Acting
Nov 25, 1924
New York City, New York, USA
Francine Beers
Acting
Biography
Francine Beers was born on November 26, 1924 in New York City and has lived there for her entire life. She is an actress, appearing in multiple films, television programs, Broadway shows, and radio and television commercials. She is perhaps best known as Mrs. Lefkowitz in "In Her Shoes", as Archie and Edith's neighbor Sybil Gooley on "All In the Family", and as Judge Janis Silver on "Law and Order". She became interested in show business as a child when an aunt who played on Vaudeville came to her house to practice singing accompanied by Francine's mother. Her entry into show business was singing radio jingles in the 1930s. With the advent of television, she played many character parts and she was associated in the 1950s and 1960s with Carol Burnette and Jerry Orbach. - IMDb Mini Biography
Feature Films (8)
Aspiring teen folk singer is torn whether to continue her singing or to accept an educational scholarship.
Starstruck
A put-upon Jewish deli owner in Brooklyn dreams of getting out from underneath the thumb of his domineering father and his haughty fashion-model girlfriend by buying his own restaurant in midtown Manhattan.
Over the Brooklyn Bridge
Irresponsible party girl Maggie is kicked out of her father's and stepmother's home—where she lives for free—and is taken in by her hard-working sister, Philadelphia lawyer Rose. After Maggie's disruptive ways ruin her sister's love life, Rose turns her out as well. But when their grandmother, who they never knew existed, comes into their lives, the sisters face some complicated truths about themselves and their family.
In Her Shoes
An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.
Made For Each Other
A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poker while simultaneously earning the affections of a beautiful Las Vegas singer.
Lucky You
Two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly and Hattie, are asked by a drug-dealing friend-of-a-friend, Diane, to baby-sit a bag containing nearly a million dollars while she scoots out of town in order to avoid trouble. Once the money is in their possession, however, temptation proves too much for them.
Sticky Fingers
Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends.
3 Men and a Baby
Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena's mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at a hotel, she finds an almost-dead woman lying on the hotel floor. She accompanies the injured woman to the hospital and meets David, who is the woman's son. After David's mother dies from the injuries, a question remains: was she murdered? The trail leads to Germany. Apparently, Lena's mother has some kind of relationship with David's mother that reaches back into the dark German history of the 1940s
The Giraffe
Television & Series (5)
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Molly Dodd, a divorced woman in her mid-thirties living in New York, navigates the ups and downs of a rapidly changing career, the challenges of apartment life, and the complexities of love and its consequences.
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
The Carol Burnett Show is an American variety/sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, and Tim Conway. It originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 278 episodes and originated from CBS Television City's Studio 33. The series won 25 prime time Emmy Awards, was ranked No. 16 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time in 2002 and in 2007 was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All Time."
The Carol Burnett Show
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
