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Barbara Turner Biography ((?)-)

Married Vic Morrow (an actor), 1957 (divorced, 1964); married Reza Badiyi (afilm producer and director; divorced); children: (first marriage) Jennifer Jason Leigh (an actress), Carrie Ann Morrow; (second marriage) Mina Badie (an actress). Addresses: Agent: The Gersh Agency, 232 North Canon Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210; Lynn Pleshette Literary Agency, 2700 N. Beachwood Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90068.

Gender

Female

Occupation

Writer, actress, producer, director

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Film Appearances
• Jenny Ivers, Two-Gun Lady, Associated Film Releasing Corp., 1956
• Judy, Wink of an Eye, United Artists, 1958
• Lorna, Monster from Green Hell, Distributors of America, 1958
• Sara, Operation Eichmann, Allies Artists, 1961
• (Uncredited) Mrs. Long, Solider Blue, AVCO Embassy, 1970
• Film Work
• Producer, Georgia, Miramax, 1995
• Director, Beautiful View, 2000
• Script consultant, The Anniversary Party, Fine Line, 2001
• Television Appearances
• Movies
• Nightmare in Chicago (also known as Once upon a Savage Night), 1964
• The farmer's wife, The Desperate Mission (also known as JoaquinMurietta), NBC, 1969
• Episodic
• Joyce, "The Glorious Red Gallagher," Medic, NBC, 1956
• Alice, "Street of Fear," M Squad, NBC, 1957
• "Heartbeat," Suspicion, NBC, 1957
• "Heroes Never Group Up," Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, CBS, 1958
• "Portrait of a Murderer," Playhouse 90, CBS, 1958
• Mary Sawyer, "No Luck on Friday," Outlaws, NBC, 1961
• Rose Hill, "I Hear America Singing," Ben Casey, ABC, 1962
• Emmy, "Lollipop Louie," Alcoa Premiere, ABC, 1963
• Hildegarde, "Once upon a Savage Knight," Kraft Suspense Theatre, NBC, 1964
• Fanny Birnbaum, "A Nightingale Named Nathan," Ben Casey, ABC, 1965
• Louise Devers, "Harvest of Strangers," The Virginian, NBC, 1966
• Television Work
• Movies
• Associate producer, Freedom, ABC, 1981
• Supervising producer, Sessions, ABC, 1983
• Producer, Eye on the Sparrow, NBC, 1987
• WRITINGS
• Screenplays
• Deathwatch (adapted from Jean Genet's play of the same title), Altura Films International, 1967
• Petulia (adapted from John Haase's novel), Warner Bros./Seven Arts, 1968
• Georgia, Miramax, 1995
• Dead Ringer (adapted from Albert Beich and Oscar Millard's 1964 film), Warner Bros., 1996
• Pollock (based on Steven Naifeh and Gergory White Smith's biography), Sony Pictures Classics, 2000
• Beautiful View, 2000
• (Story only) The Company, Sony Pictures Classics, 2003
• Also wrote Barn Blind (adapted from Jane Smiley's novel); Watseka; Knowledge of Angels (adapted from Jill Paton Walsh's novel).
• Television Movies
• The Affair, ABC, 1973
• Widow, NBC, 1976
• The War between the Tates, NBC, 1977
• Freedom, ABC, 1981
• Sessions, ABC, 1983
• Eye on the Sparrow, NBC, 1987
• Somebody's Daughter, ABC, 1992
• Out of Darkness, ABC, 1994
• Television Pilots
• The Dark Side of Innocence (also known as The Hancocks), NBC, 1976