Lisa Eichhorn

Actor

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Birth Place

Reading, Pennsylvania, USA

Born

February 04, 1952

Biography

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This talented leading lady has divided her time between stage and film roles in both England and the US. Lisa Eichhorn was first seen by American audiences opposite Richard Gere in the World War II romance, "Yanks" (1979), but her presence in her native land has been lessened by her decision to base in England. Nevertheless, Eichhorn has offered several critically-acclaimed feature film ...

Filmography

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About Time (2013)

Boys and Girls (2000)

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Diana: The People's Princess (1999)

Goodbye Lover (1999)

My Neighbor's Daughter (1998)

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Last Picture Show, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) That's A Roughneck For You

Midnight Express (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Choose Your Own Death

Family & Companions

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John Curless

Husband

Actor. Divorced in 1979.

Ben Nye Jr

Husband

Film and TV makeup artist. Married on February 8, 1981.

Biography

This talented leading lady has divided her time between stage and film roles in both England and the US. Lisa Eichhorn was first seen by American audiences opposite Richard Gere in the World War II romance, "Yanks" (1979), but her presence in her native land has been lessened by her decision to base in England. Nevertheless, Eichhorn has offered several critically-acclaimed feature film portrayals, even if she did not become a "box-office" commodity. She appeared alongside Lee Remick in the Merchant-Ivory production "The Europeans" (1979), opposite Treat Williams in "Why Would I Lie?" (1980) and was "Mo" Cutter in "Cutter's Way" (1981), opposite Jeff Bridges and John Heard. In the 90s, Eichhorn has begun to play mother roles, notably Jesse Bradford's mother, sent to a sanitarium, in Steven Soderbergh's "King of the Hill" (1993) and the First Lady in the pallid comedy "First Kid" (1996).

Her work on American TV has been sporadic. Eichhorn made her TV-movie debut in the celebrated 1982 CBS production of "The Wall" as a Jewish woman in the Warsaw ghetto who participates in the uprising and survives to reach freedom. She was a CIA operative in the USA Network movie, "Pride and Extreme Prejudice" (1990), and although she had never been on a primetime series as a regular, Eichhorn did appear on the ABC daytime drama "All My Children" as Elizabeth Carlyle in 1987. Eichhorn has made memorable guest appearances on "Miami Vice," "The Equalizer" and two separate episodes of "Law & Order." Additionally, she has worked on stage: as Ophelia in "Hamlet," Rosalind in "As You Like It" and Nora in "A Doll's House" in England; and in "The Hasty Heart," "The Common Pursuit" and "The Speed of Darkness" in the US.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

About Time (2013)

Boys and Girls (2000)

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Diana: The People's Princess (1999)

Goodbye Lover (1999)

My Neighbor's Daughter (1998)

First Kid (1996)

Linda Davenport

Sticks and Stones (1996)

A Modern Affair (1994)

King of the Hill (1993)

The Vanishing (1993)

Nocturne (1990)

Pride and Extreme Prejudice (1990)

Grim Prairie Tales (1990)

Agatha Christie's Murder In Three Acts (1986)

Blind Justice (1986)

Opposing Force (1986)

Lieutenant Casey

Wildrose (1984)

The Weather in the Streets (1983)

The Wall (1982)

Cutter's Way (1981)

Why Would I Lie? (1980)

The Europeans (1979)

Writer (Feature Film)

Defenders of Riga (2007)

Producer (Feature Film)

Defenders of Riga (2007)

Cast (Special)

Inspector Morse: The Wench Is Dead (1999)

Wings of a Dove (1985)

Feel the Heat (1983)

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

The Judas Kiss (1999)

A Woman Named Jackie (1991)

Life Events

1979

Film debut, "Yanks"

1982

US stage debut, "The Hasty Heart" in Los Angeles

1982

TV movie debut, "The Wall"

1987

TV series debut as a regular, "All My Children"

1991

Broadway debut, "The Speed of Darkness"

