Kate Reid Movies
Listed in many sources as a Canadian actress, Kate Reid was actually born in England and raised in Toronto, later attending that city's university. Reid launched her stage career in Canada in the late 1940s; she first came to Broadway in 1962, replacing Uta Hagen as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Her later American stage credits include Dylan opposite Richard Burton, and Arthur Miller's The Price. She was Emmy-nominated for her work in two Hallmark Hall of Fame presentations: 1963's The Invincible Mr. Disraeli, and the following year's Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Her film credits include the U.S.-Canadian sci-fier The Andromeda Strain (1971), the British Equus (1977; against opposite Richard Burton) and Louis Malle's Atlantic City (1980), in which she had one of her showiest screen roles as the faded vis-a-vis of onetime racketeer Burt Lancaster. In 1984, Kate played Linda opposite Dustin Hoffman's Willy Loman in the Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman, repeating her role for the superb 1985 TV-movie adaptation. Kate Reid's TV-series appearances include the roles of Aunt Lil Trotter on the long-running Dallas (1982-83 season), oceanographer Marion Jaworski on Gavillan (1982), and senior citizen's home resident Martha Cameron on Morningstar: Eveningstar (1986). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide- 1979
Adapted from a true story, a pole-vaulter (Aaron Kornylo) attempts to overcome the lack of a leg during the Olympic trials. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brent Carver, Kim Cattrall, (more)
- 1978
- PG
This Canadian nailbiter was originally sent out under the title The Plague. Both titles are appropos: the plague is M3, aka the Gemini Strain, aka a deadly virus. Released accidentally, M3 cuts a swath of death and disease around the world. Scientist Daniel Pilon races against time to develop an antidote. The flawless performances of Pilon and his costar Kate Reid more than compensate for The Plague's lack of production polish. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1977
This provocative sci-fi drama centers on a young Neanderthal boy brought back to modern times. He is cared for by a nurse who tries to protect him from the curious but thoughtless scientists who forget that he is still a human and not a biological experiment. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Richard Burton plays a psychiatrist who attempts to discover why young Peter Firth has taken to mutilating live horses. In probing Firth's psyche, Burton discovers that the source of the boy's obsession is his mother, Joan Plowright, who has raised Firth with a convoluted set of values. Even as he gets closer to the reason behind Firth's horrendous acts, Burton discovers many previously locked-away secrets within himself. Equus was based on the play by Peter Schaffer who received an Academy Award Nomination for his adapted screenplay. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Richard Burton, Peter Firth, (more)
- 1976
- R
Derivative of the John Boorman action thriller Deliverance (1972), this grim, ostensibly socially-conscious parable is at its best moments disturbing, and at its worst, absurd. Cliff Robertson stars as Rex, a gun enthusiast and military veteran who, with his buddies Lou (Ernest Borgnine) and Zeke (Henry Silva), stalks wild game in the forest. It's a weekend ritual that Rex in particular eagerly anticipates, as he is bored and disillusioned with his marriage and career. After a frustrating day that's left them empty-handed, however, the party comes to a river. Another band of hunters appears on the other side, menacingly staring them down. Suddenly a gun goes off, and Zeke retaliates by shooting and killing one of the men on the other riverbank. After an exchange of gunfire, Rex and his friends win the skirmish, driving their attackers off. Deciding to keep the incident a secret from the police, they round up a posse of friends and pursue the other hunters through the woods in a bloody mini-war that only the reasonable Lou seems to question. Shoot also bears some passing similarity to a later and far superior film, Southern Comfort (1981). ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Cliff Robertson, Ernest Borgnine, (more)
- 1975
When an international financier is killed in a strange fashion, a female homicide detective investigates. (AKA Death Among Friends) ~ All Movie Guide
- 1975
Canadian actress Kate Reid plays a lady p.i. in Death Among Friends. Kate is hired to solve the murder of a multimillionaire financier. As tipped off by the title, she need look no farther than the dead man's circle of friends. Refreshingly, both the heroine and her police contact, John Anderson, are well into middle age, rather than being depicted as mindless hunks of cheese- and beefcake. Intended as the pilot for a weekly series, Death Among Friends was first telecast May 20, 1975. The film was later syndicated as Mrs. R-Death Among Friends. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Tony award-winning actor Frances Sternhagen stars in Maxim Gorky's searing study of the social ills that would eventually lead to the Russian Revolution of 1917 in this filmed version of Enemies, which features a teleplay by Ellis Raab and is adapted for the screen by directors Raab and Kirk Browning. The year is 1905, and as the disenfranchised factory workers prepare to voice their dissent to the status quo by staging a massive strike, the well-to-do factory owners decide to circumvent the protest by simply shutting the massive facility down. When one of the factory owners is killed in a scuffle with a disgruntled workman, the frayed threads holding Russian society together slowly begin to snap. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 1973
Logan (Donald Pleasance) is a world-weary prospector living in a remote town in British Columbia. His girlfriend (Kate Reid) has been around the block a few times and is a bit of an opportunist. The two of them listen with some skepticism to New Yorker Mazella (Don Calf, who comes to them with a story about a cache of refined gold hidden in a deserted, tapped-out mine deep in the mountains. He persuades them to go on the trip, and it turns out to be quite an adventure. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1973
Also known as Death and the Maiden, Hawkins on Murder introduced Jimmy Stewart to the TV-detective genre as folksy sleuth Billy Jim Hawkins (this TV movie was produced by MGM, the studio which gave Stewart his start in the 1930s). Hawkins travels from his West Virginia hometown to investigate a triple murder in Los Angeles. Along for the ride is Strother Martin as Hawkins' somewhat slow cousin/assistant, who would continue in this role when the Hawkins series premiered on a regular basis in the fall of 1973. The Harold Lloyd estate in Beverly Hills provided some of the more lavish backgrounds for this rambling mystery yarn. On the whole, Hawkins on Murder is better than the series that followed, which fell prey to banality and repetition early on. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
