernaut
2009
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
5.447/2707
When a shopping mall is taken over by a gang of organized crooks, it's up to a mild-mannered security guard to save the day.
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop
1968
Petulia
5.97/50
Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new life for himself. One night, he catches the eye of...
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Petulia
2003
Mrs. Ashboro's Cat
5.632/19
Wes Merritt and his daughter Natalie (14) get more than they bargained for when they buy an old house that was formerly inhabited by the nice old Mrs....
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Mrs. Ashboro's Cat
2002
P.S. Your Cat is Dead!
4.423/13
With his life already in shambles — his girlfriend just dumped him, he's lost his acting gig, and his cat is seriously ill — sad-sack Jimmy Zoole (Ste...
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P.S. Your Cat is Dead!
1960
Ice Palace
6.313/8
Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon...
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Ice Palace
1966
Dutchman
4.808/13
A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blonde vixen looking for troubl...
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Dutchman
2010
Listen to Your Heart
7.1/84
Danny Foster doesn't have much: an apartment as small as his paychecks, no family, and a struggling music career. Yet for him, "every day is a great d...
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Listen to Your Heart
1981
Endless Love
5.711/247
As their romance unfolds, Jade and David's growing love for one another becomes the scorn of Jade's father. However, when Jade's grades begin to drop,...
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Endless Love
1982
The Sender
5.675/60
A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him.
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The Sender
2008
The Other Side of the Tracks
4.2/19
A depressed young man struggles to move on and escape haunting memories of his girlfriend, killed ten years ago in a train accident.
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The Other Side of the Tracks
1994
The Secret Life of Houses
7/1
A nine-year-old girl with a mother in the hospital decides to live alone and fend for herself.
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The Secret Life of Houses
1976
21 Hours at Munich
6.283/23
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.
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21 Hours at Munich
1966
The Group
5.734/32
It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper-class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own li...
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The Group
2001
My Louisiana Sky
6.385/13
A girl comes to terms with her mentally challenged parents.
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My Louisiana Sky
2013
Elevator
4.955/122
Nine people are stuck in an elevator. One of them has a ticking bomb that can't be defused. The other eight will do anything to survive. There is no e...
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Elevator
1969
The Rain People
6.596/78
When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.
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The Rain People
1982
Kennedy's Children
0/0
In 1974, five former activists from the 1960s meet in a bar, but do not relate. Each is lost in his or her own memories of more hopeful, revolutionary...
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Kennedy's Children
1994
Benders
9/1
Franny, an alcoholic, develops a relationship with Jack, a telephone crisis hotline operator. Jack is a recovering addict himself and is fighting his...
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Benders
2004
Sudbury
5.7/3
A family of witches -- sisters Sally and Gillian, their aunts Jet and Frances, and Sally's daughters Antonia and Kylie -- struggle with the blessing a...
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Sudbury
1962
The Couch
6.25/16
A psychopath calls the police before he kills, in between sessions with his father-figure analyst.
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The Couch
1996
The Uninvited
5.538/13
A family, trying to pull themselves together after losing their infant son, moves into a new home, where, almost immediately, the mother begins experi...
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The Uninvited
1960
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
6.467/15
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife...
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The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1964
Flight from Ashiya
5.625/8
Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal pr...
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Flight from Ashiya
1962
House of Women
5.333/9
An innocent, pregnant prison inmate (Shirley Knight) becomes the bad warden's (Andrew Duggan) personal favorite.
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House of Women
2008
Not Fade Away
0/0
A dark comedy/drama about a daughter struggling with her mothers rapid descent into Alzheimers.
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Not Fade Away
2000
75 Degrees in July
7/2
Sibling rivalry and other conflicts are revealed as one daughter, now a successful modern artist living in New York, returns to visit her Texas family...
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75 Degrees in July
1998
A Father for Brittany
7.6/5
Keith and Kim Lussier are a childless couple who are given custody of a 3-month-old foster child, Brittany. However, tragedy strikes when Kim dies of...
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A Father for Brittany
2014
Mercy
5.158/263
A single mom and her two boys help take care of their grandmother with mystical powers.
