Katharine Ross

Highest Rated: 100% Donnie Darko: 15th Anniversary (2017)

Lowest Rated: 10% The Swarm (1978)

Birthday: Jan 29, 1940

Birthplace: Hollywood, California, USA

Actress Katharine Ross was trained at the San Francisco Workshop, barely completing her apprenticeship before landing leading roles on television. She made her TV debut as a spoiled teenager implicated in a fatal auto accident in Are There Any More Out There Like You?, a 1963 installment of the NBC anthology Kraft Suspense Theatre. Ross was Oscar nominated for her second film role as Dustin Hoffman's amour in The Graduate (1967). After successfully teaming with Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, she became mired in a series of steadily worsening films. She staged a comeback as Francesca in the 1985 nighttime TV serial The Colbys. At that time, Ross was married to actor Sam Elliott. Together, Ross and Elliot scripted and starred in an above-average Western TV movie Conagher (1991).

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

		Credit
No Score Yet	Attachments	Actor	—	2019
78%	The Hero	Actor	$4.1M	2017
100%	Donnie Darko: 15th Anniversary	Dr. Thurman	$0.3M	2017
No Score Yet	We Grew Wings	Narrator	—	2012
29%	Eye of the Dolphin	Lucy	—	2007
87%	Donnie Darko	Dr. Thurman	—	2001
No Score Yet	Paul Newman: Hollywood's Cool Hand	Actor	—	1999
No Score Yet	Home Before Dark	Rose	—	1997
No Score Yet	Once There Was a Ballpark	Actor	—	1997
No Score Yet	Conagher	Evie Teale	—	1991
No Score Yet	A Climate For Killing	Grace Hines	—	1991
No Score Yet	Red-Headed Stranger	Laurie	—	1987
No Score Yet	Gone to Texas	Emily Dickenson	—	1986
No Score Yet	Redheaded Stranger	Actor	—	1986
No Score Yet	Carnival of the Animals	Actor	—	1984
No Score Yet	The Shadow Riders	Kate Connery	—	1982
30%	Wrong Is Right	Sally Blake	—	1982
No Score Yet	Murder in Texas	Ann Kurth Hill	—	1981
47%	The Final Countdown	Laurel Scott	—	1980
No Score Yet	Rodeo Girl	Sammy Garrett	—	1980
No Score Yet	Murder by Natural Causes	Actor	—	1979
10%	The Swarm	Helena	—	1978
No Score Yet	The Betsy	Sally Hardeman	—	1978
No Score Yet	The Legacy	Maggie Walsh	—	1978
83%	Voyage of the Damned	Mira Hauser	—	1976
No Score Yet	Wanted: The Sundance Woman	Actor	—	1976
No Score Yet	Origins of the Mafia	Actor	—	1976
67%	The Stepford Wives	Joanna Eberhart	—	1975
No Score Yet	They Only Kill Their Masters	Kate Bingham	—	1972
No Score Yet	Get to Know Your Rabbit	Girl	—	1972
No Score Yet	Pigs	Actor	—	1972
No Score Yet	Fools	Anais Appleton	—	1970
79%	Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here	Lola	—	1969
90%	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Etta Place	—	1969
14%	Hellfighters	Tish Buckman	—	1968
86%	The Graduate	Elaine Robinson	—	1967
57%	Games	Jennifer Montgomery	—	1967
No Score Yet	Mister Buddwing	Janet	—	1966
No Score Yet	The Singing Nun	Nicole Arlien	—	1966
100%	Shenandoah	Ann Anderson	—	1965

TV

		Credit
No Score Yet	The Wild Wild West 1965-1969	Sheila	1966 1965
No Score Yet	Gunsmoke 1955-1975	Susan Degler Liz	1965 1964
No Score Yet	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1962-1965	Carol	1963 1962

QUOTES FROM Katharine Ross CHARACTERS

Joanna Eberhart says: Why do they call you Dis?

Dale Coba says: Because I used to work at Disneyland.

Joanna Eberhart says: I don't believe it.

Dale Coba says: Why not?

Joanna Eberhart says: You don' t look like the kind of person who likes to see people have fun.

Elaine Robinson says: Good night.

Benjamin Braddock says: Are we getting married tomorrow?

Elaine Robinson says: No...

Benjamin Braddock says: Day after tomorrow?

Elaine Robinson says: I don't know. Maybe we are, and maybe we're not.

Etta Place says: I won't watch you die...

Butch Cassidy says: Do you believe I'm broke already?

Etta Place says: Why is there never any money, Butch?

Butch Cassidy says: Well, I swear, Etta, I don't know. I've been working like a dog all my life and I can't get a penny ahead

Etta Place says: Sundance says it's because you're a soft touch, and always taking expensive vacations, and buying drinks for everyone, and you're a rotten gambler.

Butch Cassidy says: Well that might have something to do with it.

The Sundance Kid says: What I'm saying is, if you want to go, I won't stop you. But the minute you start to whine or make a nuisance, I don't care where we are, I'm dumping you flat.

Butch Cassidy says: Don't sugarcoat it like that, Kid. Tell her straight.

Etta Place says: I'm 26, and I'm single, and a school teacher, and that's the bottom of the pit. And the only excitement I've known is here with me now. I'll go with you, and I won't whine, and I'll sew your socks, and I'll stitch you when you're wounded, and I'll do anything you ask of me except one thing. I won't watch you die. I'll miss that scene if you don't mind.

Donnie Darko says: I made a new friend.

Dr. Lillian Thurman says: Real or imaginary?

Donnie Darko says: Imaginary.

Dr. Lillian Thurman says: How are things going at school?

Donnie Darko says: I think about girls a lot.

Dr. Lillian Thurman says: I asked you about school, Donnie.

Donnie Darko says: I think about fucking a lot during school

Dr. Lillian Thurman says: What did Roberta Sparrow say to you?

Donnie Darko says: She said, "Every living creature on earth dies alone."

Donnie Darko says: She said, 'Every living creature on earth dies alone.'

Dr. Lillian Thurman says: You think the pursuit of God is absurd?

Donnie Darko says: It is if everyone dies alone.

Dr. Lillian Thurman says: And are you afraid of that?

Donnie Darko says: I don't want to be alone.

Dr. Lillian Thurman says: You think the pursuit of God is absurd?

Donnie Darko says: It is if everyone dies alone.

Dr. Lillian Thurman says: And how does that make you afraid?

Donnie Darko says: I don't want to be alone.