Jessica Walter Profile

Featured Films

Citizen Kane

On the Waterfront

The Way We Were

I Never Sang for My Father

Jessica Walter Profile

TCM's guest programmer for October is Jessica Walter, who won an Emmy nod for her role as the hilariously "withholding" mother Lucille Bluth on the Emmy-winning Fox TV sitcom Arrested Development. Walter already has an Emmy of her own, having won as Outstanding Lead Actress for Amy Prentiss in 1975 after a nomination for The Streets of San Francisco in 1972, she was nominated again for Trapper John, M.D. in 1979. A graduate of New York's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, Walter also has many distinguished credits on the New York stage, including Neil Simon?s Rumors on Broadway in 1998 opposite her husband, Ron Leibman.

In movies, Walter was among the talented ensemble of young women in The Group (1966) and memorably terrorized Clint Eastwood in Play Misty for Me (1971). More recently, she played the mother of a would-be ventriloquist (Adrien Brody) in Dummy (2002). Walter's choices of films to present on-air with TCM host Robert Osborne represent dramatic highlights from three decades: Citizen Kane (1941), On the Waterfront (1954), I Never Sang for My Father (1970) and The Way We Were (1973).

by Roger Fristoe


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Starring Maurice Chevalier - 9/18

From the UCLA Film & Television Archive - 9/20

Guest Programmer: Bill Hader - 9/22

Starring Cornel Wilde - 9/10

Silent Sunday Nights for September


Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition) Director/co-writer/star Orson Welles' landmark debut film, a sweeping chronicle of the rise and fall of fictitious newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane and the mystery surrounding his dying word, is recognized as one of the greatest and mos... Was $26.99 now: $19.99 MORE >

On The Waterfront Winner of eight Academy Awards, this powerful, brilliantly performed saga focuses on the dreams, despair and corruption of New York City longshoremen. Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint star under Elia Kaz... Was $19.99 now: $16.99 MORE >