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