Katharine Ross
Highest Rated: 100% Shenandoah (1965)
Lowest Rated: 10% The Swarm (1978)
Birthday: Jan 29, 1940
Birthplace: Hollywood, California, USA
Katharine Ross first attracted attention as Anne Bancroft's daughter in Mike Nichols' "The Graduate" (1967). Ross added impressive credits to her resume as the female lead in George Roy Hill's blockbuster "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969). As Etta Place, the woman in love with Redford's Sundance Kid, she skillfully negotiated the film's seriocomic tone. She and Redford worked together in "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here" (also 1969), Abraham Polonsky's period drama about an American Indian (Robert Blake) who kidnaps his white lover (Ross) and is reluctantly pursued by the local sheriff (Redford). While her character was perhaps the least defined in the piece, Ross delivered a fine performance. avoiding cliche. She also gave strong performances in the modern whodunit "They Only Kill Their Masters" (1972) and the scary "The Stepford Wives" (1975). Perhaps her most notable performance may have been her award-winning supporting turn as the hooker daughter of Jewish refugees in "Voyage of the Damned" (1976). She was paired with future husband Sam Elliott in "The Legacy" (1979). More recently, Ross was cast as the overly proper, somewhat fragile aunt of a young girl whose mother has attempted suicide in "Home Before Dark" (1997). After reprising one of her best feature roles in the TV movie "Wanted: The Sundance Woman" (ABC, 1976), Ross accepted the regular role of the much married socialite Francesca Scott Colby Hamilton on the ABC primetime soap opera "The Colbys" (1985-87). She has frequently worked on the small screen opposite her husband, notably as the second wife of a Houston plastic surgeon (Elliott) who may have been involved in the death of his first wife in "Murder in Texas" (NBC, 1981). The pair have also starred together in the likable Western "Louis L'Amour's 'The Shadow Riders'" (CBS, 1982) and the biopic "Houston: The Legend of Texas" (CBS, 1986). They also co-wrote and co-starred in the 1991 TNT movie "Conagher," based on another Louis L'Amour novel.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Attachments | Eileen (Character) | - | 2019 |
| 78% | 59% | The Hero | Valarie Hayden (Character) | $4.1M | 2017 |
| 29% | 58% | Eye of the Dolphin | Lucy (Character) | $71.9K | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Capital City | Unknown (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Don't Let Go | Charlene Stevens (Character) | - | 2002 |
| 86% | 80% | Donnie Darko | Dr. Lilian Thurman (Character) | $205.8K | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Home Before Dark | Rose (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Climate for Killing | Grace Hines (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 76% | Conagher |
Evie Teale (Character), Screenwriter |
- | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Red-Headed Stranger | Laurie (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Reel Horror | Miss Macy (archive footage) (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Travis McGee: The Empty Copper Sea | Gretel Howard (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Secrets of a Mother and Daughter | Ava Pryce (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | The Shadow Riders |
Kate Connery/ |
- | 1982 |
| 30% | 40% | Wrong Is Right | Sally Blake (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marian Rose White | Nurse Bonnie MacNeil (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder in Texas | Ann Kurth Hill (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 47% | 61% | The Final Countdown | Laurel Scott (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rodeo Girl | Sammy Garrett (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 60% | 23% | The Legacy | Margaret Walsh (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Murder by Natural Causes | Allison Sinclair (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 20% | 23% | The Betsy | Sally Hardeman (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 10% | 19% | The Swarm | Helena (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wanted: The Sundance Woman | Etta Place (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 83% | 53% | Voyage of the Damned | Mira Hauser (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 67% | 65% | The Stepford Wives | Joanna Eberhart (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love and Chance | Docteur Constance Weber (Character) | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | They Only Kill Their Masters | Kate (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fools | Anais Appleton (Character) | - | 1970 |
| 90% | 92% | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Etta Place (Character) | - | 1969 |
| 73% | 48% | Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here | Lola (Character) | - | 1969 |
| 14% | 75% | Hellfighters | Tish Buckman (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Longest Hundred Miles | Laura Huntington (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 87% | 90% | The Graduate | Elaine Robinson (Character) | $285.8K | 1967 |
| 57% | 47% | Games | Jennifer Montgomery (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | The Singing Nun | Nicole Arlien (Character) | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | Mister Buddwing | Janet (Character) | - | 1966 |
| 100% | 79% | Shenandoah | Mrs. Ann Anderson (Character) | - | 1965 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 62% | Family Guy | Mayor West's Mother (Guest Voice) | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | 90% | American Dad | Sickly Lady (Guest Voice) | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Colbys | Francesca Colby (Character) | 1985-1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wild, Wild West | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Loner | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Valley | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Susan (Guest Star) | 1964-1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Novak | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Marie Costeau (Guest Star) | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lieutenant | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |
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?
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.