
Acting
Feb 25, 1926
New York City, New York, USA
Doris Belack
Acting
Biography
Doris Belack (February 26, 1926 – October 4, 2011) was an American character actress of stage, film and television. Belack played the formidable soap opera producer Rita Marshall in the 1982 comedy film Tootsie. Her other film credits included roles in Fast Forward (1985), Batteries Not Included (1987), Splash, Too (1988), She-Devil (1989), Opportunity Knocks (1990), What About Bob? (1991), Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult. (1994), Krippendorf's Tribe (1998), The Odd Couple II (1998) and Fail Safe (2000). Her husband, producer Philip Rose, died on May 31, 2011, four months before her own death. They were married for 65 years and had no children.
Feature Films (27)

A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
Prime

ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages.
Arranged

In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his new skyscraper. When tiny mechanical aliens land for a recharge, they decide to stay and help out.
*batteries not included

Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
Fail Safe

Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which particularly affects the eldest son's life, placing his impending marriage in jeopardy.
The Last Tenant

When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego—Dorothy Michaels—in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.
Tootsie

Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.
Hanky Panky

Family secrets are revealed as three generations of a middle-class New York Jewish family come together in this story of good relations and bad relations.
Looking Up

Molly McCue becomes bored with her quiet, suburban life and fantasizes about becoming a detective. She gets her chance when the urn containing the ashes of her recently departed grandfather is stolen. Molly joins forces with a reluctant New York City police detective who has been assigned to find the missing urn. The two are puzzled over finding a motive for the theft until their case collides with the biggest mystery under investigation in New York City at the time. In the end, a special friendship grows between the two mystery solvers.
Almost Partners

Doug and his pal Skeeter set's out to find the monster of Lucky Duck Lake. Though things get really out of hand when some one blurts out that the monster is real.
Doug's 1st Movie

High-priced call girl Lee Churchill examines her life via therapy 'sessions'. Her double life is unknown to her parents, sister and the 'straight' man with whom she falls in love.
Sessions
Television & Series (32)

Mr. Belvedere takes a job as a housekeeper with an American family headed by George Owens.
Mr. Belvedere

Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.
Family Ties

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.
Law & Order

Ellen works in a Los Angeles bookstore called Buy the Book and hangs around with her friends discussing lovers, work and family.
Ellen

Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.







