
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

Twilight Zone: The Movie

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Mommie Dearest

Inferno

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

The Falcon and the Snowman

The Onion Field

The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics

The Flash

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

A Show of Force

Acting 'Carrie'

A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story

Nickelodeon

The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire

The Great Texas Dynamite Chase

Sweet Nothing in My Ear

Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage

Rumpelstiltskin

The 3,000 Mile Chase

Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night

Micki & Maude

The Gift of Life

Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur

The Failing of Raymond
TV Shows

L.A. Law

Dallas

Quincy, M.E.

Judging Amy

Adam-12

The Rockford Files

The A-Team

St. Elsewhere

Cannon

The Name of the Game

Newhart

Police Woman

Barnaby Jones

Lou Grant

Amazing Stories

Kojak

McCloud

ABC Afterschool Special

The High Chaparral

Harry O

The Flash

Mrs. Columbo

What Really Happened to the Class of '65?

China Smith

Kate McShane

Call to Glory

City of Angels



















