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Colleen Camp

 
Actor: Colleen Camp
  • Born: Jun 07, 1953 in San Francisco, California
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '70s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: Valley Girl, Die Hard With a Vengeance, The Game of Death
  • First Major Screen Credit: The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974)

Biography

By any stretch of the imagination, Colleen Camp has enjoyed a diverse film career since her big-screen debut in one of the Planet of the Apes sequels in 1973. She has worked as an actress, dancer, singer, and producer; she was directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Nicolas Roeg, Jack Hill, and Hal Needham; and she was often cast as either a sex symbol or stuffy prude. Born in San Francisco on June 7, 1953, Camp precociously began her acting career in regional theater at the age of three, although her first big break didn't come until more than a decade later, when she was cast as one of the dancing Gold Diggers on The Dean Martin Show. In 1973, the actress landed her first film role with a bit part as a human slave in Battle for the Planet of the Apes; larger roles in The Swinging Cheerleaders and The Last Porno Flick followed, but, in 1975 Camp had the chance to show off her considerable comic talent in Michael Ritchie's satiric comedy Smile. Despite her strong performance, however, her career still failed to catch fire; while she found steady work, she tended to land larger roles in undistinguished films such as The Gumball Rally or Ebony, Ivory and Jade, and smaller parts in more ambitious pictures, such as Apocalypse Now and They All Laughed. (Camp also sang "One Day Since Yesterday" in the latter, a song which briefly grazed the Billboard singles charts.) In time, Camp began to develop something of a cult following, and, while she was still a long way from film stardom, she worked often and landed supporting roles in such hits as Wayne's World, Sliver, Die Hard With a Vengeance, and Election. Married to Paramount executive John Goldwyn, she began working more behind the camera in the '80s, serving as a producer of The City Girl in 1984, and was a part of the production team of a number of other films, including Teenage Caveman, Earth vs. The Spider, and The Day The World Ended. ~ All Movie Guide
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My Blue Heaven

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Track 29

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Walk Like a Man

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Colleen Camp
Born June 7, 1953 (1953-06-07) (age 56)
San Francisco, California

Colleen Celeste Camp (born June 7, 1953) is an American actress and film producer, known for her performances in two installments of the Police Academy series and as Yvette the Maid in the 1985 horror comedy Clue. She was also the first actress to play Kristin Shepard in US prime time soap opera Dallas in 1979.

Camp was born in San Francisco, California. She had small early roles in films like 1975's Funny Lady with Barbra Streisand. Camp was also a Playboy magazine pinup and played one in Francis Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now, though most of her footage was cut from the initial theatrical release. She would later feature more heavily in Coppola's Redux cut.

She has worked steadily in film comedies like Peter Bogdanovich's They All Laughed, 1983's Valley Girl and the Michael J. Fox comedy Greedy. She often is cast as a police officer. Camp has been nominated twice for the Worst Supporting Actress Golden Raspberry Award -- first, in 1982, for The Seduction, and then, in 1993, for Sliver. In 1999, she had a small part as character Tracy Flick's overbearing mother in the film Election, with Reese Witherspoon as Tracy. While continuing to act in shows like HBO's Entourage, Camp is also now making a name for herself as a producer.

She was married to John Goldwyn, a Paramount executive, from 1986 to 2001. They have one daughter, Emily.

She appeared in the episode of "House, M.D." that first aired on April 6, 2009.

Filmography (Actress)

