Zohra Lampert
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Zohra Lampert (born May 13, 1937) is an American character actress, perhaps best remembered for her role in the 1971 cult horror film Let's Scare Jessica to Death. Born in New York, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, Lampert attended New York's High School of Music and Art, and then the University of Chicago.
After initially working for several years on stage, eventually reaching Broadway in a Tony-nominated performance in 1961's Look We've Come Through, she scored with a pair of small but noteworthy performances in the films Pay or Die and Splendor in the Grass.
Throughout most of the '60s and '70s she kept busy with a series of mostly supporting roles in film and television, winning an Emmy for her performance as a sinister Gypsy in a 1975 episode of Kojak and she also costarred with Gena Rowlands in John Cassavetes' 1978 film Opening Night. She was a regular in the sitcom The Girl With Something Extra and the medical drama Doctors' Hospital.
Throughout most of the '80s and '90s, she worked much less, though she could be seen in roles as diverse as The Exorcist III (playing late actor George C. Scott's wife), and the offbeat 1999 film, The Eden Myth.
She was briefly married to actor Bill Alton from 1957-'58.
[edit] Filmography
- Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) (girl in bar)
- Pay or Die (1960) (Adelina Saulino)
- Posse from Hell (1961) (Helen Caldwell)
- Splendor in the Grass (1961) (Angelina)
- A Fine Madness (1966) (Evelyn Tupperman)
- Bye Bye Braverman (1968) (Etta Rieff)
- Some Kind of a Nut (1969) Bunny Erickson
- Where the Heart Is (TV series) (1969) (Ellie)
- Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) (Jessica)
- The Connection (made-for-TV) (1973) (Hannah)
- The Girl with Something Extra (TV series) (1973-74) (Anne)
- Doctors' Hospital (TV series) (1975-76) (Dr. Norah Purcell)
- Opening Night (1977) (Dorothy Victor)
- Lady of the House (1978) (Julia de Paulo)
- The Suicide's Wife (made-for-TV) (1979) (Sharon Logan)
- Children of Divorce (made-for-TV) (1980)
- The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything (made-for-TV) (1980) (Wilma)
- The Cafeteria (1984) (Esther)
- Alphabet City (1984) (Mama)
- Teachers (1984) (Mrs. Pilikian)
- Izzy & Moe (1985) (Esther Einstein)
- Ladies of the Corridor (made-for-TV) (1986)
- American Blue Note (1989) (Louise)
- Stanley & Iris (1990) (Elaine)
- The Exorcist III (1990) (Mary Kinderman)
- Alan & Naomi (1992) (Mrs. Liebman)
- Last Supper (1992)
- The Last Good Time (1994) (Barbara)
- The Eden Myth (1999) (Alma Speck)