1993

Appeared as Mrs. Kurlander in Steven Soderbergh's "King of the Hill"

1996

Was featured in "First Kid" as the First Lady

Videos

Last Picture Show, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) That's A Roughneck For You Outside what amounts to a whole-town Christmas party (in novelist and co-screenwriter Larry McMurtry’s fictional 1951 Anarene, Texas) Jacy (Cybill Shepherd) frustrates jock boyfriend Duane (Jeff Bridges), contriving an excuse allowing her to slip away with Lester (Randy Quaid) to a promising country-club party in a bigger town, Peter Bogdanovich directing, in The Last Picture Show, 1971.

Midnight Express (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Choose Your Own Death American Jimmy (Randy Quaid), compatriot Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) and Brit Max (John Hurt) considering prospects of breaking out of their Turkish prison, in Midnight Express, 1978, directed by Alan Parker.

Bound For Glory (1976) -- (Movie Clip) 30 More Pickers For Today Famous shot from Bound For Glory, 1976, Hal Ashby directing David Carradine as folk singer Woody Guthrie, in a California labor camp, with pal Randy Quaid, the first use of a Steadicam in a major motion picture, by inventor and operator Garrett Brown.

Last Detail, The (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Give This Man A Beer! Entering a Washington, D.C. bar and determined to show their prisoner (Randy Quaid) a good time, navy cops Mulhall (Otis Young) and especially "Bad Ass" Buddusky (Jack Nicholson), in a profane tangle with the bartender (Don McGovern), in Hal Ashby's The Last Detail, 1973.

Last Detail, The (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Thirteen Buttons Arrived at New York's Penn Station as they transport their sailor prisoner (Randy Quaid), Navy patrolmen Buddusky (Jack Nicholson) and Mulhall (Otis Young) seize the opportunity to butt heads with rival Marines, in Hal Ashby's The Last Detail, 1973.

Long Riders, The -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Ain't No Safe Distinctive Ry Cooder music, opening credits and Jesse James (James Keach) irritated at a breach in bank-robbing protocol by Ed Miller (Dennis Quaid) in Walter Hill's real-brothers Western The Long Riders, 1980.

Long Riders, The -- (Movie Clip) Northfield Wild sound effects and slo-mo in a piece of the action as the James (Keach), Younger (Carradine) and other brothers attempt to escape Northfield, Minnesota in Walter Hill's The Long Riders, 1980.

Long Riders, The -- (Movie Clip) You Look Fine, Charlie Sheepish Bob and Charlie Ford (Nicholas and Christopher Guest) approach the senior members of the James Gang (Stacy Keach, David Carradine and Randy Quaid) at a dance in Walter Hill's The Long Riders, 1980.

Last Detail, The - (Original Trailer) Two shore patrolmen decide to show a prisoner a good time on his way to the brig in The Last Detail (1973) starring Jack Nicholson and Randy Quaid.

Foxes - (Original Trailer) Four San Fernando Valley teens turn to sex and drugs to deal with their problems in Foxes (1980) starring Jodie Foster.

Missouri Breaks, The - (Original Trailer) Cattle thief Jack Nicholson vs. "regulator" Marlon Brando in Arthur Penn's The Missouri Breaks (1976).

Midnight Express - (Original Trailer) A young man arrested for drug smuggling fights to survive the horrors of a Turkish prison in Midnight Express (1978).

Paper Moon - (Original Trailer) A fraudulent Bible salesman (Ryan O'Neal) reluctantly adopts a tough little girl (Tatum O'Neal) who could be his daughter in Paper Moon (1973), directed by Peter Bogdanovich.

Freaked - (Original Trailer) A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist in Freaked (1993).

Family

Frank Eichhorn

Father

Public relations executive.

Dorothy Romero

Mother

Emily Nye

Daughter

Companions

John Curless

Husband

Actor. Divorced in 1979.

Ben Nye Jr

Husband

Film and TV makeup artist. Married on February 8, 1981.

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