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Mercy
1968
The Counterfeit Killer
8/1
A Secret Service agent poses as a waterfront hit man to infiltrate a global ring of counterfeiters.
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The Counterfeit Killer
1975
Medical Story
7/1
A young intern goes up against three older surgeons as to whether or not a young actress should get a hysterectomy.
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Medical Story
1971
Secrets
4.536/14
A woman's unfulfilling marriage leads her into a passionate affair with a wealthy extramarital lover.
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Secrets
1978
The Defection of Simas Kudirka
6/1
Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied as...
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The Defection of Simas Kudirka
2013
Redwood Highway
5.9/13
Marie, a reluctant resident of a retirement community in Southern Oregon, decides to walk 80 miles down the Redwood Highway to see the ocean for the f...
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Redwood Highway
1979
Champions: A Love Story
6.7/5
Two teens become romantically involved as they train for a skating championship.
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Champions: A Love Story
2011
Our Idiot Brother
6.14/1029
Everybody has one—the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda an...
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Our Idiot Brother
1959
Five Gates to Hell
5.571/7
A group of nurses, doctors and nuns are taken hostage in Vietnam and sent up river to a castle hideout so they can cure an ailing war general.
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Five Gates to Hell
1994
Color of Night
5.75/621
A color-blind psychiatrist is stalked by an unknown killer after taking over his murdered friend's therapy group and becomes embroiled in an intense a...
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Color of Night
1993
A Mother's Revenge
5.5/8
A girl is beaten and raped by someone from the school, but he doesn't go to prison because there is no proof about it. Now, the girl's mother tries to...
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A Mother's Revenge
2015
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
5.181/1682
Security guard Paul Blart is headed to Las Vegas to attend a Security Guard Expo with his teenage daughter Maya before she departs for college. While...
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
1991
Shadow of a Doubt
6/6
Charlie is a young woman who is thrilled that her favorite Uncle Charlie is coming home for good. But she soon discovers that her namesake, a "Wall St...
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Shadow of a Doubt
1991
Bump in the Night
5.923/13
Martha "Red" Tierney used to be a hot-shot reporter, but that was before alcohol took over her life. One morning Martha's son, Jonathan, leaves for sc...
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Bump in the Night
2015
The Missing Girl
6/5
THE MISSING GIRL tells the story of Mort, the lonely and disillusioned owner of a comic book shop, and Ellen, the emotionally disruptive graphic novel...
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The Missing Girl
1991
To Save a Child
6.5/2
A doctor and his pregnant young wife move into a small New Mexico town. At first the locals are friendly and pleased to see them, but soon the wife be...
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To Save a Child
1968
Shadow Over Elveron
6.583/6
A corrupt sheriff knows the secrets of everyone in town and uses that information to go unchallenged. But after the arrest of an innocent teenager, th...
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Shadow Over Elveron
1995
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
6.985/67
The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unquali...
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Indictment: The McMartin Trial
1967
The Outsider
8/2
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies sta...
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The Outsider
1994
A Part of the Family
9/1
A bright young New York physician takes her husband, a jokey/cynical tabloid reporter, home to Illinois to meet her parents.
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A Part of the Family
1996
Somebody Is Waiting
5.5/2
An alcoholic father must take control of his wayward children when their mother is killed.
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Somebody Is Waiting
2003
A House on a Hill
9/1
A once-successful architect (Philip Baker Hall) has become a grumpy loner, but a young couple plead with him to come out of retirement to rebuild his...
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A House on a Hill
1994
Baby Brokers
6.5/6
A woman (Cybill Shepherd) financially supports the natural parents in hope of adopting their newborn, but she discovers she is the victim of a scam.
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Baby Brokers
1997
Convictions
6.667/3
It has been nine years since Bancroft's character shot Brown's son. She goes to the prison to vent her rage at him over what he did, and discovers he'...
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Convictions
1993
When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn
3.25/4
A woman places an ad in the "Soldier of Fortune" magazine to hire a contract killer.
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When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn
1996
A Promise to Carolyn
7.063/8
When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murdered 37 years ago by their stepmother, together the...