  1. Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) (uncredited) .... Julie, Lisa's Servant
  2. The Last Porno Flick (1974)
  3. The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974) .... Mary Ann
  4. Funny Lady (1975) .... Billy's Girl
  5. Smile (1975) .... Connie Thompson (Miss Imperial Valley)
  6. Isis (1975) (TV) .... Wynn, "The Cheerleader"
  7. Ebony, Ivory, and Jade (1976)
  8. The Gumball Rally (1976) .... Franco's Date
  9. Amelia Earhart (1976) (TV) .... Starlet
  10. Death Game a.k.a. The Seducers (1977) .... Donna
  11. Love and the Midnight Auto Supply (1977) .... Billie Jean
  12. Cat in the Cage (1978) .... Gilda Riener
  13. Game of Death (1978) .... Ann Morris
  14. Lady of the House (1978) (TV) .... Rosette
  15. Dallas (1979) (TV) .... Kristin Shepard
  16. Apocalypse Now (1979) .... Playmate, Miss May
  17. Cloud Dancer (1980) .... Cindy
  18. They All Laughed (1981) .... Christy Miller
  19. The Dukes of Hazzard (1981) .... Bonnie Lane, "Trouble At Cooter's"
  20. Deadly Games (1982) .... Randy
  21. The Seduction (1982) .... Robin
  22. Trial by Terror (1983)
  23. Valley Girl (1983) .... Sarah Richman
  24. Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983) .... Dusty Trails
  25. City Girl (1984) .... Rose
  26. National Lampoon's Joy of Sex (1984) .... Liz Sampson
  27. The Rosebud Beach Hotel (1984) .... Tracy King
  28. Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985) .... Sgt. Kathleen Kirkland
  29. D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) .... Elaine Fox
  30. Doin' Time (1985) .... Nancy Catlett
  31. Clue (1985) .... Yvette
  32. Screwball Academy (1986) (TV) .... Liberty Jean
  33. Walk Like a Man (1987) .... Rhonda Shand
  34. Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987) .... Mrs. Kirkland-Tackleberry
  35. Addicted to His Love (1988) (TV) .... Ellie Snyder
  36. Illegally Yours (1988) .... Molly Gilbert
  37. Track 29 (1988) .... Arlanda
  38. Wicked Stepmother (1989) .... Jenny Fisher
  39. My Blue Heaven (1990) .... Dr. Margaret Snow Coopersmith
  40. Backfield in Motion (1991) (TV) .... Laurie
  41. The Magic Bubble (1992) .... Deborah
  42. Wayne's World (1992) .... Mrs. Vanderhoff
  43. The Vagrant (1992) .... Judy Dansig
  44. Naked in New York (1993) .... Auditioner
  45. For Their Own Good (1993) (TV) .... Chris
  46. Sliver (1993) .... Judy Marks
  47. Last Action Hero (1993) .... Ratcliff
  48. Greedy (1994) .... Patti
  49. Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) .... Connie Kowalski
  50. The Baby-Sitters Club (1995) .... Maureen McGill
  51. Three Wishes (1995) .... Neighbor's Wife
  52. The Right to Remain Silent (1996) (TV) .... Mrs. Buford Lowry
  53. House Arrest (1996) .... Mrs. Burtis
  54. The Associate (1996) (as Colleen Camp Wilson) .... Det. Jones
  55. Suddenly (1996) (TV) .... Jude
  56. The Ice Storm (1997) (uncredited) .... Dr. Pasmier
  57. Plump Fiction (1997) .... Viv
  58. Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) .... Debbie
  59. Jazz Night (1999) .... Marge Winslow
  60. Election (1999) .... Judith R. Flick
  61. Love Stinks (1999) .... Monica Harris
  62. Goosed (1999) .... Jane
  63. Bar Hopping (2000) (TV) .... Chick with Ax to Grind
  64. Loser (2000) .... Homeless Woman
  65. Someone Like You... (2001) .... Realtor
  66. An American Rhapsody (2001) .... Dottie
  67. Rat Race (2001) .... Rainbow House Nurse
  68. How to Make a Monster (2001) (TV) .... Faye Clayton
  69. Joshua (2002) .... Joan Casey
  70. Second to Die (2002) .... Cynthia
  71. Trapped (2002) .... Joan Evans
  72. Who's Your Daddy? (2003) .... Beverly Hughes
  73. L.A. Twister (2004) .... Judith
  74. In Good Company (2004) .... Receptionist
  75. Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend (2005) (TV) .... Maura
  76. Rumor Has It... (2005) (uncredited) .... Pasadenan Wife
  77. Material Girls (2006) .... Charlene
  78. Running with Scissors (2006) .... Joan
  79. Dead & Deader (2006) (TV) .... Mrs. Wisteria
  80. Factory Girl (2006) .... Mrs. Whitley
  81. '77 (2007) .... Janet Johnson
  82. Four Christmases (2008) .... Aunt Donna
  83. Winter of Frozen Dreams (2009) .... Mrs. Davies
  84. Psych 9 (2009) .... Beth
  85. Burning Palms (2009) .... Barbara Barish
  86. Cirque du Freak (2010) .... Mrs. Shan

Filmography (Producer)

  1. City Girl (1984) (associate producer)
  2. The Cream Will Rise (1998)
  3. Shattered Image (1998) (associate producer)
  4. An American Rhapsody (2001)
  5. Earth vs. the Spider (2001) (TV)
  6. How to Make a Monster (2001) (TV)
  7. The Day the World Ended (2001) (TV)
  8. She Creature (2001) (TV)
  9. Teenage Caveman (2002) (TV)
  10. The Monster of Longwood (2005)

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