Ellen Barber


Biography

Ellen Barber was an accomplished actress who led an impressive career, primarily on the big screen. She also appeared in the TV movie "Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys" (NBC, 1975-76). She also acted in various movies at the time, including the Barbara Hershey crime adaptation "Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues" (1971) and the Sharon Farrell thriller "Th...

Biography

Ellen Barber was an accomplished actress who led an impressive career, primarily on the big screen. She also appeared in the TV movie "Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys" (NBC, 1975-76). She also acted in various movies at the time, including the Barbara Hershey crime adaptation "Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues" (1971) and the Sharon Farrell thriller "The Premonition" (1975). In the seventies and the eighties, she acted in the biographical drama "The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover" (1977) with Broderick Crawford, the drama "Natural Enemies" (1979) with Hal Holbrook and the comedy "Very Close Quarters" (1983) with Shelley Winters. She also starred in the TV movies "A Time For Miracles" (ABC, 1980) and "Born Beautiful" (NBC, 1982-83). Toward the end of her career, she tackled roles in the Kate Nelligan dramatic adaptation "Without a Trace" (1983), the Mickey Rourke drama "9 1/2 Weeks" (1986) and "The Rescue" (1988). She also was featured in the TV movie "Apology" (HBO, 1985-86). She also worked in television during these years, including a part on "Law & Order" (NBC, 1990-2010). Barber most recently acted on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (2001-2011).

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Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster (1965 1964) -- (Movie Clip) A Prophet Has Appeared Craziness in the newsroom, with meteor showers and a heat wave then Naoko (Yuriko Hoshi) is sent to cover a mystical person (Akiko Wakabayashi, whom we recognize as a fugitive foreign princess who was somehow captured en route to Japan) creating public panic, in Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster, 1964.
Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster (1964) -- (Movie Clip) ..Identified As King Ghidorah! Professor Miura (Hiroshi Koizumi) and his crew have been staking out the hot swelling meteor that landed in the opening scenes which finally cracks open, revealing the title character, causing panic in nearby Matsumoto, in the fifth Godzilla-franchise feature, Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster, 1964.
Godzilla, King Of The Monsters (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Fabulous Discovery Dr. Yamane (Takashi Shimura), with daughter Emiko (Momoko Kochi) now leading the expedition on Odo Island, American reporter Steve (Raymond Burr) and sidekick Iwanaga (Frank Iwanaga) observing, as the star makes his first appearance, in Godzilla, King Of The Monsters, 1956, edited from the original 1954 Japanese feature.
Godzilla, King Of The Monsters (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Tokyo Has No Defense Relatively safe in a newsroom, American reporter Steve (Raymond Burr) sets up his tape recorder, maybe for posterity, as the monster gets down to business in Tokyo, in the original U.S. version of Godzilla, King Of The Monsters, 1956.
Gojira (1954) -- (Movie Clip) What Could Have Caused This? The opening of the original feature by Ishiro Honda for Toho Films, with trouble at sea, followed by the introduction of Akira Takarada as sea salvage worker Hideo and Momoko Kôchi as girlfriend Emiko, in Gojira, 1954, re-cut and released two years later in the U.S. as Godzilla.
Godzilla, King Of The Monsters (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Unexplainable Phenomenon After a night of big trouble on an outlying island, American reporter Steve (Raymond Burr) returns with the natives to Tokyo, wise Dr. Yamame (Takashi Shimura) offering testimony, his first appearance, in the original Godzilla, King Of The Monsters, 1956.

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