A Delicate Balance is the 1973 film adaptation of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Katharine Hepburn and Paul Scofield play an old married couple, Agnes and Tobias, who much prefer to be alone. Each time someone visits them, their "delicate balance" is threatened. The first intruder is Agnes' inebriated sister, Claire (Kate Reid). The next is their much-divorced daughter, Julia (Lee Remick). The limit is reached when well-meaning friends Harry (Joseph Cotten) and Edna (Betsy Blair) show up unexpectedly and threaten to stay forever. In keeping with the austerity of the other American Film Theatre presentations, director Tony Richardson eschews his usual cinematographic pyrotechnics here. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1973
In this murder mystery, a young model saw the crime, but is unable to get the authorities to believe her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
The "Andromeda Strain" is a deadly extraterrestrial virus. It is brought to Earth when a research satellite crashes near a tiny Arizona town. Everyone in the community dies within days, except for a baby and an "insulated" drunkard. Recruited from labs all over North America, doctors Charles Dutton (David Wayne), Jeremy Stone (Arthur Hill), Ruth Leavitt (Kate Reid), and Mark Hall (James Olson) don radiation suits and race against time to isolate and destroy the virus. The film is based on a novel by Michael Crichton. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Arthur Hill, David Wayne, (more)
- 1970
- R
Unwilling to claw his way to the top of the corporate ladder, the college-educated Jonathan (Jordan Christopher) prefers the carefree life of a cab driver. A rebel, he vents his daily frustration by kicking pigeons in the park. The film's rambling plot encompasses such eccentric characters as a naive motorcyclist, a gay interior decorator and a parent-subsidized hippie who embarks upon a bumpy romance with Jonathan, whose lack of commitment proves his downfall. Very much a product of its times (psychedelic camerawork and all), Pigeons was originally released under the strenuously "hip" title Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jordan Christopher, Jill O'Hara, (more)
Sydney Pollack's tawdry potboiler, adapted from a one-act play by Tennessee Williams, was rife with production problems, culminating in Williams' failed attempt to have his name removed from the credits. The story is set by a framing device as thirteen-year-old Willie Starr (Mary Badham) sits on an abandoned railroad track with her friend Tom (Jon Provost) and relates the tale of her deceased older sister Alva (Natalie Wood). Alva is a beautiful woman living in a small Mississippi town in the 1930s with her manipulative mother Hazel (Kate Reid), the owner of a boarding house. Hazel wants Alva to marry the well to do Mr. Johnson (John Harding), but Alva has fallen in love with a good-looking stranger from New Orleans, Owen Legate (Robert Redford), who is in Mississippi to lay off railroad workers. Hazel is opposed to their love affair and when Owen is beaten to a pulp by a gang of workers, he decides to leave town and take Alva with him. But Hazel fools Owen into thinking Alva is engaged to Mr. Johnson. In retaliation, Alva marries Hazel's loutish lover J.J. (Charles Bronson). The next day, she abandons J.J. to meet Owen in New Orleans. Her mother, incensed at Alva's betrayal, sets out to ruin her daughter's reputation by exposing her marriage to J.J. to the world. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, (more)
Arthur Miller's celebrated adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's powerful drama was brought to the small screen in this production staged for television. An Enemy of the People stars James Daly as a doctor living in a small town in Norway. The local economy depends on the success of a spa offering waters from a nearby spring, which are believed to have a healing effect. But the doctor discovers the waters are not only not healthy, they have been polluted with potentially deadly toxins; however, his attempts to alert the townspeople are challenged by the city fathers, who are more concerned with the financial health of the community than its physical well-being. Kate Reid and Philip Bosco appear in the supporting cast. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- 1965
The story of revolutionary Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale is told in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1963
Trevor Howard stars as 19th-century British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, in this videotaped, 90-minute color special. James Lee's teleplay traces Disraeli's career over a thirty-year period, detailing his devotion to the buildup and maintenance of the British Empire. The story also touches upon the many enemies made by the witty but tenacious PM-some of whom resented the fact that a Jew had a position of power in the government. Above all, the play details the friendship and mutual respect between "Dizzy" and Queen Victoria, played here by Kate Reid. Trevor Howard won an Emmy award for his virtuoso performance as Disraeli, which required a multitude of make-up changes, courtesy of the gifted Bob O'Bradovich. Greer Garson, Denholm Elliott, Hurd Hatfield (as Rothschild) and Geoffrey Keen (as Gladstone) also appear in The Invincible Mr. Disraeli; the play was first telecast April 4, 1963 as a Hallmark Hall of Fame special. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1961
Neither fish nor fowl, this docudrama is an odd combination of ostensible statistics and dramatic fiction. Using the much-touted first Kinsey Report on sexual behavior as a resource, director Arch Oboler has strung together five different vignettes on the topics of premarital relations ("Honeymoon"), infidelity ("Homecoming"), divorce ("The Divorcee"), mid-life promiscuity in men ("Average Man"), and abortion ("Baby"). The setting is a seminar given by a college professor (Leo G. Carroll), and the vignettes are introduced as remembrances of people listening to the discussions in the seminar. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hilda Brawner, William Traylor, (more)
- 1960
In this romance, a young girl runs away from boarding school with the hope that her boyfriend will marry her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
