Shirley Stoler

Hefty Brooklyn-born actress Shirley Stoler couldn't have escaped being a Cult Figure if she wanted to. Stoler's most colorful screen roles included the sadistic, sexually supercharged prison-camp commandant in Wertmullers Seven Beauties (1976), as Spike the Bartender in Frankenhooker (1990), and as pawnshop owner Edie Wulgemuth in Miami Blues (1990) (in the latter film, she expresses her displeasure with sleazy con man Alec Baldwin by cutting off his fingers with a machete!). It was par for the course for Stoler, who'd first made her mark on the cinematic world with a chilling and compeling performance as homicidal 200-pounder Martha Beck in the 1970 sleeper The Honeymoon Killers. Prior to that, Stoler was a veteran of the ground-breaking La Mama and Living Theatre performance companies; her resume also included several Broadway productions and a number of TV guest shots. A comparatively laid-back Shirley Stoler can be seen in a few scattered pictures like The Deer Hunter (1978, as John Savage's mother) and Malcolm X (1992); she also evinced signs of normality as Dottie Jessup on the 1980 TV series Skag. Stoler died of heart failure in 1999.

Highest Rated Movies

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
No Score Yet	Chief Zabu	Joan Ironwood	—	2016
71%	Une Vraie Jeune Fille (A Real Young Girl) (A Real Young Lady)	Grocer	—	2000
No Score Yet	The Deli	Irma	—	1997
88%	Malcolm X	Mrs. Swerlin	—	1992
64%	Mac	Customer	—	1992
No Score Yet	Me and Veronica	Shouting Woman	—	1992
62%	Frankenhooker	Spike	—	1990
81%	Miami Blues	Edie Wulgemuth	—	1990
63%	Shakedown	Irma	—	1988
No Score Yet	Sticky Fingers	Reeba	—	1988
67%	Three O'Clock High	Eva	—	1987
86%	Desperately Seeking Susan	Jail Matron	$27.5M	1985
No Score Yet	Brass	Woman in Window	—	1985
No Score Yet	Splitz	Dean Hunta	—	1984
No Score Yet	Second Hand Hearts	Maxy	—	1981
No Score Yet	Teen Mothers	Corky	—	1980
No Score Yet	Below the Belt	Trish	—	1980
94%	The Deer Hunter	Steven's Mother	—	1978
No Score Yet	American Short Story	Actor	—	1977
79%	Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze)	Commandant	$12.5K	1976
94%	Klute	Mama Reese	—	1971
95%	The Honeymoon Killers	Martha Beck	—	1970

Rating	Title	Credit	Year
No Score Yet	Law & Order 1990-2010	Charlie Maylen Charlie	1991
No Score Yet	Charlie's Angels 1976-1981	Big Aggie	1979

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