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A Promise to Carolyn
1975
Friendly Persuasion
7.5/2
During the Civil War, a Quaker couple risks their lives by helping runaway slaves.
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Friendly Persuasion
1996
Mary & Tim
6.75/4
Another adaptation of the novel "Tim", about the love that develops between a mentally challenged young man and the older, lonely widow who takes him...
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Mary & Tim
1973
The Lie
6/1
From an Ingmar Bergman script. Previously produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" and for the BBC as "The Lie" (both 1970). In this Emmy award...
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The Lie
1968
Filmmaker
7.313/8
A behind-the-scenes documentary by George Lucas about 29-year-old Francis Ford Coppola and his crew creating the 1969 film "The Rain People."
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Filmmaker
1994
Death in Venice, CA
4.875/8
A stressed out writer's getaway is complicated by advances from a lascivious 17-year-old relative.
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Death in Venice, CA
2003
Fly Cherry
6.667/3
A young girl dreams of flying, to get away from her neglectful mother, and forms a bond with her mysterious next door neighbor.
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Fly Cherry
1976
Return to Earth
10/1
The story of Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to walk on the moon, and the problems he had after his return to Earth, including the breakup of his ma...
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Return to Earth
1980
Playing for Time
6.895/57
When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using th...
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Playing for Time
2018
Periphery
0/0
A dying woman wishes to see her family through the good times and the bad times she will miss.
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Periphery
1994
The Yarn Princess
6.722/9
Margaret, who has certain mental disabilities, struggles when her husband, Jake, is diagnosed with schizophrenia and the authorities wish to take her...
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The Yarn Princess
1996
Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story
7.1/5
Story about a runner whose bulimia and anorexia threatens both her dream of competing in the Olympics and her marriage to Denver's mayor.
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Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story
1998
The Wedding
8.3/3
Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) is engaged to marry talented white jazz musician Meade Howell, but the pair face opposition from both Meade's family, who o...
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The Wedding
1998
A Marriage of Convenience
5.778/9
Succesful businesswoman Chris Winslow gives up her career to raise her deceased sister's son, Kevin. Eight years later, she must contend with the boy'...
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A Marriage of Convenience
1996
Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden
0/0
A young boy goes to spend the summer with his aunts in the South. He finds himself drawn to Jessica, who the other aunts describe as "slow," and he ev...
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Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden
1995
Dad, the Angel & Me
6.429/7
A divorced doctor finds himself in real trouble living with his daughter alone now. But fortunately a guardian angel is watching over the lives of bot...
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Dad, the Angel & Me
2006
Love and Debate
4/9
A girl goes to Harvard and joins the debate team. She has to deal with a ton of issues, from boyfriends, to ethnicity, to religion, to sexual assault...
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Love and Debate
1974
The Country Girl
10/1
Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't interf...
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The Country Girl
1984
With Intent to Kill
6.5/2
A high school football hero Bo Reinecker tries to piece together the events leading up to murder of his girl friend Lisa Nolen. Claiming to have exper...
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With Intent to Kill
2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
0/0
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who...
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
1984
The Sweet Scent of Death
8/2
An overworked American ambassador working in the UK attempts to spend more time with his wife by visiting a countryside mansion, but soon the trip tur...
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The Sweet Scent of Death
1975
Please Stand by for Murder
0/0
The wife of a TV executive thinks she might have committed a murder and is tormented by a stalker while locked inside an empty TV station.
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Please Stand by for Murder
2005
Sexual Life
4.867/15
As they seek romance and sexual gratification, the lives of eight Los Angeles natives — including a teenager, a wedding photographer and a hotel desk...
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Sexual Life
1972
That Quiet Earth
0/0
Joyce would appear to have everything to live for: two young children, an executive husband and a nice home, but...
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That Quiet Earth
1994
Hoggs' Heaven
10/1
A young poet wins his first prize of $250, but his family is not supportive.
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Hoggs' Heaven
1960
The Shape of the River
0/0
Determined to pay off his debts, Mark Twain sets off on a lecture tour.
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