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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      Non-Film Score Discussion: Doris Roberts - Rest In Peace     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Apr 18, 2016 - 7:07 PM     By:   msmith   (Member) R.I.P. Grandma Lilly.    Posted:   Apr 18, 2016 - 7:47 PM     By:   Solium   (Member) I never watched "ELR", but her character guested starred on "King of Queens", and was hilarious. She played the ultimate Mother-in-Law. RIP.    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 12:51 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Doris Roberts made her feature film debut in the 1961 Carroll Baker film SOMETHING WILD. Roberts played a co-worker of Baker's "Mary Ann." Jack Garfein directed the melodrama. Arron Copeland's score was released by Varese Sarabande in 2003.    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 1:45 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) I really only know her for one thing -- the grandma in EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND. But also for the role in CHRISTMAS VACATION, of course.    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 2:10 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Roberts had an uncredited role as a hotel maid in 1967's BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Gene Saks directed this romantic comedy. Neal Hefti's score was released on a Dot Records LP, but has never been reissued on CD.    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 2:20 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Roberts had an uncredited part as a hypnotic subject in the 1967 comedy DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE. Bud Yorkin directed. Dave Grusin's score was released on a United Artists LP, which was reissued on CD with a slight expansion by Kritzerland in 2011.    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 2:41 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Roberts had a supporting role in the 1968 mystery-thriller NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY. Jack Smight directed the film. Stanley Myers' score was released on a Dot Records LP but has never been reissued on CD.    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 2:58 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Roberts had a small role in 1968's A LOVELY WAY TO DIE. Frequent television director David Lowell Rich directed this Kirk Douglas thriller, which was filmed in New York and New Jersey. Kenyon Hopkins provided the unreleased score.    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 7:58 AM     By:   dragon53   (Member) Doris Roberts always played characters that annoyed me----the exception being the mayor's wife in THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE.    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 9:05 AM     By:   Christopher Kinsinger   (Member) The first time I ever saw Doris was in Elaine May's hilarious film, A NEW LEAF (1971). I adore this comedy!    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 11:45 AM     By:   CindyLover   (Member) Doris Roberts always played characters that annoyed me Sad but true, lke in the '87 movie from Cannon 9shere she clingy mother of the cops pictured. It's quite entertaining really.    Posted:   Apr 24, 2016 - 3:59 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) In 1970's THE HONEYMOON KILLERS, Shirley Stoler stars as "Martha," a lonely, overweight nurse who is entered into a "lonely hearts" club by her friend "Bunny" (Doris Roberts). Leonard Kastle wrote and directed this real-life crime drama. The score consisted of classical excerpts of the music of Gustav Mahler.    Posted:   Apr 24, 2016 - 4:29 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) In 1971's LITTLE MURDERS, Doris Roberts and John Randolph played "Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain," the intellectual, emotionally distant parents of "Alfred Chamberlain" (Elliott Gould), a New York photographer. Alan Arkin directed and had a featured role in this black comedy, which was based on Jules Feiffer's 1967 Broadway play. The score by Fred Kaz has not has a release.    Posted:   Apr 24, 2016 - 4:58 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) In A NEW LEAF, Doris Roberts plays "Mrs. Traggert," the coy housekeeper at the estate of wealthy heiress "Henrietta Lowell" (Elaine May). May also wrote and directed this 1971 comedy, which co-starred Walter Matthau. Due to the troubled post-production on the film, most of Johnny Mandel's score went unused, and music from Neal Hefti's OH DAD, POOR DAD, MAMA'S HUNG YOU IN THE CLOSET AND I'M FEELIN' SO SAD was tracked into the film.    Posted:   Apr 24, 2016 - 5:40 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Doris Roberts also appeared in the next Elaine May-directed comedy, 1972's THE HEARTBREAK KID. In the film, Roberts played "Mrs. Cantrow," the mother of "Lenny Cantrow" (Charles Grodin), a self-absorbed sporting goods salesman with a highly inflated opinion of himself. As proof that Roberts usually played characters older than herself, in real life she was only 5 years older than Grodin, her "son" in the picture. Garry Sherman scored the film, with the main theme being provided by Cy Coleman. Columbia Records released an LP of music, songs, and dialogue from the film, It has never been reissued on CD.    Posted:   Apr 24, 2016 - 10:30 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) In 1974's THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE, Roberts played "Jessie," the wife of the New York City mayor (Lee Wallace). Joseph Sargent directed the film. David Shire's score was last released by Retrograde in 2002.    Posted:   Apr 24, 2016 - 10:50 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) In Joan Micklin Silver's paean to Jewish immigrants, HESTER STREET, Doris Roberts played "Mrs. Kavarsky," a neighbor to Carol Kane's newly arrived "Gitl Podkovnik." The film's score consisted primarily of music composed by American cornet player, bandmaster, and composer Herbert L. Clarke, adapted by William Bolcom.    Posted:   Apr 24, 2016 - 11:45 PM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) Doris Roberts had her first poster credit in the 1976 comic horror anthology film BLOOD BATH. The film, directed by Joel M. Reed (BLOODSUCKING FREAKS, 1976), consisted of four loosely connected tales. The third story centers around greedy, racist loan shark "Ralph Lambert" (Jack Somack), who doesn't care about anything other than money and doesn't give a second thought to the lives he destroys in the process of obtaining it. Doris Roberts plays his wife. Michael Sahl scored the film, which saw limited release as the second half of a Cannon Group double bill.    Posted:   Apr 25, 2016 - 12:29 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) In 1979's GOOD LUCK, MISS WYCKOFF, Anne Heywood plays a virginal thirty-five-year-old high school Latin teacher named "Evelyn Wyckoff." Doris Roberts plays another teacher at the school in the small, conservative town of Freedom, Kansas. Sources differ as to whether her character is named "Rene" or "Marie." Marvin Chomsky directed the drama, which was based on a 1970 William Inge novel. Ernest Gold's score was only released in Japan on a Polydor LP. Kritzerland reissued the LP on CD in 2010.    Posted:   Apr 25, 2016 - 12:50 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) In 1979's THE ROSE, Bette Midler plays a popular blues singer, and Doris Roberts plays her mother. Mark Rydell directed the musical drama, which had no background score. Atlantic Records issued the song score on LP and later on CD. In 1983, Doris Roberts joined the cast of the romantic detective series "Remington Steele", which starred Stephanie Zimbalist as "Laura Holt" and Pierce Brosnan as the supposed "Remington Steele." Roberts played "Mildred Krebs," an IRS agent who was trailing Steele but who later decided to work for Steele and Holt. Roberts joined the show in its second season and stayed for 72 episodes to the series' end in 1987. In 1985, Roberts was nominated for an Emmy Award as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, losing to Betty Thomas for "Hill Street Blues."     Non-Film Score Discussion: Doris Roberts - Rest In Peace    < 1 2  > >>  Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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